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I thought you’d already nabbed another 735?

Your opinion is the only one that will matter - it depends if you’re trying to convince yourself that you’re already happy with the BB735 this time around or you’re just thinking out loud again. Ultimately get the bass that fits your tonal needs and playing style. The sandberg clip sounds a bit overly compressed but that’s to be expected I suppose as it’s an older clip but they both sound versatile. The subtleties could be lost in the larger signal chain and once you add drive filter and synth the feel and playability might be better deciding factors.

What are you finding currently works for your basses eq wise (ball park figures let’s say on your main gigging bass). You noticing and sweet spots in terms of amp settings. Be interesting to hear what tweaks you’ve settled on and what you’re hoping a MM will add. I really dig some 300-400 boost with the jazz!

It’s also pretty hard to shave off half a kilo or more but I get what you’re saying. I’ve played the SL and the preamp works well in giving a fuller sound. Defo worth a look if you get a chance.

My old bass! With an extra couple of hundred quid off what he paid. I’d say it’s quite the bargain plus I’m confident he’d be up for trades.

What specifically are you after tone wise? PJ or you wanting a meatier MM bridge pick up sound? I’ve personally gigged this pick up combo in a VM4 (tuned BEAD) and a 5 string 48. They are good pick ups but I was in passive mode 99% of the time so never really engaged the pre amp much but it certainly can be heard working once engaged. I found the bridge HB to be more jazz voiced where I think I’d have preferred a ‘bigger’ tone but I was conscious of that before I bought them. I’ve played the three band in other Sandberg basses over at the factory and it’s a very clean pre. My advice to you is nab a SL 5’er and spec a three band. The eq will make up for a slight loss in lows from the mass or lack thereof but for your desire to have a lightweight bass (sub 4kg maybe for the 5). The body wood can be a bit more prone to a knock but you look after your gear and it’s really well suited to slap which I know you’re keen to develop.

BB734 is a great bass - super nice to play (I tend to prefer the new styling) and it sounds good plus it'll easily take different pick ups if you fancy experiemnting but it really does sound good stock!

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I should state for the record I’m sure the effects in the Boss sound great. Im sure they’re on a par with Strymon, Eventide Source Audio etc. (I didn’t hear anything in that last Boss video which would have me get one or sell my Stomp but I like the amp and cab sims for home use, they’re effective and appealing tone shapers in and of themselves and they make IEM more fun and ‘authentic’ for me and my band mates live and put out a FOH sound- I should add I love my amps and I love playing through them. Using the stomp amp/cab sims into my amps is fun too)! Whether a company’s thing is emulation of classic effects or just offering all varieties of an effect type you’re basically getting the same thing. There’s only so many types of effects and each unit will cover most of those irrespective of how they name it or what unit they say it’s based on. AK applauded stomp fans for defending their unit as now there’s competition but the boss unit has been about in one guise for a few years and pretty much passed under most folks radar. As for more blocks on the stomp it’s unlikely as it’ll be limited due to the processing power which I think has been a well discussed by now. The stomp was always a smaller, stripped down unit to integrate into a bigger board or offer a compact unit to cover gigging needs. I’d imagine most stomp users work within the limitations of the unit quite successfully and I don’t think the core would appeal to many of them as the amp/cabs are a big part of the appeal? I could be wrong but once the initial gas wears off what one is left with on the Boss units is a guitar multifx with a few patches for bassists...who might well be chuffed that Boss have thrown them a bone two years down the line.

A quick poll of bc asking if anyone has had a bit of gear die in recent decades should cover it 😀

Don’t think it’ll do the desired low gain drive/dirt

Yeah the link was dead for me too even from a few different sources. Guitar player (or was it guitar world magazine) might still have it rather than the bass emporium link. Strings can be an expensive road to go down too but it’s worth trying a few different sets. Dunlop’s are less expensive and Marcus Miller jumped ship from DR to Dunlop so his set might be a good starting point for a zingy alternative!

Strings are the way to go. Lo Riders might not give you the zing maybe sunbeams or hibeans if you’re going with DR. Ed Friesland has a great written review of DR string side by side comparison from years ago. Worth searching for? I think Lo Riders are meant to be warmer and not have the zing of the ‘beams’

#TriggersBroom

How much are you willing to pay? If they’re asking too much for you make them an offer.

I know a guy might be selling one if you’re after one.

I mentioned on another post that I had an amp die on a gig (well it was pre gig as it took a tumble in the van after the singer set it on top of something when loading in🙄) it wasn’t the age or condition but the unfortunate but entirely avoidable drop! I’ve had aSWR power amp die years ago which put me off SWR ironically I’d be happy with older pre-Fender SWR but we develop these ‘quirks’ when we experience a failure first hand. I’d agree with AK it would be unlikely that a Stomp would die again and it would be terrible luck but having had to rely on back up gear I’d agree that an analogue type unit ‘plug and play’ just takes the worry out of another electronic failure is confidence inspiring. I guess the beauty of a bass/amp/cab set up with no effects is there’s less to go wrong on the gig.

Yeah I wasn’t really paying attention but the usual flurry of interest died off either due to availability, the next new thing or new GAS

You’d just imagine that all that processing power could handle much of it? How much DSP is needed to recreate a classic analogue boss effects which often only had three or four parameters. I suppose I’m just repeating what a lot of folk have said they’d have ‘liked’ to see and when the Mooer GE300 was being lauded as the next big thing because of its synth capabilities O just though Boss might be perfectly situated to expand that side of multifx synth sounds not only from their back catalogue but also the Roland connection. The Mooer employing older tech doesn’t have the same chipset/processing power but it’s a decent point.

I’m not suggesting they ‘give away’ a greater value product and it’d be fair to say I wasn’t proposing or suggesting they hey do. But with synth bass being all over modern music and folks gravitating to multi fx to access these types of sounds it’s a tad of an oversight. I’ve got four of five patches on my stomp which cop a really solid job of synth my sounds to emulate the idiosyncrasies of said synths by ‘playing the effect’ I can get a pretty good approximation with no exhausted DSP. It’s be fair to say one of the big hopes folks had for this in light of the recent boss releases would have been elements of those new effects to be included. What Boss have done is repackage the 200 series effects into a pedal board and that might be where this unit excels but when many folks were keen to have some synth (emulation or otherwise) it’s a bit of a miss when they have also got those units in their product range. Sure Boss were the daddies of stomp boxes and I’ve used many of them- still have my boss tuner on my board -They’re very durable pedals designed for the gig but the birth of boutique pedals was born out of people wanting to expand upon the boss pedals and their ‘limitations’ or what those early pioneers saw as limiting elements. You’d feel that they would want to offer some of those synth patches to encourage folk to buy the fully loaded pedals be that the SY1 which doesn’t cost more than the Core or the full on top of the line sy1000. But hey I’ve no skin in the game. I get all I need from the humble stomp.

Just reading that the Core won’t have any of the new SY synth engine sounds available so not too much has changed in porting the unit to a smaller form factor which may leave a lot of fans/folk a little disappointed. You’d have though a mega corp would deliver their new tech into their latest gear and along with it more value to the customer. It looks like those of us wanting to get a good filter and synth sound will now have to factor in the cost of two extra pedals on top of an already eye watering £600 considering the cost of the competition. Come on Boss give the fans what they want.