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I plugged it into the handy dandy string tension calculator, and a 120-100-80-60-40 set for C# would be SUPER tight. For the closest tension to medium gauge strings in standard, I'd have to go more like 115-90-65-50-35. Which makes me lean more towards the downtuning with DDT's route. If .115...

I'm joining a metal band that writes in C# standard for half their songs, and for the other half they drop the low C# to a B. This is probably the worst tuning imaginable for a bassist. If all their songs were drop B, I could just stay in standard on my 5 string and it would be a non-issue. But...

I've always followed this and I hate how it's not the standard for major brands. Having to buy custom gauge sets is a pain. Ernie ball and d'addario have way too much tension on the second and third strings and not nearly enough on the 5th. Instead of 45-65-80-100-130, it's really supposed to be...

If you tuned a 5 string to EADGC and didn't hate it, you'd probably have no issue with a 6 stringer. I got a 6 string bass a couple years ago because the prog band I was in required it. Their basslines had all been written and recorded with a fender bass VI, which I refused to use (I'm a...

Don't waste your money on a Darkglass. Mike used a Sansamp Bass Driver for this. You can get one brand new for less money than most Darkglass pedals cost used. It's also built sturdier than any darkglass pedal. DG uses small, cheap components that don't take kindly to stomping and can't be...

That first pedal is 100% Digitech. It's a Boss-shaped case but obviously smaller than the boss pedals. It looks blue to me, with 4 knobs, so it would have to be either the Digiverb or the Multi-chorus. More likely the chorus, because having reverb on bass can get pretty muddy, especially before...

I'm in the same boat as you. I've tried lots of newer gear from different brands, and none of it hits as hard as my old school Ampeg stuff. I tried a fender rumble 1x15, a Gallien Krueger 2x10, an acoustic 2x10, a markbass 2x10, a darkglass 2x12, an orange 2x12, a Mesa 2x10, and none of them hit...

First album I ever bought with my own money was White Stripes' Icky Thump (I'm in my mid 20's lol). As a kid in the 2000's they were my first exposure to rock music, they were like my generation's Led Zeppelin. I remember how satisfying it was to ride my bike to the record shop and finally walk...

Keep in mind also, adding more speaker surface area will make you louder, even without changing your power level. You don't necessarily NEED to get a 4 ohm cab, if you get an 8 ohm 1x15 or 2x10 you'll already be pushing A LOT more air than a 1x12, even though the amp would technically still be...

I ended up going with an idiotbox blower box and I love it. Mine is the older, more blocky version with 3 knobs on top and the volume up by the power input. It's basically a rat but for bass. It was originally made to replicate the Voivod nothingface tone, but it's a lot more than that, the gain...

Thanks for the response. Yeah from doing more research, it sounds like a lot of people don't really like it. I saw one person say the clean and dirty signals were out of phase with each other so he had to use a blender pedal with it. Which seems redundant to me when you can get a real Rat for...

This is exactly what I was thinking too. A lot of djent and metalcore bands just use plugins these days and not real amps, due to travel convenience and tone consistency. I wouldn't be surprised at all if both guitarists and the bassist all ran through those laptops as their entire rig and they...

I've been thinking about getting one, but there's no way for me to try it before buying, so I wanted to see what the general verdict on it is here. On paper it sounds like the perfect bass dirt pedal: you have both the Rat and the Turbo Rat in one pedal, with a clean blend. No need to use two...

You can hear his chorus pedal pretty clearly around the 2:52 mark of Jimmy, the riff that switches back and forth between clean and dirty a couple times. I used to have no idea when he ever used his chorus, but after listening closely with headphones I started noticing it in a lot of places I...

The Tone Pump Jr sadly doesn't have the internal volume pot that the regular tone pump does. My NS Pulse 5 has the tone pump jr with emg 40dc's. I usually need to keep the volume on it really low (almost off) to get a normal, usable signal level out of it. If I turn it up past 50%, I start...