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Had some time to wait for a guy who wanted to buy a bass from me (and did so) and I noodled arround with my BB1000MA this afternoon. It's just for fun, nothing serious! BB1000MA over an old Zoom B2 into a Zoom R8 recording device. Relax 🙂 BB1000MA

Ah...good news. 🙂 Thank you !

It seems as if the seller has given up his fine work??? 😞

Thank you !

I am sorry that I asked someone in this thread if he was interested in a bass. I got "a penalty point "that will never expire" , whatever that means. The evil content can't be shown to me, because I have "no permission to see it" and the email from bc can't be answered because it's a no reply mail. So sorry IF the question I asked was the reason ... OMG....

After nearly 2 years of only playing the Telecaster I had to record a bass and took the bb out again. I still love the sound 🙂 What a brilliant bass 🙂

If you are not one of the lucky BBPH bass ownwers... other BB's will do ! 🙂 Recordet with one of my BB1000ma`s.

Happy new year! Frank Itt on his Yamaha's

Does anybody know if the scratchplates of the V4 are Fender std. sizes?

Thanks for the review! I wonder if the cab might sound even better with the Digbeth Amp on top. Because for the top I can say it sounds very unique / special.

I am still thinking on getting the high 410 for my Digbeth. The only thing that I don't like is the weight. Also interested in your review!

The pedal does not take batteries!

Found this guy in a dusty case somewhere... might be worth playing again.

Well, I am still totally in love with some Telecaster basses and bought a new amp and preamp and adjusted everything for the single coil basses. Now I readjusted some things and the BB shines again. For the new band, the Yamaha will fit better. It is a ridiculous talented singer/ songwriter .

Hi folks..... after a loooong time of not touching my BB's I found a new band and tried the new material with my main BB and.... I think it is kind of a BB comeback!

In the vid I put the bass directly into the ABM, without the B2..by the way!

Yes. This was my first one. I bought it used for nothing and put Yamaha tuners on and a Seymor Duncan QP pick up and the color of course. This is another one Red Tele

Telecaster / Ashdown

Al, my stuff might seem so odd to many bass players out there... Where do I start..? My main basses for the last 20 years have been several Yamaha BB1000ma's as you might know 😉 A bass that I can't recommend enough. B U T : About a year ago or so I changed to Telecaster basses. I just fell in love with the junky fad necks with maple fretboard. Due to the fact that corona killed some bands and projects I startet to fiddle arround with the Telecasters at home and they do things so well! As I only play rock music and don't have any chance to play slap style etc any more... a good solid tone is all I need. So I bought several Harley Benton cheapos and pimped them with new pick ups, hardware etc etc And I love them. But the odd thing is something else...my tone, even the clean ones I get out of a quiet old item.. a Zoom B2. These old pedals are so versatile and do have any pedal I need in one pedal. (effect wise) I easily have 10 different clean preamp tones inside and with this I can match any amp or cab. And although it is older than the B3/n pedals it sounds better (in my opinion) I tried many other pedals but nothing could compete. Strings: I use D'Daddario nickels, they sound warm and bright. Amp and cabs.. I am not a friend of light and digital. I played a Trace GP11 preamp with an external poweramp or simple Hartke LH1000 heads before I switched to one of Mark Gooday's Ashdown ABM heads. I toured with Ashdown and I love that this amp never let me down on the road! But again, with the B2 I can find my sound with any amp. The Digbeth is now finally a pedal (or head) that gives me some real tube sound (even without tube) (I tried digi amps of Markbass, Glockenklang etc etc, nothing beats a good transformer) Cabs..well, that's still an issue... my 410 Ashdown ist trusty and LOUD but I love my Hartke HyDrive 210 and I think I will get a second one. It just sound so cool and crisp and has so much low end. So right now my chain is: Telecaster with a Boss looper that goes A/B = Digbeth or B2 --- Ashdown ABM--cab

Too bad that you won't be able to feel the bass. Recorded only with a smartphone over a Hartke HyDrive 210 it delievers some serious bass......!! (Telecaster with single coil, as you will be able to hear..) 😉 Digbeth PRE video via smartphone

Well, a very good question. In my opinion, it sounds more like an analog bass head than many other pedals. It sounds very natural. I realy like it! I wanted the sound of my Digbeth DB500H also with other bass heads and the pedal does exactly what I hoped for. Even better because it is even more versatile than the head because of its eq section.

So the Digbeth Pre arrived. After an hour of playing I can say, that this unit is easy one of the best rock bass preamps I ever played. It's for "classic" tube tones, no Darkglass / metal distortion thing! The only thing that I am concerned about is... the first unit I bought was doa, something was clearly broken inside and was now falling arround inside the box. And the unit of today does this....somehow I don't like the sound... Strange rattling inside the unit The PRE is even more versatile than the 500H, the eq section allows a more detailed shaping of your sound! Like the head its strength is a warm deep bass tone that I like a lot!

I managed to order one of the preamps and will arrive on saturday. I am curious how the slightly different controls of the eq will differ from the amp.

All I can say is that the DB500H is the first lightweight head that I really like. I prefer old heavy amps tone wise and still think they sound better. But the Digbeth got me. Still I think I would take my trusty Ashdown ABM on a tour. It acquired some seriuos reliability over the years that I don't want to miss. The Digbeth Pre is a nice tool to have the tone with any amp. If you play in a band with guitars I would spend some bucks more to go with the 500head -it is loud as hell!