MrDinsdale

Eugh that's annother for the to-buy list, I think that demo did it more justice than the other demo above. I'd have to try it alongside the Longsword.

I'm loving my Jad Freer Capo, incredible bit of kit (sorry for adding more options). Remarkably versatile, not emulating a specific amp but just sounds excellent. I use it for everything from soft folk to obnoxiously noisy punk and it always delivers. No cabsim but it has an LPF which trims off a little high end for a more cab-like frequency range.

Oooo the Nikki Sixx will have the Luminlay dots too, don't get why any basses don't have them. Realise I sound obsessed with luminlay now 😂 Seafoam green still wins over distressed white though for me!

Yeah I built a bass when I was 16, it was basically a droopy shaped Warwick Thumb 5 string. That was my only bass until a few years ago, now my taste has kind of u-turned. Gone are the clean hifi amps, no fx and Warwick/boutique basses, it's all about gritty saturated tones and 4 string "classic" bass shapes. That could well change again in future but it's a nice welcomed shake up that's really renewed my interest after a long time of not really playing much.

Yeah I've always thought of Schecter as the novelty metal guitar brand, would've never naturally considered them for bass. Everyone's experience is different but for me it's easily my favourite bass I've ever played. I was luck to find it 2nd hand in great condition but I'd have happily payed full price.

It'd have been nice it it had the luminlay that my P5 exotic has for fret markers but other than that it's pretty much perfect for me.

I absolutely love my J4, got it as a backup originally for my P4 but it's almost all I play now. Plays fantastic, the necks are really nice. The pickups are a slightly odd shape but they sound incredible. I initially intended to swap them incorrectly assuming they wouldn't be very good out but tbh if I could find them I'd put them in my other basses too. Put a few little videos up featuring it

Not sure exactly how it works tbh, my understanding of amps and technical terms is pretty much non-existent. You're probably right though, quite a valve-like compression, I want to say like sag but not sure that's the correct term.

Possibly in a lot of cases but there are many others where the power section does have a huge influence. Most notable that I know of is GK and their trademark "riding the rails" tone by really pushing the power section.

Wasn't sure where this lived but recently signed up for the STLTones AmpHub free trial. They have a bass amp on there called the Graviton which is actually pretty decent. Had a little play trying to loosely match my current pedalboard sound with it and wasn't far off tbh after a few mins twiddling! Well worth checking it out, the guitar tones are pretty impressive too, all the presents seem pretty metal heavy but you can get just about any tone you want out of it 🙌 Gonna continue using it to audition some different fx outside of my preamp/compression/drive comfort zone. $10 a month is much cheaper that dropping £400 on a multifx or some boutique modulation pedals only to find I like boring dirt 😂

I'd love to do some proper ab comparison between amps with different power section types. I've owned Class D, SS and currently own an all valve, it'd be really interesting to know how much of what I like about them resulted from the pre-amp vs the power section etc. I did an AB at practice (I was early as always) with my GK Fusion S which I loved next to the Marshall VBA400 both in the front and into the return and begrudgingly had to give it to the Marshall on both counts. It wasn't a super fair test though given the VBA having to warm up and cool down between swapping over etc so it wasn't like I could just flick back and forth. Just to clarify, I'm certainly not at all against class d heads but just mean I hope whatever they make is a little different to the options out there already.

I was hoping to see a super light solid state or class g head from them along the lines of Handbox and Jad Freer stuff. Don't have an issue with class d gear at all but seems pretty saturated with options and something a bit different would be cool. Maybe even just a lightweight power amp along the lines of the gss sumo. Sure whatever it is will be cool though 🙌

Welcome to the slippery slope of fx, I upsized my pedalboard 3 times in about 6 months to accommodate new toys 😂 Very tempted to grab the matcha cream!

Ooooo nice, that'd clean it up nicely! good shout 🙌

Thats cool, for me the preamps and dirt are the bare minimum for the band, not really a calling for anything else yet. I really enjoyed the GT1000core but couldn't quite get a tone I was happy with for my base bass sound, it'd have been perfect for this kind of exploratory stuff though. Still leaning towards the Mod Dwarf for way more flexibility, you can do some very unique stuff with it. Got a Rockboard 2.1 and Cioks 4 that i think I'll repurposed to create a little creative add-on pedalboard. Maybe grab some modulation cheap pedals and the Dwarf and see what kind of weird noises I can make.

I'm managed to score a Radial ProDI for around £40 on ebay a while back. I've also got a very nice DI on the Jad Freer Capo which is I'd say inline with a JDI and similar. I've also used super budget DIs. Can honestly say, while there is a noticeable difference between the extreme ends of the spectrum in a direct comparison, for live use it's pretty negligible. Certainly a case of diminishing returns. If I didn't have the Capo I'd be going for something like this or a second hand radial low/mid level DI for live music use. What ever had a reasonable noise floor and was compact.

Interesting to know! I'm always buying pedals with a view to integrating on my board which I think sometimes stops me from going for stuff purely for fun or messing around with. I've got a few in/outs on my patch bay so might rewire so I can create little pre and post fx loops in my main board and plug stuff in without a full rewire. I've been back and forth on getting a Mod Dwarf for a while now for this kind of stuff but couldn't see it taking a permanent residence on my board right now.

I see so many exciting and exotic looking boards on here. I sometimes feel my board is pretty boring being almost entirely preamps and drives. In my head I want to play with lots of interesting modulation, synth and delays. In reality I know I'll just stick to the same old gritty tone, certainly in the band. Does anyone have a main board for gigging along with a more creative/experimentation oriented board etc.

Between Swift, Vein Tap, Bright Onion and Lazy bear there are some great cheap options 🙌

Well it escalated and now I'm looking at the Boss ES-5. This is what happens when we go a month without a band practice or gig 😂

@fretmeister Love the LS2 although it's a pretty big pedal and super overkill for what I need, I'd need 2 of them on the board and it'd take up a fair bit of room! @ped That's a great find, only marginally more expensive than the cheap Amazon ones, I think 2 of the single loop ones would be perfect.

Hey! Looking a slightly more complex pedalboard setup and it'd be really handy to have a couple of loops i can quickly turn on/off. Nothing fancy, no clean blend or anything like that, just small profile single loop. There are some cheap options on amazon but wondered if anyone had experience using them? I think the power supply is just for the on/off light. Any thoughts on these or other options would be great! https://amzn.eu/d/2Z4XlRR

Nice, a leopard print 112 that rivals a BB2 for £300 is worth the blood and sweat!

I forgot to add my Thumpinator on my board after reorganising a little while back and noticed a significant increase in clipping on the WB100, still sounded incredible. When I added it back on i didn't have any clipping.