Baloney Balderdash

These are the always on effects of my "amp-less" setup: So a combination of several preamp stages makes up my "amp-less" tone, but I suppose the NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI being the main one.

Really I could see the FreqOut being used for somewhat more traditional bass playing too, the same way as people use synth pedals to sound like a synth bass. The FreqOut can be used for much more than simply emulating feedback.

Because I play a 5 string 28.6" scale bass, tuned in G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the 5 upper strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. And I really play it more as sort of a 5 string bass/baritone guitar hybrid, or like you would a Bass VI type instrument. And I plan to use it with a TC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper pedal, as the main instrumentation, with a backing track of drums/percussion, and more flavor oriented additional instrumentation. And this setup will be used for my drone/ambient project as well. I also plan to sometimes use the FreqOut in conjunction with the Sub'N'Up, which is loaded with the Organ Emulator patch, and both those sometimes in conjunction with the Sample Sustainer.

Still haven't gotten down to rearranging my pedalboard, so I still use a temporary pedalboard free setup, consisting of just my always on effects, my dirt pedals, and my delay. But this is the most likely outcome of the rearrangement, using an online pedalboard manager (note that some of the pedals are placeholders, as some of the online app I used lacked some of my pedals): - The EHX English Muff'n is really an EHX Black Finger, tube driven optical compressor, though used more so as a tube preamp stage, with minimal compression dialed in - The XVive Golden Brownie is really a XVive Undulator tremolo pedal, though exclusively used for it's great buffer and never actually engaged, which are to be mounted under the pedalboard. - The HoTone Wally Looper is really a HoTone Trem tremolo pedal - The Mooer Black Secret is really a Mosky Black Rat, RAT clone - The Arion Stereo Chorus is really a Monarch MFL-22 Stereo Flanger (which is a rebranded Arion Stereo Flanger)

The bass sounds great, pretty awesome bass line too, though not my personal taste of music, but does sound good, despite the low quality.

Yes, personally in that price range I would chose a Harley Benton over a Squier, any time!

Remember to plug the current screw holes. Just fill with wood glue and squeeze down some slightly oversized sticks/strips of wood.

Looks like a deformed solid body Longhorn bass (which I by the way love the looks of). That said I can think of much worse looking basses. And yes, definitely single cut basses also looks wrong to me, especially the "whale hump" ones, butt ugly, though I have actually seen a couple of single cut basses that looked genuinely great.

Also, you might want to invest in a neck plate (or make one yourself) to prevent the screws from gradually sinking into the pocket wood over time from the tension, potentially causing the neck to loosen in the pocket, and to help distribute the tension of the neck screws over a greater area, giving an overall more tight and study neck/body connection.

That is with the octaver and thumbinator running in a parallel signal path, or? And A0 or A1?

Looks great. The string spacing at the bridge is pretty wack though. To me it looks something like 15mm - 18mm - 17mm - 16mm, from low B to high G string.

Glorious! This is a pretty nice video someone made to it :

Definitely paint the bass green. Not enough basses in green finish, which is the greatest finish ever for a bass (even if I sadly own non myself). Red would look great with the green pickup too though. Cool project. I like the rough look.

My Own Bare Hands - Ween

That's was pretty damn amazing!

They truly were at the peak of their time... And sadly they are dead, stone dead (though there are still fans who swear to the Amiga, even to this day, and 3rd party companies have made upgrade hardware, even new more powerful Amiga machines). Regret selling my Comodore 64 and Amiga 500 and 1200, which I had literally thousands of games for. Loved those machines. You can get emulators for PC or Mac though, and spec the emulation to be a super Amiga with modern PC powers, and find game files for basically every game ever released on it online to run on the emulator. Not quite the same as having the original physical machines though. Playing Monkey Island I and II on my Amiga 500 still to this day stands as one of my most fond gaming experiences ever.

Most recent shot of my current main instrument of choice, my 5 strings Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, named "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer", with the latest visual mods I did to it : You can read about it and the mods I did to it here:

I've painted the pickguard of my Epiphone SG Special guitar with acrylic paint (will need a couple of layers, remember to let the paint surface dry before applying another layer), then spraying it with a couple of clear coats (again remember to let surface dry in between), and it worked perfectly, looks great, and hasn't scratched or flaked or anything like that since. Just remember to wipe the pickguard in question with some ethanol first, and let it dry, to clean off any dust or grease, and handle it before you paint it in a way so that you won't leave your finger prints on it after you cleaned it, in order for the paint to be able to bind properly to the surface.

So this is the thread to post pictures of your modded basses and tell a bit about them. I tend to mod all my instruments, if nothing else then at least visually, to personalize them. I'll start with my current main instrument of choice, my just 28.6" scale 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, produced in January 2019 at the Cort factory in Indonesia, according the serial number, which I guess I really use more as a 5 string Bass VI type instrument than a traditional bass, though tuned in G standard tuning, and all fourth tuning, that is as in 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. It features a Poplar body, a Maple neck and a Jatoba fretboard, 16.5mm string spacing, and 2 J pickups, perfectly leveled frets from stock, and an incredible amount of sustain. Now to the mods I've done to it: First thing I did was wire the 2 stock J pickups in series, as it just didn't sound right, like really hollow and ridiculously burby, it helped, but it still sounded odd, until I discovered that there was something wrong with the neck J pickup, which had an extremely weak magnetic field over the lower half of the strings (I suspect a broken bar magnet, as these are ceramic pickups, and might need to look into fixing it at some point), so I ended up disconnecting the neck J pickup and wiring the stock bridge J pickup directly to the output jack socket, and it actually sounds pretty damn amazing now. Surprisingly little noise too, basically non to speak of, despite not having done any additional shielding, and despite running a single single coil pickup, which I credit to the fact that Ibanez used properly shielded wiring for the electronics and pickups, with the ground wire running as a braided shield all along the individually insulated hot wire. Edit!: I just replaced the stock side mounted barrel type output jack socket for a regular standard output jack socket in one of the redundant pot holes. Rest of the mods are purely visually: A silver lotus flower with a OM sign in the middle of it decal, a paint splatter figure, made with a mixture of a white marble effect and grey acrylic paint, applied with a tooth stick, on the upper horn, and a strip of red insulating tape (also known as electrical tape) applied to the top of each of the two J pickups, also removed one of the redundant pots, covering the hole with black insulating tape, and replaced the stock dome style chrome pot knobs on the shafts of the two remaining pots with transparent/black PRS lampshade knobs, and finally I covered the brand/model name on the headstock with black insulating tape as well. I also swapped the neck pocket screws out for slightly longer ones with Torx head slots, to ensure being able to screw them in tight without slipping or risk of stripping the slots. Here it is, "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer", as I named it : I don't have any pictures of it from when it was stock, but here's one I found on Google of s similar speced stock 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass : I do plan making a few more mods to this instrument: Most certainly will soon replace the stock side mounted barrel type jack output socket, for a regular jack socket, which I will mount in one of the redundant pot holes, the one currently is covered by black tape. I also ponder on maybe at some point replacing the bridge for 5 single black mono rail bridge pieces milled from solid brass. As well as I might eventual replace the bridge J pickup, which is currently the only one I use, for a Gemini Pickups Mountain Lightning J pickup: https://www.geminipickups.co.uk/bass/jazz-bass/mountain-lightning

Love that! Green finfishes ought to be more common. Green has taken over as my absolute favorite finish over black, though sadly I own no green basses, yet.

Danny Carey and Ronald Shannon Jackson is on it, so I am all fine... Knowing how these Top 100 Musician lists works I am not too nit picking about their position, where, especially in Ronald Shannon Jackson case, they in reality ought to have been rated higher. I am just glad they weren't left out. However I couldn't have taken a Top 100 Drummers in a Rock magazine serious (not that I really do anyway) if they had left out Danny Carey. Danny Carey truly is one of the absolute greatest rock drummers of all times.

People who are scared/confused about menus, don't understand the concept of one knob being able to have several functions, have a tendency to option paralysis, and think physical controls somehow magically will make it sound more analog. Such people does actually exist. Or simply people who just likes the concept of/needs having physical controls for all parameters, and prioritize that over having access to additional tweakable parameters, flexibility of routing/the signal path, and number of effects available. Again I am certain such a user segment does exist. For instance I would say this wins as a live impro multi effect over a traditional "modern" menu diving multi effect pedal, like for instance as a live noise and experimental electronic music effect processor that can actually be tweaked live on the fly, or whatever context elsewhat where effects are treated more so as musical instruments in their own regard, rather than just simply, well, effects (I do realize that with a midi controlled multi effect and a midi controller the same and even more would be possible, but that would also be much more circumstantial and require a lot of extra work to get going, less convenient and immediate). In any case it is definitely a niche product. But I am pretty sure also an actual exiting niche, with not a lot of other competitors on the market filling it out already, other than older used units that doesn't feature quite the same modeling quality (whether that then is desired or not). I'd say this is a wise move from Boss, who (unlike Zoom) rarely mess around.

So stereo rigs and effects is a lie?