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  1. SumOne
    Same here. I've just got a Nux to replace the Vox, early days but it seems to be a massive improvement for only about £10 extra. The Vox is bad build quality (jack snaps off), crackly fiddly dials, noisy (hiss), takes batteries. The Nux is good build quality, no annoying levels of hiss, rechargable, lots of decent effects and amps and cab IRs available to save into 6x presets (accessible via a button with 6x colour coded light on the unit), has drum loops/metronome and also works as a bluetooth receiver so can play music through it and play along. The benefit of the Vox is that it has built-in drum patterns/metronome and volume controls which are all available on the unit itself whereas all you can do on the Nux without a phone is scroll through the 6x presets - it needs to be linked to a Phone via an app (which keeps saying it needs an update although it's the most recent version) to make changes to volume and effects and launch drum tracks/metronome and adjust bpm and volume. I suppose in an ideal situation the Nux would have a way controling those things on the actual unit so no phone connection is needed but I guess that'd increase the price. If you've got the ££ then the Boss Waza Air Bass look very good.
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    Not to be a downer on it as I'd like to talk myself into 'investing' in an expensive Bass but I think inflation and wage/spending power increases are a big thing that people don't often consider. I seem to remember seeing somewhere that a J Bass in the mid 60's cost about £150, average UK wages were roughly £1,000 per year (£83 per month) so it cost nearly 2 months of wages. Average wages are now £29,600 per year (£2,466 per month) so that's getting towards £5k for 2 months of wages. Bass Gallery have a 64 J Bass for £6,500 .....if that asking price gets knocked down a bit and Bass Gallery take their cut you basically sell it for roughly 2 months of average wages - which is exactly the same 'value' as you bought for 58 years ago. There's also 58 years of risk of losing/breaking it/insurance costs/maintainance etc. so it's probably not such a great investment if it's just down to money.
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    Yeah, I think if I were to go down the investment Bass route I'd probably go for something good to play that's high-end but not yet considered vintage....like a 90's Sadowsky, Spector, Fodera, MTD, Mike Lull etc. Keep hold of it for 10 years and once it's 40+ years old so it starts to go into 'vintage' collectable territory (especially to anyone younger than that!), it'd be a nice playable Bass for 10 years of use and would probably also make some money - win win! I'm talking myself into this!
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    I looked into this a bit as I have a DI/EQ pedal (Q-Strip) that I thought I might need to keep but I think the Stomp has it covered. This text is from Line 6 for the HX Effects, but I assume the Stomp is the same: Although all the outputs use TRS jacks, they are not true balanced outputs. They are only impedance-balanced. · A true balanced output would have the tip and ring driven with (out-of-phase) audio signal. The outputs on HX Effects are only driven on the tip. · However, because they are impedance-balanced, you can still get some common-mode rejection of external noise sources (i.e. power line hum) if a TRS cable is used to connect the HX Effect outputs to a device with balanced inputs. So I gather that because the Stomp output is impedance-balanced and output level can be adjusted it's fine to use a 1/4" TRS to XLR adapter go into a mixer (or just a the 1/4" TRS cable if the mixer accepts it). Perhaps there's confusion because 1/4" outputs from effects pedals are usually un-balanced (whereas XLR are always balanced), and most 1/4" cables are TS rather than TRS . Being plugged into a phantom power XLR slot in the mixer is something to look out for though, I expect it would be bad news for the Stomp.
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    I'm not after a new Bass, and if I was it'd probably be a 5 string. Still though, this seems a bargain so I'm kind of glad of it's reuniting with @bigthumbto save me any should I/shouldn't I buy it angst!
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    On hold Edit: Sold
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    I would be keen to try one but it doesn't quite fit with my current downsizing and cash raising mission!
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    Is £14,500 the going rate for a decent early 60's P Bass? It makes the £6,500 J Bass at Bass Gallery look cheap! Is there usually that much difference in cost between a P and a J a couple of years apart?
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    This is the sort of maths I do when trying to justify getting expensive things! High-end second hand vintage bass guitars are tempting as you get to own a nice bass while they appreciate. I've heard investment people say art is a good investment as it tends to go up in value and you have some nice decoration while it appreciates, if it doesn't appreciate quickly there's no big rush to get rid of it as it's still got benefit as a piece of art in the meantime. The risk is if demand falls and it de-values relative to inflation or if it gets damaged or nicked (and the cost of insurance). Bass guitars are sturdy though and I'd guess a vintage Fender is a fairly safe bet for something that'll stay in demand, it's not like there are more actual 60's Fenders being made........the biggest issue would be ever cashing-in and selling it, I imagine it'd be a tough thing to do after owning it for years. Go for it!
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    I know this is an annoying answer but the choice I made was to sell the Stomp and (eventually) get a Stomp XL. My Stomp sold for £330 and I bought a second hand XL for £435 so it cost me £105 to get the additional 5x colour assignable capacitive touch footswitches all integrated with no programming, no extra cables and power supplies, it also gets 4x snapshots per preset (all well laid out lit up and easily accessed as the A, B, C, D buttons when clicking to snapshot mode so it's actually easily usable for clicking between 4x different parts of a song) and similar new 'A,B,C,D' layout/accessibility mode for instantly switching between 4x presets and there's an edit mode where the footswitches change all the block parameters, and the 6 button looper with all the footswitches automatically corresponding to the screen layout. Also, I prefer the cables all being at the back and the volume being spring loaded.
  11. SumOne
    Ah s*it, I was too keen and online buying is too easy - it's already ordered! It's Amazon though with free returns so shouldn't be a hassle to just return it for a refund. I'll PM you.
  12. SumOne
    I've checked the Boss websites and the manuals and cannot see that there are any hardware differences between Bass and Guitar versions, just the software for 6x drum/metronome loops and the bass specific amps and perhaps some of the effects being tweaked a bit. There are shops selling the guitar version for £309 but the going rate for the Bass version is £399 (or a couple of shops are trying for over £420). I'm keen but I think this is cheeky - expecially as in the USA there is only $30 (£20) price difference. Hopefully the Bass version will come down to the Guitar version price over time (or other brands will start using this wireless headphone technology). In the meantime I'm going to get the Nux.
  13. SumOne
    Tapewound strings (D'Addario Nylon XL) have been great - exactly the sort of sound and feel I've been after. They've probably changed my playing style more than any Bass or effect pedal has.
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    Yeah it's a good one, the best compressor I've used. It sort of softens/warms up the tone while also adding a bit of punch which is a tricky thing to achieve. I also really like the foot-switchable sidechain. I'm selling as I recently got a Stomp XL that I need to fund. I'm tempted to keep the FEA to go in the chain after the Stomp as what it does can't be replicated with the Stomp compressors but the combination of money and trying to be disciplined to not have to carry around a big pedal board/power supply etc is my mission at the moment....will see how long it lasts before I'm buying my old pedals back!
  15. SumOne
    SOLD. Electro Harmonix Switchblade Pro. £60 + £5 recorded delivery. Great condition (but I've put put tipex on the dials so they can be seen more easily), perfect working order, boxed and with power supply. This is a very useful pedal, text from EHX: DESCRIPTION The EHX Switchblade Pro is our deluxe switching box featuring true mechanical bypass, soft switching, high quality and low noise buffers, volume controls for all input signals, high headroom and a multitude of possible configurations for all your signal routing needs. This compact pedal is a versatile and indispensable tool! - Switch between two amps or turn them both on at once - Setup your effects loops to run in series or parallel, control what loops are on and, in series mode, what their order is. -Multi-instrumentalists can connect up to three instruments into one amplifier - Mix three instruments together and control the volume of each. - With its Dry Level control, the Switchblade Pro is great for bass players - The Switchblade Pro prevents tone-suck when vintage, non-true bypass pedals in its FX loops are disengaged - Can provide an adjustable volume boost with up to 6dB of clean gain - Power adapter included https://www.ehx.com/products/switchblade-pro/ I've found it to be a bit of an unsung pedalboard hero. It's not glamourous or flashy but it opens up a lot of new sound possibilities and lots of other useful things: - If you have a pedal without a volume control (things like Phasers) and it drops volume when engaged then put it in a loop through this and it'll have a volume control. - If you have a distortion/fuzz without clean blend then put it through this and it'll have one. - If you want to sometimes have your phaser before fuzz and sometimes after - put them in separate loops and put it in series mode and the order can be switched with a footswitch. - If you want your envelope filter to run in parallel with distortion and to control their individual volumes and add clean blend then this can do it. Put a few pedals in each loop and there are loads of possibilities. - If you have a lot of pedals and you want them taken out of the signal chain when not in use and instantly engage a few at a time rather than tap-dancing then this'll do it. ..... Probably a lot more too, but you get the idea - it's useful! (just not useful to me now as I got a Helix Stomp and am selling off individual pedals to pay for it).
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    Sold. Korg Pitchblack Mini Tuner. £35 + £5 recorded delivery. Excellent condition and perfect working order, boxed.
  17. SumOne
    A difference between the guitar and bass versions seems to be that the bass version has 6x built in rhythms that can be controlled via the headphones without needing a phone Bluetooth connection. Other than that the difference seems to be in the effects/amps available on the app. I'm guessing it's basically software changes.
  18. SumOne
    Seems cheeky if the hardware is the same. Although the guitar version has been around for a while now so I guess prices reduce over time and the same will eventually happen with the Bass version. The guitar one is actually £90 cheaper at Thomman (£309 incluing post and tax), and they have a B Stock one for £285 that I'm tempted with if the only difference is software related for what amps and cabs it has. Plus the info for the guitar one states '5 Amplifier types derived from the Katana stage amplifier series, including a full-range mode for bass or acoustic / electric guitar'
  19. SumOne
    Other than these Bass ones being new and having Bass specific effects/amps etc are they doing anything additional to the guitar version? If not, the guitar ones now go for £311 on Amazon so I guess after a year these might go down to that price (I already know I'm not patient enough to wait that long though!).
  20. SumOne
    The more I look into this the more it seems like it's not as over-priced as it initially seems - there's nothing else on the market doing what it does. I have the Vox headphone amp but it's not very good and is being held together with tape so I had been looking at portable headphone amp alternatives like the EHX (£40 but no aux in or built in drums etc, needs wired headphones), Phil Jones Bighead (£180 for v1 £280 for v2, good sounds but needs wired headphones and wired aux in). The £52 Nux seems decent and I am tempted but it needs wired headphones and doesn't have the Waza-Air 3D sound things or the same amps and effects (and you don't get what are probably £150+ equivilant pair of bluetooth headphones with it). Another contendor is getting a wireless system like the XVive (£100) that obviously has the benefit of also working for live use but could also be used in conjunction with wireless headphone transmitter (£200) and monitor headphones (£150) for wireless home use. That adds up to more than the Waza-Air and seems like a lot of separate components to go wrong, I imagine it could be quite a palaver getting set up just to have a quick practice session in a different room. And it still needs wired headphones and doesn't have any of the Waza-Air phone controls or 3D sound things. I think it's between the Waza-Air and the Nux, I can't figure out if the extra cost of the Waza-Air is worth it but I'm definitely considering it.
  21. SumOne
    For those that use wireless systems to practice around the house have you been able to go fully wireless i.e. using bluetooth headphones? If you have then I assume you're going Bass > wireless transmitter > wireless receiver > pedals/amp etc > bluetooth transmitter > headphones. If that's the case then I've heard that bluetooth sometimes causes too much latency - is that true?
  22. SumOne
    I have a few other pedals for sale too so would do a discount if selling a few at a time (FEA compressor, Octamizer, Zoom MS-60B, Korg tuner, Switchblade Pro).
  23. SumOne
    In the unlikely scenario that someone who wants this has a Boss Waza Air Bass or Line 6 EX-1 they would want to trade/part exchange then those are the things on my shopping list. I'm trying to commit to a Helix Stomp XL so am not after any any pedals.
  24. SumOne
    Nice one. Although I had just got to the point of deciding that I'm done buying Bass stuff (after spending an afternoon at Bass Direct last week and realising my Bass is just as good as anything in my price range, and getting a Stomp XL and realising that it can replace my other pedals).....this is making it look like I'll go back on that short-lived resolution!
  25. SumOne
    I would like a pair of these but they do seem about double the cost I'd like to pay....if anyone wants to sell me a 2nd hand pair let me know! Can they also be used as normal Bluetooth headphones?
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