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Recently I’ve been listening to a fair bit of early 90s Shoegaze. So when I saw the Catalinbread Soft Focus I quickly crumbled and ordered one. I also got a NUX Time Core pedal as I wanted a delay with tails. Whilst I got these primarily to use with guitar, I’ve just had a play with a bass through them. The delay is great for £60. Up to 2000ms delay, 40 sec looper, tap tempo and tails. It does a lot. I may keep this for bass and use my EHX Memory Man tt550 for guitar. The Catalinbread is their version of the Yamaha fx500’s Soft Focus patch ( think subtle shimmer reverb with subtler modulation), but with tweakable settings. It’s kind of a one trick pony, but it does it very well. But running a bass through you can get really nice, dark sounding, pad style sounds. Chuck in the delay before, do some volume swells and add a few string squeaks and you get awesome atmospheric synth sounds and noises.

One reason I haven't gone anywhere near anything like this for a few years is I absolutely hate sourcing components.

It's ok, their new website is only a couple of weeks away😉

Blimey! All the best to you!

Here's the bass https://auctions.doreandrees.com/catalogue/lot/79cb2775e334296da9e8af1d4acf0429/ad74375b82a358e6eef0ce537def266d/curious-and-collectable-lot-539/ :

Some Einstürzende Neubauten: Full Halber Mensch film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=posxMfqdgIM

I've only just seen this thread. This bass is going to look bloody amazing!! Nice work!!

Been playing along to some Faith No More:

I'll answer the 2 quick questions. 1. R is the right output for stereo 2. Control in is for an expression pedal to control parameters of certain effects.

New Horace Andy album, Midnight Scorchers, was released today:

£1500!! Blimey, that's double what I paid for mine new!

Reading this, Dave would probably think so... https://www.revolvermag.com/music/dave-mustaine-former-metallica-bandmates-i-am-clearly-alpha-male

I'm sure @Basvarkencould contribute to this thread.

On paper I should love them, but they just don't click with me. I've seen them live a few times and just don't find them interesting.

perfect for musique concréte

And he had a hissy fit and smashed his bass?

Coco Em https://cocoem.bandcamp.com/releases

That's so irritating. I had a mate with a Hamer Diablo, the action across the strings differed by a couple of mil. Not in linear way, but randomly.

Nice!! During the first lockdown someone an hour's drive from me was selling an IGB-600 for £75, they were just advertising a "90s Aria Pro II bass". I wrestled with my conscience for too long and missed it...

Lovely bit of TG!! ❤️

Thanks @Paolo85, looks like I'm in the mood for German Power Metal this morning! 😆

After @Paolo85posted in another thread...

I used to be a big fan of Helloween, they have a great sense of humour. These days I never seem to be in the mood for German Power Metal.

Yeah, naming conventions of footprints and symbols is a biggie. Several times I've had to start from scratch as I've forgotten what I've called things

Yeah. That’s the learning curve bit. 😁 I’d just got the hang of it before I had to shelve the project I was working on. Now I’m back to square one with it.