Al Krow

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It's obviously not that good 😁

It's touch and go right now, I agree. Fingers crossed for your next couple of gigs. I think those playing outdoors are mostly still good, though? I'm just seeing if I can persuade my missus to go up to a fellow BC'ers outdoor pub gig on 26 June. Should be fun, and he's got a great rig!

That's a real beauty! Congratulations!

Another +1 for the OC-5. Why?... TLDR: the OC-5 seems to give us both the OC-2 and the OC-3 pedals combined into one unit (and another reason for "5" = 2+3?) with improved tracking compared to both its predecessors and throws in an octave up. It's also been very competitively priced - you get a lot for your cash! What's not to like? That OC-2 sound As pretty much everyone else has already reported back on the OC-5 thread, it nails that classic "OC-2" sound with the -1 oct solo'd, which is great. Octave-up I didn't think I was going to particularly like or use the octave up, but I'm already won over. It's not a clean octave up in the way the Digitech Mosaic is, to give you an 8 string bass sound, but it definitely adds a bit "extra" when used with the -1 oct and a bit of -2 oct; both when the pedal is used by itself but also when combined with fuzz and / or filter. Easy to dial in a more 'Royal Blood' sound with a bit of clean (3.5/10), +1 oct (5/10), -1 oct (max), Poly setting at full range, pick into VTDI set for dirt. Tracking Very good at normal bass riff speeds, but will glitch if you sustain a note (which is not unusual for octavers). I actually prefer it in Poly mode over Vintage mode when I'm using both octave up and down simultaneously, as it gives me a cleaner overall sound and a touch better tracking. With other pedals Put it in front of a Red Ripper fuzz and Proton filter and it plays very nicely with them both, thickening up the sound just as you would want from an octaver. Pricing The OC-5 has been competitively priced by Boss at around £119 inc P&P. In fact, I can't think of another quality octaver that offers quite so much for such a good price.

If I tried to sing and play, I would lose my band and any hope of gigging 😁 Feel for ya! That's a bit gutting.

@Rich - any idea of the key bits of his signal chain to get that tone?

First full band rehearsal for us last night since the start of lockdown. Could tell everyone was delighted to be making music together again!

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So I've retested as follows: Elrick - twist the transmitter and you hear a definite "pop" on the amp & cab with the WL-20 cutting out / back in. Normal lead doesn't cut out at all when twisted the full 360. Spector - no cut out of the WL-20 when rotated. So for me this is just an issue (so far) with the Elrick and I'm guessing something to do with the internal jack lead in the Elrick. What's interesting is that other folk have previously reported issues with their active basses with the WL-20 and I wonder if they are getting the same thing?

Very true about the pin. But it stays depressed at all rotations and the light stays on throughout. So I suspect that there is something going on with the internal lead socket. Be interesting if anyone else has this same behaviour (or if any other issues) with their WL-20s? Btw mine behaved fine at rehearsal tonight (and I made sure they transmitter was the right way up!)

Just checked - nothing obvious. Looks the same all the way round on the WL-20. Maybe something internal on the jack socket then?

Boss WL-20s - couple of earlier questions on this thread about using with an active bass. Spotted an interesting thing (fortunately just before trying them out for the first time at a band rehearsal this evening!) - if the jack is inserted in the active bass I'm using today with the Boss logo on facing up it works beautifully. Rotate it 180O and it's silent! Dunno if anyone else has experienced anything similar?

I don't recall having it on this thread...but as you say I'm old and of poor memory 😂

Ah, you are SA's core target market then 😂

Just wondering if it would be too much to ask for SA to add something like this display to their pedals? Save a lot of angst and extra costs of midi etc. for us bass players and we could focus on actually playing bass rather than addressing shortcomings like a lack of basic display, in already expensive kit. Or am I just being too old fashioned?

and then make sure to make a note of your settings when you do find one! Unlike FI or C4, there is no ability to store "filter tweaks" on the SY-1 over and above the factory provided 10 x 11 = 121 basic presets. Whilst that is a lot of basic presets, there are then several twin filter settings you can have for each of these basic 121 presets, so that's a vast number of options!

Recently been a little bit blown away by this black beauty:

An unsigned one sold on eBay for just north of £2k a week or so back. A screenshot of the sale was posted on this thread. Goodness knows what a signed one is worth now!

You'll be getting a non reversed Sandberg VM4...

Did you consider an OC-5? Nails the OC-2 sound whilst providing improved tracking and additional octave up. And all for a fraction of the price of some of the other other OC-2 clones! But I guess if you already have an OC-2 and you're happy with it, then probably no real point?

Been around for a decade and looks like it's stood the test of time very well!

Here's a couple of mine...

@PatrickJ - brilliant, mate. I'd like to give that a 😂 as well, but I'm restricted to one emoji!

@SumOne funny you should say that: my query was prompted by this YT clip which I had a listen to earlier and I couldn't hear any real difference between up and down positions! 😁