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Enfield used to offer a carbon wrapped neck didn't they? Not sure if the benefit was mostly aesthetic or whether they sounded and acted like you’d expect.

Just relaxing in the pool today

I was going to say these two but now that feels a bit inadequate now!!

Sure, go 4 it!

Here are some options https://getbackbeat.com/pages/configuration

Maybe you need to plug into a big muff

If you want a nano size check out the EWS Stormy Bass Drive. Very clever little thing 👍🏼

I’m really enjoying the plain EHX Hot Tubes

Yeah I'm sure these players aren't immune to GAS like any of us but if I idolised a player and wanted to sound like them I'd probably want to buy the bass they used to record the music that influenced me, rather than a new one they might use a bit from now on. Probably a simplistic view but I know what I mean in my own head anyway! Maybe that's why people like Tony Levin don't have one - they wouldn't change anything.

I’ve never really understood signature basses. The player goes and makes a reputation with a ‘standard’ bass, gets ‘legendary’(!) then designs one that’s similar but different to the one they used 🤔

Hm probably not, think you’ll need a specific shaped gig bag or case for that.

A Small Stone has joined the team. Only got it yesterday but first impressions are good - I have had a few phasers (grape, phase 100/90 most recently) and they’ve all had their good points. Sadly all of them distort with the super high output of my SB1 but this one doesn’t. What it does do is go from chorus kind of swelling to crazy lazer sounds at fairly random points around the dial, and the ‘colour’ switch doesn’t add anything good for bass - but I think at a slow setting it sounds fab. Now I need a big muff to complete the set.

You could also re- order your images so the first image is the one you want as the thumbnail as I think the default is auto retrieve first image.

I’ll do a recording for you 👍🏼

Welcome, thanks for stopping by

Three recent acquisitions! I really like the sound of a BassBalls pedal with a P bass w/flats - with the sensitivity set low so that it burps and breaks up when you dig in. Live, it just sounds so chewy and fat, like a phaser into a distorted filter. Weirdly, I really don't like it so much on any other bass. I've come to realise that I'm quite into collecting pedals and as such I really wanted one of the super hard to find green sovtek versions, which I believe were made in very small numbers before they went into the black housing. Some say there were fewer than 10 but I have no idea. It sounds great, basically the same as my USA version on first listen (though the trim pots are set differently) so I'll do a proper A/B comparison in the coming weeks. This thing is huge... especially in height and weight. It's nearly as heavy as my Mutron. I love the switch on the front and the foot switch feels so satisfying - anyone who has a green Big Muff or Small Stone will recognise! It kind of clacks into place and stays down then pops up again when disengaged. Next is the Choralflange by Fulltone. I really like chorus pedals and bought this to compare to my Danelectro Cool Cat which sounds beautiful live but perhaps a bit strong when recorded, something I attributed to a lack of a clean blend, which the Fulltone has. Actually this pedal excels in the subtle chorus sound; paired with my Stingray it gives a really nice enhancement which gives slapped lines a little 'something' - set wide with a slow sweep it sounds a bit like an aural exciter. The wise sweep gives a range of about 2 octaves. Quite nice is that the LED pulses in time to the sweep. I've found that on less subtle settings it doesn't give that metallic sound when you decrease the delay time. Finally I got my hands on an EHX nano Hot Tubes. I really like a slightly growly 70s jazz bass sound and thought I'd give this a try as it was local and cheap. Still have yet to play with it properly but so far I think it does the light breakup really well and the tone doesn't rob any bass unless you turn it right up. It seems very responsive to playing style and doesn't give you the fizzy D and G strings which I prefer to sound relatively clean compared to a more growly E and A (though I always play in D)

You all need more puppets

Synths, filters

Don't know who's worse tbh, Mick or the so called Police. Disgusting.

Yep that’s why I’d always have it at the end of the chain. Compressors are designed to work with the full range so it won’t be any benefit to put the HPF before yours. I think you had it right at the start.

I narrowly missed out on buying the first edition stingray with radio knobs a few years ago. One thing I like about rays are how consistent they are - apart from the feel, the sound is unmistakeable and never wildly different from bass to bass/year to year IME.

Actually I mean ‘auto lock’ not the clip lock. Might ask D’Addario if they will do them in burly bass guy size

I found the launch quite charming and somehow quite Italian. All good in my book, nice to see a company with some personality and presence. Never used markbass, prob never will, but fair play imo.

I bought another set (despite past experience) thinking that I'd inspect them when I open them and get a refund if they're rusty (I have found that they arrive rusty and don't get worse as I play them). Happy to report they look fine; it might be my imagination but the wrap appears tighter too. I really do like the sound of them on a stingray...