Cuzzie

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The beauty of a selective quote

Don’t think we can argue with each other on any of that!!! I would defo love at least a go on it for an extended period, or even own, but know I would not use even a quarter of its capabilities. I am now trying to be a good boy with balancing ins and outs. About the only pro active thing I can do is secretly list the actual price of all things so that if I pop off before Mrs Cuzzie, she doesn’t sell it off too cheap and could at least have a decent holiday on the proceeds!

First sentence - need and want are 2 interchangeable 4 letter words. Being a musician (I wouldn’t call myself that btw, I just like playing) can be eye watering if you sit back and look at what money you may have invested amongst GAS, which is part of the reason we are all here! Crikey, my gear is far far far too good for me. Is the money spent on backline, PA, lights etc. An initial outlay and float for an all purpose loan you intend to pay back to yourself, or is it something you write off for your hobby/semi-profession/profession/enjoyment? Kids are an eye watering expense, but the benefits far far far outweigh it all. Its the Mrs Cuzzie test ”Mrs Cuzzie, I’d like to spend £1.5k on a bit of equipment for my enjoyment. It could potentially replace all my other stuff.” ”That’s nice dear, will you then sell all your other stuff off to pay for it in the 9 month lead time, or in fact ever?” ”Errrrrr.......Unlikely.....” Bonafide stern look and kick in the nuts - hence an eye watering expense

Yep I get all that and can’t disagree. It of course depends on your status, and if you declare the gigging money for tax purposes! Maybe all that £250 can be spent purely on gear and not on living, family holidays, kids clubs, car bills etc. The £50 sum per gig was taken as disposable. Yes its tax deductible, but it’s not free money, so whatever your fee it’s still got to be earned before you can then declare it as a legitimate expense you need not be taxed on before we get into running your company at a loss blah blah etc. It was a viewpoint from your average person, but not trying to besmirch the product.

I get the whole expensive is expensive, and the semantics of one persons eye wateringly expensive, is another man’s just expensive (bear in mind it was never said it’s not possibly value for money), but a lot of people I know use gig money for funding gear, as in general the day to day wage is taken up with living. Is an average gig payment approximately £50 after expenses? If so you would have to gig every single weekend without a break practically until it’s release to pay for it. Thats eye watering......

Aye said, but when pushed did what I would do run away. I am defo all the talk and no notches chalked

Or even Chi-sad-ick.......but don’t say it too quickly

Chiwardowsky is the new line name

Get it second hand in 2021 for £1499 - cheap as chips

Roger will get his cut per bass, Warwick will license the Jazz bass as their own invention and shape and then ask Fender to change their shapes

Is it the default response because it’s true?! On the recent tech21 SH1 pedal thread the same response was shared by a lot of people with it being £399. £1600 is an eye watering amount of money whatever you say. I am sure @krispn would say that the Fractal and the Kemper are both eye watering amounts of money too! It is entirely likely most people would not use the whole abilities of this unit, so if someone said to you, please give me 1600 bits for a piece of equipment where you will only use 10% of its capabilities, and for that 10% you use you may be able to spend considerably less, you may think twice. It’s not a DG/neural criticism, it’s a practicality of spending money and diverting where you do or don’t have it. I know one is a floor unit and the other a rack unit but any idea on how the QC compares to the Axe FXIII in terms of processing power etc? If the Axe FXIII is more powerful/useable/quicker yet, is it not fine to have a slightly higher price?

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And i have paired it with the b7k and it works well

Ok, You May find that the B7k alone clean and fattened up gives you exactly what you need in this scenario. If your wallet is harbouring moths then a really budget friendly preamp often overlooked and built like a tank is the Hartke VXL (1st gen). They can be gotten for around 50 squid second hand. This is prob about the best demo out there on it, and it can go a little dirty too. Works off standard mains or battery https://youtu.be/C91FNiALTFY

Ok......I’ll give my opinion- happily ignore! So now that you only 1 guitarist it actually gives you both a whole heap of space to work. He has big buckers popping out a whole heap of mid heavy over driven tone. The B7K can give a really meaty sound, but in some ways you may need to get under him and over him if you want a distorted sound. For that you are looking at a crossover type pedal and if you are wedded to Darkglass Sound X7 would be your friend here. Alternatively you may find there is too much fizz going giving an unclear sound if you and the guitarist distort, so you may want to consider going a lot cleaner either with the B7K or IMHO the AO is a way better engine not just for clean sound, but also the distortion engine compared to the B7k - it’s a proper evolution. I love slipknot and if you go way back to bands like Pantera they are actually running a very clean bass sound. Are you wedded to DG, if not, I may have other ideas either to stack or in isolation. What I will say is don’t stack the VMT and B7k, it’s crap

What guitar /pick ups is your guitarist using? And Whats their sound like? How distorted/crunchy

Didn’t catch it all but it was interesting what I did catch. One of The questions I wanted to know was being able to handle multiple instruments can different guitarists have different controls or do you have to stomp on the same console You have to stomp and cross swords on the same console. Otherwise - looks good - they should be proud

Cool! I liked his playing - good on him

I am not sure if it’s the socks and sandals or the head nod tennis between him and keys I like best

I am easy too - I spend a long time getting to know what the pedals do, then I tweak and leave - best way. You are not overthinking just exploring

Of course - we all know there is massive joy in stacking pedals etc. I stack my DP3X plus or minus a lehle Sonic Spark into the dUg Ultrabass amp to get what I need. On their own I can dial in a sound I like too, but with fiddling I can get something different with different stacks which is more ‘me’ without sounding pretentious if you get my drift