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[color=#222222]Adding in the Radial DI box to introduce an effects look into the signal path looks like a pretty over-engineered solution given that a slight re-ordering of your existing pedals and leads seems to solve the problem.[/color] [color=#000000]Go [b]from[/b]…[/color] [color=#000000]Bass-> Korg Pitchblack-> Sansamp VTDI-> MXR Phase 90 -> Corona Mini[/color] [color=#000000][b]To[/b]…[/color] [color=#000000]Bass-> Korg Pitchblack-> MXR Phase 90 -> Corona Mini -> Sansamp VTDI.[/color] [color=#000000]Then use the VTDI XLR output to take the signal to the PA. Then use either 1) the parallel out to the amp if you DON’T want the EQ and drive settings on the VTDI to go through the amp or 2) the main jack output of the VTDI if you do. [/color] [color=#000000]If there is an issue that you prefer to have an overdriven sound going into the modulation effects rather than modulation effects going into the overdrive then your set up would be…[/color] [color=#000000]Bass-> Korg Pitchblack-> [i][NEW OVERDRIVE PEDAL TO GENERATE OD TONE][/i]-> MXR Phase 90 -> Corona Mini -> Sansamp VTDI ([i]set up with a low gain to act as an amp/speaker sim rather than an overdrive[/i]).[/color] [color=#000000]Anything more than that seems like over complicating things for no particular reason or benefit.[/color]

Had one years ago on a Squier Jazz project bass and loved it. Finally put them on my two Wals (EB4s). Loving it. Simple but effective engineering. [quote name='mildmanofrock' timestamp='1181895067' post='18015'] It goes from bad to worse. The damn thing kept going out of tune, no matter how much fine-tuning I did. Last night, I took it off and put it back on, in the hope that something would slot down right. That done, I flicked the lever, and it only detuned a little bit. I've taken the thing off and put my old Musicman peg back on. I'm considering my next move. I feel a Hipshot sale coming on. [/quote] I think I might know the problem. Check that the tuning screw is properly seating against the knurled nut in the lever pivot. If it is slightly misaligned it might be catching on the washer and not detuning properly and consistently. If so, the tiniest bend of the bent bit of metal that holds the tuning screw with some pliers will fix it. Had that happen with one of mine. When I realised it was a 20 second fix. Now working perfectly.

If I understand correctly bass into tuner into VT DI. Output to PA from XLR output. Amp connected to the parallel output. Phaser and chorus connected to the VTDI main jack output? Is that right? It seems to be what you're implying. If so, then the effects aren't in the signal chain at all and are doing nothing. Surely I've got that wrong? The obvious signal chain would be... bass > tuner > phaser > chorus > VTDI. XLR out from VTDI to PA, choice of main jack out or parallel out to amp depending on whether you want the EQ and speaker sim from the VTDI going into your amp. I keep rereading your post and thinking I can't be right but I can't make the signal chain description mean anything else... #perplexed

Crumbs, was just looking at a flyer for a local festival where they were due to play in a couple of months. Great singers, sad loss.

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1489327930' post='3256040'] Forget the iPad, what about that mess of leads round your feet! Definitely a trip hazard. Where's the H&S inspector. [/quote]

''Tis indeed

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1488367780' post='3248257'] How anyone can remember what bloody lead they used is quite beyond me! [/quote] Jack, look what I just found in my bass guitar case... Although I will concede that this might not be my actual first ever gigging set up lead but a spare bought about 4 years later! #imsosad

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1489165997' post='3254928'] Thanks for the heads up, Sir. I went and checked it out: Mr Tribe's version is a little gem and beats the bollocks off the UB40 version. [media]http://youtu.be/PNgzk0TvJJI[/media] [/quote] Not heard that before. WHY HAS NOONE SHOWN ME THIS BEFORE. OH, THE WASTED YEARS! What a great version.

Is this it? Some nice close up photos... http://www.acguitars.co.uk/acg_admin/wordpress/portfolio/0201-krell-4/ "Makore"... not a wood I've come across before.

It's a pretty top wood. What is it? Ovangkol? Figured bubinga? Shedua? I love the subtle checkerboard flaming on it. Quite a Wal-ly aesthetic wood choice (which OF COURSE I like).

Definitely a "less is more" situation. Root notes and little walking runs if you are feeling flash. And no one will notice/care what type of strings you've got on. Play what you think will feel/sound good for you. And, yes, the singers will probably jump at the idea of having a "backing band" but not think about little things like having chord sheets for the backing musos...

The aesthetics of ACGs have never grabbed me, which is a shame given the rep they're building. However, this model is definitely the one that most floats my visual boat. Nice bass... But I must confess that every time I hear the word Krell this guy pops into my mind...

In the wedding band days, though I'd happily do the gig on just my Mk 1 Custom I'd almost always bring both my Wals partly as insurance but partly to use each for different songs/sections of the set. That meant I'd take my Lehle3@1 pedal for quick, easy silent switching into my TU2 or Polytune into an amp. For many years that was a 200W Trace Elliott 1215 combo. When it died I had an Ashdown Mag300 and 4x10 I just never got on with and which I sold and got a MarkBass LM II and Traveler 2x10 and 1x15 cabs. I love that amp set up! If I went back to that I'd probably take my modest pedal board just coz that's where my tuner and Tech 21 VTDI are.

Love my Faith Neptune Titan. Nice feel and acoustic tone. Great Shadow pickup and preamp. Very simple, one vol, one tone but a shaped EQ rather than just a treble roll off. Seems to go from a scooped tone to a mid boost but at sensible levels across the piece. Then again it sounds great pretty flat.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1488817441' post='3252025'] Has anything happened with this? Has the gig recording been made available to buy and download? Did the MU ever get back to you? [/quote] Was wondering that myself...

[quote name='Huge Hands' timestamp='1488964199' post='3253233'] However, what I really can't do is talk and play. If one of my band colleague asks me something mid song, I end up sounding like a grunting, gurning cave monkey that's had a stroke when I try and reply. [/quote] This, this, so very very this!

Like others, it's the clash of melody and bass line rhythms that does my head in. There are some songs or some lines I just can't sing and play at the same time without the bass line going completely to pot. Back in the covers band days I did a lot of backing vocals and really loved it. Like has been said, it's amazing how much a good backing vocal could add to a song. Some faves were Kinks tunes, because the backing vocals often so daft if you listen to them in isolation but they're an important subliminal part of the song. Listen to Waterloo Sunset to see what I mean. Ray really must have hated his little brother, Dave. Then there was Going Underground which I seemed to unconsciously approach as a piece of punk performance theatre. Out went my nicely manicured Surrey pronunciation and suddenly it was all... "Bu' Oi wan nuffin that serciety wan's! Gaw-win unnerground". On occasion it used to send our female vocalist, who'd known me for years into the giggles so she'd have to step off mic til she got her own backing Vox back under control.

Don't know anything first hand but I've seen a few people from the States on FB groups digging them. From what I can piece together it seems to be a deal where a US company/shop specs up some models, deals direct with a Far East factory to get them built and imports them direct to sell. If so they'll cut out some middle men and can charge a lower price because of the saving made. That MAY be way off beam but the logic held together for me. How good they are and how critical any corner cutting or QA lapses are I couldn't say. They do look pretty though and it's a daft price for a thru neck.

[quote name='Luulox' timestamp='1488886260' post='3252597'] My eyes!! What is wrong with you man, Why must you do this to me! I can't unsee this monstrosity. It may well have ruined music for me for ever. 😂 [/quote] It could be worse, before I got the iPad I did use a... well, you know what!

OnSong lets you add post it notes with notes, comments etc. Here's a couple of examples I used while getting on top of new songs... Is that the sort of thing you had in mind?

I use a Manos Mike stand iPad holder when being a disgrace to all bassists everywhere on stage. Nice and robustly made and easily adjustable. Just attach it to my mic stand. Very pleased with it. https://www.thomann.de/gb/airturn_manos_mount.htm Here's a photo of it ruining the listening experience of the punters... how can I possibly show my face in public... oh the shame...

I use OnSong and love it! Very versatile. You can upload pdfs either in sheet music or lead sheet form, Word files or create new files/convert Word and PDF into a special format which gives you transposable, capo-able chords. You can add annotations. You can then arrange them into set lists and a whole load of other functionality. I then drive mine through a Bluetooth foot pedal to scroll backwards and forwards. Here's how the interface looks... That's obviously a scanned PDF of some sheet music but mostly I use lead sheets/chord sheets. Dead easy. There are other similar apps available but OnSong seems head and shoulder above the rest for me.

[quote name='bassbiscuits' timestamp='1488616106' post='3250434'] I still have an Arion tuner and it still works perfectly well after 30 years! i also had a book by a bloke called Jim Gregory that had a floppy 7" record in it for tuning and backing tracks. [/quote] I learned using that Jim Gregory book too...

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1488574337' post='3250266'] What about Arion effects? Cheap and cheerful, but the Stage Tuner was a classic and was owned by just about everyone. [/quote] Yup, I had one of those until I upgraded to a TU-2. Considering how (comparitively) cheap it was it was an OK bit of kit. The instruments that I always remember as being cringeworthy were the Kay guitars and basses sold in the likes of Littlewoods and through the Grattan Catalogue. Especially the Les Paul copies with lots of cheesy onboard effects. And then there was the gun shaped guitar that they had in the catalogues too. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/KayLPFX.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/k45.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1488367780' post='3248257'] 1963 Hofner 500/5 into a 1967 Selmer T&B into an Eden 210XLT cab (bit of a mis-match there). How anyone can remember what bloody lead they used is quite beyond me! I know I didn't use any pedals because I didn't have any. And I do remember very clearly that I quickly discovered that a semi-acoustic large-bodied bass makes a very effective feedback generator. [/quote] Some of us really are that sad... First appearance was a borrowed curly cable, the next was the no name cable I got when I bought my bass... It was red. The third was one of two Klotz cables I bought at the same time as I bought my Boss pedals. One was red, one was blue... Still got them in a box in the garage. No idea how or why I remember this stuff!