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I kinda expected it to be around this price to be honest. It’s still good value when you consider pricing up an alternative: An Ampeg SCR-DI (preamp, drive and headphone amp) costs between £199-215ish new and a spectracomp goes for anywhere between £85-105 new. Total cost £284-320. An EXH Battalion (£136 new) does much of what the Spectradrive does but you’d have to add a headphone amp to match it fully. A Phil Jones BigHead is an extra £175. Total cost £311. Although I appreciate the BigHead is also an audio interface and has an internal battery which goes above and beyond the feature set of the Spectradrive, so it’s not a completely apples to apples comparison. Even a Palmer Pocket Amp Bass, costing around £140 would still need a spectracomp added to it, bumping the price up to anywhere between £225-245. For the feature set offered and the form factor it’s presented in, there simply isn’t a direct alternative to this - especially for £209!

I’m going down this route myself, as I’m one of those lazy bassists who simply cannot be arsed buying/changing strings regularly. Got the Black Tapes on my Sandberg P and am strongly considering putting flats on my MTD Super. We shall see. I’m holding off as it would mean not having a bass with rounds at all...but I may have to invest in a new bass to rectify that!

Heads up. Another one here: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202258634031

I’m cool with it being TonePrint-only. I’ve owned more TC pedals than I care to count and not once have I been bothered to make a TonePrint from scratch with the editor. We’ll live!

Anyone got one of the lovely leather Maruszczyk gig bags? Are they as good as they look?

Good lord. Damage?

I just couldn’t get on with the aesthetics or the socket positioning on the Palmer, otherwise it might have been the one for me. TC have nailed it.

Definitely wouldn’t replace my whole pedalboard but it would be a strong addition to it, end of my chain. I may just keep my spectracomp at the beginning of my chain too! I’m thinking it’ll replace my MXR Bass Preamp and possibly my Pork Loin too. The potential is strong with this one...

Exactly. Ideal for when I’m working away from home. I’ve just downloaded the manual: http://downloads.music-group.com/documents/tcelectronic/P0D9D_M_EN_A4.pdf

No, really. This is literally what I’ve been looking for for ages.

Oh bloody hell, this is all I need!

Ignore this - I misread your post. I thought you were downgrading from a 12 channel to a 4 channel mixer. I really must learn to read one of these days

For me it completely depends on the thickness of the feet. If they’re quite thick/deep then I’ll remove them but keep them in the pedal box in case I want to put them back on at any point (for resale etc) but if they’re quite thin I’ll often just slap the Velcro over them. Ultimately, you want the most amount of surface area contact between the pedal and the board, so feet which are too thick will mean that vecro applied over them will only really attach at the four corners of the pedal and not across the rest of the pedal’s base, if that makes sense.

Something like this? https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F191267225322

@Bill Fitzmaurice you are indeed correct!

Thanks for that - sounds decent. Might be worth an investigation, especially considering the price!

I was eyeing up the Squier Jags just this morning! Any good?

Very tasty playing as usual. Nice tone too! Preamp flat with a bit of tone knob rolled off?

Great stuff! Confirms my love of nylon tapes. Presumably the tension in the Chromes is higher than the LaBella Flats?

Another Umbo, this time on eBay: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F222877941758

The Great British Bass Lounge is being resurrected as we speak! Someone else has taken over it and new stock is already coming in. Some very nice basses on the wall already.