Technical Data

Pedal Board (Basingstoke)

The band have affectionately named my pedalboard "Basingstoke", because it is about the same size as said town (so from now on I will refer to it as that)!

Basingstoke is based on a Pedaltrain Pro board, below are listed the effects in signal path order:

Aphex Punch Factory (Optical Compressor)
Boss ODB-3 (Bass Distortion)
Jim Dunlop Bass Wah
Boss CEB-3 (Bass Chorus)
Boss BF-3 (Flanger)
Boss TU-2 (Tuner)
Aphex Bass Xciter

All pedals are patched with George L's leads

Live setup:

My P bass (heavily modified, see the bass section)
Basingstoke
Trace Elliott Twin Valve Combo (see the amp section)
DI come from the Aphex Bass Xciter (sometimes I mike the combo directly instead).

Recording:

My P bass (heavily modified, see the bass section)
Basingstoke
Line 6 Lowdown studio amp
ART StudioV3 tube preamp

Rickenbacker 4003 Blueburst

When I am using the Rickenbacker I use the following setup:

Rick'O'Sound (the treble and bass pickups are routed to different amps via the following paths)

4003 treble pickup:

Aphex Punch Factory (Optical Compressor)
Jim Dunlop Bass Wah Wah
Boss ODB3 (Distortion)
Boss CEB3 (Bass Chorus)
Boss BF3 (Flanger)
Trace Elliot Twin Valve Combo (see amp section)

4003 bass pickup:

Aphex Bass Xciter
Hartke HA2500 amp (see amp section)

My Precission:

This originally started out as a Mid Eighties Jap Precission. Since 1995 I have made the following modifications:

Machineheads replaced with Schaellers and 1 Hipshot Detuner.
The bridge pickup was custom made for me by Kent Armstrong back in '95 (that was before he started makeing the off the shelf ones). I asked it to be "hot and vintage". Interestingly that's the name for his p-bass range now (I'll have to ask him if I gave him the original idea :-)).
The neck pickup is a Bartolini Tri-bucker.
The electronics have been replaced with a Bartolini 2 band active circuit.
The bridge is an old Bassass mark one.
The top Nut is brass.

Amp section

Trace Elliot Twin Valve Combo

I've had this amp for about ten years now. It's one of the very few all valve amps that Trace Elliot made and uses 2 KT88 power valves. It's only about 120 watts but it is really loud and overdrives beautifly (which makes it ideal for the treble pick on the 4003).

These amps appear to be incredibly rare these days. I've only been able to find mention of them twice on the internet. If you've got one of these hang on to it, it's the best amp I've had (and I've had quite a few)!

Hartke HA2500

This is a 250 watt solid state amp with a valve emulated preamp. Not much to say about this amp, I only use it for the bass pickup on the 4003 to fatten up the sound. It does the job OK but any amp would do for that. If I ever use it on it's own I'll let you know how it performs.