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Hi folks, My current signal chain for recording is a very simple one. I go from my bass into a Neve RNDI into an Audient iD4 mk2. This has been fine for my purposes. I have no complaints about the id4. However, my setup has started to expand as I've started making electronic music and have...

Hi folks, I've seen a few threads like this from the past few years, but none specific enough to my specific situation to bother bumping those. I have a first-generation Markbass Compressore pedal. I bought it used on here and I do not know exactly when it was built (late 2000s would be my...

Hi folks, After about a decade of regular use, my Comfort Strapp is finally starting to show its age, fray at the edges, and just isn't as squishy and comfy as it was. It can limp along for a bit longer, but I'd like to replace it at some point in the next few months. I definitely got my $35...

Morning all. I swear, someday I'm going to wrap my head around this concept, and hopefully today is going to be that day. So here's the deal. I am looking at eventually retiring my current live rig, which is two ancient Peavey heads bi-amped into a similarly ancient Peavey 1820 cabinet. I love...

Hi all, On my constant quest to disrespect my own back - sort of a carrot-and-stick situation balancing my two loves, playing bass and powerlifting - I have recently picked up a Peavey Bass MkIV and a Peavey 1820 cabinet - the cabinet is a single 18 and two 10s. The cabinet has inputs on the...

Hi folks, A bandmate of mine who plays bass in another band had his car broken into and his bass gear stolen after the gig on Friday night/Saturday morning in downtown Portland. The two big missing items were a Quilter Bass Block 800 with velcro on the bottom to stick it on a Pedaltrain Metro...

Hey y'all, Figured "Live Sound" was the closest to what I'm looking for here. I am confident such a product exists, but can't for the life of me figure out how to find it. In the interest of saving room in a rehearsal space shared by three different bands, my bandmates and I are discussing...

Hi all, Up for sale is a Damnation Audio MBD-2 in the CME Exclusive "Blue Hammertone" finish - these don't seem to come up often in this color and I believe were available for a slight premium. I can only find one for sale on Reverb and it's priced a bit higher than this (though it also...

Hi y'all, I'm going to preface this with a disclaimer: I have already emailed the owner of the shop. He has not yet responded, which is fine because it's been like an hour and it's after the close of business on a Saturday, I think the person I spoke to at the shop also said he was out of town...

Hi folks. So, I'm finally in the process of cleaning up this old bass I found on the sidewalk: Unexpected NBD - Sidewalk Find and I'm completely at my wits end with these stickers. The vast majority of them are not bumper stickers, but paper ones, which means that there is tons of paper...

Hi Folks, I've posted a bit about this issue before but I'm still trying to get to the bottom of it. I am currently upgrading my entire setup - I've gone from recording on my old gaming PC to recording with a Mac Mini (haven't set it up yet). Everywhere I have lived, I have gotten tons of...

Hi folks, I think I know the answer to this, but I want to make sure. I really like the tone I get from my ancient Peavey head, but being as ancient as it is, it does not have a balanced out, only a 1/4" "line out." If we are running direct live, the sound guy will usually run a 1/4" cable...

Hi folks, Up for sale is my GK 410/4 NEO. This thing is loud as all hell and incredibly light, but I just don’t vibe with the tone - this is a big, bassy cabinet that beautifully compliments a lot of GK’s heads, but I prefer a much clankier, high-mid focused sound that I’m not getting when...

Hi folks, There must be an option I'm missing here. I have a Pedaltrain Metro 24, which was $120 including a bag/case. A few months ago, my normally very-well-behaved cat got spooked and peed in the bag. Thinking I could replace it on the cheap, after a failed attempt at cleaning it out, I...

You are reading the title correctly. A friend of mine was walking to band practice yesterday and found a "pointy 90s era" bass in a pile of junk by the side of the road, propped up against a tree next to two car seats, a tool box, some milk crates, and an old tire. He texted me and I...

Well folks, it's been a year. I started out ampless, having sold my 150+lb Hartke rig from the eighties when moving into a third-floor walk-up. I then picked up a Hydrive 112 that I got for a steal while on vacation. Then, before going on tour, I picked up a GK MB500. Bands were sharing...

Howdy folks, Letting go of my trusty GK MB500. It's damn near mint. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it and it's served me well on numerous gigs and even a tour, but I've just never been able to dial in "my sound" with it, and my cat's got some medical bills to pay. Specs are here: MB...

So, I'm jumping the gun a little bit because I'm posting this from my work computer and the sound clips are on my home computer, but I wanted to start getting peoples' input. Plugging in to my computer to record, I often get a very high-pitched buzzing sound with a lot of crackles. At high...

Howdy y'all, I'm thinking I goofed here. I managed to pick up a Hartke Hydrive HX112 for $150 a few months ago. I can't figure the power handling out here. What I mean by that is that the HX112 has a maximum power handling of 300W, but Hartke regularly pairs it with the LX5500, which is 500W. I...

Howdy all. I have joined a new hardcore/metal project. I have two fives, one is very nice and expensive and I would not want to bring on stage at these venues. The other is my Dingwall NG-2. I determined that I would use a 5 since the guitarists have baritone 6-strings tuned to B and that was...

Hi all, This is a really cool fuzz that was made locally here in Portland by an old friend who has since stopped building pedals. There is very little information about these pedals out there so I have attached some sound clips at the bottom. This is number 001 of the run - I don't know how...

Howdy all, I am considering my next custom bass and while I could, and will, ask my luthier in the process, it's a slow day at work, I had too much coffee, and I like knowing things, so I figured I'd ask here. I find that most of the basses whose tones I know for being particularly punchy and...

Up for sale is my Pedaltrain Mini with a carrying bag. I have some feet glued onto the top of the board to raise it up at a slight angle. Hook-side (that's the scratchier part, not the soft part, right?) velcro on the beams. Normal dust/wear and tear on the board. Two of the zipper pulls are...

Hi all, I have an old Fernandes FRB with Passive PJ controls. I have had it for many years and it occurs to me I don’t know what the controls DO. I assume it’s volume, volume, tone, but the “tone” knob doesn’t appear to do much of anything. Maybe blend? I don’t know. so I figured I’d ask the...

I recently sold my trusty rig that I'd had since I started gigging, an old Hartke 2500 and 410XL, because that setup weighed nearly 160lbs and I moved into a third floor apartment with no elevator, and my band split up. I've got the itch to start a new project, which will eventually necessitate...

Hello! You know it, you love it, it’s the Darkglass B7K. This is one of the MIA models made by 3-Leaf Audio under contract in Seattle. No idea if that’s more desirable or not. Some wear and tear but it works as it should - only selling because I am going in a different direction with my tone...

Howdy LC! In a recent move, I discovered an old bass I had relegated to the dustbin of history that I'd like to try another crack at reviving. I got it in a trade with another member on here in 2009. It's an 80's Yamaha BB, I believe a BB 2000. When I received it, it had been set up like Billy...

Hello Justin! I'm sure there's a lot you can't tell us about the album yet, given that it was just announced today, but I'm curious about what you can tell us, in particular the dramatic stylistic shift away from sort of ambient-tinged black metal towards a a more shoegaze/post-rock oriented...

Howdy everyone, As always, I’m consulting talkbass before making a purchase. I’ve just moved into a smaller apartment (I was previously sharing a house with a few people) and I’m thinking of how to best store a lot of basses. I have five functional basses (one for sale right now), one project...

The time has come to part with the rig I've had since I started playing shows. Up for sale is my Hartke 2500 with a "Transient Attack" 4.5 Bass Module 4x10 aluminum cone cabinet with a 5" center tweeter. These are in "player grade" condition, which as we all know if the diplomatic way of...

Alright, so. Right now, for just goofing around and casual recording and other things, I plug my bass directly into my Scarlett 2i4 and then I run through a Neural DSP Darkglass Suite or similar. This gets me perfectly serviceable and manageable tones, but they're not MY SOUNDS since I don't...

It's always coming through my speakers but I didn't realize it showed up on recordings until I plugged in a stratocaster and fired up a clean amp sim. You'll hear it. What is it? All that static and feedback. That's the guitar direct into a Focusrite 2i4, USB into the computer. Like I said, I...

Hi all! I recently purchased an MUB G5, which I'm completely in love with. It's my first handmade bass after almost two decades of playing and it's rapidly become my number one. It spent about six weeks in transit from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, going from China to Japan to Alaska to Tennessee to...

Hello! I was recently talking with Jack Deville of Mr. Black pedals here in Portland about not being entirely satisfied with my distortion on my pedalboard (My Darkglass B7K introduces a lot of noise into the equation no matter what I do and I'm starting to find its distortion a bit "fizzy" at...

Selling my Peterson VS-S Pedal Tuner. This has been my trusty companion for years on several tours and countless gigs. It's bulletproof, tracks down to F0 and beyond, but I need to make some more room on my Pedaltrain Nano and this is almost 4" wide. In perfect working order. Washer is...

Hi all, Like the title suggests, I'm looking for a little bit of guidance here. I'm a huge fan of Billy Gould's tone on all the Faith No More records, and I know that around 2014 he switched to a Darkglass B7K (I think previously he was using a Fulltone Bass Driver through a broken-up Peavey...

Oh man, what a whirlwind this has been and what an amazing day it is now. I first contacted Maurizio in 2015 after seeing his builds here in the luthier's corner and seeing other TBers talk about his instruments. I started working with him on the ideas for a custom bass, and then lost my job...

Look. I don't like to complain* but I really just wanted to post this to a sympathetic audience. A few weeks ago I purchased a bass from a Maurizio Uber Basses in Malaysia - I was hoping to divulge all the details in an NBD post, but who knows when that's going to be at this point. Anyway. I...

Hi all, I've got a new 5'er coming in the mail, and I only have four wall hangers, so one's gotta go to free up some space! Up for sale is my early-90s Fernandes FRB. I believe it's an FRB-40, but as far as I know in this era the serial number and model number were just printed on a sticker on...

Hello! Selling my BBE Opto-Stomp. This is the model with the blue LED, positively reviewed here: BBE Opto Stomp Functions flawlessly, I am just looking for something with a little bit more flexibility due to how often I find myself switching instruments these days, and as such am planning to...