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    Thanks! They’ve taken a while to assemble and involved a fair amount of gear sales and classifieds scouring, although a few are new and represent career milestones. I was just trying to avoid having basses the same colour but that turned into a bit of a rainbow. How do you find the John East preamp? I’ve been curious. The only non-stock preamp I have is the fretted Fender jazz but I like tinkering. Haha, it’s probably best I don’t see that purple Wunkay. Or any other indigo/purple bass for that matter.
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    Amazing! I had a similar realisation recently but I’m not quite at that level; you look like you’re getting on for a double rainbow! I have a matte gold bass on the way which will be yellow if I squint and a super-faded black bass that in some lights I like to pretend is indigo. It’s not. This is as close as I get:
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    Chorus Joy

    admiralchew replied to stewblack's topic in Effects

    I’ve had a few flangers, including a few boutique-ey and renowned ones, but I re-bought a BF-3 within two weeks of selling my original. It’s a brilliant pedal.
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    I bought a couple of Rockboard 2.0 and 2.1s recently. The 2.0s are travel boards to be stored in the 2.1 flight case with a pair of headphones and cables. I was wondering what to do with the now homeless 2.1s and, owing to my desk now being taken over by working-from-home equipment, I found my answer. I needed a way to quickly move my usual recording set up back and forth so the 2.1s have now been put to use for a clean tone board (Broughton BBA, mini tuner, compressor and preamp), and my pedal testing board. In case anyone is wondering about the gap between the Stomp and the Element, it's to allow me to choose whether to run it as a full board or to take the cables out (which wouldn't be possible with a smaller gap) and run them to another pedal when I'm testing it.
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    I’ve just checked and the ones on my Rockboard 2.1 board use the 2mm wrench, which I think is the M4.
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    Yeah, the MXR’s great. I think there’s one in the classifieds too?
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    The MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe is really excellent, has a small footprint and the flanger is excellent. I used a Boss CE-5 (albeit not the bass chorus) and the MXR offered enough to justify the price different. The Ripply Fall is great but quite a bit bigger than the MXR. The best small box chorus I think is the Providence Bass Chorus (although take that with a pinch of salt as I have one in the classifieds). It’s designed for bass though and does a lovely job of shimmering chorus. At the boutique end the Iron Ether Polytope is brilliant but very rare, and the Horrothia Type One is great but perhaps a bit big if the MXR size is better for your board.
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    I actually really like the Anima preamp. I put one in a a jazz bass recently and it sounds fantastic. A few of my friends have played that bass too and said positive things about the preamp, so it’s a shame if there’s now negativity around it.
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    I don’t have both to compare them anymore but the Slampegg feels fuller to me (but then tube pedals usually do). It’s missing the cabsim of the Fliptop but the natural compression of the tube does some of the work. I’ll PM you later with more details. There’s a chance I recorded a demo ages ago and still have the file too.
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    Agh, you're both right. Sorry to be a pain but I've withdrawn the two remaining IE pedals for now - I sold the FMeron and Arcing Prisms but I can't let the FrantaBit and XD go at the moment. I've sold two pedals recently I immediately regretted, the Pladask Draume and the Triungulo Barbanera and I can see these being the same. I'm already on the list again for a Barbanera and I can't put myself through another IE drop and the crazy courier and customs fees. I also had a good hard look at the Subterrograph and couldn't justify spending that much on what is effectively two pedals I already have in one enclosure. It does look fantastic though...
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    Oh that's interesting! I didn't know that either. These are all Teambuilt/GPS from Andertons or Bass Direct and each of the three came with one, although one was missing the wax in the new car-style pack.
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    I know what you mean; I love it when I play it but my brain tells me I don’t need a bitcrusher. However, it’s so ridiculously fun that when I turn it on I can’t stop playing it. I get stuck playing ‘90s style house bits, which I don’t even usually like as a genre.
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    Absolutely amazing! You single-handedly made me want to try the Longsword/Model FET combo. Rockboards for the win too!
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    Agreed. I was mildly obsessed by that bass for ages before taking the plunge. It’s the flip-flop finish so it’s a bit mad. Here are some photos from when I got it:
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    The Subsonic is absolutely lovely. It's extremely simple to use, sounds great and tracks well. I think the plan is to make more and I hope he does; it deserves to get a wide release and a great reception. Thanks for the kind comment! Agreed on the Roackboards; they're superb. There's even space underneath to velcro strap-tie the power cable on for easy transport. I've been selling a lot of my pedals, including some Broughton ones, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that the ones I was opting to keep fitted so well on a board I already had laying about.
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    Thanks! Yeah, it's the 2021 Ltd Teambuilt Streamer LX with a black korina body and Pau ferro fretboard. It was my number one bass for an age and sounds fantastic. The low B is superb and I love the Bartolini soapbar pickups.
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    Perhaps not the best picture of my Warwicks but I got the glue gun out to add cutaway pads to my Hiscox cases and took a quick photo of the results:
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    Thanks! If we could just pretend I didn’t obsessively keep altering the positions for 45 minutes that would be great.
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    A lot of you know I’ve gone a bit mad with boutique pedals. As I head toward married life I’ve been rejigging how I approach them and, as a result, I’m selling a lot of them, making boards with others, and collecting a few like a gear-hoarding magpie. Since I moved at the start of the year, all but five or six pedals (and my minis board - currently partially deconstructed) have been in boxes waiting for a board. As part of the overall rejigging I’ve realised that nothing is so sacred I have to leave it in its box. As a result, I’ve finally built a Broughton board (and one Southampton pedal that Josh Broughton worked on). I plan on putting other boards together over the next few months but this is currently my only fully-wired up board. Signal chain is right to left bottom row, then right to left top row. Knobs do not reflect settings; I’m just clumsy when I wire up.
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    Amazing stuff as always! Good luck with the sales.
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    I've just checked my original order and yes it does have the bass boost mod.
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    *PRICE DROP TO £235 POSTED* I'm selling my hand-wired custom finish Slampegg Bee Pre. It's a really Lovely 12AX7 tube preamp based on the B-15N that gives any set-up tube warmth, presence and sheen. Being the hand-wired version, it can run at about 350v instead of the usual 240v for SMD pedals, with the result being a warmer, fuller sound (as per the SushiBox FAQs). This particular version is from the last custom batch before Sushi Box narrowed the range of options to keep production simple and scale things up. I opted to have it hand-wired and finished in the rainbow's end sparkle finish. It had the misfortune to arrive at more or less the same time as my Noble DI so it's hardly been used. The price is £260 £235 and I'll cover UK Special Delivery postage. It cost me just shy of £310 all in when I ordered it in March 2022 and it's in basically as new condition, so it should be a good deal for someone.
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    Ants In My Eyes Johnson Mammoth Fuzz - £70 £60- Good Mammoth fuzz. All the buttons are Ants: that was enough to attract me. That and the Rick & Morty reference UK Special Delivery Postage included. Mr Sparkle 808 - £80 SOLD an 808 Tubecreamer with the best that the Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern has to offer Limited Edition Fry 808 - £80 SOLD an 808 Tubescreamer with Slurm cans for knobs; one of my favourites Cornholio Noise Ensemble Fuzz - £75 SOLD Fuzz interacting with a delay chip and feedback loop; I really like this one; it's in the same realm as the Dirge Slowly Melting
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    SOLD I'm putting my Crowther Prunes & Custard on the block. It's an absolute classic (and also the pedal behind The Datsuns' Harmonic Generator Intermodulator). I won't go into what sounds you can get out of it but prunes and custard isn't far off. I've owned it from new (October 2022) and it's in basically as new condition. The price is £165 and I'll cover UK Special Delivery postage.
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    I've PM'd you.
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