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Fine choice! And if you're doing studio recordings whack some of the dbx on your acoustic instruments mic too. Solid unit!

I heard demo’s of the Dan Lutz model when Carey did a video. I suggest folks check it out before speculating on what it’s issues are. It’s a fine sounding bass and doesn’t suffer phase issues etc and it’s super responsive -hand placement making a difference etc all the stuff folks extol the virtues of on bass forums. I’d take a DL VM5 if Carey wanted to give me one and happily use it as my only bass! It sounds I agree with the idea of if you want a MM get a MM, if you want a p get a p etc. I had a thunderbird pick up in my p bass and it sounded great but it’s not a p bass sound. I’ve put a (reverse) p back into that bass and it sounds more traditional. Actually I could put a Bigman with three way switch into my p bass down the line 🤔 Oh and check out the Bigman demo where the coils can be split with bridge coil, mm, neck coil. Interesting the tonal difference from the one pick up.

I'm doing some home brewing today and while it's usually some reggae and other stuff from the Soul Jazz records Spotify page today has been all about the new Young Gun Silver Fox album, Daft Punk and Justice. Got a new mini portable speaker and have been giving it a workout. Enjoyable!

I've just been learning some LSD for a dep gig - You Go Down Smooth - catchy tune!

My point was more that this thread might seem a bit niche for Joe Public, all of us are going to be affected. I don't see it as being a positive impact just yet and while it might settle over the coming years it won't be without its victims, I suspect, irrespective of how one voted or their politics.

As has been said the changes will impact many folks from individual musicians, small business owners right up to multi-national companies and corporations. Irrespective of how adroit the individual or organisation may be there will still be consequences to deal with be that bureaucratic, financial etc. I have no idea the impact on agriculture, healthcare, the service sector, the financial markets etc but I do think it will be felt across the nation as a whole and not just in the day to day discussion and debate we're all having at home, in the workplace and on this forum. Whether you see the glass as half full, half empty or about to fall off the table and crash into tiny little pieces we can all say with a degree of confidence that we will all feel the impact of this for years to come.

"Smelly wine and sheep perfume" from Don't Stop Believing is the one that sticks for me!

Keeping on topic which can be challenging at the best of times... In the time it took to get this far into this thread all of us could have found out who our local MP is, have fashioned a letter and stated our position in relation to the topics and industries raised over the ten or so pages. Changes are coming for musicians and the wider arts ..many of those changes are still being figured out and many, many more likely haven’t even been considered! People power, the power to mobilise, petition and make our elected representatives work for us is clearly the most useful way to elicit some positive change, certainly from grassroots groups, more established organisations and relative industry/professional bodies. The mistrust of the government following the last four years (and for those of us in Scotland or who took an active interest in the Independence discussion another few years on top of that) will know that the disinformation can be hard to discern from the truth and most figures are mailable at best! This thread has raised some good points and inevitably we don’t know what will happen. It sounds like for musicians (and many others) there will be some changes which will have a financial impact and while the debate is fun we’d all be better off writing to those elected officials, professional bodies etc to ask questions and raise issues be that within agriculture, the arts or your sector of work. People power indeed!

I was really expecting it to sound meatier!

Top work folks 😀

It looked different in the photos

Not too keen on the colour...

My bad I thought you were talking about folks who routinely run a comp and limiter on the same board in their regular set up.

Still keen to know who the “many folk typically would have a comp at the start... limiter at the end” are you were talking about?

If that’s what you do - comp/limiter at the start/end of the signal chain - then I’m sure you have good reason to but at home volumes it strikes me as more pointless than valueless but if you need a good strong signal to feed pedals etc. When you claim “many folk typically would have a comp at the start... limiter at the end” who are you talking about? When the discussion of using a single compressor causes waves of consternation I’d imagine this boots and braces set up might be just as divisive especially if so few of us run filters, synths etc. Its not an uncommon studio practice to use two comps working together adding a little bit of compression here and there in the signal chain, so I get the concept and the becos could be useful for a multi band comp set up.

I plan on trying some of his eq option with the parametric eq on the Mooer as I recall some of his settings for the Stomp/HX were pretty solid.

Thanks Luke. The pedal board is a stand alone gigging board and has worked really well. I put it together to be sorted working for live, studio and iem/direct and I’ve had the bulk of it for quite a few years. I fancied the mooer for IR as an option having enjoyed what the stomp could do but I basically used the stomp for all the stuff I already had and just kept my board and returned the stomp. I’ve a few offers in for some of the pedals and was away on holiday so kinda reluctant to get them shifted but the mooer can fill some gaps. Fingers crossed!!

I don’t quite follow... The HX range has any number of cabs both bass and guitar and I’m guessing you can use those on HX Native. Not sure if you can export from Native into the hxfx but if you can then you’d have access to all the Line6 IR’s which you could experiment with in Native or the relevant HX device of you have more than one. You might not want to run an IR into your cab as it’s already a cab but could be fun to try it. It might be an idea to set up your outputs to feed the DI signal to have the IR going to that output only. It’s pretty easy to set up or or was on the stomp where you could have effects going to your amp and have an amp and cab sim hitting the DI out only. My best Helix tip/advice is RTFM 😀

Thank you for synonym of utilitarian and the exposure of my post-Brexit right wing BC agenda These type of (music) forums are all about the community and banter as well as learning something along the way. If any person wishes to spend their money on gear they don't use (yet), can't lift or struggle to program that's their prerogative and sometimes being in the club or part of the discussion is more rewarding than the gear itself irrespective of the price of admission or if they use the gear frequently or not - we are social creatures and BC is a great platform to share experience and opinions. I love music gear. I love testing and trying out pedals and amps and basses and my feedback pages will testify to that but I do love to do so within a band context as much as on my own. Like most BC'ers I do most of my bass playing at home with headphones normally with Logic running, maybe a drum pattern. I hear a lotof nuance and love using different preamps, EQ's and plugin of many tpye of gear in my DAW/Apollo to recreate and experiment with sounds and tones. I think in the past I've shared different eq screen grabs of my different basses explaining where one P pick up might be more mid forward at 500Hz on the graphic and other more prominent at 220Hz, frequency charts for that most utilitarian use of EQ and other gems. You know very well I love a bit of nuance and geek chat and somewhere in a few hundred pages of DM you'll find those screen grabs, opinions and all the other nonsense we've discussed Anyhow derail aside I have a couple of pre amps to use with the Mooer which also has the option to models power amps so conceptually or dare I say practically the pre amp on my pedal board should suffice and I have both solid state and valve based units to try out both in isolation and in a room with the band. Exciting times ahead!

I don't. I never struggled with the form factor/U.I of the Stomp while I had one, found it pretty straight forward to use both on the fly and via the PC editor. I found Line 6 did a good job but I digress... Just bought a flat so my savings are well and truly depleted and any 'disposable income' for the foreseeable future will be spent on things like flooring and power tools! I was gonna sell off the pedal board then maybe nab something small and good enough to make the FOH/IEM sound a bit more authentic for the band mates, me and the punters hence my question earlier about the Zoom and comparing the Stomp. I don't wanna be spending £300+ on a pedal which I'm gonna use 3% off. It may well be unlikely that my 'high ticket' pedal board items will sell so... the Mooer seems like a decent way to have a 'better' FOH and IEM sound for little money and can pair nicely with what's unlikely to sell (the Cali76 and at least one of the pre-amps is my guess). If the pedals don't sell I'm not gonna be upset as they sound great but the additional cash would be handy of course. @Al Krow knows well I'm quite practical with my gear and see it as functional, tools to get the job done so my gear (not all at the same time I should add) gets some gig time and judged on it's merits in that context. It's why I like to poke fun at him for never really gigging his gear even though he does quite enjoy opining about it. Oh BTW How's the HXFX working out for you live? Banter aside the Mooer does sound promising and will be gigged with my remaining pedals at the end of Feb as an IEM/D.I. rig with my main band at our regular venue. I've got some other gigs before then but they're all with the amp and cab, no D.I. used.

Mooer bought! Very handy and impressive for it's size. I've been tweaking this morning and it sounds good just comp>mooer>hpf/lpf into headphones. I'll likely go to a local studio and try it into a PA to fine tune and hopefully it should be a straight forward side step to the gigging environment.

I think you’d have done just fine 😀 This wasn’t a wreckless seat of the pants gig. Good and or educated players can make a song work this felt more like someone who enjoyed all the aspects of being in a band except learning the songs. I’ve know a few folk like that.

I think this is what I was trying to say