Al Krow

Yes but you're like 6'10", so most things would fall into that camp for you. 😂

Nice collection! But then I'm a biased Yammy BB lover! In my incompetence I seem to have managed to get one more than you...😂

You're very welcome. Sometimes it's the simple fixes that can really hit the mark. And doubly sweet 'cos they don't cost a penny!

Hello devilCam 😈 Now let me see... I'm fortunate to have a 25 lbs Mesa M6 which knocks any D class head I've ever come across out of the park. I have a VK 210 LNT cab which is just awesome, but for some reason the kit I take to rehearsals and gigs is a DG M900 and a 21lbs BF SC. Did someone just mention "ultra-portability"?? Definitely not a thing for me, at all ... ever 😁

Sounds wonderful!

Lol Steve, you gonna keep us all hanging while you go have some lunch? 😂

I do get abuse from some of my BC mates when I mention I look for a minimum of around 500W (at 8 ohms) in my amps Ok, so I may not need anything like that much for most gigs (300W output should cut it), but it's good not to have to push your amp to the max every time you use it; if, for nothing else, just from a wear & tear / reliability perspective. Btw - love the garden you've got too

Korg Volca Bass (aka the modern Stylophone with about 374 times the processing power of the original) - price now dropped to £109 posted (on Amazon Prime) today.

Actually you're going to get a LOT more juice through an 8ohm than that, methinks. 900W is into both 2ohms and also 4ohms, right, on the DG amps? So expect nearer 650W through 8 ohms. Bottom line: copious headroom.

More so than Otis R?

Nah, Peter, I'm definitely sticking by my previous recommendation(s) to get a pedal board to put your loose pedals on and an amp and cab rather than headphones to listen to them (and your synth keys and basses) through. Just the way I would do it. But your choices are yours alone and it really doesn't impact me one way or the other. So...any recommendations for window polish? The glass on my house certainly could do with a clean! 😂🤣 PS the factual position on your previous thoughts on the FI are all correct and fair (for the official record )

Has anyone come across a really good valve (or for that matter SS) pre-amp pedal that mirrors what an actual amp valve pre is capable of delivering, as an alternative to amp modelling?

What @xgsjx said all sounds very sensible, I agree. Having said that, folk who use an amp with a quality valve pre + quality AB (or 'trans' class in the case of Mesa) power amp often rightly rave about what their amps are delivering. Three examples of much loved amps in this category would be the Mesa Walkabout, Mesa M6 and Aguilar DB751. I have the middle one of these and tbh it has blown away every pure D class amp I've ever heard / played.

Gav - that's all very sweet mate. But you don't need to be on my case. At all. Ever. As dear hen-pecked-but-otherwise-God's-gift-to-women Cuzzie once said "I'll get around to it in my own sweet time". As a musician I have 3 bands (and various other ventures) vying for my attention. Spending time on bass and learning new material is a massively higher priority for me than getting to grips with bits of bass gear via PC or onboard editors (FI, Stomp, Manta etc) which, for me, are creative home 'fun' use only currently. My priorities are my priorities. Tbf - I've been nagging Q-thingy to get a pedalboard and a decent amp and cab to play his lush collection of pedals and amazing synths through for an aeon. He's nearly got around to it. But his priorities are his priorities. It's all good.

Appreciate that this is a bit of a side track on this thread, but just picking up on our discussion: first impressions of my Squier Bass VI is that's it's "okay" but not going to blow me away. And I kinda get your point already about neck width and string spacing - I'd actually prefer the strings to be a little further apart, in fact, which I appreciate might make playing chords a little more difficult, but just feels more familiar / comfortable as a bass player. My initial 'home made' Bass VI approach was to take my Ibanez SR1206 and restring it E to E (which is actually fine on the top E string despite it being a 34" scale). That gives me the ability to use the lower 4 strings as a 'normal bass' with normal bass string and fret spacing and then add in the additional top two strings for Bass VI effect when I want. The more traditional Squier Bass VI format is obviously different and seems to me to have plusses and minuses, but isn't necessarily going to be 'better' for how I will be using it. Just mentioning this in case the 'home made' Bass VI approach may give you a different angle to explore on your Bass VI journey. Very much looking forward to your debut single.

Ah yes, you still have kids to look after. Which would explain your world view on this point. Fair dos. But there will come a time when they have left home and you have the freedom to do what you like when you like.

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... now where were we after that little interlude?! Well my Sytlophone is arriving later today. Looking forward to having a lot of fun with it and hopefully also spending some decent time on a bass learning some new material. And NOT putting in any time on a PC editor pissing about on FI patches today (or likely until the new PC editing software is released, whenever that may be). It's great being a grown up and being able to do what you like when you like. 😂

No one is asking you to waste time on my case, buddy.

I'll do what I like when I like

I stand corrected. Did you have any intel on the 3 band EQ f-mid-points?

Thanks Q-thingy, but you don't need to worry about me on this one. Remember I'm the person who defended the FI for many months while you were slagging it off having spent 20 mins with it in a shop one afternoon? But it is truly wonderful to see how the zeal of a convert has grabbed you... In the immortal words of @krispn: 😂

I need to do some work on the Stomp filter patch and, in particular, see if I can add in a 50% clean blend. The filter itself works well in terms of delivering that 'quack' but loses low end big time (I suspect what you were hearing in terms of it being 'weedy'?) - very noticeable when compared to the MXR BEF and Fwonkbeta.

...and, in case I'm at risk of misleading, it's not a DG A/O but something a hundred times less sexy! Just thought it an amusing coincidence we both had a Thomann box on the same day 😊

"The Symposium of Synth" (!!!) GREAT phrase 👍 are of the view that the Roland keys synth will make this Korg Volca Bass feel like, well... a Stylophone 😂 But the UI on the Roland JD-Xi is a right royal pain in the ar*se to dive into, which is why our former dep guitarist was keen to move it on to me and replaced it with something perhaps less capable but more intuitive. I'm just about to get a third filter (a 3Leaf GR2)...and having fun with dedicated funk and synth pedals i.e. all the stuff that the Stomp is currently crap at. But tell you what, three filters is nothing compared to the (I'm guessing) 20 or so filters that true believers like @Bo0tsy has - I've barely started to slap the surface! 😁