krispn

I have a Crumpler laptop bag I got for dirt cheap online. Takes the power strip and iec cables in the main bit and has zipped pouches etc for IEM stuff ear buds. It’s got a shoulder strap so frees up the hands when loading in.

Oh I agree it’s a killer drive pedal.

The difficulty is that the entire EQ changes in AGS mode too. It’s basically like to completely different pedals going from clean to dirt.

Here’s what I do with my board. Signal path A -Front of house sound Tuner>Preamp (DI out)>Comp>CabIR> Desk/FoH Signal path B - Amp sound Tuner>Preamp>(different Comp>Dirt>Fuzz>EQ>HPF>Amp Preamp comes first so any dirt/gain isn’t pushing the basic sound. I can set the pre hotter if I want it pushing more on some tunes or ‘cleaner’ on others but the other drive pedals don’t impact it. I’m not using any time-based or modulation effects so other set ups might need tweaked. With this set-up only ‘clean’ preamp/comp going to the FOH and all other dirt is into the amp which helps with balance and mix in the room. It seems to work well.

There’s definitely clank in the PBird which might come across in the audio.

I have a pic of the bass in this link plus some audio with the Tone Styler.

I had a Thunderbird pick up in my old P for a while and it was good. Didn’t sound like a p bass - as you’d expect but had a different t kinda mid honk to it. I paired it to a tone styler so I could get the direct to output type hit sound or have varying degrees of capacitor each offering their thing. Not necessarily the answer to the question you’re asking but I just stuck a set of Fender Pure Vintage ‘74’s into a Harley Benton jazz and it’s way more aggressive sounding now. I really like what it does and has a really forward mid quality whereas my Pure Vintage ‘64’s definitely have that deeper classic 60’s thing as you’d expect.

It’s a shame they don’t shift focus to a ‘Modern Player’ series where the do the MM/J or MM/P thing etc. and take some inspiration from other more high end basses and rather than only have the AVRI variants step into the modern age. Pawn shop was cool as it’s that whole modded bass scene. It not my vibe as I’m not a modern bassist by any means but I can see how they could expand the he line up because their custom shop must see a lot of similar design ideas which you think would filter down.

My mate has the passive 5 string and it’s a wonderful instrument. It plays great, sounds great and and overall is a solid well made bass. The killer part is we both saw it on a local gumtree ad and he got to it before I did and paid £600 or something like that. For the money it’s fantastic value. He gigs it often and loves it even though he normally plays a short scale due to a neck issue.

So new body wood. Is that the innovation?

Not for me it doesn’t sound enough like a Fender or look enough like a Fender. 😉

Last time Fender attempted to do something different we got the Dimension bass and they were sh*tcanned because nobody wanted them. The usual complaints they didn’t sound enough like a Fender or look enough like a Fender abounded.