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It feels nice, a little on the heavier side, but i've not weighed it yet. Had to adjust the relief and tweeked saddle height a tiny bit, but otherwise it was good to go, I also replaced the strings with some HB 5 quid ones for now, which are an improvement on the originals. The neck feels nice and while is not as slip as my Yamaha, it isn't that much bigger and is definitely not as fat on on my Cort C4 plus. It had no sharp fret ends unlike my Yamaha TRBX304, which had several sharp fret edges especially towards the bottom of the neck, but I love the neck profile on that guitar. Sound wise I am playing through a TC electronics spectra drive, Dry the signal is a bit low, lower than my cort C4 plus in passive mode, but with the gain and compression engaged it's sounds good. It's my only P style bass so I have nothing to compare it too. Going forward I might consider dropping a Wilkinson Alnico V in there, a relatively cheap mod, but I am more inclined to replace the machine heads first, they are the weakest link i think... quite notchy and tough to turn, but for the price I am not complaining. Cheers

Hi All, Just wanted to share a couple of photos of my most recent acquisition. First HB purchase and for the price point (99GBP) it's fantastic!

Nice one Stew, would love to see some photos of you Bi-amp setup. I believe the bassists from Royal Blood gets his tone from Bi-amping. Oh btw did you get any response from Thomann regarding the wah and compressor not being able to be used in parallel?

Awesome, Thanks for the rundown Stew, I think its worth giving Thomann an email with some feedback regarding the Wah and compression issue... seems very restrictive and I think it could well put some people o off buying this pedal, having to choose one or the other. Have you had a go at loading in an IR yet, purchased or created? Does the proprietary software allow you create your own IR's or do you need a 3rd party application for that? I have seen the Kemper Profiler IR process but without such a device i'm not sure how you would drive the necessary frequency sweeps etc, that form the IR. Thanks again for taking the time to write up what you have discovered so far. Cheers

Yes exactly Dave 👍

If I understand correctly the polytune feature doesn't make much sense for bass.

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Hi All, I am having real trouble finding on these clip on tuners in stock anywhere... Andertons shows a lead time of 3 months! Is this a supply chain issue related to Covid--19 or TC Electronic bringing out a new version? If anyone knows anywhere with stock (for normal price) please post details, I've checked all the usual places, Andertons, GAK, PMT, GG, Gear4Music, Dawsons, Thomann, Bass Direct. Cheers

I've used AKG K99's for both guitar and bass. Had them for years now.. sound good to my ears.. but I've never used anything else so couldn't say if there are better options out there.

Sorry I just saw your in Edinburgh 🙈

starter amp, i have na Orange Bass crush 50... nice bit of kit

Those G&L shortscale, mustang esq are lovely , but expensive circa 1700 GBP if i recall correctly

I had a look at the b3n, admittedly a very quick one, and it didn't appear to have a DI XLR socket and the prices I saw were around £260.. maybe I was looking at the wrong thing?

Thanks guys, I googled it after someone mentioned it was a zoom pedal, yea it's a multiefffect processor so not so comparable to a spectradrive in use cases or functionality/features.

Yes it's a multi effects processor and has no XLR out as I can see and it's also not far off twice the cost. So wouldn't be comparing apples to apples I guess one thing they have in common is the fact they are digital rather than analogue like the EHX Batallion for example.

They are completely different beasts... Comparing the two wouldn't be very useful.

What is a b3n?