Higgie

It's a shame they are always colourful - Would have been much better if they were UV Revealing, ie look like normal strings, then you hit the UV light on and the strings light up!

My 2 tone SB Precision has a black pickguard, as does my 3 tone SB Shuker Jazz. Looks wicked on both! Black for me

I have Shuker Jazz with the Villex system in it, which I paid £635 for, and I thought it was a BARGAIN at that price. Go back and buy it. Immediately.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='951441' date='Sep 10 2010, 08:30 AM']Can you explain what's going on with that octron? I didn't think they had 4 footswitches[/quote] Octron 2. Bypass/Oct down/Direct/Oct up. You can turn on/off each voice as you please

Absolutely love all of his work. His earlier poppy albums, the later ones, the trio...Excellent taste in bass players too. His voice is awesome, guitar playing too...Major fan here

To get this sound I typically run an octaver into a fuzz (in my case Aguilar Octamizer into a Swollen Pickle clone) and then I use my Subdecay Prometheus in envelope mode, turn the depth all the way down and then use the freq knob to select a frequency range. It helps tune the sound into that one particular frequency where you get the sharp cutting synth sound throughout the whole range of the bass. Bear in mind I have the Octamizer before my X-Blender, and the fuzz and filter in it, so I'm effectively blending Clean+Octamizer with Octamizer>Fuzz>Filter.

Move the whole bottom row across and get an OC-2 on there

I was a firm advocate of the OC-2 until I bought an Octamizer. The Aguilar unit is capable of the synthy sounds, as well as more natural sounds, all the way down to pure sub rumble - It's awesome. I never used the 2nd octave on my OC-2, so the Octamizer was a logical step forward, as it then gave me control over the tone of the octave note, and the tone of my clean signal. Infinitely more variable, and takes up less space on the board too. True Bypass and a Blue LED sealed the deal for me