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i have a G&L SB2 and absolutely love it. The sound is wonderful, pickups are very powerful but the p pickup rolled back and soloed gives a good traditional p bass sound. some people have issues with it not having a tone knob but it has never been an issue for me. I have seen that you can easily mod it to having one if that is your preference. the slightly different shape to the standard precision is nice and comfortable and the satin neck feels lovely to play. nice chunky bridge and easy to set up.

My favourite album of the year was Refractions by Lowrider. Great stoner rock album.

Just added new hipshot tuners and string retainer to this. I’ve got some black block stickers coming which I’m going to try on to see if there any good. Easily reversible! also thinking of getting a black nut for the jack as it sticks out a bit

This is my bitsa. It’s my backup for my main bass in my band. I’m in the process of changing all the hardware to black. Unknown body bought for £20 about 5 years ago and refinished by me in surf green. It’s been bashed about a bit in those years. Neck is a mighty mite jazz tuners (on the way)will be black hipshot hb7 as there the only ones I could find to fit without redrilling holes. pickup is a G&L MFD as my other bass that I use in this band is a SB-2. pickguard is by Tim at gigink. Headstock decal says Franken precision this is tuned to drop C with Kallium strings

I had a band practice last night and managed to put it through it’s paces a bit. I play in a stoner rock band and use it with quite a lot of gain. I was running it with a G&L SB-2 into an Ampeg SVT-CL. The high output of the MFD pickup wasn’t an issue for the pedal. The distortion I’ve got set up to where I want it and it is wonderful. Cuts through without impeding, I keep the clean blend on at all times. I still need to tweak the fuzz side a little bit but it’s in the ball park. I think I need to bump the middle a bit but it sounds very thick and muff like. The two together work well and really create a good mix. The only downside I have found is I am struggling to press individual buttons on the fly, mostly down to how close it is to the next pedal in my board. Some of it will be me getting used to the proximity of each switch but had a few times where I didn’t turn it on. The main struggle is the right switch as its close to my wah pedal. Damn these size 11 feet! I’m going to see if putting some switch toppers on it helps me with this but I may need to just be a bit more precise with my feet of give the pedal a bit more room.

Tuner > Wilson Mini Freaker Wah > Barefaced Machinist > Flanger BF-2 all powered by a Cioks DC5

So in answer to the wooden box question. Yes mine was tacked in the corners. Comes with a little note on the outside of the box covering the lid. You’d have to remove the note to access the box.

Yeah I currently have a Tarkin 66 which is a grand Tarkin and knightfall 66 ina single enclosure. I’ll need to do a direct comparison when I get a chance to run them side by side but a few things I’ve already noticed. I like the fact the barefaced machinist can run both together. I can’t do that with my cog it’s either fuzz or distortion. It seemed easier for me to dial in the distortion to a setting I liked compared to the knightfall. I may have just fluked it thought ha! the only down side I can find so far is I prefer the top mounted jacks on the cog.

Mine arrived today too. I have only managed to play it through my practice set up with headphones. first thoughts are that it’s great. I could get easily great sounds out of both sides and they work well together. I think it will end up overtaking my cog as my go to pedal. I can’t make a full decision until I hear it with the whole band, I have a practice this week so will update then.

I’ve ordered one. Taking a chance on it but seeing as it has the 1 month return policy. I don’t see it as a big risk. Im thinking it’ll knock the cog Tarkin 66 off my pedalboard. Once it arrives and I’ve had a play I’ll chuck up a review.

I’m looking forward to hearing some demos of this pedal. I currently have a cog Tarkin and knightfall In one pedal but only have the ability to switch between the two not have both on. The parallel idea really grabs me, and I like stacking dirt pedals. I’m watching this with interest and wondering if it might knock my Tarkin 66 off the board. As @Salt on your Bass? asked. What are the two drives in this based on?

It has and I tried many out, every time I put one on unless it was very transparent I didn’t like it. I just don’t think compressors are for me! I wouldn’t necessarily say wiser lol unfortunately I did buy it new but I did sell it on for not a massive loss

Best purchase this year for me has to be G&L SB-2, which was one of those “that’s the tone i have in my head” moments to the point where I replaced the pickups in my bitsa to MFDs too. Worst purchase for me was probably a tc Spectracomp. Mostly because after using it I realised I didn’t need a compressor (or I’m not clever enough to hear the worth) and I ended up dialling it back further and further until there wasn’t a difference between on and off.

Loving the Eko bx-7. I had one about ten years ago that had been painted black by a previous owner. I found it in a ad in a newspaper shop for £30 and I stripped back to original finish. Had white dimarzio p and jazz pickups in it.

In regards to the pickup cover, I thought it was a bit odd to put it on seeing as when the bass was played in the hot chocolate video they showed, it didn’t have one on. I would have kept it the same as how it looked then.