Al Krow

And we were 40,000 personnel short in the Battle of Britain. Too much negativity. There are a ton of folk losing their jobs / on part time work due to Covid-19. I appreciate the Pfizer vaccine has to be stored at very low temps and the medics amongst us will be able to correct me: but I'm not sure it would require a huge amount of training to up-skill unemployed graduates / school leavers who are facing a brutal jobs market to administer injections under the supervision of a qualified nurse? If need be, we can deploy 40,000 military personnel - a plan that is already underway in relation to mass testing. If we, as a species, can come up with a successful RNA vaccine (amazing scientific achievement) it's surely not beyond our abilities to work out how to make sure we get it to folk who need it most urgently?

Haha - ooops!

Lol! There clearly is lot of negativity - fair enough it's been a brutal year. As an annoyingly glass-half-full sort of guy - I reckon with the available GP nurses, nightingale hospitals and testing centres geared up for vaccinations we could get the most needy done in a few months - they manage to get the flu jab out don't they without massive difficulty without all this extra resource. The younger / healthier 80% of the population can get on with their lives in the meantime. Happy to wager a lot of us will be back gigging by May 2021.

Stunning! Congratulations!

B1-4 + (e.g.) Lekato looper will get you there. The looper on the Zoom (and indeed Helix) is pretty pants compared to most standalone loopers. The Lekato is both compact and very good value for money.

@MattiZ - that's really interesting and always good to hear the unvarnished views of fellow BC'ers - IMO so much more useful than "wow this is amazing!" to two months later "it doesn't quite meet what I was looking for tonally / feel / etc and I've decided to sell it" that we can often get 😁 It does go to show what a big difference bass set up can make - the experience with the two 735As I've had (the first was disappointing and the current one so far very good) definitely has some parallels to what you are saying as I touched on in my Oct 31 "Quick review".

Lol! I'm imagining the scene now... "Ok, go on then, play me both basses...No I really can't hear any difference between them at all, other than that the shiny black one sounds louder...No I don't understand what ballsy Yammy pups are...and what do you mean that one of them cost FIVE times as much as the other?! Oooh er that expensive one has a pointy shaped head doesn't it, a bit like a Sire you said? Is that a horse?" 😁

At least our govt have managed to get hold of enough vaccines for millions of us, which (I understand) unfortunately can't be said for 27 of our immediate neighbours; so we're defo on the right side of the Channel for once.

Dust off your basses and get your material back up to speed! 😊 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/covid-19-vaccine-candidate-effective-pfizer-biontech

If their cabs are anything to go by, I'm looking forward to the forthcoming release of the 3 lb BF 400W All Valve 😁

Looking forward to the album, having listened to that track! Really liked the bass line starting at 1.52 - what were the pedals were you using - DG / Tech 21?

Blimey - they'd have been better off buying one on BC! 10 bidders and still a full day to go - clearly still a VERY popular model (as also demonstrated across this thread!)

Yeah it was before I realised I needed one! Gotta bear in mind it takes me a little while to catch up with what you're up to and sometimes you've bought and sold gear before I've even worked out what the heck it's for 😁 Tbf I'm using my GVB36 in a very non-standard way: it's strung E to E and used as an electric classical bass with normal six string guitar tuning.

Yeah - you should have sold it to me! The Eastwood is a different animal (scale length, string spacing at nut and a fair bit more expensive) - but it does look good: https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2020/02/29/eastwood-guitars-unveils-the-hooky-bass-6-pro/

Couple of useful "quick tips" in the following threads:

Interesting in that we've both independently landed on 13.5mm (your Eastwood) to 14mm (my Ibby GVB36) as being a really good spacing for our alternative Bass VIs! Yours, I'm assuming, will be a tapered string spacing, whereas my GVB is a straight 14mm all along the fretboard.

I know you were pulling my leg matey, but you do an absolute ton for free for your fellow BC'ers and more widely - and it is greatly appreciated. Frankly there are very few of us who would be willing to do a pub covers gig without charging! I completely don't get why one piece of musical talent should be paid and the other not.

Done 😉 And FWIW if I had a C4 or FI they would certainly be patches I would defo want to download! It's exactly the sort of quality "usable" stuff that bassists should be willing to pay for, particularly if they are, themselves, going to be using them on paid gigs.

Shame (or quietly destroyed eh? 😁 ) Were you using them for live work and / or recording or mainly for fun at home?

Yup! I've been nagging you to do that longer than I can remember 😁

Quite revealing / useful hearing the isolated tracks, so thanks a heap, matey, for re-doing these for us. IMO the C4 no longer comes off as the poor cousin, in comparison to the FI, as when you over-layed them over the orignal tracks. The FI is certainly a sweeter / more rounded tone whereas the C4 is grittier. I wonder if the FI sounded better over-layed simply because it was jarring less with the original bass line? If we were able to strip out the original bass line and simply overlay your synth bass lines, I suspect the C4 would also sound pretty good / be very "usable". Two very capable pedals!

Brilliant thanks! I was just thinking it's a real shame that they didn't think to make a bass version, except they did! Really interested what you were pairing your GK3B with in terms of pedals and if you have any clips of you what you produced, that would be marvellous.

Aha! So what would be really interesting would be to hear just your latest isolated bass line for the FI and the one for C4 alongside it.

Cheers matey. How did you go about stripping out the original bass line to leave just yours on this and the earlier clips?

Even a Bass VI which has guitar spacing? But it's a useful point to be aware of regarding using it on a normal 18mm / 19mm 5 string bass i.e. it's not going to work for me; so thanks for the reminder!