Cuzzie

Depends on flats - LaBella deep talking bass are a whole different kettle of fish to TI’s. Not all flats are the same just as not all round wounds are the same. Some people will say a fretless is not for metal/rock - plenty of examples of non-ballads using them Clean Amps with an intelligent EQ can bring out what you need. Realistically - to prove it disprove, you would probably have to try out a load for yourself if you want

@Tech21NYC dUg 1000 Ultrabass, footswitch controls clean channel, dirty channel and mix, as well as a mute. Compression on the amp also, second hand clip on tuner Job done Forgot to add - 3 XLR’s out - mixed signal, or drive and clean channel separate so your sound man can have a field day

For anyone’s info The company used to be called Hilimire now known as firestone. Based in the US, but I have had a couple necks from them and they are really nice - absolute glove fit for Fender bodies, use some interesting woods, frets are a little sharp (they state they do not dress them) but that’s easy to fix. And not finished wax/lacquer wise Got both mine off eBay for under £100 - we’ll worth it

Really nice aftermarket neck, I can’t take any plaudits for it apart from spotting it and snapping it up! Get this out the door, get my brother to pay up, recycle the funds for another!

That’s cool buddy, I often mistype and don’t even know what I have written! It’s normally my fault for not typing enough as I am snatching replies between doing stuff

We approach completion, awaiting the Noll electronics stacked Vol/Vol knob - tonestyler Duo6 for the tone knob is in. No electronics in the normal Jag places, they are dummy plates. Once the stacked knob is in, its popping it all together!

Yep, that bits very obvious Guts of your bass to see your jack - less obvious from the outside

TRS = Tip, ring, Sleeve whats your Jack? Mono vs Stereo Get into the guts and find out

Even better! loads of options

Don’t worry about the DI, most of not all desks have an unbalanced channel so they just take it out the 1/4” jack. If you really want, get a cheap passive DI as well, will be smaller

Plus there are loads of tone shapers around, I just mentioned the VXL as You were using Hartke - and it’s bloody brilliant

Not bad that Hartke pedal i picked up for £40-50 - left loads of spending room for Haribo and pork scratchings

Yep you just have to remember flat is 2-10-2 and you are away, some form of pre amp before can always give the mids - great amps

In fact, get their excellent generation 1 Hartke Bass attack pedal and any power amp you want - you have that sound, cheaper and better

Or even the LH 500/1000 if you like Hartke is a little lighter and actually good

Lack of heaviness weight or sound make it useless as even a doorstop. For a similar price bracket I would go a used Quilter bass block or Genzler Mag 350 - the Mag would kick it into touch despite being lower watts.

True, and at times other things in the signal chain but it will give some idea of a different use - even if it was just amp/cab again depending on the cab and voicing of speakers you will also get a different sound, but you notice a definite difference between the clean and when the drive kicks in for a song

Bassist for Kylie at Glastonbury used a Darkglass M900 amp. It’ll be all over iplayer

P getting lost in the mix = a poor pick up or bad EQ. P’s have pretty much been there from the dawn of time

I heard that Markbass employed Mr Magoo to design the aesthetics of their range

Nope That’s the biggest porky of the day Next you’ll be telling me I don’t have a face for radio

Thanks for the invite, if passing and in the area will do, with some notice of course for yourselves, but in all likelihood I am not sure what it will achieve for me personally as I may still prefer another sound as you say, but feel free to do a shout out between other amps with drive channels and maybe the ABM as suggested with a dedicated drive pedal - would be good to hear the results. Make sure its a distinctly average player like me doing the playing though, or everything will sound good, and that's unhelpful

Nonsense to suggest another amp has a better drive channel at a similar or different price point?

I think what he is saying is that there are a few very good amps on the market with a dedicated drive channel that surpasses what the GZR amp does at a similar or better price point, allied to the fact that if one buys a dedicated clean or power amp plus a fuzz pedal a sound of at least parity or better can be achieved

Bought some pick ups, solid and very quick deal. Nice chap to boot Smooth transaction