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I have a BeatBuddy (original) on a small jam board that I use when playing with a guitarist friend. Purchasing additional loops for specific styles and songs is pretty straightforward. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but switching sections and adding fills is all part of the fun.

In most cases, certainly. The Echo Fix mentioned by @el murdoque earlier will do a pretty decent impression of a flanger with the rate dialed back and the resonance dialled up, which is typically how I use it, in vibrato mode to one side of a wet-dry dual amp rig.

Innovative approach to marketing.

A brief update. Further experimentation was delayed by string breakage and switching over to Spiros. Interestingly, the effect of the transformer box is nowhere near as marked with the Spiros as it was with the Garbos. I surmise that the built-in EQ curve of the transformer better matched the...

All of these are good suggestions. I’ve had the new Lightning Boy 23Fx for about two weeks, and it’s pretty extraordinary for a passive "pedal". I have it first in my chain for the purpose of increasing the impedance of my active pickups, but the colour, low-end boost and compression it adds...

Thanks for the tip, but my bass seems naturally to be quite dark-sounding, and all four strings seem well-balanced and if not exactly mellow on day one, I’m not getting the whiny harshness that some others experience.

I received my fresh set of S42Ws on Monday (excellent service from Gollhur, USPS and NZ Post :)), and put them on today. The feel and sound are obviously vastly different from the Garbos they’ve replaced. The former is going to take some getting used to (this evening I have been occasionally...

They can literally go anywhere in the chain, but users will often put them immediately after digital effects to “warm them up” (I don’t have any of those in my setup, so I can’t vouch for that). They’re generally quiet, but can pick up interference from power supplies and so on, so that may...

Are those for a 1/4-scale bass, or am I misinterpreting the label?

Sorry to hear that; I guess my edit above doesn't help either, then.

That sucks -- has the internal loop been cut, that turns it into an isolation transformer? Edit: I just opened my (working) 23Fe+, and there's not much to see, the board covering most of the internals. If that can be removed, which presumably involves unscrewing the jacks, there is a small...

I like this one, but slightly prefer the standard shape in 2.0 mm; I believe 1.5 mm is the thickest Prime Tone triangle. The 2.5 and 3.0 mm picks are just a little too much of a good thing. I've been doing a bit of experimentation over the past few weeks after using Gravity picks for a while...

In addition to its impedance-increasing function, the Mag-Boost turns out to be a really nice saturation device. I’m on a brief holiday along with a bass, playing through my travel practice rig of Apogee Duet 3 into amp modelling on my MacBook (usually Markbass) and headphones. The small...

Thanks! I've had Evah weichs on the same bass before (which replaced the Corellis that were installed when I bought it), and never really gelled with them, although I can't remember the details regarding why not. I think I just couldn't hear myself so well. The Garbos with gut G have (had) a...

My Velvet Garbos have just given out on me, very conveniently while I’m away on holiday with my bass. I’ve been agonising over what to replace these with for a while, in anticipation of this day. Various suggestions from threads here, retail sites such as Gollihur and String Emporium, and I’ve...