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Gaaahhh! The one with the guy from Florence and the Machine on the cover? Mine got "rationalised" into the recycling bin last week as part of our grand spring clean.

Just had a lightbulb moment... remembered that the EBS wah pedals (Wah One and Stanley Clarke) both have switchable LP modes. They're not sprung (at least, not that I know of), but they seem quite tweakable. Not tried them though. Pricey too.

[quote name='cocco' post='1259549' date='Jun 7 2011, 12:13 PM']Do AGC make anything away from their shapes? And do they do passive?[/quote] As a rule, no and no.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='1259523' date='Jun 7 2011, 11:50 AM'][url="http://www.buildyourownclone.com/lazysprocket.html"]this kit[/url] is pretty cheap[/quote] Although still almost double the price of the Behringer. Depends on whether Si feels he can stoop to Behringer pedals.

[quote name='Sibob' post='1259490' date='Jun 7 2011, 11:30 AM']Any idea as to what might be able to replace it as a single pedal.[/quote] No idea, I'm afraid. My ACGs have resonant filters built into the preamps, so I'm all filtered up. If I were in the market for a sweepable, tweakable filter pedal setup, I'd probably go for a Moogerfooger Low-Pass Filter with an expression pedal. But obviously that's 2 pedals and it costs a bomb.

[quote name='Sibob' post='1259443' date='Jun 7 2011, 10:54 AM']As the title suggests really, any bass pedals that slow the attack of a note? Essentially an auto-fade in I guess. Not a 'Reverse' as I don't want the note to cut off, decay as normal[/quote] Well, seeing as the original Slow Gear pedals are extremely rare and about a bazillion squid, you could always get the [url="http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/SM200.aspx"]Behringer clone[/url]. Or were you after something bass-specific?

As I understand it, the "Wah" setting is based on a band-pass filter with a reasonably sharp Q factor (just like a normal wah pedal), so as you sweep the frequency, you're shifting a narrow "window" of frequencies around the spectrum. As you sweep up, you lose the low end, and vice versa. I believe the "Resonance" setting is based on an old-school analogue-type low-pass filter, so you'll retain the low end at all positions of the pedal, but just open up the top-end as you sweep up. It's still got a reasonably sharp Q, so there's a fair old wedge of honky resonance around the filter cutoff frequency. This is just from what I know about filters and what I remember from 15 minutes or so with an ME-50B about 3 years ago, so take it with a pinch of salt.

My Graft is 7lb 11oz. Feels incredibly light. Very comfortable to play. Alder body and maple neck: My "proper" custom-spec-level ACGs are more like your normal sort of weight for 5-strings. 9lb 1oz for the Skelf singlecut (which is incredibly light given the thickness of the body, but it is thoroughly chambered) and 9lb 4oz for the Recurve, which is all black limba and wenge. Regardless of the weights, every ACG I've put on a strap has balanced beautifully. The Skelf singlecut in particular feels about 2lb lighter than it actually is, just because it balances so well.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1259002' date='Jun 6 2011, 09:47 PM']So, £3900 now.[/quote] Wow. Talk about just pulling a figure out of one's arse. £3900? Surely that's double the top end of what any right-thinking (reasonably knowledgeable) person would pay?

[quote name='chrismuzz' post='1258002' date='Jun 6 2011, 02:43 AM']Should I steer clear of the Boss NS-2 then?[/quote] I've used the NS-2 quite happily for many years. It's a bit of a tone-sucker (not too much, though... no more so than any other Boss pedal), but the key beauty of it is that it's essentially a side-chaining gate. If you put your dirt pedals in the NS-2's loop, it runs the signal through the pedals in the loop, but bases the gated output on the clean input signal. If you're running stuff at really high gain levels, sometimes the hum/noise/hiss between notes can be almost as loud (if not [i]actually[/i] as loud) as the notes themselves; that doesn't matter if the gate's only listening to your clean signal. That said, the guitarist I play with uses a Decimator, and it's bloody great. Just a bit of top-end loss if you set the threshold a smidgeon too high, so in a high-gain situation it can be a bit of a micro-adjustment balancing act.

[quote name='TheBear' post='1258122' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:08 AM']the Zoom looks good indeed. Has anyone used it in a rehearsal ? (volume is way louder. so I'm curious)[/quote] I use my Zoom H2 in rehearsals that any normal person would describe as "punishing" in terms of volume (doom, innit). It's happy, as long as the mic gain is set to Low.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1257381' date='Jun 5 2011, 03:10 PM'].. and £3,100 it was.[/quote] Everyone keeping their eyes peeled for the relisting then?

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1255274' date='Jun 3 2011, 11:59 AM']I remember reading somewhere that Jamerson had a Bass V but hated it so much that he threw it across the studio saying 'Never let me play that thing again!'. [I may have invented that because my memory is not what it used to be.][/quote] I seem to remember that being the tale of him trying a fretless bass guitar (possibly an Ampeg). He could have done it with the Bass V too, to be fair.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1253596' date='Jun 2 2011, 09:52 AM']Already at £2,551.00 with over three days to go.[/quote] I know nowt about vintage Fender values... but it's getting silly, isn't it?

I'm saying £2.9k followed by a generous helping of buyer's remorse, resulting in a non-paying winner and then a relisting next week. And then £1.8k the second time round. If all that comes to pass, it'll totally freak me out.

A gnat's-bollock shy of £2k with 4 days still left to run. What's the winning bid going to be? Place yer bets...

[quote name='51m0n' post='1252480' date='Jun 1 2011, 11:06 AM']Dayummmn that shure is purdy![/quote] And only £35 too!

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1249920' date='May 30 2011, 09:31 AM']The "Economy Delivery" postage price is a bit !!![/quote] Yep. To be fair though, the courier insurance for something of that value (assuming it goes noticeably higher than its current £1k) will be very expensive... and it probably won't even be covered anyway under the insurance T&Cs. I'd collect in person, even if it wasn't local. No way would I let that bass get into the hands of UPS or TNT... and they're the guys I [i]trust[/i] with instruments. Imagine what HDNL would do to it.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130526321616"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=130526321616[/url] I like the spammy sale title. But hey... it's one of the few Fenders that probably [i]would[/i] deserve the whole ***RARE*** L@@K treatment, so I guess it's a little toned down from there.

[quote name='51m0n' post='1242993' date='May 24 2011, 02:34 PM']TAL series: great plate reverbs, nice distortion fx, some cool dub style delays too.[/quote] Don't forget their synths too! The 101 and Juno models are great. And all free!

Hmmm. Seems I should take another look at Reaper. I had a play with it a year or two ago, but it just didn't seem very "finished" on OS X. Most plugins didn't have their proper GUIs, it seemed to need a few little workarounds to get the I/O going... all the sorts of little things that put me off. I'll cast aside my memories of last time and try again.

[quote name='Spoombung' post='1242655' date='May 24 2011, 09:49 AM']I've been listening to them for a while now, but that's the first time I've seen a reference to this band on Basschat.[/quote] You've obviously not been hanging out in the "jazz" threads then! It was all the mentions on BC that put me onto Phronesis in the first place.

So far, probably BFD2. It lets me play the drum parts I have in my head (and it sounds great doing it), rather than the ones I can physically manage. Next purchase may be Omnisphere. I love a good complicated synth.

[quote name='Legion' post='1241522' date='May 23 2011, 01:09 PM']I hate mine. [attachment=80711:IMGP2608.jpg][/quote] At first glance, I thought that was a tiny, miniature bass and those candlesticks were normal-sized strap buttons.