Al Krow

Bought Graham's HX Stomp off him - condition as described and well packaged and sold on at a very fair price (as has been commented by both the above posters). He wasn't on the forum much this week, but did provide me with reassurance of when it would be arriving, which it duly did!

Dave popped round to trade his Q\Strip for my Yammy BB425 (and generously donated a supply of 9V batteries to me for good measure!) Very pleasant evening's chat over a beer. He's a top guy!

Bought Tim's Panda FI off him. Very responsive, great comms and a pleasure to deal with. Buy with confidence! Cheers, Bas

Speaking of awesome demos... I think the very last one (which Q posted on a FI FS thread) is missing from his earlier post above. These are seriously good octaver patches. Q has informed me that the FI tracks all the way down to a low E (wow!) and possibly even lower. I'm seriously thinking of moving my moving my Valeton OC-10 on!

Any bassist who can hold down a groove whilst taking on the lead vocals gets my respect!! And in Royal Blood Mk II style, you've managed to dispense with your guitarist! Nice one! Definitely got me interested in checking out your other material. Snapshot of PJP's bass pedal board for anyone else interested:

A bit of a Little Bastard in fact? 😄

I generally prefer Al, but I answer to most things.

Get yourself a Yammy BB: it was specifically designed with the restless bass soul in mind to provide that much coveted tonal balm 😊

Thanks Dave! I do kinda love it when my J bass playing BC buddies recommend me this or that pedal for getting a good P bass tone! It's just that they must now know or are shortly, themselves, about to discover(!) what a great real P bass tone we can get from our Yammy PJs Why settle for an imitation when you can have the real thing! 😂

You're clearly a dream companion: much easier than me to buy presents for! 😁

Well this one is now sitting at the end of my home pedal board! I didn't get on at all with the BDDI (which Dave, I know, is a big fan of!) but I'm really loving the Q\Strip's tone shaping capability: it goes several steps further than what my amps can do, which is saying something as they're both pretty good (particularly the Mesa M6) in the tonal options they provide. And I finally have an XLR out on one of my pedals to boot Found an excellent review by Ed Friedland, which I've tweaked / put some headings in for my own ease of reference. He says it all much better than I ever could - attached in case it's of interest to anyone else. Tech 21 Q-Strip.pdf

I've always wanted to like Ashdown but really struggled with them over several years - either finding the amps or more usually the cabs a bit 'meh'. However at band rehearsal the other night (at a venue we'd not used before - recommend avoiding the place though unless you're taking your own gear - ended up costing us £80 for a four hour rehearsal!!!)...I finally found an Ashdown rig that I thought "hey, this is actually pretty good!" Guess what? It was a Mag...

If you wanted, could you potentially dispense with the Radial ABY, by putting the relevant pedals into an LS2 loop? But as space isn't a limiting factor on your board, no particular need I guess.

I've often been tempted by one of these! Two things have constrained me (other than the price tag!): - it's not a "1k" ie a 1000W amp. That's its peak rating so it's closer to 500W RMS at 4ohms or 250W for those of us with 8ohm cabs. - it seems to have decent EQ mid points, but limits you to a choice of two fairly narrowly spaced EQ points for each, with some chunky gaps; whereas a number of other amps provide a lot more flexibility - certainly with the all important mids. My DG M900 beats it on both these counts and allows me to dial-in a "touch of dirt" to grit up the tone when needed, so I've not really felt justified in switching over to the Trickfish.

Or more likely because they don't hear anything different at all? Or maybe they are simply deaf (I don't think so!!!). It's not exactly an in your face drive or filter pedal, is it? I've said it a zillion times, your live audience really won't give a monkeys whether you have a pedal board compressor on or not. (Just try it kicking it off mid track sometime). They will notice if you have or don't have groove. Where you need sound perfection eg a studio album with a sound engineer using a professional grade studio compressor, sure compression makes total sense. But if a pedal board comp helps you to play more evenly by evening out your dynamics and makes you happier / more confident go for it. You're not hurting anyone by having one.

What settings (broad brush) would you use to deliver this with a multi band comp? Which multi band comp are you currently using?

+1^^ (And with due respect, you're one of the most knowledgeable / experienced users of comps I've come across).

Really?!! Love to hear a sound clip of you with and without a compressor, then. That's taking it way too far IMO. I thought what Osiris said summed it up nicely. A compressor evens out peaks and troughs. It flattens out dynamics and some can add a bit of desirable 'sheen' to your tone, others are transparent.

Loved the cover and the bass was sounding great!!

@AndyTravis - not sure which model this is, but its been listed for the cost of a set of strings! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-Yamaha-Base-Guitar/183833564771?hash=item2acd559663:g:MsIAAOSwVClc88K0

@udo - saw your 734A up for sale - GLWTS of that. I was interested to see that you've had exactly the same journey and reaction as I did to getting your BB P34 as I did on getting my BB P35. But I still can't put my finger on it!