BB434 is much much better option for not much more money.
You aint gonna find anyone to stop you buying gear here. You will spend more most likely.
7 Likes
8 Likes
Exact-a-mundo! 
4 Likes
I’ve always been baffled by the noisy P bases I come across. Even if the pick up is a humbuckers we still get noise if the base is not shielded? Like even the first pup in lobsters video should’ve been hum canceling?
2 Likes
Normally, every split-coil '57-style P pickup is hum-cancelling. The previous P pickups were true single coils with nothing at all to cancel the hum. The shielding can help a little bit sometimes, but it’s usually a very small (if any) improvement.
Some pickups are better than others to manage the hum, it’s more about the construction quality of the pickup itself. Also it depends if the pickup is vintage-specs or more modern.
4 Likes
Yes, I understand single coil hum. but what I’ve encountered so frequently is a bass where there is a noise, not exactly 60 cycle hum, that goes away when you touch any metal including the strings. I’ve heard all kinds of theories about this. Many people say this is just grounding functioning, perfectly, and bases make noise. If that’s true, why don’t bases with humbuckers make a noise? also a straight P bass with nothing but a traditional P pick up should make zero noise. I just don’t understand it must have to do with shielding.
3 Likes
Grounding not shielding.
3 Likes
Great buy! Love the metering
4 Likes
Metering finally convinced me to buy Empress vs Origin.
5 Likes
This is a huge mistake by Origin Effects IMO.
If they kept the arry of LEDs vs. the dopey one glowing LED they would win the universe on in-production comressor pedals.
4 Likes
Was looking at those last night actually! 
Kinda torn between the SCR-DI and Laney Digbeth preamp (and maybe Trace Elliott Transit-B )
2 Likes
Is it not true that if the sound goes away when you touch metal that is proof that grounding isn’t working?
3 Likes
yeah it’s more about a bad grounding
4 Likes
So maybe this isn’t the right forum or thread for this discussion and I’m certainly not trying to argue with anybody because I’m still confused but I’ve spoken to two different luthier’s and I just miss spoke I meant to say, isn’t it true that when you touch metal and the sound goes away, that is prove that the grounding IS working? Like in Lobster’s video that started me talking about this in this thread, he talks about having already fixed the grounding, but was planning on doing shielding to make the noise go away.
1 Like
The writer of this is talking about how I understand it.
1 Like
It is true. It’s grounding issue, that said fixing the shielding issue may not solve your issue. There’s no one fix for your issue, it could be number of problems. When I fixed my first couple of hum issues I thought I know exactly what to do but I kept finding new ways to fix that problem, lol.
3 Likes
what do you think? i have to admit i am somewhere in the middle on mine. i love the led metering and overall i think it sounds good. however it is nowhere even close to being transparent, even with the tone color off it has a pronounced empress sound.
2 Likes
Hmm, do you have Bass Compressor or the MKII?
I find mine rather transparent with the Tone+Colour switch in the central position (it is not 100% transparent though).
There are also those dipswitches, have you tried them?
3 Likes
the mk2. edit: sorry it’s early, i have the bass compressor. and thanx for the link, i did not know this. is this for the original, the mk2 or both?
2 Likes