Al Krow

Interesting from the FS ads that there seems to be very little difference in used prices between the 'Modern Series 2' and the latest 'Modern Series 3' Yamahas, these days. I guess that's down to: - people appreciating the quality of the 1024/5 and 424/5 Series 2 line. No doubt the love shown for them on this thread won't have hurt! - plus the new range came out in 2017 so the difference in price folk are prepared to pay for a 3 or 5 y/o bass probably isn't a lot. - supply and demand: they ain't making any more of the Modern Series 2!

@bubinga5 - see that your love affair with the 434 was a bit of a one night stand! Guess it didn't hit the spot for you? Mind knowing what other basses you've got / had it had some pretty high-end competition to deal with! GLWTS.

Interesting. We currently use the A&H Zed60 14-FX, but its key limitation for us in thinking about going wireless is the lack of sufficient aux-out for individual monitoring. I guess we may face a similar sound quality trade-off if / when we swap over to a RCF M18 i.e. additional functionality of the digital RCF vs the component quality / warmth & musicality of the analogue A&H - perhaps not unexpected given the two units are the approx. the same price so something has to give!

Oh, believe me, @ped has already done that - I'm just getting quietly dried off in a corner.

Damn, you boys are making this increasingly difficult to steer clear of! Looks like this will be getting added to my 2022 wish list.

Congratulations Chris! Glad that amp has gone to an appreciative home and look forward to hearing how it pairs with your BB2 when you've had a chance to put it through its paces.

@AndyTravis I see that you've been wrestling with the age-old conundrum of how to reconcile having a fantastic Spector Euro LX with owning a wonderful Yamaha BB bass. This same problem will eventually lay the basis for the Kobayashi Maru. After giving this a lot of careful thought over much time, @lee650 and I seem to have independently arrived at exactly the same conclusion: there is only one good way to resolve this conundrum, and that's to have one of each.

+1 ^^ definite correlation between nice pics and enthusiasm shown by fellow BC'ers on this thread! Don't tell me she's mates with @skankdelvar's niece? 😄

Will be around £470 to your door from AliExpress (including VAT and Customs handling charge) i.e. going directly head to head with HX Stomp. Be interesting to see if this makes any serious inroads into Stomp sales, given the vast and established fan club Helix has built and / or whether it will nudge Helix to upgrade their own chip set to match the DSP of some of the more recent competition such as this. Although given the worldwide chip shortage that may be a significantly bigger ask than previously!

Apologies for the mini-thread diversion, but the Ampero's successor has just been announced. It does away with the built-in expression pedal for a smaller PB form factor, has a larger screen and seriously upgraded DSP allowing parallel routing of fx. And given your comment about how good the UI already was this is going to be on my wish list for 2022...

Word on the street is that the Ampero II Stomp is due out on 11 Nov.

Most B1-4 patches allow you to have some form of digital blend. Not the same as what a Boss LS2 does by splitting the original analogue signal. But there again an LS2, by itself, costs what a B1-4 does and clean blend is just one of many strings to the B1-4's bow. With the Rat patch on the B1-4, I've added both a significant digital clean component plus a boost to the bass EQ to counter the natural low end suck of the Rat sim. But as @DawnPatroller said, as a starter pedal for your daughter, which will cover a huge amount of ground, the B1-4 sounds like a great choice to me. I suspect you might be stealing this one form her from time to time (particularly if you need a decent headphone amp), just to even the score 😁

That is super useful to know that you can speak to someone when needed, really does add a level of "comfort" when entrusting precious gear to someone else. I've only had good experiences with UPS, too. Sadly the shop round the corner where I could drop things off at has ceased to be a UPS collection point. Shame. Good luck with the new outfit - sounds great! Whereabouts are you guys based? Our guitarist is an 80's obsessive too, I've told him we can include his 'Gold' in the set the moment he gets us a gig. 8 years in and it's still not in the set!

Cheers ped. Understood that there will be no latency with wired heaphones. But I was just wondering if you can go wireless with the Nux with a pair of bluetooth headphones (and if so what the latency would be)?

Hah! I also had a little Vox Bass Amplug a few years back which was ok but not great in terms of sound (you had dial the treble right down to get rid of the hiss) and obviously now have the B1-4. So I guess if I'm after the perfect compromise...😁 Can you bluetooth with the Nux and, if so, what's the latency like? @ped would likely say he's had the Nux and the thing to get is the Boss Waza-Air (Bass)!

That looks sweet! (And great news that the Courier did not jump on the packaging before delivery!) Are you in a rock'n'roll 50s/60s outfit?

Yup - that's all good advice! I guess with the benefit of my Boss WL-20s there's another degree of flexibility with something like the B1-4 which, of course, has a bunch of other uses for "live" work, besides being an excellent headphone amp with aux in, drum machine and looper.

^^ what Phil said!

Yup agreed re. the Boss LS2 to provide blend. The Octava has both a clean blend and a natural retention of low-end which makes it particularly good on bass, even though it's really a guitar pedal.

Yes I agree that the Rat is iconic - nothing quite cuts through like a screaming 🐀! You just need to have a plan B for the low-end suck they're notorious for, if they don't come with a clean blend. FWIW I've settled on a Pigtronix Octava for my dirt / fuzz and I've yet to find anything better (including high-end stuff like Damnation Audio's MBD2, Two Notes le Bass, Tech 21 RR, DG AO, and plenty others...). Obviously choice of dirt is very personal at the end of the day and one person's Pigtronix gem is another's pig in the poke...

What would you recommend for that stuff? Just asking for a friend. No really, I am just asking for a friend.

You get the same comment as Lozz and toneknob got: so which would you rate as your best purchase?! Lozz managed to 'fess up in the end after much collective BC pressure. My money is on the Eventide H9...no contest, right?! PS a Schecter Stiletto would be awesome, you'll love it - what rig would you be playing it through? But treat yourself to the 5 string rather than the 4 string - comes with a free thumb rest. (I've got the 8 string which has four free thumb rests 😁)

I'm afraid I can neither confirm nor deny that...

For sure you're not going to get a perfect sim of a £200 pedal from a £50 multifx, tuner, headphone amp, drum machine, looper... If it's given you a taste for the actual dedicated pedal you might want to get, fantastic. If it sets you off on down the rabbit hole of exploring pedals, my apologies! But if you can get decent quality used kit you won't be too much out of pocket when you come out the other side of that long but fun tunnel... 🐇