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With much inspiration/guidance from this excellent thread, I'm now 4 gigs in with IEM, with the last being a silent stage at a venue with particularly tricky acoustics. I'd say that so far the success rate in terms of my experience/sound in my ears is at about 60%. Areas I know can be improved are FOH chap not altering my levels mid set (!), seal of the IEMs (if I insert them just right, then there's a definite improvement, getting better at that), then finally the actual tone in my ears. The last point is the one I'm after advice on. DI from my amp sounds ok but very dry in the ears. It's not so bad when I've got stage sound as some of that leaks through to a fairly pleasing effect. Last gig and rehearsal before it I tried using my HX Stomp with cab and amp sim engaged to try and get a more pleasing sound to my ears (silent stage this time), but in rehearsal guitarist thought my tone suffered out front with the cab sim on, so I ended up running just the amp model, and it wasn't much really much different to my amp DI. No surprise there really. My question is, what do you all do to get a satisfactory bass tone to your ears?! Would a decent DI with cab sim likely sound better than the Stomp, do I just need to experiment more with the Stomp? Answers on a postcard please!!

The guy has the most astonishing sense of groove I've ever heard.

Hey @Gizmo, I think you bought a Roland Bass Cube off me many moons ago! Mononeon is my favorite notable player of late. Genius-level talent imho. Some of his playing with Ghost Note in particular is 👌

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I could do with purchasing one of these preamps quite soon but the black knobs seem to have been out of stock for a while, and no idea how long it'll be before they're available again (I did sign up for "let me know when they're available"). I see they are 6 + 8mm bore shafts for the stacked pots. Had anybody found some good alternatives that fit properly and look decent (in black)? Current preamp is a Bartolini with the black plastic knobs, which I actually quite like. The Bart knobs are the wrong size/type though. Thanks in advance for any imparted wisdom!

Thanks Luke, your experience sounds similar to mine with the Barts+ Bart pre - mid control just seems to add huge gain ,(not so much when I switch it to 800Hz TBF) I do get some decent tones out of it but am tempted to try the East, especially as she of the pots are on the way out (it's 20yrs old). It'll mean drilling out the holes to 10mm though (and it's a nice bass, Zon Sonus), so just building up the courage!

Out of interest, how do you find the East with the Barts? Presumably Bart pre originally? Apologies for the derail. Your bass looks awesome, OP.

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Similar experience here 😀

Working in music retail gave me a different perspective. We sold basses from the 3 brands you mentioned, and would pretty regularly re order popular colour combos, for example. It's not like we sold loads of US Stingrays, but I know for sure there would have been several examples of the same spec/colour in the same town, so when you expand that globally it's not insignificant! I do think more people hold onto quality instruments than perhaps we assume; being members of this GAS - inducing den of disrepute (Bass chat) I think warps the perspective a little 😂

If I can make more from playing than spending in gear this year, that'd be a massive win.