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Might be worth taking a punt on…🤔

Just as an aside it’d be great if the government were actively seeking out and researching the off license use of other established, safe medications to further prevent and treat people with early symptoms and long haul COVID symptoms. Let’s not forget the vaccine is authorized under an emergency use authorization; other medication could be authorised under this same regulation to treat COVID patients - atorvastatin, corticosteroids, ivermectin, Vitamin D. Sorry back on topic football is great fans can be tw*ts but that’s people for you! We have been informed that our regular bar will be starting up gigs in August but our fiddle player has decided to call it a day until Jan as she is working on her own business and is super busy. Let’s hope our dep can cover the initial few gigs before *another shut down/*flurry or regular dates in the diary (delete as appropriate).

Is that generally considered a decent price? It seems reasonable…

It's such a good wee bass. I think between the short scale and price some people might be put off but actually it's got all the best attributes of a P bass just in a smaller form or at least that's my take on it not having any real experience with a Mustang previously. Don't get me wrong I love my p bass (B profile Jap 70's neck and a Shuker P bass body) but the JMJ just makes playing all the more fun.

Old rounds on the JMJ were my preferred go to for my old country band gig. I currently have the Fender flats on and it just consistently delivers. Rolling about 15-20% off the tone control just sets it right where I like it.

I think it’s EmpireMusic on YT who do a great demo, it’s better than the Fender in-house one for this particular unit.* actually the Fender in-house demo ain’t bad!* And who else but Nate Navarro of course!

I should add I was gonna buy that MBD2 pedal but had a Fender Trapper Bass distortion incoming which is really impressing me with its overall tone. Dist 2 features a clean blend called Sub as well having sa variable x-over hpf type thing going on which is great sounding to my ears. What I’m enjoying the most is each bass sounds like itself- the pedal is not overly influencing the inherent tone as a** backwards as that reads. My jmj with flats sounds as I’d expect and my jazz is certainly unmistakable a jazz. Some pedals can kinda put their blanket sound over a bass irrespective (yeah I’m looking at you early Darkglass pedals) just listen to a Patrick Hunter review! The tone control is worth a mention too. Dist one is a simple three knob affair but the tone, once rolling it back from noon doesn’t introduce lows per se but it does keep some of that thickness without initially being super muddy. I’m not sold on the Dist 1&2 stacked yet but I’ve a band rehearsal booked in for The next few weeks - I think I’d need to hear it in context to really know if it’s a sound I’d be using (not that I have much need for a stacked gain sound in my current covers band). In keeping with the OP if you see one of these Bass Trapper Distortion (not to be confused with the Trapper Fuzz) pedals pop up it’s certainly worth a look. It can add in that slight edge or sparkle which sounds great at volume (currently just been playing along amplified and via laptop with YT and Spotify but sometimes you just know a pedal will work) but has more on tap too for Geezer type old school bass and much more in between.

I see you have yours up for sale. Any major reasons you shifted it so quickly? I was quite interested in these as you know.

That reply was tongue in cheek of course but without providing more info as in what you wanted/ needed form an fx unit it’s a bit vague. Sounds like you got it sorted tho.

Do you need amp and cab emulation? Do you play In ear gigs? Can you use you tube and google? My understanding is Line 6 have a website. Bad manners aside it’s like posting do I need crampons or ski’s? No context no idea why you’re asking the question. Do some digging and then ask more pointed questions and as a result *ssholes like me won’t make stupid comments on your post😉

Haven’t seen one of those come up in yrs!

I’d say that’s ripe for a few mods. MM in the bridge or even better in the standard mm position give or take a few mm depending on the p route.

I should say I’m based in Scotland and things are moving differently in different parts of the country. It’s good to see folks getting back out. I know I miss gigs as a punter as much as I do as a player.

Yeah I don't think anyone has lost the love of live music it's just having access to venues who can actually put live music on! I know our main pub gig hasn't started to have bands yet and when they do we'll happily play all the slots we can reasonably accommodate. As we fit the 'niche' of the venue we are one of the main weekend bands (definitely a result of circumstance rather than talent) but are tentatively aiming for late in the year before we can consider gigs being a regular occurrence which is killing me as I have a new drive pedal which sounds great and I really want to play it live at volume with my drummer. It sounds so good in my front room and I know it's gonna work for me live *sigh*

If you want more oomph on the bridge boost 350Hz and that might fatten it up a bit. Obviously you’d need some sort of semi-para or parametric eq to do this. The rub is it may impact on the p tone but a decent eq pedal might be a good first option (or if you have a DAW on your computer you could try it there). As for a replacement pick up I like a DiMarzio Model J - it’s basically a p bass pick up in a jazz case and has a good mid forward sound over a standard jazz single coil. It’ll give you more grunt and it can be wired in series/parallel so you can have that extra option, won’t require any additional routing so long as your control cavity can handle a push/pull pot for the switching. It’s not an expensive pick up and a push pull pot keeps things tidy.

I have experienced that with some pedals where the clean blend doesn’t feel like it’s been well executed so the clean and dirt sound has a sense of separation but not in a full range way. I just nabbed a Fender Trapper bass distortion (not to be confused with the Fender Trapper Fuzz) and it’s got a nice blend with x-over which sounds well integrated.

Good to see he’s kept his toe in music since his Lord of the Dance days.

Bass trapper is a different thing. Stacked it can be nasty and you have the choice of nice, disrespectful and nasty between the switching options.