DocTrucker

Neat idea, I'll try that.

Did my research degree in Liverpool so I know the place, or more accurately the replica. The original is gone, but the current is (/was, been many years since I was there) a decent music venue. I was more on the heavier rock and metal side back then ~2003-2006 and spent more time in the Crazy House (when it had three floors), the Swan, and many other decent rock leaning pubs.

Thanks guys, some food for thought. I had wanted to simplify things by reducing the character of the amp and cabinate as far as possible and relying on emulators to shape tone where needed. My hearing isn't great - pretty much deaf to speach on one side - and setting up tone at gig volumes is somewhere between very daunting and impossible! I hadn't considered finer eq adjustments being needed on the fly, so fiddling with a pedal board eq while on stage would be far more impractical than doing so on the amp. Glad I asked, but looks like I'd need to think a lot more about this before going further.

Morning! Not something that I can do right now but I am gathering information on amps. I would like my tone to be largely shaped by the bass and pedal board. I currently have a laney amp stack after a spotting a good deal a while back. While the Laney RB9 is not a Class D does it add character or is it transparent? What options for ~300W class D amp heads stand out for balance of reliability and not shaping the tone? Am I best off repurposing a PA amp? Thanks.

Looks like a brother from another mother! Nice, did look at five string Squires pre-purchase but there were few about. Don't bother droping in on shops for a set of strings. Tried all four shops within 20 minutes of me in Merseyside and none had a set. Thought that was an easy ask, but will just order in future! My squire wasn't especially light, but I'm guessing your 5 is still lighter than 5.6kg?

Resurecting an old post to add some lived in details! Stripped the guitar down to add some stick in copper shielding yesterday. I was finding the background noise intrusive, even as a fairly low skill bassist. There was black paint in the cavities which I assume was shielding paint, but I could read no resistance across <5mm seperation of multimeter probes. There was also no connection between the cavities (ground lead to the bridge was in place) and the pickgaurd was completely plastic. I was able to cover the two pickup cavities, control cavity, the back of the pickguard, and a few tabs to make connections to the pickguard, and te metal control plate. Continuity checks showed low resistance between the cavities, and once the control plate was screwed in the pickup cavities and the bridge. I finished the work up with a re-setup. I found the gap between the b string and the 7-9 frets to be less than 0.3 mm, I increased the curve in the neck (loosened truss) to take this to 0.75-1.00mm and tweaked the action to suit. Plays much better now with a lighter touch on the lower frets and generally less fret noise and buzzing that I had associated with poor technique.

The new bands first outing from the rehearsal studio was this Tuesday just gone. I'm still very much a novice bassist, this beng my second attempt at playing live. Played four songs at an open mic session at the Junction in Rainford, just north of St Helens, Merseyside. You Really Got Me, Fortunate Son, Black Night, and Paranoid on my trusty 5 string Harley Benton. Great live music pub. Allows us to slowly get used to the transition from Rehearsal to Live!

I could walk there! Had no idea they did gigs.

I had a response from the company. Things are progressing still. He has partnered with another company to do the collection of parts and assembly. Looks like the V3 may be off the shelf, or minor assembly only.

I was thinking about trying to source the parts and building them up for a small fee, but looks like the third version does most of that for you. I'll still give them a poke for costs soon though.

Yeah, there is a third version in the works that is to be released soon according to the news section.

Morning All, Curious to hear if anyone has used the GuitarML software and Pi Stomp boxes with bass? I'm guessing noise may be an issue with accurately detecting low frequencies but other than that don't see a huge amount of hits on the GuitarML term, including none on this forum. Not done any research past finding the following links so far. https://guitarml.com/ https://www.treefallsound.com/

I realise this bass is almost a carbon copy of a discontinued Sandberg but I'm guessing Sandberg hasn't made much fuss about being copied, or did they need to get alsorts of licences from Fender? My old Squire Jazz Vintage Modified against the Harley Benton MJ-5MP

An interesting thought that. You could monitor input and output signals to ensure the amp is scaling the signal equally for all - or more precisely many descrete - frequencies, but as soon as you chuck that into a cabinet you're at the mercy of the responce of the cones and the behaviour of any cross overs. I guess you could easily loose a lifetime to finding a monitor grade amp and speaker setup!

Thanks all. Refreshing to know I wasn't barking up the wrong tree. Still lost when it comes to setting up the simulated pedals though. Is there any good resources/books on this or just seach for demos of each stomp box my effect unit emulates?