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Through desktop speakers? Headphones? Earbuds?

The octaver that’s based on the EBS Octabass is surprisingly decent, although it won’t be replacing my analogue octavers. As for the filters, the best one IMO is “Autofilter” which isn’t modelled on an existing pedal (it’s a Line 6 Original) but the level of adjustability is quite impressive. There are loads of parameters to satisfy the keenest filter tweaker (I’m thinking of you @Quatschmacher) The other day I managed to get quite a nasty gated fuzz-driven synthy filter patch with a Clawthorn overdrive going into the Autofilter and the noise gate on the input block set fairly tight. Chucked a chorus/phaser on the end and had a blast playing some dirty synth lines. Then I forgot to save the patch and lost it all

Have you tried contacting John directly?

Right? I was sooo close to buying it!

Here she is. I saved the advert on Facebook:

Exactly. Was a very cool bass.

I was pretty disappointed that he dismantled it for parts. I was considering buying it despite having no need for it. That pickguard looked mean on it too!

Ah! I think I remember that sale - he added a black pickguard to it if I’m not mistaken?

Ha. Resistance is futile. I’ve just added a bit more info to my post above too..

Yes indeed. In the global settings you can change the routing of the FX Returns to act as an Aux In for practice. Also, if you connect the Stomp to an iPhone, iPad or iPod via an Apple Camera Connection Kit any audio played from the device will automatically be routed as Aux In. The same behaviour applies when connected to a PC/Mac.

New purchase, perchance?

I just got me one of these cables which circumvents the issue of needing extra headphone cable length. I spec’d it a bit differently - mine has 3.5mm connectors at both ends of the headphone line for instance - but it has made my bass practice so much neater, and I can use whatever headphones I please as the cable on my phones only has to be long enough to reach the strap pin on the bass I’m playing.

Ha! I should really pay more attention, I assumed everyone had theirs by now. You’re in for a treat. Was playing through mine last night for headphone practise duties and it was glorious. Had it connected to my laptop via USB to stream audio and messed about with a couple of patches before settling down and doing some actual playing. Truly a lovely experience. This is the first Multi FX I’ve had any love for at all! The experience was made even lovelier by the simple addition of a combo guitar/headphone cable I had made up by OBBM of this parish. See thread below - although I specced mine slightly differently it’s effectively the same cable in principle:

That is fantastic!

Have you not got your Stomp yet Bas?

Straight across the neck makes most sense, as that’s how your hand will perceive the width. Good to know!

Love that - looks great!

I had a Dunlop DVP3 and it was very nice. Worked just fine with my active and passive basses - I certainly didn’t notice any tone suck. I’m a big guy and it felt really sturdy underfoot. The physical travel of the pedal was nice although I haven’t played a ton of different volume pedals so I may not be the best person to give a complete opinion on that. It can be used as an expression pedal as well, and with the flick of an internal switch the polarity of the expression output can be reversed. Just a really well made, well thought out product that does what it’s supposed to do!

@rodney72a you got 2 at the same time??

To clarify - this is possible on all members of the Helix product line EXCEPT Stomp, which can send MIDI Program Change messages but not MIDI CCs.

Yeah I have to say, the Nordy Starlifter looks cool with its fancy LEDs but it’s doing absolutely nothing new and will likely not be cheap. Yet there are tons of people seemingly queuing up to buy one if Facebook comments are anything to go by. I can’t quite get my head around it