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I'm with you. I started my 5-string journey being really afraid of the wider spacings, but once I took the plunge I can no longer play the tighter spacings like on the Ibanez SR basses. These days I'm sticking with 18-19mm on all my fivers (and I don't currently own any 4-strings) If you want to stick with Ibanez, the BTB and EHB series have 18-19mm spacing. Other than that, most Fender-ish five-string will have 19mm spacing (Fender, Lakland, Sire, G&L, etc) It's probably actually quicker to list the basses that have 16-17mm spacings: Off the top of my head: Under 16mm: - Gibson Thunderbird V - Rickenbacker 5-string 16-17mm brands/models: - Ibanez ATK and SR series (except the SRMD, which is medium scale and 18mm for some reason) - Music Man Stingray - Warwick (except the wide neck varieties) - Spector - Schecter (at least their original models, like the Omen, CV, Demon, etc - Not sure about their P-basses) - Peavey - Jackson Spectra 18mm brands/models: - Ibanez EHB and RD - Sandberg - Yamaha (at least the RB series - Not sure about the BB) 19mm brands/models: - Ibanez BTB - MTD - Fender - Lakland - Reverend - Cort JB

50% off every Neural DSP plugin for black friday. I prefer Helix Native, but I have the Nolly Getgood plugin and but it undoubtedly sounds good. https://www.neuraldsp.com

Got it, so I'm just blind then. I was looking at their web site, evidently not reading the original post closely enough 😄

How do we get the voucher? Am I just blind? Or is it gone now?

Solved. I had to copy the URL for the login page from Chrome to Edge and then it worked. Mostly. I had to change my password, and then change my password one more time (to the same password as before). They've definitely got some user authentication issues, but that worked for me at least.

No I can press the button fine, and then I just get an eternal "Loading" indicator in the web browser window. Switching back to the download assistant or restarting it doesn't do anything either, so it's obvious that the login request isn't authenticated.

Yeah, I was forced to update when I opened the old version that was installed on my PC. The new version is giving me these issues.

It tells me to log in and opens a login window in my browser, but once I enter my email and password it just hangs forever. I'll try again later I guess.

That is, I would, if the Steinberg Download Manager would let me log in. Anyone else having issues with their Steinberg login?

Thanks! Definitely upgrading my Cubase Elements from 10 to 12 right away!

The quest for the perfect preamp/dirt box continues with the Photon. So far so good. Love the ability to have three distinct core tones, all with my favourite grit/dirt tone (The Darkglass Alpha Omega). Photon gives me my core tones (compression, preamp, dirt, and cab sim for my direct signal), while the HX Stomp can provide me virtually any other effect that I need, without messing with my core tone at all.

Thanks. I'm a neat freak when it comes to pedalboards, often to the point of obsession.

Yeah, the 3.1 is great. Compact, but flexible. I really enjoyed how I could get one row of mini pedals and one row of full-size pedals on there. Here are a couple of my old Rockboard 3.1 setups (used primarily for guitar, not bass):

Love the Rockboards. The boards are just great design, where you can easily run cables anywhere, without it hindering pedal placement in any way. I've had zero noise with the patchbays. I read a couple of those complaints too, but I believe that might just have been an issue with some of the very early units. Edit: Just noticed this was an old thread. Oh well, maybe someone else finds my experience useful

Well well, look what the cat dragged in. Very much still in the honeymoon phase, but this thing is absolutely immense! It replaced my Lakland 55-60 Vintage J, which played great but I didn't get on with the Jazz bass thing. I just need to accept that bridge humbuckers and active electronics is where I live.

Destroying your gear looked stupid in the 70s and it looks stupid now.

Does "Live in the studio" count?

Why choose? Do both! I have individual pedals for my core tones (preamp, drive, EQ, compression, cabinet simulation and direct out), and a Line6 HX Stomp for literally everything else. Incredible flexibility, and yet my core tones are retained no matter what preset I load in my HX Stomp, and I can tweak my core tone without having to reprogram my HX Stomp, or change the same setting in multiple presets. It's the absolute best of both worlds. That being said: Since you already have a multi-FX, I'd start with that. Dial up a decent sound using what you already have, and use that as a starting point to see where you want to go from there. The ME-50B is definitely not a bad unit, and it has a lot of good sounds, so you might find that you can keep using it. Over time, maybe you want to add other pedals to your setup in addition to the ME-50B, or maybe you find that you want to replace it altogether. Pedal mania is a lot of fun, but it gets really expensive really quickly, and if you don't know what you're looking for or how to achieve what you want, it's really easy to just start throwing money at the problem. I've had some extremely expensive pedalboard setups that just didn't end up working for me at all, and my bank account is still reeling from those days. I'm slowly learning to control myself, but it's not always easy 😄

It's great. Really easy to program through the web editor, and does everything I need it to do. The details of the editor can be slightly confusing at first, but once you get it you can do anything you want. The key for me was I've set it up pretty simple. The two side buttons move up and down through my presets, and the raised middle button instantly sends me to my main preset (where I spend 90% of my time). A long press on the middle button brings up the HX Stomp tuner.

I haven't had any issues with it, apart from one thing: When I tried having the TC Electronic Wiretap on my board, the WL-50 crapped out because of the interference from the Wiretap bluetooth transmitter. Other than that, zero complaints. I've used it on stage with any number of potential interference problems (stage lights, other wireless systems, etc), and it's never had any problems. I had the Line6 G10 before, which was also perfectly fine, but it was difficult to power on a pedalboard (it uses USB power). The G10S fixes that problem, and is probably as good as the G10, but I chose the WL-50 because it has an additional 1/4" input. So if the system ever craps out for any reason, I can plug a regular cable into the input of the WL-50 and keep playing.

Darkglass for dirt and DI, HX Stomp for everything else. Flexible and compact, which is what I'm always striving for.

I love these! Simple enough for my brain, and weird enough to be inspiring. We can only hope that this develops into another LABS type collection.

It's really handy The only annoyance is that I can't turn off the Bluetooth receiver. It screws with my wireless receiver, so the Wiretap is unusable on my main pedalboard.

edit: Screwed up the quote

It's perfectly workable, I'd say. Definitely won't have enough control for compressor nerds, but I only need it to even out my attacks a bit and give me a little squish feel under my fingers, and it works great for that for me. The voicing and attack switches give me some options, and the blend knob lets me mix in my clean signal to where it feels nice. No complaints, but it's definitely not a "studio grade" compressor.