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'Testing'

I wonder if an enterprising basschatter would be able to add up an estimate of the value of gear sold through BC in say a month? Must be several thousands of pounds I reckon.

I'm closing Basschat

Did the fish bite your man hose?

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1022858' date='Nov 13 2010, 08:12 PM']Put's a new meaning to Basschat [/quote] Why do you think I have been brushing up on my photography skills?

Hi mate If you collect and return I'll lend you my unit and bass to play with. I'll need it for the next few weeks but when i have a slot of a month or so with no bass requirement you can have a good old play with it. ...and my vbass! hooooo! ped

Sweet Matt.. I knew you were overcompensating when you were saying how happy you were with your gear at Bass Day You'll get used to 36", remember my Bacchus was 36" and I hardly noticed. Then again I am pretty skill

Looks great... nice to hear from another happy Vigier player. Let us know what Patrice says... ped

Very nice bass, looks clean, too. A friend had a similar bass and was told by Mr. Vigier that it was an early prototype of the current passion pickup layout with both pickups near the bridge. If you look carefully at the neck you should be able to see that the fingerboard is actually bonded to a brass laminate which runs underneath along the whole length of the neck - very unusual, but very stable and unique. Patrice Vigier said after working out how to bond these materials and get such a consistent sound that making a carbon neck was easy! Cheers ped

I guess it depends on weather you are a plug and play player or one who likes to fiddle. I am both, and that's why I love the Vbass - 99% of the time I'm pretty much bypassing it, using it as a pre, and the rest of the time I use the patches for great sims of certain basses. Granted, it took a while to get these spot on, but the unit is so powerful I put my faith in the fact that I COULD get what I wanted, I just had to find how to get it. Once I had them, I stored them, and use basically 8 patches in total, and haven't been near the settings of those since the day I finished them over a year ago. So, now it's truly plug 'n' play - and the best thing is that because it's a stereo output it sounds awesome through my IEMs and with my two channel power amp I can send the lows and highs to different cabs when using synths which sounds much better. Definitely one to try IMO, and I don't think the VB99 is much easier to use and though it may have a couple of benefits, I don't think they are worth the extra price tag. When I can get one for £500ish I may be tempted to change. I actually prefer the form factor of the floor unit anyway. To be honest, I'm really not into effects at all. I mainly bought this thing because I can now do a very good impression of other basses from my one instrument, and it doesn't hurt to have all these effects in the same box if I decide to mess about. It makes my rig and my setup much simpler. The only thing it's missing is an AUX input for practice, bit annoying having to use a mixer with it. Cheers V-ped

Hi Shep Probably easiest if I reply to your PM on here for others to see. I have the floor based version as already said in this thread. It's a great unit and since having it I haven't looked at anything else (OK I looked at the VB99 a bit..) The effects are something I haven't really used extensively, I mainly play clean through the unit using it as a pre-amp for my power amp. I use the bass modelling a lot though, mainly three or four sounds which model, extremely well, a MM, Jazz, P and Smith. I'm pretty sure the unit does delay, you tap the tempo or set the time on the unit. In fact, it definitely does. The reverbs are also excellent. The GK pickup is a bit of a problem, depending on the shape and size of your bass. First of all I had the unit clamped to my bass near the bridge with the 'brain' on the back of the bass, et voila: But after some scary few hours with literally a chisel and mallet I ended up installing it all inside the bass, like this: ...which is much neater. To be honest the clamp version was fine, it never got in the way but it meant I couldn't use my proper Vigier case because it had this lump on the back. I'm sure if you decide the Vbass is for you that you'll want to install it internally too, don't worry it's not too bad to install yourself. Cheers ped

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1003873' date='Oct 28 2010, 03:25 PM']If you really feel strongly about it, here's a bit of friendly advice... don't post anything you don't want the wider world to see on BC, or any website for that matter.[/quote] I agree with this indeed, but still probably best to keep it private anyway because we don't want to come up on google if someone searches for 'Pope Visits UK' or something, it may attract unwanted attention. Fixed now, as you were ped

Sorry guys my fault

Extra points for dropping the 'lol' bomb on your endorsement page!! Cheers ped

'Boston rag'

[quote name='dood' post='991432' date='Oct 17 2010, 06:49 PM']Hey Ped! Love the pics mate! - There was something rather cool about watching you wander around Bass Day with a vintage camera![/quote] Camera was made in 2006 son [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_R-D1"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_R-D1[/url]

[quote name='Machines' post='991331' date='Oct 17 2010, 05:21 PM']Nice one ped, I like the way it accentuates the wood grain. Got that one of dood and me ?[/quote] Hi mate I have got it but as I was shooting against the big window and basically had the shutter speed wrong, so it's a bit blown out. I just managed to rescue that shot of Dood with his bass above. One of the perils of having a fully manual camera!

[quote name='Chris2112' post='991330' date='Oct 17 2010, 05:18 PM']You should really have more photos of that C6![/quote] Just for you

Here are a few more, taken on film and scanned with a pretty cheap home flatbed (I quite like the results though!) I put these two together because it looks like Pris has some tiny legs attached! EBS_Freak is playing the bass in the bottom of the two, I think: And here is Machines playing his Bacchus at his house before we left for Manchester:

Thanks for the comment - I like having a fixed focal length sometimes as it makes you really think about what you are doing! ped

Thanks guys. Though the camera I was using looked quite vintage it's actually a fairly modern digital rangefinder with leica mount. Shots on film are going to be posted later Cheers ped

Couple more on the way, hold on to yo' butts

Here are a few pictures I took on Bass Day - didn't really have the right setup for the occasion and I haven't developed the shots on film yet but here are a couple anyway (the first two are posted elsewhere I think in the Bass Day thread) Cheers ped Full size piccies here: [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiscocks/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiscocks/[/url]