Woodinblack

So tonights gig, because I couldn't get the sound I wanted on the last gig and had a not great gig because of it, I thought I might as well take the ME90B with me. I also have new strings and cleaned the frets. Because obviously I only got the 90b on friday and haven't had much time with it, just a play around last night, I didn't want to go to crazy, but noticed that in preset mode, P1 is a straight(ish) sound with a bit of an amp model, P2 is an overdriven valve amp with dirt and P4 is a wah thing, so I figured I could use those basic tones to get most of what I needed. The keyboard player is MIA tonight, so back to the 4 of us. So for most straight songs I used P1, for something with a lot of dirt I used P2, and for things that were just a bit rocky, I used P2, turned preset mode off and turned of the drive section, for a mid drive level. For funky music I used 4, and found that if you engaged the pedal you got to change the frequency of the filter of the wah and that was huge fun. For Whole Lotta Love, I could go for P2, start without the drive, add the drive in the middle and turn the echo section on, adjusting the delay until it was right (that I managed to do in the song gap - I could have used tap tempo but forgot). for Who Knew, back to P1, then off preset and mod on with a chorus, and just turned the dials up, putting the time to the end it is like a CE1 chorus like I had so it sounded familiar. The only think I missed out on what 'are you going my way' when I normally have an octave, but didn't know we were playing that until it started, and I hadn't selected it (forgot I could set the pedal to octave, until half way through the song). I had a great gig, really enjoyed it, and honestly the sound in my IEMs was so great, sounded just like the bass going through a series of different amps and pedals. It didn't sound even slightly digital and at no point did I not know how to get something I wanted. Love this pedal.

I think maybe they are - seems odd like you said, I am sure they could wedge a SY-1 in there at least, just a couple of presets from it. I suppose it does have a effect send / return (which I used tonight for a sample player as our keyboardist was off) for putting other effects in

Sorry to hear about your mum.

Oh and a negative. What is with that tuner Boss? Literally all the other devices I mention above, the Zooms, helix, Dwarf, Tc clip on tuner can manage to say 'B' when your b string is in tune. Not C or F# or the number it first thought of. So yes, if you have a 5 string, you can tune the top 4, and then tune the 5th from the others, its faster.

Now I had a chance to play with it with headphones, I can't believe all the options. Yes, I have the Zoom B1-4 and B3, and a helix HX, and the LT for a while, and various other stuff, but this is so accessible. The amps sound fantastic, totally clear, without the noise of the zoom ones, and seem to have real depth. A lot of the modulation options feel like straight copies of the Boss effects (which isn't too surprising) but haven't spent a lot of time with those in the past they feel very familiar. I also actually like the detune and harmonising options as well - yes, they sound artificial, but they always do and that works quite well. In general I think the only thing that really lets it down is the synth options, as I know they can do better, I can't see using those for anything. I think where it really wins for me is that I am sure there is nothing I can do on this that I can't do on the HX FX for instance, or the zoom but on this I can do it at the same time, like for instance, editing a chorus and then while adjusting it thinking 'this might work with a bit more treble', so adjusting that at the same time, and then maybe backing off the depth and changing the gain to put a bit of grit through it. Like separate effects, but with not only the ability to store them, but also not having to spend ½ hour before a gig trying to work out which patch cable is crackling or why no sound is coming out. I think this is going to be a lot of fun. But really - no power supply? huh.

So opened it up now and played a short while. No PSU? Seems a bit poor - over £300 and no 9v power supply? I mean I have one, but it seems a bit under-generous. I assume they do that because they give you 4 AA batteries so you can use it out of the box. Does anyone know what the battery life is like? I would be quite happy to not have a 9v power supply on a stage if I can help it. Anyway, so far, seems very easy to use, not much is non obvious and very hands on, which is what I was looking for, although like anything I guess it will take a while to find what you like and dont as although it seems really easy, there are actually a lot of options in there and a lot of combinations.

Rexes hollow - I actually sing to add the pitch - I do the high bits or solo the songs that are just higher than the singer does (such as feel it still, or our current learning, you should be dancing). Or just add the harmonies. Strangely, we do 'who knew' as it was a requested song at a wedding, and we enjoyed doing it (and it went down well).

Picked one up going through Bristol today, will try it tomorrow at a gig!

I sing the choruses

10-15 years ago, 70s basses weren't even seen as sellable!

They figure your eyes won't spend any time looking at the headstock on this one!

If you sell something at a price you are happy to sell at, why does it matter if the next owner sells it higher? obviously if you can sell it higher, then that is good, but once you have sold a thing it is someone elses to do what they want with, including selling.

I was very tempted to buy a 1965 gibson ES355 from wunjo in the mid 2000s for £750, this was considerably lower than the price of a new one at the time (and although newer than now, it would still be over 40). Anything fender from the 70s/80s up until 10/15 years ago would have been a lot lower than the price of a new one. Maybe an early 60s / late 50s fender might have been more expensive, but not hugely so. This is very much a new phenomenon

Who knew is in our set, I never knew that was what it was about, who knew!

$5000, well, that is a bargain for something so.. unique.

Thats because until a decade or so back, they were just older basses and had reasonable prices. The 'vintage bass' market with its high prices is a relatively new thing.

Seems the search server was down a bit overnight - it appears to be ok now, can you now search?

Personally, although I am also not interested in tribute groups, I can live without the exact look if there is an approximation. I think it is more important to a tribute than a cover band, while I am happy to play motown with a Ibanez iceman, I don't think its right for a tribute, but maybe they are starting out, not that well off and that is what they have. However, they have to get the sound and the feel right, something I feel that a lot of bands don't bother with. It sounds like this is a band built around the singer just getting people to support them, and they didn't pay attention to the other bits because they didnt' feel it was important. It doesn't matter how easy or hard a bassline is, and I don't really see anything hard in doing joy division (which in a way makes it worse), the aim should be to nail it almost perfectly, especially the feel, unless it was a last minute stand-in.

It literally isn't, but congrats for coming in and reviving a 4 year old thread with your enlightenment

Last night a very local pub, local enough to not be able to get through a whole track on the way to it. Nice load in, I had bought a 20kg wheeled dolly from toolstation, you plonk the PA on it and wheel it in, fantastic, wonder why i never got one before. Easy setup, but then things went down. I wan't happy with the bass sound, it sounded lifeless through the PA. Everyone else was complaining at other things on sound, although luckily I can field some of those questions. but all the way through people were complaining. And it was very hot, unpleasantly so. After half time I just turned up the volume of people who I could turn the volume up of, reiterated my point to one woman complaining that the vocalist sounded unclear that yes, he was unclear and there was nothing I could do about that as that is what he sounds like, and got one with it. By then I had got peace with my bass sound, my new IEMs were rather nice, I had the backbeat which also helped a bit and although there wasn't much audience, they seemed generally happy to be there. Managed to stop a few songs earlier as there was pretty well noone there and obviously home early. But the last few songs I enjoyed, the new songs we introduced for this week worked well, and unlike last week, my voice seems to have got over the whooping cough or whatever it was. And we get paid, onward and upward!

Which one are you then?

Honestly never known either of those things to be true, but I guess different circles.

No, the original thread was removed, then a warning was raised saying what the problem was and acknowledged. then this new thread was posted. There is sometimes a delay between the hiding and the warning as there aren't full time mods, just people with stuff going on, that isn't the issue. ok, so there is a post that breaks the rules in that it could be a closeted attempt to get people to see the post and PM offers, so this is handled by leaving the post there so people can see it and send PMs about it but there is a big sign saying 'don't do this' at the end? I can't see it being effective.

It means you broke one of the rules that were laid out, this is a warning about it but it isn't considered something that causes any real problem and is most likely because you didn't read the rules. Which is what the 0 point warning said that was sent to you and you acknowledged getting Part of that is because of a specific problem we have where this is funded it was decided that too many closet sales are done this way. and in the message it says just to search the forum and see what the same thing went for. The exact same thing you are trying to get a value for has been sold several times before for almost the same price each time (apart from modifications which rarely add any value). Who was making any assumptions? You broke one of the rules and it was flagged, like if anyone broke the rules and was flagged, noone is making it about you.

Hi, sorry you have been led to belive by people here that there are 'ways round' the rules here, but there aren't. Regardless of what people may say, the rule here, is as is describe above, and in the 0 point warning you got. There is a blanket ban on any non supporting member posting a 'whats it worth' post on the forum due to frequent attempts to get round paying for an advert. There is no way of rephrasing the request to get past the rules because it is still the same thing. As mentioned, you can see what others have gone for, or just sell it and see what you get offered - I find if you ask someone what something is worth, that doesn't always have a bearing on what you will get for it at the moment, which appears quite a lot lower than peoples belief in somethings worth.