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Just fixed the links

Actually playing with it last night I found it vastly improved if you turn the ‘tone’ to zero. Give it a try. Pretty happy with it now.

I just bought a B1on here and have been playing with it this week. In short, it’s great! I’ve set up a clean patch with my usual settings (pre-amp, reverb, limiter) and it sounds almost as good as my VB99, albeit with a tiny bit more noise. For £25 used, that’s just incredible. Some initial impressions: + Tiny, light, battery powered, mostly I’m pleased about the great sounding limiter and the huge range of reverbs which I like. Really like also the chorus and ‘ensamble’ effects. Ideal companion for my mini bass for travelling/playing on the sofa. Feels good quality even though it’s plastic - really doubt I’d ever break it, but if I did, it’s easy to replace! Looper is excellent! - Can’t get the octaver sounding much good, probably need to experiment. Master vol is buried in the menu system but ok. Haven’t tried the distortions yet because I normally use them alongside octaver so will have to wait on that. Tap tempo would have been nice. Would prefer 35mm headphone socket. Although the unit is very quiet indeed there is a slight digital artefact audiable if listening fir it after a sustaining note - not noticeable in normal playing but it’s there. Compared to my old Pandora and Vox units it’s miles ahead, though. 5 effects at once is usually plenty but it would be nice to have more lined up but turned off. I understand it can’t process more then 5 simultaneously. Instead I’ve cloned my main setting into the first three patches with different effects lined up and ‘off’ but set up. Oh finally engaging pedals in the chain but off is a bit fiddly; I’m used to pressing a single button to engage every effect in the chain in real time. I feel like a fool saying anything bad about it for the price. It’s amazing! Ok it requires a bit of adjustment in workflow but I actually really enjoy playing with sub menus and editors. I’m looking forward to spending more time with it and getting that octaver right. Also the synths look fun. And the filters. The phasers sound cool too. Lol.

Surely the string tree isn't essential anyway - is it?

(I'll issue the warning later, Dad)

I found mine REALLY nosy and poor build quality. Sent it straight back, and I NEVER send things back!

@lownote12 all sorted?

Ah sorry! Interesting to hear the bass anyway As you were.

An electro-acoustic of some sort I think

All looks OK my end now - and looks like you've posted the ad? Let me know if you have any further probs

There’s none. Only as much as using a normal pickup in a normal bass. Ask Roland if you must!

No payment my end - it says ‘pending’ so when it goes through you’ll get a receipt from us and it’ll allow you to post instantly. Perhaps check the card and fund source? Cheers

Click the ‘following’ button and unfollow. When commenting on a thread turn off the ‘notify me of replies’ switch if you aren’t likely to re-visit.

Yeah that’s right - mines a ‘pleasure board’ but since TecAmp became Eich they’ve renamed it to ‘bassboard’ which is just no fun. It’s like they put the name through our profanity filter!

I really don't mind posting or buying items that are posted if it's something which is insured, and replaceable (for example an amplifier). If it's a rare instrument I've tracked down and wouldn't be able to replace with another, I'll go and get it. I'll move heaven and earth!

I much prefer using headphones for practice. I can't concentrate when I think I might be annoying someone. Using headphones I can get the perfect sound, benefit from full stereo effects like reverb, and using a 'Baseboard' I get the feel of sitting in front of a huge rig.

Trello it!

If that isn't what you want you could open threads in a new tab then go back to the original page and read others. Actually that's how I tend to work on desktop anyway.

Thanks. Does the same for me too on iOS. The notes are a third party add on so we’ll talk to the developer. We weren’t originally going to make he notes usable by members, but just have them for posting global notes from the admin. I’m not sure how often members use them, but I love them for posting global reminders/notices!

Please start any threads concerning functionality/lack thereof in this forum, not the 'Site News' area. Cheers ped https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/111-site-issue-reporting/

Yes but you said there is latency with a GK + Vbass, which there isn’t

Looks cool - how about a second 13 pin output and pickup for the bass register, into a VB99

I like it ❤️

Well I don’t know what to tell you because all it does is transmit the signal from a magnetic pickup to a 13 pin output in exactly the same way a normal pickup does, but with all strings into one output. There’s no latency because nothing is being changed at all, there’s no processing on board, no triggering etc. I can only assume your external unit wasn’t right. I’ve been using GK basses for years and if there was even a tiny bit of latency I wouldn’t touch them.

There’s no latency on the GK either. It works just like a magnetic pickup; there’s no conversion going on so the sound is instant (at least when using Roland GR system interfaces, like the Vbass which I know he used/uses) The only benefit with the piezo based system is the lack of an extra pickup but that’s never bothered me. A lot of Caron’s work is recorded using the VB99 and original Vbass before that, which people assume is MIDI but is in fact basically like having an effects pedal for each string.