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Does anyone have an interesting colour/finish 1590B enclosure they don’t want? Undrilled. Si

100%, I’m on the wait list, I have 3 or 4 tracks I regularly play that I know I can use those presets on. I fake it now with fuzzy/chorus/octave/envelope…but I’m all for an easy life haha. I also genuinely think that IMA knows what’s up. He’s not just marketing hype, he genuinely is an excellent product/tone developer, who just so happens to have a very large audience too. MXR made a smart move on that front. Si

I am also now very conscious that I’m further derailing the thread. It might be better to move to the FI thread if we continue this train of thought. While discussion around comparisons is inevitable, derailing this further from the MXR pedal isn’t fair to the OP. Cheers Si

Oh there you go, I had no idea that existed. Exactly! Although, without this turning into an R&D session, I’m not sure why they both sizes exist?! End of Life the big version, dump the savings from tooling costs into the small version to get the price down slightly. But even a hike of £20-30 would still be palatable for the feature-set and form factor probably (without researching). If the big version had more features/controls, totally get it. But otherwise, £60 has been added for form factor alone, whereas the opportunity was there to only do V4 as the smaller version, reducing the size and adding/upgrading features from V3, therefore increasing the perceived value and legitimizing the price increase further. Anyway, no-one asked me to monologue lol. YMMV. Etc. Si p.s. This is just after a very cursory look at the FI offerings, I may well have missed something and so apologies if I have. Wrangling an 17 month old at the same time is not great for detail haha.

Assuming it was a loaner pedal, time to get that pedal back and have it sent to someone who will actually make a video! If it was payment for content, then, I love Gaz, but that’s bad form not to have fulfilled his part of the deal after a year. For me, form factor and workflow is key here. The FI sounds great, but for my brain, the form factor and general workflow of the MXR wins out, for others, those things won’t matter so much, so for the price-point, the FI probably wins out. Shrink the FI down by what is probably nearly half, and I could perhaps overlook/relearn workflow…but I’m guessing that’s a significant undertaking, if not impossible. Luckily, both are available to us all….what a time to be alive 🙂 Si

I hear you, I went searching for my old gated kid-paint one a few months ago, but not a sausage. Wonder what it’s upto now. Still the small enclosure one I have now with tone bypass is excellent. And pink. Si

Fuzzrocious Grey Stache with tone-bypass mod….gigged mine the past weekend and it is proper! Creamy Muff vibes without that mid cut that Muffs are famous for. The GS does have a mids control to be fair, but I’ve now found that I prefer the tone stack bypassed altogether. Si

Horray for Barbra Streisand ☺️ Si

Have you contacted Sushibox to ask as well? Si

Great tone! Sits really nicely with that band/style of music! Si

Magnus bought a Shergold shortscale from me, and the transaction couldn’t have gone more smoothly. Legend of a BCer. Thanks very much. Si

Sure….but look at it…it’s hateful 🙃 Horrible burst, only maple f/b available. And I know it’s only a render….but what else am I basing this blind purchase on. Gimme a Pino Artist from a retailer any day! (Not that I’m in the market lol). Si

Exactly, it’s not as if they’re expecting to sell 500 of them at the Icon price. Honestly, it’s probably just a smart way to (partly?) fund Pino’s involvement. Let’s say he’s conservatively taking £30k for his involvement, that’s 50% of the RRP for the Icon series….which is now already paid for. He’s probably also on a royalty for the Artist series. So yeah, all good for everyone I’d say, he’s earned it! Si Ps (I understand that £60k is not the net profit, but you take my point).

Well I was referring to the £3799 for a non-signed one (only just read up on what’s available). But let’s be honest, once ANYTHING is signed, what’s ‘reasonable’ goes out the window. If it sells, it’s reasonable to someone, which then somewhat validates the pricing…because then it’s simply about quantity. Note: Just checked, the Icon series is sold out. Case rested. Si

Personally I think the price is perfectly reasonable for what it is. Do I think it’s accessible to every player, of course not, do I think they’ve priced it towards Pino fans with a decent disposable income whose main hobby/business is ‘BASS’? Absolutely, especially at the quantity they’ve made. Without having read about the release at all, I assume it’s 10 pieces of each of the fretless and fretted, if so, they’ll sell 10 of the fretless all day long at that price IMO. The only part I find odd is the fretted version. I get that more people buy fretted instruments, but it’s got nothing to do with Pino’s legacy on that particular instrument. Personally I’d probably have just made the fretless and increased it to 15 or 20 pieces worldwide. But what do I know 🙃. I too found the mismatched body jarring, and it would be unforgivable at this price-point on any other bass. However, from an authenticity standpoint, it’s basically the same as relic’ing right?! You either love it or hate it 🙂 Si

Seems to me that it’s a perfectly reasonable and on-topic response to the current thread, not ruined at all, let’s move on. Si

Because the Stomps balanced outs are only 1/4”, you’re likely connecting it to the Line In of a desk, which doesn’t receive Phantom Power. Even if you’re using a TS -> XLR cable, because the pins are not exactly the same, what the HX Stomp then receives in the way of phantom power isn’t damaging, although I’ve heard it ruins the tone/signal. All that to say that you’ll HEAR that PP is on before you do any damage. That said I’d always consider adding a DI box to a small Stomp pedalboard purely because then I’m not relying on finding/carrying a fairly specialist TS -> XLR cable and can simply rely on bog-standard XLR cables. So why not run the JDI after your Stomp, best of both worlds and great mini board! My backup setup for a while, need to replace the Stagebug at some point as it was on loan: Si

I suppose it’s true in-as-much-as your front of house sound. Onstage, as you say, with cab/amp variations, it’s a different story. Si

I very much agree with this. I have a Stomp too, and it’s an amazing tool, but it’s use and calibration doesn’t bring me joy like messing with a bunch of individual pedals….so yeah, got to go with what adds fun to your tonal journal! For sure! Si

My opinion on all of this is this it’s more likely an issue with all the drive pedals you have. If you’ve come from playing guitar, then those pedals may not be voiced brilliantly for bass. What effects/drive pedals are you using? Honestly, all the amps you mention are of similar quality and have the ability to get a good tone, they’ll all sound pretty similar with fairly small EQ changes. The Markbass for example, some people talk about the MB ‘character’, but with the filters off, I’ve my LM2 on an oscilloscope, and it’s basically flat. Anyway, all that to say that a preamp pedal likely won’t resolve the issue, not least because not all FX loops are created equally, some are post EQ (great for bypassing the amps preamp and just making use of the power section), but some are pre EQ (like Markbass), meaning a preamp pedal whether in-line with the amps input, or placed in the FX loop, will simply be adding additional EQ to the amps EQ. So, my personal advice, pending knowing what other pedals you’re using, would be to buy an amp that you can take around to all rehearsal rooms, because a consistency here will help IMO. Then review all your drive pedals in the context of that one amp, and start building a tone you enjoy! Si

I didn’t get to try the SGFX version, I had tried this Jnr and liked it, and didn’t want to then buy the SGFX if it didn’t have what I liked about the Jnr. But we’ll see how it goes! Si

I really like it (as you’d expect), it’s way more characterful than the MXR (which is either a good thing or a bad thing for you haha). The MXR is very transparent, which is great of course, but a different result to what I want in this case, which is wanting to thicken things up and add some ‘magic’ while also taming some heavy pick playing. Si