PatrickJ

This feels like an excellent front for moving illegal goods undetected across the country. Did anyone open the control plate to see if anything suspect was hiding there??

The Rebel Bass

This thread has got me gassing for a new head dammit, and I've been trying so hard to control my bass related spending this year 🤣. When I played in a rock covers band my GK MB500 was a great sounding head. I got plenty of comments on it's tone and presence in the mix without being over powering. I only moved it on as I fancied a change but if I was going to go back to that kind of music I'd be looking at the GK Legacy line. Last year I switched to a Markbass head. It seemed with every band I saw live the bassist was using some kind of MB rig and I always liked the tone. So I picked up the Little Mark Tube, the size / weight of the head and the Traveller 2x10 cab I paired it with make it super convenient rig the carry round. I'm now running 2x para EQ blocks on my Helix FX in front of the LMT that are aligned to the EQ points of the Little Marcus heads. -- This year I want to play more Jazz and am thinking again about what tone I want. The MB LMT does clean and clear pretty well but I am very curious about the Ashdown RM range and how that would compare. I'd also like to try the Eden, Genzler and EBS offerings, though if I'm honest the greatest improvement to my tone would be I'd I actually did some practice.

I work for a company that now specialises in Cloud Computing. I was in a reasonably senior role up until Dec 31st when I was made redundant, I'm still pretty forked about it but it presented me with an opportunity. Things have been a bit rough with my Autistic kid lately and his anxiety can result in some very challenging behaviour, especially towards his mother. I took a more junior position that meant I could work from home 3 days a week and be around a lot more to help at home. So now I manager a team of Cloud Computing Engineers supporting Amazon, Microsoft and Google cloud platforms.

I meant at the same time. I saw Charley Hunter supporting Snarky Puppy. He plays an eight string multi-scale guitar that he uses to play both Bass and Guitar parts on at the same time.

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There's probably one out there but I would be interested in a Markbass LM comparison to the RM500. I love my little stubby head, but my Markbass LMT and 2x10 traveller makes a great portable rig. Wondering how the RM range compares for clean bass tone.

I've had a couple of market place dealings with Tony over the past year or so. Great guy to deal with on each occasion!

Everything else in your settings looked good so I'd try it as next stage of troubleshooting. I just tried a mono cable instead of TRS with mine. With heel down bass muted, heel and toe midway I had full volume and with toe fully down bass was muted again. Not the same experience as you but odd behaviour none the less.

Yup, but I think your issue maybe that you are not using a TRS cable, have you got one you can try ? From the Andertons website: The way most expression pedals work is by taking a reference voltage from the device it’s connected to and halving that (depending on the position of the expression pedal) and feeding it back into the device which alters the sound. The most common way for this to happen is through a TRS jack. A TRS (tip / ring / sleeve) is a cable where the reference voltage is on the ring. The control voltage is on the ‘tip’ and the ‘sleeve’ will ground the connection.

Where it says volume, above footswitch 1, change this to Position rather than Bypass in the drop down menu and post another screen shot.

I would have thought an expression pedal is an expression pedal no matter what the brand - as long as you're using a TRS cable to connect it to the HX then it should work.

+1, IOS and Android apps would be awesome.

I do all my initial block setups in HX Edit as it's much easier to visualise and then fine tune on the HX FX as I need to when I'm rehearsing. Once you get the Vol pedal cracked let me know if you need help with setting up the EXP pedal to be shared across multiple patches. In that block I've got a Tilt patch that I'm using to create a vintage tone setting to emulate the Old School EQ control on the Markbass Little Marcus amp head. I've just set it up so I can use the expression pedal to adjust the amount of "vintage" along side the volume pedal. When the Vintage patch is turned on the volume pedal is disengaged, when it's turned off the Volume Pedal is engaged. Pretty simple to set up in HX Edit. You set the patches up individually to how you want them. Then I turn Vintage on and Volume off, then set them both to use the same footswitch for Bypass.

This is how my settings are configured in HX Edit. Screen shot 3 just demonstrates the pedal being in a midway position. I don't think the Curve matters, I believe that effects "how" the volume changes. Linear will give you an even increase through the sweep of the pedal where I think log ramps in curve meaning at the low end of the sweep you get less effect and that increases towards the end.

Are you using the HX edit software to create your blocks or are you setting them up manually on the unit? Setting up a volume pedal in HX edit was pretty straight forward. I'm using a Moog expression pedal. Step 1. Add the volume block from Volume / Pan menu Step 2. Click Bypass / Controller Assign Step 3. Where it says volume, make sure this says Position. For some reason my software says EXP2 even though I only have a EXP pedal in Interface 1. This goes away after finishing the next step. Step 4. Change Controller to EXP Pedal 1 Step 5. Check Min Position is 0 and Max is 100 Step 6. Click back on Edit, use the pedal and you should see the position value change as you operate the EXP pedal. Step 7. Save

This is something I need to start doing. Although my listening is now almost exclusively Jazz, none of it is standards and it doesn't feature much in the way of walking bass lines. For those reading / following this thread, please do provide me with some recommended listening!

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Let me know any tips and tricks you've learnt along the way.

Yes, I'm enjoying iReal Pro very much. My old iPad wouldn't support it so I had an excuse to go and buy a new tablet too :). The transpose feature is excellent, I used that a number of times last week when the singer casually mentioned, can we take this down a tone. Boom, no problem at all just let me click this button. It seems that I also spoke too soon on the callbacks. Guitarist asked me to dep again for their rehearsal this Sunday. He even gave me two days notice this time, I'm obviously moving up his speed dial list. Unfortunately I can't make it which is a shame because I've been practicing.

So my jazzcapades continue. Aforementioned guitarist called me (again at 24 hrs notice) asking me to step in as bassist for his other band at a rehearsal. Again in a move that's totally out of character for me I agree to do it. Smaller affair to last time, a bunch of standards I'd never played before, but with just drums, guitar, singer and sax. Again all very patient with me but perhaps this time it wasn't quite so warm and welcoming. I guess with the smaller ensemble, the lack of a solid walking bass line left parts of the songs feeling very bare and my lack of experience really stood out. I'm not expecting any callbacks anytime soon but another great experience for me. I've subsequently started an Online SBL course called the beginning Jazz survival guide or something. It's funny that one of the first things @devinebass calls out in the intro is you can't fake playing walking bass, you can either do it or you can't - something my recent experiences can whole heartedly attest too.

Thanks for this! I got to see Snarky Puppy at the Royal Albert hall, was tempted by the Ronnie's gig but perhaps I'll go for this instead.

That, and the Nathan East presets were my favourite on the Spectracomp. The Red Headed Bastard was quite transparent IIRC