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Bought, downloaded, loved!

Thank you so much indeed I also agree that pickups make a huge impact on the tone of an instrument, way more than say, the difference between Ash and Alder as a body wood. So that's a yes from me! Those Yammy's are the rail type ones? I really liked those! Big articulate tone! The Nordstrand rail pickups sound really good too.

Absolutely brilliant. Definitely my 'pick of the EQ's'. Loved reviewing this one.

I guess I should add that active pickups aren’t ‘high output’ automatically. Passive pickups aren’t low output just because they don’t have batteries. It just happens that EMG pickups are boosted with an internal circuit inside the soap bar. Seymour Duncan’s ASB pickups are actually quite tame an output .. and Dimarzio’s Will Power passive P has a big ‘overwound’ tone and output level.

Oh that’s cool. I didn’t know that!

He he! No, it’s all good! There’s nothing like a good geek out Unfortunately yes it has been tried and tested. The possible solutions just had me moving away from my desired ‘base tone’ so the MS came off my board. Yes I could replace my EMGs.. but I’ve been using them in my basses solidly for about 20 odd years because of their (imho) tonal benefits.. one being a huge output level. Oh and yeah, a small thing with being an EMG Artist now *chuffed!* ok, so why isn’t it an issue? Well, your Nords aren’t active pickups and are likely to have a lower output level in comparison. So you could say that I am in the minority simply because I have that high(er) output than the average bassist. I use that level to drive my... err.. drive pedals! Although you could now argue that it’s less of a requirement if I am plugged directly in to Helix, but EMGs are just superb sounding pickups when set up properly and I don’t wanna change them out.

Or to put it another way, a limitation of the hardware that a Zoom tech said they couldn’t change.

Sadly not as it’s the input to the A/D converters that clips rather than the DSP algorithms. It’s a hardware issue that Zoom know about.

The MS is great! My one little bug was that it hated my basses with active EMGs in. There’s no input gain control so by the time my signal path hit the MS it stood no chance clipping all over the place. That aside though, the MS is money well spent, that’s for sure.

I really wish they'd do a version with the possibility of changing/extending the bands.. maybe making them semi-parametric. That would be a killer pedal.

Well, up until a couple of weeks ago it would have been the pedal I took off, because Helix has taken over it's job.. now, the irreplaceable pedal is Helix! So, I'm not really allowed to answer with that ha ha. However, Out of my two favourite pedals, the one that I will never part with as it can do so much more that it's name implies, is the Billy Sheehan Signature Drive Deluxe. Drive, EQ, Compression, Effects Loops.. yeah, really cool.

The church organ has got to be the mother of all bass instruments in my mind. Capable of some truly gut rumbling low end. I had to look it up again, so hopefully I am right in saying that a 32' pipe (open) on a church organ is capable of a 16hz fundamental. I can't think of any bass guitar cabinets off the top of my head that can entertain that lol..

B&Q do mats designed for kneeling on (gardening DIY etc) and they will be big enough for most 1x12 size cabinets or smaller.

Oh and yes. TC’s multiband offerings have been my go to to for many, many years now: Spectracomp, Hypergravity, Nova Dynamics, C300, Triple C(s), I’ve owned (or still own). I parallel compress with three bands engaged. More recently I’ve acquired the Line 6 Helix which I am tweaking now to obtain similar results. Indeed it has done two gigs on it’s own now without any additional pedals. The three band compressor on board works well with bass.

You should create a poll!

I would actually dearly love to see my band live. I would definitely miss so much by concentrating on the busy bass parts: My band mates include Marco Sfogli, Arjen Lucassen, Mike Mills, Thomas Lang and The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra!

I bought the film the other day and I still haven't had time to sit down and enjoy it! Really looking forward to getting a good fix of Bass. This is excellent Nick, really great!

Is as far as I got before I'd decided. but it gets worse and alarm bells.. (I won't quote the rest) Cancel because of the catalogue of incompetency. Yes you wanna support a fanzine, so tell them why you are out of this debacle and thank them for their help. However, "Promoters" like this should be weeded out. Call this person out for having no clue and messing you around. You are better than this. Every musician is. Oh and you are worth way more than 'no money left' and certainly more than £100.

If it's the same material that is used to make the rather cool screen protectors, then I can report there are no reflections as the material sits really close to the screen. That said, I've not played a gig out in mid day sun yet with it.

Nick's work is just mind-blowing. I'm actually saving up to buy every single product he's sent me prototype pictures of!

I believe it is a solid plastic cover and it is held in place with miscro-suction tape.

Did anyone actually run RTA on the MS to see those HPF curves? (I could have but I don't have an MS anymore lol)

Yeah he's pretty good actually. Most of my poly happens up the dusty end (in comparison to most) as I am predominantly a 6 player, but that said, there's good stuff happening in tracking midway in the direction of north of the border. Actually, tracking (in the right mode) is impressive across the board. I spoke at length with Morten who used to work for TC and I found out that within the toneprints, the parameters that govern poly tracking are also tweaked. So there's definitely some factors you can't get your hands on in the TonePrint editor. This appears to be how the get SnU to act like an analogue at times even though its definitely DSP. *I should also add that 'mini board' still hasn't been completed as I've been gigging the Helix to death right now.