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I’ve tried the Noble/Cali combo and it’s a really good pairing. You’ll struggle to make your bass sound sweeter especially with the low cut engaged/bass boosted. It just adds the right kind of lows.

I sent Sean some money and he very promptly sent me a pedal. Top notch!

Quite like the form factor of this new Zoom.

I have a Cali TX for sale and the price hasn’t budged. Drop me a dm if interested (I’m fully paid up with my subs and had/have it listed in the for sale section so nothing untoward going on)

I was telling the guys in my 80’s band this very fact recently as it’s been suggested as one of our new tunes to learn/play.

Spark booster 4 knob version is about £30 used and is a useful tool on bass.

I’m a former Monique owner too but I had the M700 amp version. It really is a lovely unit and it’s not just about drive and saturation. At lower gain levels it really is a lovely front end and once you do start to wind it up it remains pleasing to the ear if that the the sound you like. The beauty in the Monique and from the demo’s I’ve heard of Simone give that full rich quality which when you’re noodling just sounds the way you’d expect a clean tube preamp to sound. I learned a long time ago I love a warm, clean tube sound rather than a tubby saturation which you’d normally associate with tube front end. Tube power amp break up is a world apart from a 12AX7 stuck in a preamp and often is a marketing device but when it’s been designed from the ground up and it suddenly becomes a much more integral part of the signal chain and does impart its character. I’m currently playing into a tube di with transformer/tubes and it’s doing that warm full sound which might not get noticed by many others but is very enjoyable as a starting point and I’m really looking forward to using it on a gig soon- likely iem with just the DI/eq pedal.

Use the space on the Cali to fix smaller pedals. Mine has a strip of Velcro for some pedal piggy backing!

It’s works just fine. It’s been designed to work in a specific way thing more like a blade but using coils (I think). There probably more info on the site. I use one and it’s a really nice sounding pick up.

It’d be a routing mess would it not? What’s the thinking behind that design? Reverse p style ‘tighter’ bass response on the B string? You’d be better off with a Jazz bass 😀

In theory at least you probably don’t want distortion on a DI as the DI is likely to put out a full range signal 20hz-20khz type thing and drive/dirt up at that top end sucks unless you want the harsh fizzy sound. The beauty of speakers is that they often remove the high end in a pleasing way especially with the tweeter off (unless it’s the FRFR kit). You can imitate the high end roll off at the desk but often a clean DI is far less hassle. I tend to run clean to the desk and only have drive coming out the amp or use a cab sim/IR to the desk on my hx stomp.

A Bill Lawrence P-46 will fit a 5 string, sounds clean and clear and yes it’s THAT Bill Lawrence! A quick check it’s $72 before shipping and taxes which is ridiculous value! https://www.wildepickups.com/products/p-46

Experimenting

Very smooth dealings with this groove wizard.

I always liked the idea of their bass workshop in that they didn’t just have a (massive) range of basses but they also tried to bring something a little different out each year. While not always conventional it was good to see a big manufacturer (who let’s face it could afford to take the risk) try something left field.

HX FX might be a better option but if you prefer the form factor of the Stomp it’ll have all the same fx models.

The round bass plectrum really caught my eye!