Al Krow

Wow - I can't believe the customer service of these guys, responding to emails so quickly! Anyway they've got me sorted by going back to my screen display basics and I've got something much more useful, although I'll need to manually adjust screen display each time I come in and out of EZ 2, but that's fine. Ok now for my next trick, getting to grips with this over the next 10 days!

Pulling the chat onto the Ibby SR thread... Woody - must admit I didn't know that we had the option of getting a custom order Nord pups instead of the Barts on this? Ok it's £900 in standard form, and the Nords would take it to £1,200 - or maybe not that much extra if they were custom fitting ab initio?! But as an intro to fan frets and having a 35.5" scale on the B string (whilst keeping 34" on the G) this would still be significantly less than the price of a Dingwall. Hmmm...food for thought and tempting!

Cheers - I had, but doesn't seem to let you use to manage products till you've bought them? Anyway Toontrack, bless 'em, got back to me this afternoon and said: Hi Al, Thanks for your email! This usually happens when running the installer from within a zipped download. Please see this link for instructions on how to solve an error 1311: http://www.toontrack.com/faq/im-getting-error-1311-when-installing-on-pc/ Best Regards, Toontrack Music www.toontrack.com Make sure to download and install the all new Toontrack product manager found here: http://www.toontrack.com/product-manager/ That's actually got me sorted and I'm 'in' Just need to see if I can get the interface screen to be a bit larger - it's a little bit tiny in relation to my desktop screen! Any tips on that?

@EMG456 great post thanks! Might have seemed from another planet at the time, but the design is so elegant and has proved to be enduring: I can still look at your bass and think "yup, that's a beaut!"

Just pulling you onto the main thread so as not to sidetrack the sellers's FS thread too much. But, how are you finding your new bass, a couple of weeks in? Is this your first BB? If not, how does it compare to the rest of your current / previous herd? I'm just so relieved they only have 4 strings, otherwise I'm not sure I'd be able to resist!! One concern I've always had about 30+ year old basses is whether the necks warp a bit over time - is that just an issue that I'm unnecessarily worrying about?

Just came across this, and it seems to tick a LOT of boxes. Anyone else come across them? https://www.east-uk.com/index.php/bass/uni-pre-4k-28.html

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...😁