Woodinblack

Still love it. It is my 'other bass', in that I always take 2 basses to a gig. But unlike the hohner which was a true second bass, ie, a spare, I use this one. I still have to check what we are playing so that I can do it on a 4 but it is just genuinely a fun bass, sounds great, weighs nothing, just easy to play. Thing goes out of tune quite a bit though, which seems odd, as tuning is not something I do often on the ibanezes, certainly nothing I would do more than once on a gig, but with the gretch I would. I though it might be the strings on it, but put new strings on it (which made it sound better), but still goes out of tune. Never mind, certainly can deal with it. The switch got worse, now it doesn't actually stay on one side. it switches fine but then just bounces back to the middle, and I haven't put the varitone in it yet. I almost got a green one the other day as there was one for sale, but I don't need multiples! Playing it live though, it is so lively and bright with a real depth to it. Amazing for the price. Would recommend it to anyone.

Yeh - My pedalboard lives outside with the stuff to go to gigs with. So the native would be quite good to actually explore the options really apart from as I haven't got a full helix, not to put too much in a patch!

For me it is punk and prog. Which is a strange combination when thinking about it. So Geddy Lee, Bruce Foxton (although with him more P basses), and lemmy, yes I guess. I don't associate them with McCartney. I guess it was just a popular in the 70s thing. And they seem popular with punk bands I have noticed in the few occasions I have been near a punk band recently. Maybe it is regional variations. I have never personally seen a punk band with a thunderbird.

Have you tried clearing your caches. You can get it from the Develop menu on the current safari (which you can switch on in preferences->Advanced).

Odd - I associate them with punks, back in the early 80s and now. The last few punk groups I have seen had them. But I don't see too many punk groups, normally at something like tattoo conventions.

If I had a Ric, it would have to stay upstairs. i had a copy, that had to. She hates them. And anything that is mostly brown (unless it is just wood). The one she hated most was a butterscotch telecaster, that wasn't allowed there and an ibanez ATK. The Wenge and spalted poplar ibanezes are allowed. She doesn't like my new Gibson 'the Paul' which has been refinished in brown. Anything traditionally* sunburst or orange also wouldn't stand a chance. * I say traditional - My Maruschyk which is a red to black burst she finds the nicest looking of all my basses and is most welcome there.

Yep, that is why you never see rickenbackers in a punk band. Oh.. hang on

I would agree with that, if you give someone a spec, it matches the spec or it doesn't. If it doesn't match the spec it needs to be fixed to match the spec. Wherever it came from.

I wouldn't even be worrying about the active preamp. A 'good' preamp won't fix a bad sounding bass (and I am not a believer in that much of a difference in preamps, but that is because I play flat) and it sounds more like the pickups are uninspiring.

Odd that it is mono in, but I guess that is a budget choice

Yep, the reason I can get it. Because Maybe you want to record or want the facilities of a full helix? You have said that before, it still isn't correct. The helix native gives you a full helix. The stomp is one channel of a helix, or half a helix if you will. So actually it is a pretty good deal. You can have the stomp as a gigging stomp box and the full helix for recording

Ok to have lot of grind, but make sure you don't increase the heft too much

This is true, I have an effects pedal (a vox) that has a valve hole at the top with a little glowing valve. The irony being it is a cold cathode valve, so the only reason it glows is that it has an orange LED behind it It is good that it is there for the sound, rather than for the marketing, but that is pretty much like ashdown. Although it has to be said, they make the valves pretty prominant and showy in mine. A CTM100.

You mean the knob that determines how much of the signal goes through the ECC83 valve? Yes, it does give a good tube like facsimile for some reason!

Half of my basses are hanging in the living room. My wife doesn't object to them as long as 'I don't put the ugly ones there'.

Yep - I bought my wrongo from aliexpress

If its big enough you could fill it up with those squashy balls, and have a sort of play ball pit, as well as a speaker!

Its not a code, its just that price if you have a helix device registered to your account. I am going to pick that up when I remember. In which case I won't need to bring my helix HX effects in, as I will have the full helix here!

Agree with this - rechargables have lower voltages to start with and most active basses take no power. Generally speaking replacing a battery is more likely just because it is old than it has run out. In fact, on my old SR1000 prestige, the batteries seem to last longer than the pots.

I can understand with Helix and Lt, in that they both have large screens and a lot of buttons - frankly they are easy enough to edit (probably less so on rack), but the stomp doesn't have much real estate. However, I wouldn't say that is the reason for selling them - people change things, sometimes you buy something and it doesn't work out, sometimes it makes you realise you want something different. Well, sometimes there are no more posts to read on a forum so you got to look at some other software!

Your understanding is very wrong then unless you mean just in a a way to access the presets. HX Native = Full helix on a computer. HX Edit = patch editor for HX style effects pedals Are you saying you didn't use HX edit when you had your stomp? I assumed it was the first thing you would do, I can't imagine editing on the stomp itself with its little screen

Virtually all SRs / ATKs and BTBs are - there are some other series that aren't such as the artcores and the new smaller ones. I had a iceman bass that wasn't (until I fixed that), and there are some older ones too.

I heard it from my garden, sounded ok!

An excelent song, we introduced it and now its normally in our last or near last closing songs, never fails to go down a storm. And I don't see anything wrong with the lyrics either, it is an underage girl coming on to an adult man, and him rebuffing her, which is lets face it, what is supposed to happen. Clair by Gilbert O'Sullivan is an interesting one, which I happened to be reading about recently as I was listening to it* and thought these lyrics sound a bit dodgy, but there is a lot about it on the net, there was a real Clair, and it was a story about him and her and there was nothing dodgy about it. Both of these songs are at the risk of an understandable but very unfortunate backlash against relationships between adult men and young girls that are very important for healthy development for girls. Unfortunately because the risk of abuse (and alarming incidence of it), the pendulum can sometimes swing too far and make innocent relationships seem dodgy. I mean I wouldn't do Clair as a song because it is a god awful song, but the lyrics would seem dodgy now. * because 'alone again, naturally' came on and I realised how dark the lyrics were. Sing something in a gentle way and noone notices.