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Oh, and; d) if you drop something on the laminate floor and take a chunk out of it you can saw a couple of inches off the finger board to patch it up with.

That's cool, I never really kept up with the band after Powerslave, although I've always had a soft spot for Steve's playing and tone.

Likewise, I was baffled why you were comparing the Stomp to a couple of synth pedals on a thread about the Steve Harris signature pedal, it's not like he's known for using synths himself (other than a brief flirtation on Somewhere in time, but that's a 30+ years old chip set). @krispn and @Wolverinebass have already covered anything more I'd have to say in regards to the Stomp.

Let's flip that on its head, shall we; Can the Future Impact v3 or the Boss SY-1 do the myriad of utilitarian and more exotic bass and guitar sounds? Studio grade amp simulations? A wide palate of studio grade effects? Can you even tune up using either one? Or can they just do an array of amusing - but ultimately of little real world use - bleeps, squeaks and farts?

Is that a fan? Are they trying to make us think that someone is about to defeacate over it?

I'm not really an effects guy but I do insist on having a compressor on at all times. I recently picked up a used but immaculate GLX bass limiter pedal off eBay for a tenner. It's a blatant clone of the Boss bass limiter, of which I'd used one for years, so I was expecting a slightly noisier version but as it was bought for messing around with at home any background noise wasn't an issue. It not only performs as well as the Boss (which is highly regarded on Ovnilab) as a compressor and limiter, but it actually has less inherent noise. The Boss has a slight dip in the mids when activated and that dip sounds a little more pronounced on the GLX to my ears but in a good way, it helps add clarity through my mid rich practice cab. The enhancer control is much more usable than the Boss which is unusable beyond around 10 o'clock as it's so noisy but the GLX will happily give you more high end sparkle without too much hiss at higher settings, although admittedly I only use a little myself. The controls are identical and in same order as Boss, and have a reassuring amount of resistance when turning them. It's housed in a solid metal casing. No idea what this would have cost new, it looks like they're not in production any longer, but it was presumably cheaper and easily out guns the pedal that it has ripped off. But based on @BrunoBass's post above I'm intrigued by the cheap and cheerful Joyo Dyna compressor pedal 😀

Another vote for the Ibanez Talman from me too, I have the short scale one, a black TMB-30. I was singing its praises on another thread just last night; But in defence of the Ibanez Talman, I get that the design is a bit marmite, indeed it's a strong contender for the most ridiculous head stock design of all time, but it's a huge amount of bass for very little money. At least mine is! The neck is a chunky P like affair but feels great, and I say that as someone who prefers something slimmer. The body too is reassuringly sturdy but admittedly weighs as much as a housing estate. Mine has had around £50 in upgrades spent on it; New pickups (the stock P wasn't bad but the bridge was weak, I swapped them out for a matched set I had in my box of odds and sods, no idea where they originated), New pots and Jack, New bridge as the stock was a bent bit of tin foil, really it was very flimsy. Shielded the cavity and rolled the fret board edges and job done . The bass as a whole is very well made, no sharp fret ends, no gap in the neck pocket, the paint job is flawless, the scratch plate fits perfectly and doesn't look like it was cut by a porpoise. I've seen basses that cost many times more that are not as well built. A few £ and a couple of hours work and I have a bass that I regularly gig alongside a couple of others that each cost 10 times as much.

Nice rambling review, @Bleat good effort 😀 But in defence of the Ibanez Talman, I get that the design is a bit marmite, indeed it's a strong contender for the most ridiculous head stock design of all time, but it's a huge amount of bass for very little money. At least mine is! The neck is a chunky P like affair but feels great, and I say that as someone who prefers something slimmer. The body too is reassuringly sturdy but admittedly weighs as much as a housing estate. Mine has had around £50 in upgrades spent on it; New pickups (the stock P wasn't bad but the bridge was weak, I swapped them out for a matched set I had in my box of odds and sods, no idea where they originated), New pots and Jack, New bridge as the stock was a bent bit of tin foil, really it was very flimsy. Shielded the cavity and rolled the fret board edges and job done . The bass as a whole is very well made, no sharp fret ends, no gap in the neck pocket, the paint job is flawless, the scratch plate fits perfectly and doesn't look like it was cut by a porpoise. I've seen basses that cost many times more that are not as well built. A few £ and a couple of hours work and I have a bass that I regularly gig alongside a couple of others that each cost 10 times as much. But it sounds like I need to check out a Bronco all the same 😀

Cheers, Chris, it was a quick and easy transaction and a pleasure. It's the way we do things on Basschat!

Just received a guitar gig bag from Chris that he was offering free to a good home. Dealing with him has been an absolute pleasure, the bag was well packaged and he kept me informed every step of the way. What more can you ask for 😃

Thank you. I had a quick flick through it yesterday (unfortunately without a bass to hand) and there looks to be some great content in there. Not bad for a freebie!

Have a listen to the few clips of Father Christmas playing through the pedal scattered through this thread. Steve Harris sounds like none of those. Hope this helps.

Done!

Thank you, I'm not familiar with Alpher, I'm off to do some research 😃

Now that I could actually live with, it's a stunning piece or two of timber, I love the grain on it. Two reversed P pickups is perfect for my tonal tastes. Black hardware always looks classy and understated on natural finishes too, way more so than blingy gold, IMO. The only thing I'd change if it was mine would be to have the back of the neck and headstock finished in black. Anyone know who made it?

I'm forever in your debt. Thank you my good man. Chuck in a couple of fish fingers and it gets even better 😀

@drTStingray There's no anti Musicman agenda, we're just having a bit of fun. Puerile perhaps but nothing malicious 😀 But for the record, I personally don't like brown basses. That includes sunburst. I don't like brown shoes either, brown brogues in particular are awful. They look like Crocs. But not everything brown upsets me, I regularly eat my own substantial weight in Dairy milk and gravy is the food of the gods. Oh, and Newcastle brown ale. But toilet humour I can do. But that's just me and my misguided opinions!

Is that the prototype Musicman Bongo?

No. Just no.

It looks as though it's still damp to me. But yeah, tortoise shell scratch plates are another abomination that should be erased from existence. They really are offensive. Paired with a turdburst bass, two wrongs don't make a right, they make wrong squared.

Don't overthink this, it's meant to be a light hearted dig at a guy that a couple of us on here know who's quite vocal about how much he hates brown basses but won't accept that the one pictured, which is his, is actually brown. Which, of course, it is

Manchesturd?

Which is, of course, a slightly more palatable shade of brown than Autumnal dog egg. But only just.

What sort of sound are you trying to achieve? I use the stock cabinet models all the time and don't have any issue with them dulling the tone, I go straight into the PA without any backline with a parallel signal going to my in ear monitors. There's plenty of top end present.