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I absolutely live and breathe envelope filters lol. After trying nearly all of them I have come to the conclusion that every filter reacts differently to every instrument you use it with, and that also depends on the player's style and attack. As such it's really hard to recommend any given filter because even some of my favourites sound better with some basses than others. As said above, it's a slippery but funky slope and you won't lose anything by trying out as many used examples of all the different types as you can. Can I also recommend that you keep your first one, because it's annoying to realise that you liked that one best all along when you're about 20 filters through the journey!

I wouldn't be surprised if that's the next step

I thought I'd just mention these Yamaha WL500 headphones as I haven't seen anything posted about them elsewhere. They were developed by Yamaha and Line6 and offer full wireless capability aimed at musicians. https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/amps_accessories/yh-wl500/index.html I recently bought a pair of Yamaha YH-L700A headphones and they are stunning... I came across these when looking at their site and was amazed I hadn't heard about them before. Given how impressed I am with the 700's for listening to music, I am naturally intrigued about these, which are called the YH-WL500 (catchy) Thought it might be useful for some, as I have seen a few threads recently asking about playing bass through wireless headphones (normally people assume bluetooth would work but there's too much latency) Cheers ped

All cool - I might have changed mine if I felt like my comp wasn't working well beforehand, but does a great job (I use it more as a limiter) so saw no need to change.

Yeah very true - I sort of reasoned that if I feed the engineer anything even remotely unusual then they're likely to make (bad) adjustments to compensate. If they can't get a nice mix without me using a HPF then they probably can't if I do!

I chose to go after my compressor and DI. The way I see it, my comp is designed to see the full signal and I like how it responds, and I want to send a full signal to desk where it can be filtered by someone else if necessary. The HPF is for my monitoring only.

In action at the weekend

Yamaha YH-WL500 look pretty interesting.

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Ah right well that’s a bit annoying. I’ve never got the fascination with Thomann though, they always take ages to deliver IME and I’d gladly pay more for a UK source.

Really? For the sake of £20 and getting the stuff much more quickly?

Hi Dave the amp is a Blackstar U500 (500w 2x10 combo) and the matching 15” powered extension. Really happy with them, the limiter built into the combo is particularly good.

Yey I can join in again! I had my first gig with my originals band Genius the Fool last night. I’ve only rehearsed with the full band once, so luckily this was a small gig for a charity event and more like a live rehearsal really. It went really well. Pleased with the bass sound through my rig, we didn’t bother with DI from my board or amp as it was plenty big enough and we have all sorts of sequencers and samplers going into the PA so I don’t even think there was room on the desk! Allegedly this band play pretty big venues normally so it was nice to have an easy one first and we raised about £400 for charidee.

I've always thought as value as being held by the owner - i.e they value it at the price they offer it for. (Edit) I understand this is different to the market value, but in some ways it can dictate the perceived value in a given market. Look at 70s Fenders - they haven't changed, but the price has gone up because sellers are asking for more, people buy them and feel they have done well, perception of the 70s period changes somewhat because it's driven by new enthusiasts who have literally invested in it...

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We’ll colour me surprised 🙄

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Yeah, thanks - the filter responds really well and mimics the Mutron really well especially in the higher range. The settings I changed were more to suit my attack and the range really, so I think I changed the range/sensitivity and the mixer a bit, nothing much. I will be trying to sort an octaver, chorus and phaser patch next, before loading up some of the synths I made when I last had the pedal. Fortunately because I had already configured everything and I'm using the Roland UM-ONE again, it all worked fine when I reinstalled the software. I was expecting problems!

I got a FI again today courtesy of @martthebass (it might have been yours originally @Quatschmacher? I have been A/B testing your Micro-Tron presets with my Mutrons and I have to say number 8 was sooo close - I played with it a tiny bit and it’s really good. Thanks!

Interesting, thanks. It looks like it’s got twice as many ‘keys’ as the Orba but I’d be interested to see how it feels and sounds. The downfall of these devices can be in how it responds and how good the accompanying app is, so there’s a lot of unknowns at this point but I’ll wait and see. I still love my Orba, it’s just great for messing about with and my son plays it a lot. Maybe some competition will be good but Artiphon who make the Orba have shifted focus into their new ‘Chorda’ instrument https://artiphon.com Let’s hope they keep up development and updates for the Orba.

I think as long as the player is happy, they'll derive more enjoyment from playing and that's good for everyone. I have tried most envelope filters out there and comparing many of them is splitting hairs in the extreme, but that's why we love what we do.

Hi folks I sold my FI a while ago but now the band I'm in might give me more opportunity to use some synth sounds. I can't for the life of me remember how well the FI does standard effects like chorus, octave and phaser? I think the octave was pretty good but don't remember trying the others, which would make it more likely to find acceptance within my setup. Thoughts?