Owen

Just as well. If people clocked that I am an internationally famous bass guitarist masqueading as an obsessed geek to get my hands on quality 2nd hand gear then I would be inundated with tedious questions about what strings I used on that platinum album from '83. It is bad enough that I am having to fly over for the day.

It is a great book. It really picks up the vibe in a way I have not seen in the written word before or since. I keep thinking other books will be the same and they never are

I like Monique, I cannot lie.

[quote name='Platypus' timestamp='1486320729' post='3230886'] 'Course you are Owen Think I'll join you,,, [/quote] I do love a nice preamp

Top top job.

Smooooooooooooooooooooooooth.

PPL is not as good as PRS/MCPS but I am sure that was a tidy chunk.

Take your time. Shop with your ears as well as your eyes. Go to a Bassbash. One in the Northwest in a week and a half.

So is that for sale for the same money? If you don't have it I will pay you to buy it amd send it to.me!

The Lo control on the Puma 900 at 30hz is almost certainly affecting more than just what is under 30hz. It is probably centered at 30hz but might well be (and this is a guess) reaching up an octave or an octave and a half so you would be slicing off quite a lot of your grunt there. The Micro Thumpinator just slices off everything beneath the given frequency and leaves the rest intact.

Every pedal I have ever tried has had tracking idiosyncracies somewhere along the way. OC2 has to have clean damping, Octavius Squeezer was pretty fussy about how I attacked the note and the G5 was more forgiving on some patches than others. I have come to the conclusion that chucking a "synth" pedal in a signal path is like playing a slightly different instrument so technique has to be changed in some way. I have never touched the knobs becuase I can only mess with parameters when they are on a bank of named faders on a screen in front of me - and even then I am happier just loading other peoples patches. That is how much of a technophobe I am. It is a big box and there are guys on the TB thread who have discussed reboxing them but I don't know what came of that. I can see the attraction of a momentary switch. For me (and it is the fact that everyone feels different about so many things which makes life interesting) the sounds it makes are the kinds of things I have been wanting to make with a bass guitar in my hands for a very long time and that for me makes it worth the outlay. But each to their own and I am totally cool with that

And this is why I have given up modding stuff. Resale is always horrific. Really great if you are buying though!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1485258470' post='3222489'] Not sure about the strap. 3.5mm jack connectors, so not a really serious piece of gigging kit unless they are the locking kind like those fitted to some wireless units. [/quote] The older I get, the less I move around so that would not be a huge issue for me

Ugh! Pressure!

I have done the full custom thing with one of the UK's most respected builders. Would I do it again? No. The bass was all I asked for spec wise but it just did not sound fabulous. I changed electrics twice but to no avail. As above, I sold it for a loss. You just cannot tell how wood is going to work together. It might work, but it might not. If you still want to (and I am not saying do not) then I suggest you pick up a model from your favoured builder 2nd hand (they all come through here), live with it for a bit and then move on from there, selling it for the same as you bought it.

April I think, which will still be well before I get around to building anything!

I got the strap. Don't get me wrong, I would love a board but my inertia is crippling and this will arrive all ready to go!

I am a total lightweight. This popped up on the IEM thread and it looks like less hassle than carrying a board around so I am going to try it. http://www.woojer.com/strap/#StrapSpec

Will there be a better bargain in 2017? Doubtfull.