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For anyone thinking of buying a Stomp... I sold off a Zoom G7.1ut electric guitar multi, a zoom 502 or whatever it is acoustic multi, and a Boss GT10B thinking the Stomp would replace them all. And largely it has. I didn't want to go back to my pedal board days of worrying what would work nicely with what else, what if I buy a flanger only for that song to never make it on the set list... Etc. The Stomp was to be my single box solution. Well.... Here's my pedal board now... Ignore the TC Helicon, that's a vocal fx unit that's there purely for sharing the power source and portability. But in addition to the Stomp I've employed an external tuner so I can use more buttons on the Stomp, an external 2 button footswitch so I can use the Stomp buttons to control effects and the external to scroll through presets, an external bass wah because using an expression pedal (not pictured) with the Stomp just isn't as good, an external power supply to power everything except the Stomp. In addition to the Stomp there's probably close to £150-200 of other stuff, board and cables included (TC not included) , required for me to get what I need out of it. Still, it's cheaper than buying individual fx and finding they don't play nicely together or they introduce shed loads of noise, or they don't sound like the demo, etc.

I've had an absolutely shocking experience with DPD. Bass went missing in their system, customer services don't have the same info as other departments, nobody cares or wants to help you, package turned up a month later to the recipient (who'd already had a refund off me through Reverb and I'd instructed DPD to return to sender) looking like it had been savagely beaten. No compensation whatsoever was given, not even the cost of delivery. I used APC to get it back and they were great and they I sure instruments. But weirdly next time I wanted to send a bass they said the package was too big and wouldn't do it! Just avoid third party agents to buy the service through. If anything goes wrong they just shrug their shoulders, plus the courier won't help you because their contract is with the agent, not you.

Stop it! 😋

Hipshot D tuners. Had one on a jazz bass for playing a few songs so when the jazz got traded in against a Stingray the Stingray got one! I'd want a Badass bridge on a jazz bass. I loved the extra zing I got from mine (please don't pile on telling me I'm imagining it, if I am then great, if I'm not, Greater still). Bartolini jazz pups. I butchered some into a Mex jazz I had, two bridge sized pups in to the same bass because it was a 90s Mex jazz with the same size route for each. Gave a really nice sophisticated sound to the bass. I've got a gig recording where I play a Sire V7 most the time and the Bart loaded jazz for one or two numbers and there is a difference I can notice at least and I find it very pleasing. I'm LOVING the DiMarzio model P pickup in my bitsa. It is classic P bass. So much so that I'm thinking of getting rid of my jazz and replacing with a P, though I've already got that in my Bitsa... Kiogon wiring looms. I've got one in my Kramer fretless, it has simply "turbo charged" the most budget bass I have. The bass has sentimental value and I still gig it, now with this mod it sounds amazing even with the stock cheap pups. I have a Kiogon loom in my Aria SB Elite too, its brought a new dimension to that bass and gives an extra coil switching option that the original never had. I've also got a Kiogon loom in my Bitsa, easy install and workings, powerful output, essential item!

Burns on ebay.. I have now learned my lesson. I DO NOT have the skill, tools or time to restore a vintage guitar. So I will not be bidding! Still, looks lovely. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BURNS-BALDWIN-VISTASONIC-BASS-LEFT-HANDED-/154527983370?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

Yes, almost like "Tuner" being an effect block... But without taking a block up, that could work for me if it could be done like that so you can bring it in and out, move it around.... You could also only put it on 1 out of 5 patches for a guitarist so they aren't constantly, constantly tuning between each song.

No because of global settings, as already stated by someone here... But I find having a micro external tuner helps. Then you can always have it there and use it as a mute switch. I've got mine feeding the input to my HX so I go bass>tuner> HX. I've then got all three HX buttons as on/ off for different effects and an external 2 button footswitch to do Preset up/ down. It's then really really clear what everything does so it's easy to use quickly. That's if you can remember which preset you want for each song 😉 And there was me buying a Helix so I would only need one pedal forevermore...

In reality I think the only people that would bring us anything close to the old TE sound is Ashdown. And I'm not sure they want to, or that there's a market beyond 3 or 4 of us on this site, who would buy one new. Reality makes me sad sometimes.

Why can't we all just get along?! I love both headless and headed basses. If it's a bass then it's good with me. This cannot descend in to Britney vs Christina.

Yeah but not all evolution is great. Dinosaurs used to roam the earth, then they completely disappeared. We've now got useless animals that won't breed to survive, like pandas.

Ah fair play then.

Anyone got good recommendations for strings? I've got Status strings on my Washburn Status at the moment, I had Pyramids on my old Hohner and they were great, but never tried any others... Looking for a bright, zingy sound and light weight. Thanks!

I don't know why anyone would do that though, just get double ball end strings, surely?!

Got one, all working. Just in time for band practice tonight. Thanks again

I don't think I've ever heard it. Which is why me trying to play it because it's a "new song" (I have no idea when it was released, but in the last 5 or 10 years?) would look like a sad 37 year old man trying to be popular to 20-somethings. Except there's no 20-somethings in the place, it's all people 35 and over who don't want to go from bar to bar, just sit there and drink and sing along to a few songs they know.

Hang on though, my response was about it being childish to want to quit a band if you don't like the material. There is absolutely no disputing that playing Sweet Caroline and "Peter Kay's Amarillo" will go down a storm in 99% of drinking establishments in England.

Good point. I'll change my way of thinking on this to I *hope* it's a great amp that sounds like a good old fashioned TE. And I really do.

If Peavey released a premium Trace rig that really sounded like a Trace but had modern features such as lightweight, a 2x12 cab because nobody wants 1x15s anymore (wtf is all that about?!) they'd be up there competing with the best. Maybe it's our little BC echo chamber though... Maybe no other bassists actually care about TE like we do? Or they see it as something that's been and gone?

Spare a thought for me, a Yorkshireman, having to play Parklife. In Essex.

No thanks! 😂

I respectfully disagree. I am at this point with my current band. The set list is falling to the lowest common denominator of all the shittiest songs every other shitty pub band does: sex on fire, dakota... We do some real shite, Parklife, Shotgun (George Ezra... I only agreed because it has fretless bass on it but I can't be bothered bringing it most the time)... Then "recent" songs from the top 10. Well, if by recent you mean 2008... Its just all a bit sad and middle aged try-hard, instead of having fun playing music that needs more than just an auto-response from the audience. By that I mean doing a great version of a song people love but might not be expecting to hear, or putting a new spin on an old favourite. That's what I enjoy. I could be a lot busier for gigs, covid permitting, if I learned more of the pub band classics repertoire but I don't want to do that to myself. It's not my living, it's a paid hobby, and I want to enjoy it.

Exactly! Proper amps!! When I started out seeing Peavey across a speaker, whether bass amp or PA, meant sturdy, quality, and loud as f@%*!

Hang on there... A Seat is a VW chassis and engine assembled in a lower cost country and sold for a lower price under a different brand which is targeted at a different group of people. I could understand where bass amp companies are bought if they did a "premium" brand and a budget or lower cost brand... Say Trace Elliot is Peavey's top range amp and their own brand stuff was "pile high sell cheap" effective for beginners and weekend warriors like myself... But I'm just confused by the whole arrangement. Peavey made fantastic bass amps for a long while, why did they need Trace if they're not going to make it sound like a Trace any more, and Peavey are still making their own bass amps.... Makes no sense to me.

I like that a LOT!

Gorgeous looking bass. Some sizes look a bit cartoonish in their proportions but that just looks perfect. It is a Spector though, they all seem to look perfect!