bassmayhem

It will have the same footprint as the T-70.

My custom ordered COG Dual Cascade Knightfall BassMayhem 556. Built right now...

3Leaf Audio Wonderlove

COG T-70!

I bought my Le Bass second hand at a ridiculously low price from the first owner. I've read in the thread about noise issues, but mine is nice, clean and slient, except for my bass tone. I won't use it for overdriven tones, but more like a mixer between my "hi tech" Dingwall basses and my "low tech" passive basses. My fear was that it would be very mid scooped - as it is - but it is east to tweak: just set bass and treble on 8-9 o'clock and get a "flat" response on the clean channel. The preamp does a good work flavouring a dry bass tone in a nice manner, especially for rock, blues etc. Maybe not for jazz gigs. I have used it in front of a bass rig - a hyper clean EBS rig - as well as through my PJB Double Four and for pushing my old tube bass amp, but also with different headphones: my studio phones and my "phone phones". The unit sounds equally good in any environment. No hiss, no hum, no noise from power supply. I'll mount it on my big overkill pedalboard.

A beauty!

My COG T70...

A bass exactly like this one: Samick Valley Arts 6 string. Terrible balance, terrible tone, terrible spacing! I took the neck, that was a really, really good neck, and threw the rest in the garbage recycling. With a friend's assistance I made a Jazz Bass body of 60 years old solid dried birch, equipped it with EMG DC45 and Hipshot bridge. It ended up being a very good bass. I sold it some years ago to a studio, where it was used a lot. It looked like this when rebuilt:

[quote name='Endbass' timestamp='1509107586' post='3396674'] [color=#191919][font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]I'm looking for high quality preamp/DI in pedal form, based on the Neve 1073. Like the API Tranzformer LX pedal, but then the Neve version. I know about the JHS Colour Box, but I'm looking for something of higher quality. Does it exist? Or does anyone know someone who could build that for me?[/font][/color] [/quote] I've had the JHS Colour Box: it was a big disappointment. You could get things dirty, but not clean. I wouldn't call it a preamp, just a kind of overdrive/distortion unit. I gave it away...

Well, I may have found an Aguilar TLC at a very reasonable price. I'll try that one...

I have a Boss ES-8 on my pedalboard, and I am thinking of putting a compressor in the loop with my 3Leaf Audio Wonderlove. In the loop but after the envelope, so both switches on simultaneously. Just to tame any "burping" that can occur and drive other pedals nuts. It won't be used as a compressor by itself; I have a Diamond for that job. A cheap but good analog compressor is what I look for. An old EBS, maybe? Please, give me some suggestions...

This would be my choice, last in the effects chain, nice and quiet:

This moved in today: Skyline Hollowbody made in Indonesia. Very nice, better than my old Korean built...

My bass sounded sh*t with the Realist, but fantastic with the Realist Lifeline. I had to get an adjuatable bridge, though. After that I need nearly no eq:ing other than some low cut.

A "nice" tone tends to be drowned in the band mix. Add a tad of "cardboard box tone" and you'll sound good in the mix but awful on your own. Just the way a P-bass works: no flattering mids, but a lot of mature burrrrp, if you got my point...

My Skyline 55-02... My Stambaugh ODB... My Project bass: an old Fender defretted neck on a chambered body made by Tommy Bizzotto in Sweden. Not completely reday to fly yet...

I've had a load of US Lakies: 55-94, Bob Glaub PJ, Joe Osborn 5, as well as a bunch of Skylines: 55-02, 55-02 fretless, Hollowbody and Decade. The only one left is my favourite of them all, the fretless 55-02. I also have an Indonesian HoBo on the way home...

Amp and speaker in all its glory, but what goes in comes out. When you play that bass in the review (a revamped P-bass Lyte???) you have a creamy nice tone. I believe you sound the same regardless of amp... Also a thought about the switching between "none" and the cabinet setting: "None" had that cardboard box-ish tone that sounds dull and boring on its own, but is very much needed in a live/band mix. My own experience is when your bass sound is nice by itself it gets lost. A bit like the great Anthony Jackson; his sound is not that flattering alone, but in the music context it just sits right there. A good review from you as usual...

Within the "Best amp head (500W to 1000W) you've ever owned? (Or should definitely avoid!)" headline, I'd say: - Genz Benz Streamliner 900 - Quilter Bassblock 800 If I expand to "Best amp head regardless of wattage" I'd add following amps: - Eden WT400 Traveler - Eden WT800B World Tour - Vanderkley Spartan Eden was my first big love, but the two I use now are the lighter two: Quilter Bassblock 800 and Vanderkley Spartan. Li'l Quilter is an "all tricks pony" usable for every situation I can think about, with ANY type of bass. The Spartan is the choice for electric bass only, but then some...

My old Fender J'78 is/was a really heavy beast. With the Badass bridge and three massive brass knobs and three(!) pickups it was somewhere around 8(!) kg... The tone was fantastic, but I got a slipped disc from that bass. Now it and I have undergone surgery. The bass has a new body from Guitarbuild, a nice very light swamp ash body, not complete, paint job is still to be done. It will look like the original, but without a lot of weight. It will certainly affect the tone, but a bass that won't get played has no tone after all. Still, the neck is a massive chunk of maple, even if it is rather slim. You could club an ox with that. I had another body made for the bass some years ago, but I forgot telling the guy I wanted the 70's position of the bridge pickup. It was a very good looking body, but I never felt at home with the "misplaced" pickup, so that body went to an old defretted 70's Jazz neck. Also a project that is still lying waiting to be completed. Unfortunately my pic's went down the Photobucket drain. I get new pic's in a while...

Wow! This is really a nice job! I can't wait to see it completed...

I like the LH500 for its simplicity, price and tone. I got it demoed by Larry Hartke himself a few years ago. I don't know how well it can take the beat and heat of long nights, but that goes for all amps in that segment.

Well, I've said no to the deal. I really like that bass, but will sure not have use for it. Recognize this...? There are other things that I like...