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Was that with it switched to 'active' (there's a little toggle switch)? I had a Bass Simplifier and it worked fine for my Dingwall and Sandberg active basses (and the Dingwall had a loud signal), I thought it was a great bit of kit for end of signal chain tone shaping and DI, not quite so good for overdrive or fx loop stuff though.

That's a great cover

Loving the Waza so far. The hardware and wireless connection are excellent - feels like a quality bit of kit and connection is quick and seamless, no noticable latency and good sound quality. They are fun to use and can have a quick Waza in seconds! If anyone's having trouble with it losing app connection (I had been) there is a firmware update which fixes that: https://www.boss.info/global/products/waza-air_bass/downloads/. Once that's sorted the app works fine, but isn't quite the same 'premium' feel as the headphones/transmitter. The fx are decent but the interface to select them on the app is a bit weird, the drum loops/metronome are fine and it has a decent tuner too. The 3D effect is too extreme to feel realistic but is interesting to muck about with for a while. For me, I think it was worth getting the Bass version vs Guitar as you can save 6x drum loops/metronome types direct to the headphones and not need to connect a phone/app (and can also change tempo on the headphones), you also get the Bass specific effects (6x presets selectable on headphones) that have things like crossover frequency selection for the Chorus.

I've always liked this:

I had a quick waza! All seems good. It's now got me straight onto the next bit of GAS though - a 5 string active Bass with front mounted jack socket (without the ££ of a Fodera or Alembic or tight string spacing of an Ibanez SR doesn't leave many options).

It's begging to look a lot like Waza vs potato peeling!

Excellent service from Scan by the way, ordered at about 1pm and arrived 8am the next day (and that day being Christmas eve) via DPD who give a delivery text with 1hr time slot.

A small thing I like about Fodera's and Alembic's is at they make active 5 string Basses with the jack socket on the front. Why don't more manufacturers do that? Clearly those two (and original Fender passive Basses) know a thing or two about good Bass design and feel that it works. Front jack socket = less likely for cable to be pulled out, sits in a stand better, easier to plug in, easier to see/adjust things like headphone amps and transmitters, and my personal favourite - can sit back on a sofa or bench and have the Bass plugged in without the cable poking into the seat. ....that small thing alone obviously doesn't make them worth 10x the cost of other Basses but it's a selling point to me!

Ideal!

That's very tempting then, free postage and next day delivery too. Christmas present to myself! Edit: Done, should arrive tomorrow!

Down to £333 from Scan I've got no idea if that's a trustworthy company or not but most shops price match nowadays.

Johnny Osbourne, truth and rights. Wheeel up!

It's 4 stage - which was always my preferred 'short' setting on the EBS and for source audio settings (via the Gemini). All sound pretty close and I haven't done an A/B test but it seems there's a bit more funkyness to the grape phaser (less swoosh, deeper and more filter sounding), perhaps it's down to a different amount of sweep in those 4 stages or tone colour of the resonance....not much difference really though.

It tracks very well and is very tweakable (via phone /laptop) and does a good OC-2 type sound, I didn't like the hardware interface as much as having an actual octave pedal though and I could never get it to sound quite as good as the Octamizer or MXR BOD for their types of analogue slightly growling octave sounds though (although they are more lible to tracking/warbling type issues).

I like it - I've had phasers that are more versatile (like the EBS and source audio) but couldn't get them to sound as funky as the grape phaser.

Nice, they both look decent. I just got an Aguilar Grape Phaser which seems like its similar to the MXR deep phase (but 4x the size).

I had the same complaints and got rid of my C4. It seems that they are developing it now:

I think I'm on my 4th one!

I'd perhaps start by listening to some of the big dub producers: King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Scientist, Joe Gibbs, Mad Professor, King Jammy, Augustus Pablo, Keith Hudson, Adrian Sherwood....they've each got their own style so if you find some you prefer then follow that rabbit hole. Or if you already have some favorite Reggae artists then look for dub versions of the albums (e.g. Aswad, a new chapter of dub. Gregory Isaacs, slum in dub. Horace Andy, in the light dub. Black uhuru, the dub factor).

Strings and their setup seem to make the biggest change to my tone and playing style.

Sine Effect are worth a look for parametric eq https://sineeffect.com/ Or the MXR M81 for 3 band with sweepable mids. My favourite EQ has been the Q-Strip, perhaps thats overkill though.

Chorus on bass usually makes me feel a bit seasick - takes a nice solid bass sound then adds a copy that's slightly out of time and out of tune and wobbles it about a bit! Who thought that would be a good idea other than someone trying to make people feel ill?! Saying that though, I do quite like the Boss CEB-3 because it's subtle and can control how much low end is effected.