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secondbestcody said:

...Darkglass Harmonic Booster...
The character knob is the secret sauce.

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+1

It's a really great clean preamp.

My serial R12 is going in for some maintenance work with a luthier who is also a Youtuber with a decent following. If he posts it for the channel I will share here. I would love a fretless one. I was in Quito a few years ago and tried to contact Olivo through his daughter to try and visit but I didn't get through to anyone sadly.

SwitchGear said:

Made in China if this matters to anyone

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USA made in China

mouthmw said:

It’s a really cool pedal that to me works best when you set it as an ambient style pedal (combinations work best to me when one side is set as a delay, reverb, swell etc). It can do really cool stuff that way but it can also do some standard fare modulation and digital pitch shifting. It can do some wacky CB bleep bloop stuff too.

I ended up selling mine just 2 days before the small batch release - and of course I felt seller’s remorse, plus I didn’t get to try the new resonator modes (firmware update) since the standard resonator mode did nothing for me on bass. So I’m waiting for the new black one now. I’ll say that the MIDI controller for presets at least feels like a must have. I would have kept my last one but I felt like I got all I needed ambient wise with my El Cap v2 but I’m giving it another go now.

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Thanks for that great info. Seller's remorse is real. I've re-bought pedals before too.

I was always intimidated to try the CB stuff, but I recently picked up a Dark World and it handles the bass tones really well. I think I'm gonna have to go back to school to learn MIDI and grab one of these.

Bass Viking said:

I see several basses I want!

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OldManNewBass said:

VERY nice...! Now you need one of those Fender Deluxe coil cables, I would go with the black tweed variant...!



Awesome...! Were you using the DI from the ACB50 to the FOH, or...?

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Thanks
Yes I was using the DI out of the amp…

BeeBatty said:

A troll that pops up its head up every four years. Nothing to be concerned with.

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It gets lonely under the bridge so once in a while the great troll magically appears from the depths of his mom’s basement and imparts his wisdom on the online masses. We can choose to ignore them or in my case I tend to outright roast them back into hiding for another fortnight.

I just recently buy this baby! It’s from 1994, absolutelly killer tone, and more comfortable than TRB II!
It produce little noise, especialle when the treble is at zero, or more, and when the neck pickup is soloed…
Should I shield it with copper foil, or do you have any other tricks or solutions for this?

In the Aria club thread recently there's been discussion about pickups.

Damn, tried to file the nut a bit lower and the wall of E slot chipped. It still works but going to get a new one as the nut is also a bit too high and now I don't dare to file. Does anyone know if this fits? I am wondering as it says flat bottom?

Found it: Squier Standard P Bass Special Family

bassbrad said:

I like having the options and sometimes just play with the various combinations too see what makes my ears smile. Some bass, amp and cab combinations are simply pure magic. My favorites are Monotone, Bassman and for more edge the Marshall Major or for mellow B15. I will often use an amp sim for distortion sounds as I find that to be a weak point in that era of Zoom modelling for bass especially.

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I’ve been playing with the distortions and I might be wrong but so far nothing has struck me as that great. I know you have to really fine tune them because the preset is always loud and obnoxious. I’m super picky with drives though. I don’t use them much but when I do I only have a couple that I like and they are separate pedals. The reverbs, modulators, synths etc are really cool though. Some of those could absolutely be thier own pedal and be useful. One small feature I would have loved to see on this is for any setting on a single channel to be able to be copied to another channel. It looks like to copy it makes you have to copy everything in the channel to the other one. I’d love to be able to just pick 1 pedal sim and move it to other channels so I can more easily standardize my channels and use them moreover for swapping amp sims vs rebuilding everything from ground zero. I guess that’s why they give you so many channels to edit so that way you can toggle between everything.

T_Bone_TL said:

A good machine shop would be able to turn the welded area back to the correct shape. Machine shops are pretty widely distributed, "good" may be a bit more of a challenge.

Seems like there must be a design flaw of some sort for this to be a common problem. Or else this part is the "mechanical fuse" to prevent damage to other parts when it's cranked too tightly. Better to use an easily replaced shear pin for that, IMHO.

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Since I'm a decent enough machinist, my first thought was that you could bore out the threaded portion and braze in an entirely new shaft, since there's not much left to work with there. Grabbing onto the threads might require making an adapter with the right inside diameter.

Of course you only get one try.

I bought a couple of basses (Cort B4, G&L L-2000) to potentially have one replace basses including the two Squier Standard PJs, but I keep finding I prefer the Squiers, even though they are cheap. The necks are slim, they sound good. The irony is they were probably made in the Cort factory too.

Decisions, as I must thin the herd. It's getting silly.

walterw said:

that's a guitar pedal power supply

most in-ear units i've seen needed way more power than those typically provide. exactly what in-ears do you have and what's the current draw on each?

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Yep, definitely more power required than ur typical BOSS pedal, but up there with some "tone" pedals.
Most of the IEM units whose specs I checked are in the 300-450 mA range.
The CIOKS C4E can handle that.. as can the C8E and others...
I haven't checked Voodo Labs units..

Thanks.
I'll pitch PirateShip to the seller and see if he can work with it.

basadam said:

Recently I spend a lot of time recording at home with headphones. There was nothing wrong with ChiSonics except 60-cycle hum. On headphones, hum gets to you after a time.

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That would drive me batty, too. Thanks for responding.

Tunnels at the gig we did with them.



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EWH said:

told my wife that I bought it "for our daughter" who was 2 at the time...

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Well done sir! Well done!

Oh, that's Jeff Boomhouer's ad. I din't know he was a basist

EdwardofHuncote said:

I'm careful, but it happens... I don't sweat the small stuff. A little scratch or ding here or there is nothing to get tore up about, especially when you are on a gig playing. If I can't take a bass or guitar out and play it, what's the use in having it?

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I'm with you. I'm careful, but not to where it prevents me from gigging with my basses. I try to make sure all my gear earns its keep, and I know life is going to happen. But I also don't own a real high-end or vintage instrument. I'd like to play Felix Papallardi's Gibson bass for a few minutes.... I wouldn't want to own it.
I've read where some musicians who own a vintage or famous bass will 'retire' it from the road. I'm sure they're busy enough in the studio that it still gets some love.

Man, I hope the GOAT himself see's this thread and chimes in. Stanley has always been a next level artist; what an incredible talent.

I grew up in Mobile, and we made it to the airshow in Pensacola often. My dad was USCG. Honestly enjoyed watching their lead-up practices more than the airshows sometimes. They'll get right down on the beach and close to the top of water, and just give beachgoers a private airshow.

My Blue Angels story is when I was probably 8-10 years old, we were staying in a relative's beach house near Pensacola during the offseason. They started buzzing the beach, because we were the only people on that spit of land. They were waving at us, but still some distance out over the water. We eventually went back to the beach house, and I watched them from the 3rd floor. I was just in awe.

As they were wrapping up their session, one of them lined up on the main road between the beach houses, and flew sideways at nearly our level, passing so close I could see every detail inside the cockpit. I excitedly yelled down to my dad how it wasn't that loud, then the sound hit me mid-sentence. I had no idea about the speed of sound back then, but the sound rocked my world. One of the coolest experiences of my young life. Probably contributed to my tinnitus, but.......worth it!

This is all I got


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