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[quote name='burno70' post='415017' date='Feb 20 2009, 09:16 AM']Hey thanks for those Meatwad settings Thisnameistaken, I set my 'wad up a little differently but your settings are miles better! (I've never actually set the attack to zero before and it makes a huge difference!) I'm in squelchy burp heaven! ta very much:)[/quote] Nice one.

[quote name='Golchen' post='414750' date='Feb 19 2009, 08:59 PM']I totally can't cope with single cut basses. They are just disturbing, like seeing your granny naked. [quote name='bubinga5' post='414803' date='Feb 19 2009, 10:00 PM'] He He,, there like estate cars to me, they just dont look right..[/quote][/quote] They remind me of hippos I think. Or maybe [url="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/animals/images/1024/dugong.jpg"]dugongs[/url]?

I think the tracking's pretty good so far, but I'm used to slightly-iffy analogue octavers and stuff. Emailed Chunk yesterday and there are further improvements to the tracking on the way apparently. Slightly worryingly though, the triangle and trapezoid waves aren't supposed to be as quiet as they are on my box. Hope nothing's broken.

I'm surprised anyone looks at tuners for long enough to notice these things. If you asked me to draw the tuners on my Thumb bass I'd probably do it wrong. I've played it every day for the last seven years.

Totally depends on the bass, and who's buying. It's criminal, in my opinion, that older neck-through Warwicks go so cheap. I got a '91 Thumb for under £700 - it sold for the best part of a grand and a half when it was new, to me it's worth that or more now, it's an amazing bass. It's considerably better than any of the new ones I've played. But then you look at Fenders, and you get '70s Fenders selling for a grand. Half of the guitars Fender built in the '70s were total dogs, and half of these '70s Fenders for sale aren't entirely original. There's no sense to it. It's all about who wants to pay what when you want to sell. What bass are you selling?

[quote name='Musky' post='414934' date='Feb 20 2009, 01:18 AM']good customer service is all about how they react when things do go wrong.[/quote] +1 I write bespoke code for a living, which practically never works properly first time. Key skills: Humility, a sense of humour, and dropping everything the very minute someone calls you about code that is needed right now and isn't working properly. My customers know the score, they know I provide as good a service as they'll find anywhere, and I'm nice.

This thing is not for the faint-hearted, but when it's firing nicely it does exactly what it says on the LCD: I'm still learning to use this thing but I'll post my thoughts and sound clips as I find my way around it. The default firmware is terrible - I can see why so many people were angry when it was first released. The tracking was shocking, and it crashed every five minutes. Flashed it today with the latest version and so far it looks much more stable. I have still had a couple of crashes while editing sounds though, so it's not bomb-proof by any means. The tracking is pretty good but not Micro-POG-stellar - it'll cope with an open E for a second or so. Which is handy because otherwise the tuner would be totally useless. It's still not quite good enough to [i]replace[/i] my tuner though I don't think. The oscillator sounds good, filter sounds good, fuzz I haven't played with much yet, ADSR settings available on both the filter and the VCA, portamento settings and waveform selection on the oscillator, couple of different mix options between VCO, clean and fuzz signals, it's not really as complicated as it looks if you think of it in terms of synth modules. I'm not going to tell you the interface is "OK" though. Nope. Not even "OK"! It's a pain in the arse. Biggest downside so far is the triangle and trapezoid waves are a lot quieter than the square and saw, and no amount of filter tweaking seems to sort it out so far. There's plenty of available gain but it can get hissy with too much boost. Maybe they know you can't get unity out of it - the triangle-based octaver default preset is too quiet, surely they'd have sorted that out if they could? I'll probably mail them about that. Must go, pubs to visit. Impression so far: Sounds very good, bit tricky to play, slightly unreliable, pain in the arse to edit patches.

[quote name='thumbo' post='413456' date='Feb 18 2009, 06:15 PM']It's pretty obvious what's on it.[/quote] Deadly laser things?

[quote name='sshorepunk' post='413797' date='Feb 19 2009, 12:25 AM']It landed today, but utd kicked fulahm and I watched it in pub, still got meatball to do funk, advise from anyone who has owned one before would be appreciated T[/quote] I haven't had a Meatball but I've got a Meatwad... If the Meatwad is anything to go by, the first half of the "Colour" (resonance) knob will usually be more than enough! Make sure the decay is always set higher than the attack. Attack is about the only control I never touch (well, that and the hi/band/lo-pass switch). I just leave Attack on zero. The majority of the tweaking involves balancing the Sensitivity, Intensity and Decay knobs how you want them. Two switches on the right: You'll probably find that on bass the low-pass filter with the frequency switch set to "Lo" are usually the best settings, but switching the upper switch to "Hi" is useful if you're running a fuzz before the filter or in its FX loop - it brings out much more of the crunch. IMO it sounds best with low sensitivity settings, but that might be my basses. If you want to use an exp. pedal with it, the Bespeco VM-18 or VM-19 is recommended by Lovetone. They're cheap. The down sweep works just as well as the up sweep. Unlike some filters (*cough* Q-Tron *cough*) The biggest problem you're going to have is remembering all the cool settings you find. Have fun.

Yeah you can't really judge a player on what you see at a clinic. Poor sod's got to show off his chops all day every day and it's all going to end up on the internet for people like us to point at and say "No soul".

[quote name='sshorepunk' post='412268' date='Feb 17 2009, 05:45 PM']..reassuringly! Not too bad, been after one for a while, a 10% e-bay voucher helped! Thought it would have landed today, but alas, no![/quote] Tell me about it - I'm waiting on an Octavius Squeezer showing up from the USA, it's a week late so far. If your Meatball's only [i]as good[/i] as my Meatwad you'll be a happy chappy.

Can you bend notes on it - that was my first thought. Unfortunately the second thought required to work it out for myself was just too difficult.

[quote name='sshorepunk' post='411947' date='Feb 17 2009, 01:22 PM']I will be doing just that when my new [u]meat[/u]y filter arrives, should be here today, I'm going to have a [u]ball[/u] [/quote] Nice one. Expensive?

There have been a lot of different slap tones on popular records to be fair. But I think we're all thinking of Louis Johnson, and fair enough, you'll never get that out of a Warwick. The Streamer Stage I is the "other" Warwick I'd have. I've already got a Thumb and I'll never sell it and it's just... It's a Thumb. Y'know. But the other one I always wanted was a Stage I, and I'm just waiting for exactly the right one to come along (I will know it when I see it but I don't think there are many of them around. I'll be gutted if I don't have the money when I do see it!).

Have to admit I love playing old Jamaican stuff, esp. rocksteady. Which is weird because I used to be such a pick-at-the-bridge, string-breaking type of player. I suppose we all get old eventually.

[quote name='sixshooter' post='408761' date='Feb 13 2009, 04:25 PM'][attachment=20251:DSC02345.JPG][/quote] Is that an ebony board? Not original, surely?

[quote name='agoulding' post='408745' date='Feb 13 2009, 04:13 PM']where dya think i should put the pod?[/quote] Do you have a cupboard?

Because it needs a clean, reliable signal to track properly. If you put it after dirt or anything silly, the performance will suffer.