MrDinsdale

Well I just finished stringing up my BB734a with some steel diamond round core Newtone strings and gotta say they’re excellent so far! I’ve been using DRs for the last couple of years, I’ve tried a few other brands but nothing has competed. Not only are they cheaper but they’re made over here too and I don’t give any money to Amazon etc. Will see how they pan out over the next couple of weeks and how quickly they loose the shine but I’ll be ordering more very soon.

I’m now running a guitar (right) and bass (left) board as it got annoying having to tweak settings etc. It’s good having the GT1000core upfront with easy access. Makes it much easier to use the looper and tap tempo etc if needed. On the guitar board I’ve got the OC5 set up so Direct signal goes to the OxEAE then Channel 1 on the Dwarf. Then using the other output from the OC5 with the -1 and +1 signal to Channel 2 of the Dwarf. Really cool, means I can run them through separate signal chains and prevent it messing with the OxEAE texture control. Boss stuff gets a lot of stick but they make some great gear.

Heck! That’s an amazing haul. I think there’s just about every pedal I’ve ever gassed over on one of those boards!

Yeah that’s fair, I guess it depends what you want out of it. In most cases I suspect a more subtle preamp like that is going to be more use in real world settings outside of YouTube demos. For me the passive mode sounds great so the active doesn’t do enough to warrant the hassle of dealing with batteries.

I really fancy Morningstar’s midi loop switcher. Being able to switch physical pedals on and off would be a game changer.

Nice I’ve got the Disaster Area midi baby, the Morningstar stuff looks awesome and a way more practical layout. I think I’m gonna take my fuzz off the board to make room for my midi foot switch and expression pedal.

It’s incredibly superficial but the fret markers on the 734a are delicious. Coupled with the matte finish on the headstock👌otherwise I’d have gone for the 434. I would love a p34 although I need something that is nice but not too nice that I can still throw it around a bit. A 2nd hand 734a even with tweaks sits right in the sweet spot. I definitely have to be in the right mood for the Dibble videos but can’t not watch a review for something I already have 😂 Even while the preamp is a bit underwhelming the rest of the bass is excellent!

Was watching a review of the BB734A last night by Johnny Dimble: Gotta say while I love mine I definitely agree on the preamp, I’ve used passive mode exclusively as it sounds better to my ears. I was actually contemplating switching it out for something different like the Lusithand but it’d be a hassle trying to fill in the empty holes. Is the neck pocket identical on the 434 and 734a?

Wouldn’t say I’m close to a Slo Loris but I’m definitely starting to get something interesting. Playing around with the internal pedal stuff in assigns. Stuff like having oscillating values on the slow gear fx gets some almost tape warp vibes, especially combining with some of the chorus fx. I’ve seen people using the Int pedal on the slicer too to oscillate back and forward through the patterns to create a glitch effect. Very cool!

I’ll be sure to give you a shout. I totally get what you mean, I find myself forever flip flopping back and forwards between pedals vs multifx. 2nd time GT owner here. The way I see it is that even though I’m using a fraction of its capabilities, I still have the other 90% to play with should I ever want to experiment. It helps to reduce the urge to by more stuff too, buying a boutique flanger when I can probably get something in the ballpark with the GT makes it a really hard sell. Mostly…

I like effects (mostly dirt) but trying to scale down from a RB 3.0 pedalboard to a 2.1 was an interesting exercise. Trying to achieve your desired sound with half the pedals was waaay easier than expected. Handy if we ever do a pretty heavy tour and I want a lighter/cheaper board to take. That being said I like to do some experimenting too and having a slightly bigger board with more options is great. The Boss GT1000core and MOD Dwarf are currently doing a great job of minimising my lusting after new modulation and delay pedals.

I think my next thing with the GT is to sit down and try to emulate some cool effects. There are some really cool boutique pedals out there like the Non Human Audio Slow Loris that I love the sound of but could never justify purchasing. Thinking it’d be fun to see if I could get an inspired sound out of the GT. As it stands I’m really not making the most of it for bass, I only use it to set input levels, noise gate and tuner currently. Just need to spend some quality time. Just watched the Justin Chancellor gear walk through and tempted to recreate some of his more out there tones. His board is 50% boss anyways!

I’ve always preferred their Alpha Omega/Omicron range, it’s the only DG dirt sound I got on with. There’s a DemonFX one too I think.

EAE OxEAE Fuzz, absolutely monstrous. Not something I usually gravitate to as there isn’t so much room in the band for it but it’s a load of fun.

On IRs I’ve tried a few and what I found was that for home practice and recording the Shiftline free pack has some excellent sounding cabs. For live though they always seemed way too bass heavy. Now I’m more than happy enough with the Capo preamps HPF, even for higher gain stuff. TBF I gave the concert preamp a go last night and it’s actually much better than I remembered. Still can’t imagine swapping out my Capo anytime soon but will have to build a patch around it.

Nice work! Yeah the preamps never really seemed like a strong point of the GT1k line which is a shame because it’s pretty solid otherwise. Have you uploaded any patches to Boss Tone Exchange?

One thing I always struggled with was getting a good x-over with the LPF/HPFs. It always sounds like it’s boosting or cutting, really need to do the same and try to find a sweet spot. Super powerful unit. I agree on the delays, I have so little use for them. Master delay is more than enough for my needs. If they could fix the preamp/ir block issue and allow input presets to be set to one of the 5 knobs so I could quickly select the right input level I’d be sorted! Oh and custom labels on the footswitches!

Na tried this and still doesn’t work, as soon as the amp block is out of the active signal chain cabsim stops working. Having a duel divider is the only way I’ve found because even though the path with the preamp block is set to 0 volume it’s still active. Even having in an A/B divider doesn’t work unless the right channel is active.

Interesting! I know a few people said Wal had very hot output so stands to reason. Having a trim adjustment is very cool!

@funkle What’s the output of the Turner Pickups with Lusithand pre? Are they pretty hot?

Love it, still can’t decide which bass I want to mod and spent all my funds on pedals by accident 😬 Might bite the bullet and order the preamp now to force me into making a choice. While I know you said the laminate and fretboard choice made a big difference, it’s subtle enough without personally A/Bing a Wal I don’t think I could tell. I was planning on adding a bridge pickup to my Schecter P4 Exotic anyways so thinking I might just go all in and make it a Walish. My BB would probably be closer though to the real thing.

My favourite amp I’ve ever tried. I’d never bought into the valve amp stuff so when our guitarist offered to bring his VBA in instead of my GK Fusion S, I was a little dubious. As soon as I started playing I fell in love. Now I’ve scaled down to the Handbox WB100 which gives me about 95% of the VBA heft but at a fraction of the weight. I do miss using it though, don’t miss needing 2 people to get it on top of the cab! 😂

Here’s the mount for my keyboard on the tripod: Getting the tripod off requires a fair bit of sideways pressure to move it.

Yeah exactly! I did have a little play positioning the mount under some pedals and cranked my fuzz and there wasn’t any obvious noise or anything. In terms of strength it’s easy enough to hold a pedal in place, certainly inline with Velcro. I don’t the there’s an obvious advantage though as it’d cost more than Velcro and still require a MagSafe ring attaching to your pedals. That being said it’d be a little neater I think.

I’ve just been using MagSafe phone mounts to attach my computer keyboard to a stand. Got me wondering if there was any feasible way of using the same approach for pedals or if they’d interfere with the signal? Im guessing it’d be questionable for digital effects.