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Collection has been steadily growing, still no fretless though... Added a rather cool guitar as well, 1961 Gibson SG special with Lollar P90's on. Yum! Bass wise lately been exclusively playing the 5stringer so added a backup for that too... Warwick rules!

Find the sweet spot! Bit of fretbuzz in the attack phase of your notes and when you dig in only. You can really start to "play" then.

Yep Boire has this weird kinda silvery shine. Love it! The Pro-M has been getting a coarse setup last night and finetuning today (I always wait a night or day after having adjusted the trussrod to let it settle). Plays like a dream now. Sounds quite different from and yet similar to the Dolphin (warwicky). Its sound is a lot less even across the strings as that of the Dolphin though, which is still clearly my favourite bass in the known universe.

NOBD. Red Streamer proms edition. Happy face.

LAL. Wish they'd just make it sound less mediocre. Right now it is just a rather big tuner.

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I know for a Ric this is considered pretty much "clean" but still... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDqG9agd5wc[/media]

If you are not looking for breakup but merely some tube warmth, I have heard that utilizing JJ ECC83S valves is great for a bass amp. Can someone confirm this? I want to get some spares for my Trace Elliot SMX amps just in case. With the SMX you can blend the solid state and valve signals.

So... whut happened?

Exactly.

No GAS whatsoever atm. I'm trying though. Browsing the forums, auction sites, Thomann. There is nothing on any of those I want or need. Weird eh?

I like the TC heads but think they are pretty pricey for what you get and wouldn't use most of its options. Would be more inclined towards looking at the Warwick LWA 1000 amp if I weren't such an oldskool Trace Elliot amp addict.

I tried a lot of them. TLC, Compressore (which I had for quite some time), MXR M87. Never got round to testing the Diamond (which is good but pricey). The only really bad ones I had were the Ashdown dualband which flips out completely on active instruments and an old Ibanez BP10 which isn't bad but isn't good either. Once I made a switch to old Trace Elliot amplifiers with the mighty SMX preamp and its dualband comp I never looked back. The SMX comp is exactly what I was looking for in a compressor: More punch without squeezing the lows. I am hooked!

High tension is lovely for slapping though. Makes life much easier.

Come to think of it: this board screams RIC-O-SOUND! Ordering the cable for this ASAP.

Increasingly also-playing-guitar so divided my board into two sections. Left hand side is a complete guitar tube preamp with analog speaker emulation and a nice TC Trinity reverb pedal in its fx loop. This goes straight into a mixing desk/line in, bass rig or guitar amp (with the speaker sim switched off). Right hand side is a complete bass preamp with analog speaker emulation and two nice dirtboxes by Darkglass. This goes straight into a mixing desk/line in or bass rig (with the speaker sim switched off). This config also allows me to work on songs with our guitar player, simply plug the floorboard into my laptop and slap on a couple of headphones. Smart stuff with no modelling crap going on. Tons of tone! A smaller and better 1A power adapter is on its way as the Gator has a really stupid tiny fragile retarded idiotic connector towards mains that keeps falling out. [attachment=156187:fxboard_02_2014.jpg]

Ow it seems the forum software automatically resizes images while you upload them. Smart! But in this case not so handy. I don't think the images will become much more clear then this though.

Here are photos of the filter circuit in higher resolution. Sadly I do not know much about electronics or filters so I hope someone can see what the filter configuration is supposed to do. Simle logic dictates a simple high pass filter at around 4kHz should work just fine, a filter doesn't need to be exactly the same as this original Trace Elliot one. It just needs to cut off the lows.

Hi Quentin, I was meaning to respond sooner but last week didn't get round to checking the filter circuit board. Will do so somewhere this week. The speakers British Audio have for sale are from an acoustic guitar amp. I am not sure if they will work in a brightbox design where you want the speakers to reach up to 8kHz or more. I have no specs on the speakers you mentioned here...

The guy who bought it got a pm on facebook from a certain lover of Dolphin Pro1's... /me whistles innocently

Reaper is AWESOME! But I switched to Cubase (artist) to be compatible with my old man's studio. Best money ever spent on music stuff. At one time I ventured into Linuxland to try some of the free software that is available there. Stick with Reaper is my advice if you are not inclined to using linux and rather stick to the Windows operating system. If however you do fancy a bit of adventure you can try out Ubuntu Studio which features the Ardour DAW Relevant links: http://ubuntustudio.org http://ardour.org

Ow but in my cass it makes a LOT of difference! Mainly more clarity when using my active Warwick, EBMM and Fender Marcus Miller jazz. It does make sense since anything higher then 5kHz goes MIA without a hf unit or brightbox. If your instrument doesn't produce any usable noise in the treble range you won't need a brightbox or hf unit in your cab. This is perfectly alright and can sound great too. I was looking for more of the clicketyclack when slapping though and am perfectly happy with this brightbox solution.

Hi Quentin, On tuesday I'm practicing with the band and will bring the brightbox home with me to see if I can get all the details on that filter circuit. Basically it is a simple high pass filter that supposedly kicks in from 4kHz onward thus filters out anything underneath that frequency. This works great with the 2x15 cab as that runs up to around 4 to 4.5kHz. I suppose depending on which midrange 5" speakers you choose to utilize you can use any generic high pass filter at 4kHz for a custom brightbox. Just make sure the midrange speakers you choose can deliver tone up to around 8kHz and are loud enough. I am quite happy with the Celestions I chose as they don't cost a lot and handle the job pretty well. The brightbox gives me the extra definition I was missing by using just the 2x15 cab. If you spend a little more you can find speakers that are a bit louder and can handle 10kHz. though.