Woodinblack

Just had a spam from GAK - in their "special christmas deals" they have the stomp at £465. Was there a time when it was more than £465? Or do these shops assume that we have no memory. Honestly things like that make me not trust some shops

Yeh, there is no issue then.

Hopefully when you get it back you can learn to trust it. I must admit it wouldn't work for me, but it is a very beautiful bass and it would be a shame not to use it.

I don't doubt it - these things don't stand still, the other manufacturers will be making new things soon. You are only as good as your last product

haha - maybe. I think though that they develop these products and then hang on to them to wait to see what other people are going to be bringing out. The stomp came out the week before Headrush announced something very similar and sort of stole their thunder.

I mean like the stomp, with a couple more buttons, and both full DSP channels. So twice the channels, twice the buttons and 4 times the blocks. The stomp is good for what it is, but it isn't anything like the LT. So really I want a full helix in a HX size box. I am happy to pay the LT price, but I don't have the LT space. They will make one eventually, might be a few years.

I don't mind a few samples. In fact I use a couple of samples on a floor pedal when we are playing. We might be playing fairytale of new york at christmas. Today my wife asked me why I was going to take a keyboard to play it, if I was only doing the intro, rather than just play it on a recording. That hadn't even occured to me, and I don't intend to do it.

The truss rod cover is any piece of wood you want or even not wood, it is wood on my premium, metal on the prestige and plastic on the normal ones - tbh, I didn't know that until I just looked. Tiny screws, but yes, just wood screws. Wouldn't recommend wenge as it is a nasty wood to work, but a small bit of rosewood is nothing on ebay and that would do nicely. Its very thin though. If the neck is wenge, it will have pits in the wood, that is the whole beauty of Wenge. It would be hard to say what you could use as wood grain filler as to me it would be like saying what emulsion would you recommend to give good coverage over the Sistine chapel! Strings obviously personal, mine all have d'addarios XL nickel round wound on (which is odd considering I am allergic to nickel), but the 5005 has NYXLs on, and they are rather nice. I think Ibanez put elixirs on them at the moment. Mine are always 130-45, but obviously you have the extra string, so I am guessing 130-30

I must admit if I had seen one at £349 I would have been quite tempted to get one before I got the effects, it is a good price. Although Im happy for the moment, when they make a Helix LT mini I might reconsider!

I think you might mean nF or µF - a 1000mF capacitor could give you quite a kick! But if its just an input capacitor you want to change, knocking it up to double will half the frequency which will take it down an octave for bass. And in general, I would just play through a guitar amp anyway (and generally do), the only thing you could fall foul of is that some guitar speakers dont have a long travel and can get a little heated with a lot of bass, but only when pushed a lot.

That seems justified!

Have you tried a SR rather than a BTB? I wondered as the string spacing is much wider (too wide for me) on the BTBs than the SRs. The other end is similar (although the BTB is also an inch longer) I agree - my h2n is with me everytime I am playing bass with anyone else, so it sort of counts as a bass thing (except mine is a few years old now). True it would come for if I was playing keys or guitar, but I am not doing as much of those!

The car was last year, I didn't have a holiday this year and the love of my life is from Canada (but I met her on the internet 20 years ago!) Ahh - I got the name wrong - it is a GVB-36, not a GWB. Different name I wouldn't say necessarily avoid, it was a fine bass really (and looked great), just wasn't right for me. The B2s are something I will always keep. You throw them in your car as they take no room and if anything ever goes wrong, you have a perfectly serviceable bass to play any gig. The only reason I got rid of my B2 was because I wanted a B2V as I only really play 5s, and there wasn't really scope for 2.

As we are just talking bass gear, I guess this rules out the Roli Keyboard and the Akai Ewi. I dont know about the Line 6 HX Effects - they are fun and good and all but I have only scratched the surface. So I guess at the moment the best purchase must be the Ashdown CTM-100. Hasn't made me sell the RH450 yet, and probably wont, but it has been a great thing to gig. Bass wise I don't think there is anything I got this year that I wouldn't sell. Oh hang on, I got the Hohner B2V, I wouldn't sell that. I guess the worst was the GWB36 - Just didn't get on with it. Also the Aliexpress Bongo wasnt that good, but it was a lot cheaper.

Why is it useless? I assume he is probably making a living from it, is that pointless? I don't particularly want to see it, but that is my choice.

Interestingly enough, now that the 10% has gone, the HX effects has gone down 10% in price.. hmm...! Strangely enough the Stomp has gone up, but then our currency is plummeting, it might be new stock.

I saw one last month for sale - maybe the same one you got, sounds about the same! I thought about it but it was too far from home to take a chance with. If it had been somewhere I could drive easily I would have gone for it, but not sure it wouldn't end up being one of those things I wouldn't use. I have no real musical outlet for it in my current group and my prog cover group idea isn't going anywhere fast!

Some people will do anything to avoid hearing christmas songs

Sounds a bit like someone with one should ask TC what is going on with it!

PRS Kestrel I would think

Yes, its easier. When it all falls apart you can glare at them and everyone thinks its their fault!

I had a ticket to see spocks beard some time ago, but I went away for a couple of weeks and only came back the previous day, and couldn't be bothered to treck back out to london. Its a shame I missed them but I don't blame me for it!

well, there are 6 other days!

Our singer has one of those. It seems to survive everything, although it got a bit funny last week when the microphone stand got stuck on it!

No, more in the 'take £250 off that and it would be a good thing!"