Al Krow

I think it's perfectly legit to ask the seller any Qs you might have as a buyer, stupid or otherwise IF you are genuinely interested and without having to read the entire manual from cover to cover or do 20 hours of research on Google. Of course, no one has time for time-wasters who are not actually interested in buying. You'd hope the seller should already be able to answer Qs about the thing he or she is trying to sell and, as one of the earlier posters said, they can always update their ads to reduce repeat Qs. At the end of the day treat your potential customers with respect, after all it's you who wants their money. Simples.

I'm interested. But is it any good for metal?

Yeah, soz about doing all of that. But you never really did properly explain the point of FRFR to me very well, nor what happened to the whole 510A series and why we now only seem to have 310As and 710As... 😁

Grizzly Bass

Looking forward to doing a shoot out with my Grizzly Bass at some point soon then. That thing doesn't lose ANY low end at all! (But costs 5x the price of the SB - so no question which is the better value pedal!)

Any loss of low end, Dave?

Just lovely. Congratulations ped!

For the sake of balance (and to remove the image that krispn has kindly put in our collective heads), what are the key advantages of 3-way systems?

Two excellent YT demonstrations of the pedal. Tim Starace - demonstrating how the Geddy pedal can do 'Geddy' flawlessly. Been up on YouTube a while so you may have seen this one already, but he's a really impressive bassist! Excellent (recent) explanation by DistortedBass (a TB'er) of how the pedal does everything else besides Geddy.

Oh my, is that what I think it, is Kenny boy? 😄

Is the one on BCcab 112 by any chance the same one as on the Fearless F112?

Their CN212 is an amazingly good cab, I agree! Swept me off my feet and caused me to trade in my VK 210 LNT which I'd been (and remain) a very big fan of. But I don't think the Berg 112s have the same power handling / output as the BF BB2 or Fearless 112 (or even my BF SC)? So I would find them harder to use as a one cab solution than the other three.

Cheers @stevie I bet it's going to look great! Can't wait to see the finished product

Believe me I, and I hope all of us, would be equally up in arms if Alan Cringean's or Jon Shuker's designs were 'taken' by Fender or Gibson without their consent and no compensation / royalty payments provided to these two wonderful gents for their designs. But it has to be a two-way street.

Definitely a lot less clear cut than stealing some else's designs! For some reason the law gives one greater protection than the other, but they both represent creativity in my books. In the case of that particular song, it's about the bass hook, apparently...our bass lines are more important than our band mates sometimes give us credit for!

Be also interested to see what @dave_bass5 makes of it when he's had it for a couple of weeks as he and I both have Yammy Pro basses - in particular whether it's significantly better than Mojomojo. I had the MM a couple of years back and it's definitely great value, but probably a "7/10" pedal over all - perhaps a touch too muddy / dark for my liking. The Spark seems, from comments, so far to address both of those? Given the recent half a dozen purchases of the Spark over the past week or so, there may even be a couple coming up used

Haha! "Dear Mr Thicke, You clearly have the mental capacity your name implies if you think you're going to avoid a $5M payment of damages to Mr Gaye's family just because they still have the original! I appreciate you feel you should be able to get that material for a song but, legally, that really would be blurring the lines."

Cheers, just 28 pages to read through then...😂

"Borrowing" => consent + you're going to the thing give back + hopefully return the favour to the person you've borrowed from. Did you mean "stealing"? 😉

All good points. Even if a little widely spaced 😁

Fair. In which case if Dingwall with the D bird don't feel they have done anything wrong and have been playing by the book why bother changing? Maybe this is not a Gibson rip off issue after all?

👍 That is all that's required. Don't steal. Pay folk what's due. And we can all get on with making a fair living from our creative efforts.

Nope not joking at all. Those are NOT the basses that either Aria or Yamaha are famous for are they?

If you're simply taking someone else's design you should at the very least pay them a royalty for doing so. Intellectual Property, which includes design, theft is well, er...theft isn't it? How would any of us feel if we'd written a song and someone else stole it? Dingwall clearly know that they are bang to rights here and have been 'getting away with it' for too long, otherwise they wouldn't have made the above changes sharpish would they? Aria, Yamaha etc have all come up with their own designs and made a great success of the their bass ranges over many decades without simply plagiarising Fender's designs. But as Chris rightly says, unless Gibson get their act together just pursuing copycats alone isn't going to save their brand.

Thanks mcnach. I'm actually a little relieved to be hearing that the Spark isn't necessarily the promised land - given ALL the positive press its been getting recently! After your first post on it above I was about to hit the order button, but fortunately I saw your other posts too I completely agree that there is a broader point to be aware of about basses, pups and their interaction with drive. Using my Yammy BB P/J set up to illustrate: I'm finding that the thump / thud of the P pups actually works well with DG type pedals (e.g. VMT , B3K) where the top end fizziness of the drive is tamed by the P pup and the flip side is good sustain and bite, whereas with J pups the DG VMT and B3K, are just too toppy (for me anyway!) With more 'meaty-growl' pedals (e.g. Grizzly Bass) the opposite is true: the drive sputters pretty quickly with P pups like a dying battery, whereas with J pups it sounds great - again with good sustain and bite.