MrDinsdale

The assigns are incredibly powerful. You can do lots of fun things by responding to input levels and stuff, I had it reduce the threshold on my noise suppressor and tone down my compression ever so slightly when input was below a certain amount.

Excellent! I’m very emotionally invested in this journey 😂

Great to hear! I love the overall sound of the Schecter monster tone pickups but they sometimes just sound a little flat or lifeless. The shape makes them uncomfortable to rest your thumb on for any length of time, really noticeable after switching to another bass for a few days. Think I’ll pull the trigger next pay day👌

How ya finding them? I’m pretty tempted to give them a go in my Schecter J4 bass. They look beautiful!

hahaha yeah it’s basically a thumb bass but looks like it’s melted. The curve of the body isn’t quite as pronounced as a thumb but weighs just as much 😂

I do think a Yamaha mod is probably the route I’ll take though, even if I start collecting the woods and hardware for my custom build over the next year. I’ve been itching to do a new bass since I finished building my Telecaster.

Fortunately my dad was a luthier and has all the gear an knowledge to help out. The bass I built when I was 16 has one of the nicest playing necks I’ve tried, just a shame I’ve gone off 5 string. 16 year old me had very different aesthetic preferences too 😂 So yeah price wise it ain’t gonna be cheap, at least £300 on woods alone before hardware. It does mean I can get all the luminlay in there and make something really special worthy of those pickups and preamp. Time is my biggest concern though, with work, the child, the band and just general life stuff it’s gonna be little bits when I can! Modding an existing bass at least means I’ll have something I can actually play with a few months.

Did someone post up a 734a which had been sanded down for a natural wood look? I’m sure it was here but there are a lot of pages 😂

So I’m at a bit of a crossroads on what I want to do for my Wal rip-off project and have 2 options. Just as a caveat my goal isn’t an exact Wal sound, more just an excuse for some Turner pickups and Lusithand preamp. 1) Get a good deal on something like a Yamaha BB, probably the 734a. I’d then strip the paint, pop in some cavities for the Turner pickups and patch if needed. I’d probably make a new scratch plate to fit better with the new pickup config. It wouldn’t be cheap and would require a fair bit of effort but pretty manageable. 2) Build a bass from scratch, have a rough design for what I’d be doing. Black limba body possibly a pale moon ebony top and wenge fretboard, not sure about neck. This will be a very time consuming and expensive project but the end result will be pretty incredible! (Headstock is just a placeholder) Don’t want to hijack the thread but this seems like the perfect hive mind to help me pick a direction!

I guess taking out a smaller board means carrying less gear and a much less expensive board to replace should anything bad happen. I only have the one project at the mo but if I was doing something folky I’d be leaving all my snarly aggressive drives at home!

Dirt fixer looks great, really want the MBD3 too 🖤

That’s a beauty!!!

Excellent!!!!

Outtakes

I’m really loving the EAE and Lusithand gear, amazing quality. Everything I’ve tried just brings another something to the table. It’s just a shame I can’t fit everything on my board! Next up I want a Lusithand preamp and Turner pickups for a @funkle inspired (not so) budget Wal style bass.

Just got an OC5 I need to get to grips with. Also managed to grab a good deal on the Dude Incredible which is essentially Steve Albini in a box, it’s aimed at guitar obviously but the Harmonic Percolator and IVP sound surprisingly good on bass too. need to extent the pedal riser to beaten it up.

Glad he managed to find an approach which is fairer and doesn’t sacrifice his mental wellbeing! I just grabbed an OC5 which hasn’t even been delivered and I’m eyeing up the t47 👀 definitely have a problem.

The new MBD-3 looks incredible and has a really nice useable boost.

Loved the OFF1 although it just wasn’t quite right at the time for what I needed so swapped for the EAE Halberd. Do really want to pick one up again in future though. I struggled a little to get the fuzz under control sometimes with my hotter bass.

I’ve always played a 5 string up until a couple of years back, now I only play 4. I never really used the B string, it’s just another thing to mute. We play in Eb and sometimes drop to Db, tuning only usually takes a few seconds and I have no stability issues etc. Still have my Warwick Corvette 5 and DIY 5 I made years back but almost exclusively on the Schecter J4 for everything now.

It’s nice when people upload videos and pictures of us playing and it’s free advertising. It’s a little disheartening when people are glued to their screens but at then end of the day if they’re not there to see you or you’re just not their thing it’s probably unrealistic to expect their undivided attention.

It’s only really amp/preamps I think, it can emulate gain and EQ shaping, I think it even manages to replicate some of the “squish” but can’t do time based emulation. With an octave it would need to be able to track etc. I’ve found the GxOC-2 on the Dwarf a little bit underwhelming tbf. Such a shame that the input latency is so bad on the Dwarf as it’s not really capable of running stuff in an fx loop. Tempted to grab an OC-5 for my board.