Vin Venal

I dunno, I think I prefer separate pedals over multi effects, and I'm not really into the whole bass preamp pedal as a concept, I prefer to find overdrive and boost pedals I like and stack em. My current rig is a compressor, a fuzz and a boost into a proco rat. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Went with this in the end cuz one came up on marketplace. Think I can live with it saying bassist on it, as it ticks all my other boxes. 😁 Thanks for the suggestions all.

Hadn't heard of the SMX compressor, but that pedal definitely has vibes. The transit b is not my thing I'm afraid.

Only thing that worries me bout the spectra comp is the app based stuff, like will it need updates, will I need to plug it into my phone to make it sound good, cuz I can't be arsed with that stuff.

I don't really understand compression, and you can't really go by demos, cuz compression is more of a thing you feel imo. I've used two compressors, one was the Aguilar TLC which I hated cuz it had too many knobs which confused me, and when it was on it made my sound worse. The one I'm using at the moment is the behringer CS-9 which is based on the ibabez CP-9, but has better bass response. I like the way this sounds, and I don't have to think about what the knobs do too much cuz it sounds OK with them all pointing straight up, but it's cheap and not at all vibey. So what I want is: Something that sounds gentle, like it's just softly smoothing everything out and making everything sound subtly better. Reasonably priced - around 100 quid used or new is fine. Simpler the better. I don't want a lot of control, that gets me into trouble. Preferably not a bass specific pedal, cuz I have an aversion to that. Vibes

Proco Rat 2, Behringer SF300, Behringer CS-9, TC Spark, Drugs

I just switched to a warwick gnome I pro, the 300 watt one. Have played through it for quite a few hours already, and it's been with me to band practice, and I'm seriously impressed. Plenty loud enough. Really great clean sound. Nice musical eq (I push the mids and roll off the treble a bit and it's perfect). I got it for easier transportation cuz it's so compact and light, but I wasn't expecting to be as happy as I am with the sound. It got slightly warm after a long practice, but nothing I'm worried about. Can't wait to record with it. This will be my main amp now.

Nah, I don't reckon they were literal nazis, just casual racists. Slander? Blimey. 🙃

Wait what did Lemmy do? I only know about the collecting nazi memorabilia stuff, which I'm OK giving people a pass for, like it's definitely not advisable, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're a racist, or at least it didn't at the time. I reckon some of the people in Metallica were actually racists, and the stuff some of them have said/done would have been treated with derision in the circles I'm in then as it is now. I hope I don't have to add lemmy to the list of scumbags lol.

I don't reckon I need to worry too much about libel in this case, as Hetfield hasn't even sued the woman who's on record saying she heard him call Ice T a n*****, which is astonishing given how litigious metallica are.

Yeah, cliff had groove, I could see that. That's the difference with Newsted for me, it isn't so much that he was a pick player, its that Cliff and Trujillo have groove, he was dead linear.

This take is wild honestly. It's like putting lost prophets on when your mates are round and when they look at you funny being like "what you expect rock stars to be saints..."

Another thing I thought was nuts was I saw an interview with Hetfield post-sobriety where he did that "I've been to therapy for the first time in my life at 50 something" thing of just casually revealing personal shit to people you've never met before, and he starts talking about how people wouldn't like him if they knew about all the terrible things he's done, like really heinous shit apparently, and I was thinking jesus James, if the stuff everybody knows about you isn't even the bad stuff, what have you been up to? Lol. Also he thinks people like him. 😅

Lol its wild to me that there's still people about who think having black friends proves you're not a racist. 😅