Al Krow

@Reggaebass - just wondering whether this might be right up your street as a Dubster Lite? I'm half tempted to get it myself to pair with my BB2 - but I'd best not given that the band has a little used RCF 702 AS II in its armoury!

LF 1400 was the Dubster 2 with a 1400W power module included. A beast!

I've just spotted I'm quoting a post from immediately before the thread resurrection back in July 2019 - lol! I suspect that rig may well have gone to a new home by now!

Ahhh...you still have this?! I thought it had been sold - that is one serious rig! When you have something comparable @Reggaebass I probably won't need to make trek up from E3 to E9 to hear it will I? 😁

Nope dear fella. One never turned up and I guess we kinda went a different route with the band and got ourselves a RCF 702 AS II sub woofer (which we've not properly used in anger yet) and then I completely forgot about it... probably got distracted by a global pandemic or something! You managed to spot one out in the wild?

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Haha love it! Actually your suggestion has 3 out of the 5 pedals already on my former smaller 'psycho synth' board (in the OP). So I'm probably not giving anything away by hinting that you're unlikely to edge it over the other suggestions, but defo brought a smile to my face 😁

Not sure which multi has properly cracked filter and synth yet. Not Helix. Obviously that's only an issue if those particular fx feature in your sets. The nice thing about a decent multi is that you can have a set of patches that is tweaked to suit each different bass you play, which I know is something you like to do, although must admit I've not taken things that far with my cheap as chips / amazing value Zoom B1-4.

If it's a decent, accurate clone, his sales definitely will be. Tbf new DG kit is premium priced, no question. The question is then which of us have had a problem buying either Mooer or Behringer clones? Or a Sandberg clone of a Fender body design or a Warwick clone of Spector etc? At least these guys are being open and honest that their product is a rip-off rather than pretending that it's not.

I defo like this "cover" less than the one that @ubit dug out for us (Grouplove did a pretty good job btw!) and to your point it's not that angry either...just sayin' 😁

You see, if this bargain hadn't been found and you hadn't then drawn my attention to that very lovely neck through 5er, I could have just got on contentedly with my life 😁

What's particularly cool about this story is that this bass has ended up in the hands of someone who both really appreciates it and can give it the TLC that it deserves. I bet it's going to be stunning when you have completed your refi!

I guess I owe Mike Kerr for shifting my RR - went pretty much the next day for full asking price after he made his announcement, having not had much interest on here or eBay beforehand (cheers Mike!).

Latest Barefaced 210s let you switch ohms.

Two G&B Soapbar 5ST Epoxy covered pups on the 5er.

Not disagreeing with this; I think we often use different words / expressions to describe the same sounds. "Flat" doesn't equate to lame in my terminology - the 424 IS hugely punchy! But its pups are not as harmonically rich as the 1024s (or more accurately 425 / 1025 in my case). I have A/B'd them side by side, but only at home not in a band mix.

More refined in the sense that a complex red wine is considered more "refined" than plonk. But more complex harmonically vs flatter better captures the difference for me. And more complex harmonics will generally cut through more.

Interesting you're finding that - if I remember correctly, you posted a little while back about a getting a 1024 as a possible alternative? The 1024 pups are harmonically richer / more complex than the flatter 424 pups - it's the key difference between the two basses for me. Makes me wonder whether a 1024 might be just the ticket for you rather than a 424.

What I'm particularly looking for is: to go from PC (Spotify / YT track) --> [Pitch Shift] --> powered speaker to change the pitch of particular songs, without faffing with MP3 conversion etc. This will be particularly helpful where we're not doing them in the original key, rather than for changing the pitch on my bass, and I can practice in the key we're playing them in. My old Song Surgeon software is currently on its last legs and the newer version doesn't have the same functionality of downloading and pitch shifting YT tracks. Having done a bit of research on this I came across this and have just downloaded - seems to do the trick! (And it's free ) Transpose: pitch shifter browser extension

So did Ravi Shankar...😁

How you finding it? They do look good. Am I correct in thinking it allows you to drop your pitch by 7 semitones (plus the octave down), so if you wanted to pitch shift +2 semi tones it wouldn't work for that?

One week to go, and the excellent suggestions in so far are (in no particular order of merit!): 1. bassfan: OC5 > Proton > VT DI > FI > Zoom B1-4 2. sumone: OC5 > Proton > Octava > VTDI > Zoom B1-4 3. gisserD: SY1 > OC5 > Proton > Zoom B1-4 > VTDI 4. lee650: OC5 > SY1 > YYZ > Proton > Zoom B1-4 ...there's definitely a bit of a consensus building up here

I popped into Wunjos yesterday and they recommended Kevin too, who is located just above them. Thanks everyone for all the other helpful suggestions. Hoddesdon doesn't look too far out of the way for me for as an alternative route for a return trip from Brum which I make fairly regularly, which is also really good to know.

It is indeed - that was actually the first thing I checked when I got it, as it was also a key issue for me, and some of the other HB basses have a rep for being quite heavy.

Now this is a Yamaha bass collection!