Al Krow

The above gentleman has already caused the board update below to be out of date! Lol! Bit of a back to the future (impact) for me with both Stomp and FI back on the board. Said farewell to two filter pedals (Fwonkbeta and MXR BEF) one mini multifx (MX-60B), two comps (Keeley Bassist and TC Spectracomp) - decent comp on both my Zoom B1X-4 and a multiband on the Stomp. New at the end of the board with XLR output is the Q\Strip which was recently traded in exchange for a Yammy BB 425. Space on the board for Gecko Mk III midi control, in due course, and Mooer Lofi incoming to provide a pretty decent bitcrush / sample rate reduction. Particularly chuffed at finally getting the HX Stomp and SA Hub (both via USB) and Panda FI (via Roland UM-One midi interface) all connected up to the PC to enable easy access to software editing. Should keep me out of mischief for the rest of the summer Zoom B1X-4, as a slimline easy gig-bag-fit all in one pedal board / tuner / headphone amp, continues to provide all I need (for now!) for rehearsals and gigs. ... oh yes and I almost forgot! My much loved Valeton OC-10, which does a better Boss OC-2 tone than anything else I've come across, has been rendered otiose and is now in the FS. That is entirely down to the amazing new patches that @Quatschmacher has recently been putting together for the FI:

Man - I've gotta get me one of them dads! (Do you know any other dads like yours, going cheap?) 😂 Enjoy the bass - it's even got the right number of strings! 😀

Wow - that is saying something about how good this pedal is! Have to admit I'm planning on still having both sitting next to each other on my board for the foreseeable future, there are some things (like parallel routing of effects for clean blend) that are easy to do on the Stomp but not sure could be done on the FI and obviously there are a whole bunch of additional effects available on the Stomp; the FI does what it does incredibly well

Fixed! So that means I'm still in the game, right? 😁

I've had a couple of BC'ers mention to me that they were interested in getting hold of a Yamaha BB 1025 (or 1025X). Just had a trawl through various bass websites on their behalf and managed find a grand total of ZERO currently available for sale in the UK! Are these starting to become 'collectables' or do you guys know of any in vgc that might be available?

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.