MrDinsdale

If you like how your Zoom pedal sounds through the PA then just grab a DI and pop an active speaker on stage as a monitor. It’s the cheapest and most convenient option by far. If that doesn’t work maybe go and try some amps and cabs etc. (Based on reading between your two threads) Personally I love having an amp and cab on stage, it’s a total luxury though and totally unnecessary with my pedalboard setup which sounds excellent straight through the DI.

It’s a paid add on though.

The new Rude drive is excellent on bass. It’s one of the first digital distortions I’ve tried that sounded great out of the box, almost captures the sound of my favourite EAE Longsword pedal.

PS if you do decide it isn’t for you and want to sell it let me know, I miss it 😂

It’s a great unit, waaaaay lower latency and the 2 fx loops make it incredibly pedalboard friendly. I found the preamps just aren’t as good as I can get out of the Dwarf, especially with the AIDA-X captures. For modulation and stuff the Core is excellent though. The biggest advantage is how easy it is to edit on the fly with the Core, it’s far from perfect but once you’ve got the hang of editing on the device it’s incredibly intuitive and quick.

Oooo another quirk is that the Speaker sim blocks only work when an AIRD preamp block is in the signal path. This is annoying if like me you have a preferred preamp pedal. Even the cleanest natural preamp in the Core colours the tone quite a bit so the other option is to use an A/B divider. If you pop a preamp block in B and set the split to be 100% the A path the cabsim will work without any colouring. It means sacrificing a divider though.

It’s paid off, excellent quality and the bass looks great! Looking forward to the Lusithand special preamp as that’s what I’ve got my eyes on. You’re an influencer now 😂 I’m still on the fence between hacking up my p-bass vs a getting a BB734. Keep looking at this which is pretty inspiring https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkyHPtOJ3vd/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I miss mine 😂 I got a MOD Dwarf which is incredible but the GT1000core is still pretty special. Definitely much more pedalboard friendly.

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!!!!

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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.