Al Krow

Great advice and I tried to take you up on it, but very frustratingly find myself getting stuck at... I guess this is where I need Mick's 8 year old to come to the rescue! 😂 Failing that I'll see if the Toontrack helpdesk can sort me out...

Paulo sold me a Fearless F112 cover and spare (yellow!) grille. Smooth transaction, fair price, and a pleasure to deal with! Looking forward to the cab itself arriving from Tricky Audio and pulling off that bumble bee look...😂

Very recently bought a 3Leaf GR2 pedal off Ian. Smooth transaction, fair price, and a pleasure to deal with! Thanks buddy!

Unfortunately not the easiest model basses to casually try, but I do have a friendly Stanley Clarke owner not too far way...

Oh dear. Well it seems that the Epic could suffer a valid challenge under the Trades Descriptions Act (1968). Best cross that one off my list then.

@Dem Jolie-blues agreed the Squier is surprisingly heavy! But it's a full length bass even if it's a shorter 30" scale. I'm guessing the Silhouette is a little more stumpy?

Welcome to the club! Why scared? What's the worst that could happen?

Believe me, it's just as useful to hear contrary views, particularly when they are based on experience and fair reasoning!

@Phil Starr In terms of ranking sound quality from your above posts, would I be correct in reading you as saying? 1. Allen & Heath 2. Yahama 3. Behringher 4. Alesis If so, that bodes well for us! I have ordered a small Behringer 1002FX for use with a small band set up which has 6 usable inputs including 2 mic; and for the other bands that I'm involved with which need more mixer inputs we already have an Allen & Heath Zed60-14FX, This has 10 usable inputs including 8 mic inputs - don't see us outgrowing that any time soon!

In principle absolutely! Key criteria for me would be: 1) how many pedals it could control? 2) size? 3) how does it differ / improve on eg a Boss ES8? 4) obviously cost.

See @GisserD's just started thread. Affordable digital controls for analogue pedals are on their way.

Sounds great! Count me in! I'm guessing you'll be putting the same question to TB'ers, where you're building up a bit of a following with your FI housing design? You'll be setting up a Southern version of COG next, before we know it!

Well here's the thing Andy, I do...buuut it was relatively brief (the focus was on 12 strings that evening, right? Oh yes, and how much awesomer my VK was compared to your Markbass cab 😂) and, if I'm being completely honest, I had no idea of the quality and value of the instrument back then. I do now! And I'm certainly looking forward to a return visit at some point!

Yes for sure (and I have the necessary adapter). But the Smoothhound gets used primarily at gigs use and my pedal board is 'creative home use' only right now, so it makes sense to treat the Smoothhound as an 'off board' item in my case. A four socket extension plug for my bass gear really is not a big imposition at all. Being responsible for the band PA and lights on the other hand... 😃

Good spot, thanks - I've updated the OP to avoid any confusion. And he's swapped to the bass of proper bass pro's in this most recent one (although he was totally not cutting through the mix - probably needed to boost his mids a touch) 😁 I'll need to try a little harder to find him playing his Alembic...

Result! Not going to make you feel any better though Lewis...😁

I've gone for the easy option of powering my Stomp with it's own provided power supply and the other 14 units (i.e. pedals and controllers) on my pedalboard with a single MXR IsoBrick. Having two plugs to power my board didn't feel like too much of an imposition. Then I have another one for my amp and a final one for my Smoothhound. So a 4 socket extension plug sorts me out.

Saw one of my all time 'guilty pleasure bands' on a BBC4 documentary recently and was reminded that the guy who wrote perhaps the most iconic bass line of all time, played on an Alembic bass. Also that Lindsey Buckingham never played with a pic, which is super unusual for a rhythm / lead guitarist. But boy what a sound! On the website Alembic speak of the electronics as being part and parcel of the bass and not some after thought. That's a philosophy that get's a massive thumbs up from me. So who has one and are they as awesome as their reputation (and price tag!)?! The other question I wanted to ask was actually posed by my fellow BC'er 7 years back. Be interesting if thoughts have moved on since then...

Nice! Btw - is 'Rich' short for 'Richard' or just signifying the fact that you can afford a Wal?! 😀

Haha! Status?

Oh that looks nice! Any pics of the full bass?

Was at a jazz / blues venue a while back with a full set by Davide Shorty & The Fresh Prints. Great little band over here from Italy. Bass player was very good. The 'house' bass kit was Markbass (and my gigging combo was also a MB AC 121 Lite at the time). Had a quick chat with him at the end of the night. He mentioned he had started using GR amps in place of Markbass and he found them to be really 'true' to what he was actually playing. I'd not come across them before and he suggested I check them out. So on the back of that I went ahead and I tried out a GR One 800 at Wunjos. Didn't set my pulse racing and certainly wasn't an improvement on MB for me. Sorry not to be any more enthusiastic about these heads!

Just to clarify: the B3n "Low EQ" works as well as, if not better than, the HPF on the MS-60B. For cutting out subsonic crud, I would however recommend a Thumpinator every time as it has a steep cut. But the Thumpinator also has a fixed start point (28Hz) so it's a powerful one trick pony. If you want the flexibility to be cutting above that (eg from 60 Hz) then the Low EQ provides you with that flexibility.