adamg67

That was all pretty random, it did reinforce the fact that the best thing to do is buy second hand and try things out for yourself. I've got a vintage ultra at the mo and it sounds a lot better to me than the one in the video did, it needs a bit of time spent getting it right for a given bass. I'll be looking out for more DI pedals to try it against when I've got some pennies saved, what I like will stay and what I don't like will get sold on. I suppose it gives you a bit of an idea what the pedals do, no way it tells you which is "best". Sounds all a bit negative I know but the more reviews I see of gear I actually own the less I think they help.

I'm only comparing the Pedaltrain Nano with the Mono Lite Pedaltrain 0.3kg: https://pedaltrain.com/products/pt-nano-sc Mono 0.46 kg http://w.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Mono_Pedalboards.html (in the table part way down) I know they're both really light, but it'd be easy to go for the mono assuming it's the lightest you can get when it doesn't seem it is.

My communication skills are not what they should be today I read it as the design of the cab being tweaked to fit an amp, rather than just one cab. I'll get me coat...

Ordered a pedaltrain nano last night, just curious how they manage to sell any of the mono ones at that price.

Sorry - when I said "power amp" I meant "PA power amp", like a Crown (had one, worked a treat).

This. I'm not convinced that anything more expensive will make a difference over a decent power amp, so long as you make sure all your tone is coming from your preamp. Why not just give the speaker cab a 19" rack space?

For boards with pedals with knobs on, hard cases are great as your settings don't get rearranged as easily as with a bag. My old pedal board was just a hard case with the hinges replaced with butterfly catches so the deeper half came off and left the shallow half as the pedal board. The only disadvantage of that is the pedals aren't protected as much as they're velcroed to the inside of the hard case, next one I will do like you and get a case like that to fit, I've got a load of picky foam so I can have it hold the edges of the pedal board but not squish the knobs.

I'm after a very small pedal board, I was looking at the Pedaltrain Nano: https://pedaltrain.com/products/pt-nano-sc under £40 including soft case. Then I saw this: http://w.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Mono_Pedalboards.html - the Lite is the same size, £140 with bag? And it's heavier than the pedlatrain one? Am I missing something?

Yeah, this is a good tip. I've got a little home recording setup and a reamping box, so my version of that is to record stuff dry and then reamp it and play around with the EQ, much better than trying to do it when you're playing and can be done alongside other instruments to see what it really sounds like in the mix. Also good for spotting the faults in your own playing which can be depressing Good reminder that I'm due a session doing that on all 3 basses, the Stingray is new, my P ripoff now has flats instead of rounds and a new pickup, and my jazz ripoff has rounds instead of flats - bit like having 3 new basses, so old presets are all out of the window and I'm starting from scratch.

All covered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg

I had a bit of a Google before I went to look at it and saw things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PKi_G084zQ but I don't believe everything on Youtube and in the end I just tried it and liked how it sounded It definitely has a nice range, I'll have a play with the eq as well. I can see it becoming my go to bass for quite a few things and especially the rocky stuff.

See, this is what happens when you let amateurs use computers and the internet. It should be for Pros like me, you know, people who built the internet and made it dance. Everyone else should just have to write letters.

Until recently I was after a P bass, but then I made a bass I already had work better for the P bass with flats thing. I looked at the Stingray 5HH before I bought that one, and I knew about the Stealth Black, but never spotted one second hand, so when this one came up on BC while I still had the money I'd put aside, that seemed like the universe telling me I needed this bass in my life. Well, that's my way of justifying buying yet another thing anyway. It's... well, it's a Stringray 5HH. I know the HH doesn't sound the same as the H (or HS), but I want this as a rock bass and I think it will do that nicely. The bridge pickup is right there for me, great sound. I'm just figuring out which amp models it likes, Ampeg ones seem to work unsurprisingly. I can see it being played with a pick more than my other 2. Also, it looks the absolute dogs IMO, quite hard to photograph though. How much more black could it be? None more black.

It's fine for everyone else to think my posts are pointless, but I have to at least mostly believe I'm saying something meaningful... I can usually maintain the delusion but today it deserted me. It'll be back soon

I wrote a pointless post that said nothing, so I've deleted it all.

Not for a couple of years. I'll be getting going with something again this year probably, that's one reason I'm tweaking things and making sure the sound I've got does what I want.

I’ve had a Maruszczyk Jake for a while, and recently switched to flats which I really like. I specced it with Delano pickups, a P plus a humbucker at the bridge, and hadn’t really expected them to sound so similar. They’re not identical, but the humbucker is in series so quite fat, and the P is nearer the neck so quite fat. I’d already decided to fit a series / single / parallel switch, but thinking about it thought why not put a more classically P pickup in instead of the Delano, since I’d still basiclly have something close to the original sound with the remaining pickup. So now I have a Nordstrand NP5 in the P position, and the Delano MC 5 FE at the bridge with parallel / series / single. The NP5 is really good, and mixing it with the Delano in parallel or single coil (always pretty similar) works really well, much much more range than I used to have. Looking at it now, I think I’ve just gone a long way round to getting a PJ sound? Split coil + single coil with blend seems like a really good setup to have, and I’ve never had a PJ but I guess that’s what it is? Or even without blend, you still get the nice middle position with them mixed. Very nice, yes I know technically the extra pickup pulls on the strings but I think I’d go the for the extra pickup any time now.

Bought a Stingray from Jon, good deal on a good bass and Jon was really friendly and helpful. Exactly what a BC deal should be like, cheers Jon.

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I've got a few "rigs" on the go at the moment and the one to beat is my bass through a Radial JDI passive DI box into anything that will reproduce that sound loud and clear.