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Ian reached out and we had a very pleasant transaction. Deal with confidence, this man will keep you right!

Nabbed a wireless thingy and as ever a pleasure to chat and the transaction was pain free.

I like it but not in the market for a new bass. Look forward to hearing some sound demos and which of the switching options they’ve gone for I.e like the D roc or some other alternative.

Looking forward to hearing how the preamp sounds. Demos hopefully forthcoming with namm kicking off.

Uh-huh. It’s very impressive. and don’t start me on the new fender pick ups. No bass versions yet but the CuNiFe guitar pick ups sound great. Patiently awaiting the bass iterations. Tim Shaw doing fine work!!

Just putting this out here. Sounds class on the few demos I’ve heard. A contender for bass? 610 preamp and an 1176 style comp + LA2A with options for both. It’s making me feel sweaty for my comp🥵😬😥

If it’s only for recording would a plug in or dirt on another track which could be blended be a work around rather than doing it all in your signal chain? The beauty of recording is the flexibility it offers. Might be a faff but if your taking a clean di and your pedal board sound in theory it should be a simple enough. The other suggestion might be adding in a loop or blend and you can introduce the dirt where it works best. I have a cab sim pedal At the end of my chain and run my main dirt after the preamp and into that before hitting the desk as it makes the drive sound more pleasing. My always on dirt is in the fx loop of the Basswitch so that helps with signal chain and routing. Adding in another loop/blend might not be what you’re after but it could solve the problem?

Don’t think it’s that kinda unit and most of us have DI options these days. I have three pedals with di’s on my board just now and don’t really need all three. Might take a punt on the mkV if some other stuff shifts.

I was gonna start a thread in this but didn’t think folk would be interested. I see Anderson’s have a couple in stock and could be interested. Looks like it irons out some of the baked in lows of the original and still sounds great in the low gain realms. Bass the World have a good demo up just now. I’ve too much dirt atm but if I can shift some I might grab one.

That’s a lot of relearning but I’m sure with the flexibility of the 5er you’ll be able to aim down onto the B string to keep the lows sounding meaty! It’s where the lower string really shines in keeping the bass sounding like a bass. I’d imagine using a capo up on the 4th or 5th fret would rob you of some of that feeling of playing bass and it’s the same reason I used the 5er over a 4 string in that choir gig. There’s a point where you’re just too far up the neck!!

I’d be interested to know what songs you’re currently depping and how different the keys are between the to two bands. I’m maybe lucky that we don’t have more than a tone or semi tone between our songs that it’s not that I’m moving them up or down a fret or two.

I wouldn’t equate a capo to drop d. Drop d is more about playing unison guitar lines/riffs written in drop d but then I came up playing in the grunge era when drop d was a big thing. Also handy if you wanna hit the low d on the big power ballads whereas I definitely saw the 5er as a tool to easily manage transposing etc.

I think the foundation of Rio is octave and chromatic lines so I couldn’t imagine it would be that hard. I was having a learn along/play along with it the other night as it came on the house pa and I was trying to quickly learn it to kill time as the drummer set up (thankfully for the punters it was all in the iems). Rhythm Stick will never make our set as I still can’t play it with any level of proficiency and doubt I ever will 😀 but again it feels like a song which is all fretted notes rather than using a lot of open strings but I’ve never paid that much attention after clumsily looking at it years ago. We did Shut Up and Dance and I recall it all being fretted notes too so should be easy to change key on especially if the muscle memory is there from before. I say all this having learned songs in the original key only to be told the following rehearsal they were getting changed to suit the choir’s range etc and having to quickly change them at short notice. I have no real practicable theory knowledge or formal training so can’t just switch in my head the way some of my proper music theory trained musician mates can. Sounds like you’re considering a capo as an option for future gigs? If that were the case what other benefits do you think it offers?

My bad it read differently but I’d say it’s a moot point either way as neither of us use a capo live and I don’t think we’re likely to start now? Plus from experience with a 5 string and playing BEAD tuning the efficiency of movement you can get often means you can remain in the one neck position for some songs - the three chord tricks etc- and unless you’re coping a specific riff changing root position on a BEAD bass or 5er goes a long way to accommodating key changes. I had to do it for years in my choir gig and it’s why I played the 5er. I still use drop d now and again for some tunes just because it’s fun. Not sure if this constitutes a derail but I’ll let you get back to the topic in hand.