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Your best (and worst!) bass gear purchases of 2025?
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Enjoyed watching this. There's quite a lot on here that BC'ers have been buying and liking! -
Very true! But push that argument a little further and you end up concluding: "why bother with pedals at all?" I guess tonally what some folk are content with, won't cut it for others? Personally I'm super happy with the digital drive that my Boss GT1000 Core and GX10 provide, and actually prefer it to half a dozen standalone drive pedals sitting on my shelf waiting to be sold... But I think the point is what we hear on stage from our amps, or via our IEMs, plays a key part in how much we enjoy performing. No one is going to pay more attention to the bass tone than the bassist, ie us, right?
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So it's essentially a drive focussed multifx? Just wondering (other than XLR out) what it's offering over some of the more popular multifx's some of which have very usable drive patches? I guess, fingers crossed, it will be nailing the classic sansamp sound better than most!
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If you want to try different flavours of sound eg drive, octave down, tremolo, chorus, phaser which can work well with different songs, then a budget multifx can be a very cost effective way to do that. A Zoom B1-4 is an excellent entry-level multifx, offering an excellent built in tuner, plus drums, looper and headphones out for home practice. Other budget multis e.g. the recently released Valeton GP-50 are getting some favourable comments from fellow BC'ers too.
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Ah excellent, hadn't appreciated you're a Sei owner! What's your detailed thoughts on how it stacks up against your Ibby SR Premium for tone and playability? That will give me a very decent benchmark for a bass I know well.
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Just had a quick look on the Bass Gallery website and the prices of the sold Sei basses seem to range from around £1,800 to £3k. Hard to tell whether they were new when sold or not, but they look pretty mint. So maybe prices aren't a million miles from their old price list?
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Thanks! Be great to get a steer from any folk who have ordered one more recently. I need to pop into Bass Gallery at some point to get some work done on my Spector, so I can maybe also catch up with one of the two gents then.
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The basses look great! Can any of you excellent Sei owners give me a steer on what they cost new these days, ball park?
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Just seen this on a fBook thread: "I was just playing on my studio, as usual, suddenly I hear a few loud pops. a few minutes later, again but much worse and for longer, I look at the CQ-18T screen and it was like all the channels had very loud inputs and the screen was flickering..." Those symptoms seem pretty identical to what I've been getting. Which is kinda worrying that this might be a design flaw. However, he did follow up with this: "Update - I think I've found the issue!! I've moved some cables recently and I left one of the outputs cables running in parallel to a power cable. Once I re-organized the cables it didn't happen again." No idea what he meant by "running in parallel to a power cable" or whether that gives any wiser folk than me a clue as to what might be the cause?
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Not connected either to wifi or bluetooth. Inputs: - Stereo in from PC - plus a couple inputs from Zoom (for drums) and bass via GX10. Was coming through both speakers.
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@BigRedX how are you liking yourself so far?
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Oooh sounds exciting!
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The A&H has an external 12V 5Amp DC PSU It seems to go off when unattended rather than in use, although there were a few crackles at the venue last night, which worried me, but our guitarist thought it might have been a loose lead. I managed to take a quick clip of it crackling yesterday (rushed downstairs to get the last few seconds if it), and you can just make out that there are spikes on all the channels when this is occurring. A&H CQ18T crackling.mp4
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Would an extension lead with surge or other protection also be a sensible step to take? Any particular type you recommend?
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Just seen a GT-1B in the for sale. Hadn't appreciated the similarities between the two in terms of layout (or even that the GT-1B existed!), with the new GX-1B looking like a cool update of the "1B" range.
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A little start of the year bump!
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Thanks @Woodinblack - super helpful as always! I guess the question is whether we use our own PA which we've been doing for several years there, and augment it with their in-house PA which extends into other rooms, or just try to use their in-house PA. I was thinking the former for the first time so our own PA would be taking the main desk outs as usual, and their in house PA effectively becomes a glorified venue monitor? Given that we don't pan our outputs, I'm assuming that a single "monitor" lead into their house PA from one of our aux outs using their cable should therefore be fine?
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A Stagg EUB could be the perfect entry ticket then, Dave?
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On an unrelated point - I seem to be getting loud crackles and pops coming through my home RCF monitors when the set up has been left on and unattended for a couple of hours. It's now happened on a several different occasions over a period of weeks and occurs when it's just the desk connected up to the monitors, which pinpoints it as being a desk issue (or possibly a monitor issue, but I would have thought less likely). Any particular reasons why this might be occurring, or just likely to be a fault with the desk which needs checking out under warranty? In which case I'll get it checked out with Andertons whom I got the desk from 15 months back.
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Oh that is major event for you guys! Did his departure come as a surprise and / or was it done amicably? I guess your guitarist deserved a well-earned retirement and, as you say, it could be a good thing for the band once the dust settles - I suspect you may not be short of candidates to join such an established band!
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Sorry, I should have stated that those are the pictures supplied by the venue and that is the lead that the venue have been providing to their other acts. I'll see if I can find out a bit more.
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Not quite sure where to post this query, but here seemed as good a place as any! We've been asked to connect to the house PA for a forthcoming gig and they've provided us with a couple of pics showing the set up, and they have a connecting cable provided. It looks like they'll be providing a TRS --> xlr cable to connect our desk output. I'm guessing that the cable will likely be balanced mono (and a not a stereo) TRS, and therefore will plug into one of the aux outs from our desk? Does that sound correct?
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Yeah, clarification required i.e. in the budget compact format end of the market that the Xvive U4 etc being discussed have muscled into. It was certainly one of the more popular wireless devices on BC a few years back. Seems to have faded from view these days.
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Be interesting to hear if it's any good first 😅 The best multi-fx bass synth patch in the budget / mid-tier range I've come across is still by...Zoom.
