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I can confirm he's got it. That's why he's being immensely quiet here, as he's making lots of noise there. He's also getting ready to go on tour tonight, so you'll need to forgive him whilst he runs around manically!

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1349726280' post='1829772'] Like I said earlier..... it's all in the parameter control. I really like having it in the band now although at first I was a bit sceptical. It's opened up a lot of possibilities that were not there before.... the band sounded awesome before we bought this in... we sound f***ing awesome now ;o) [/quote] Agreed. I've heard some really clever use of vocal effects, often used about 10% lower than most people would set it, and it's the difference between 'cheesy' and 'woah!' #technicalterms

On a more constructive note, I don't like these sorts of things when they are used as blatent cheats, e.g. a full band where none of them can be bothered to put in the effort to learn, however difficult they each find it. I don't have a problem with others using them where there is no other way they could find some harmonies, e.g. a solo acoustic act where the soundman is poor, some technology to polish up the vocal sound (not saying autotune, but eq, comp, etc) plus a low-level harmony can really make a solo performance come alive.

I know that guy!

I think I can count myself as exclusively fretless now. Haven't touched my fretted for a good few years now. Certainly haven't gigged with it in years. Great bass but the fretless is 'just me'.

Is that what Muse sound like these days? That song and sound was like U2 and Queen shoved in a blender. I'd happily listen to the sound, but it's a shame to hear a band that had an original sound years ago 'evolve' into something we've already got.

Yes, yes they do. Considering moving on my fretted W&T at some stage, just cos it doesn't get any play time. Not sure though.

The sound is epic. I've had professional musicians comment how they didn't even realise it was fretless til they came up close, simply because it sounds as punchy and as solid as a fretted bass would. Good intonation helps too

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just sold a guitar amp to Jon. Can be trusted, also good to have a natter to about gear in general!

There are a host of options: 1) To replace your amp, try a Tech 21 Sansamp Character series pedal. loads of different flavours of amps available, very tweakable, also with defeatable speaker emulation now. 2) To replace your whole pedal board, the HD series from Line6 is hard to beat for an all in one budget solution 3) To perhaps just go for your amp sound but more controlled, an isobox or a well-placed shield can help. 4) Powerscaling - if your guitarists wants true control over his sound AND needs reasonable breakup, check out London Power Scaling - can be added to almost any amp and allows you to get full power tube saturation at most any level. It's not a load or anything like that. It scales the power output of the power amp. Also, once you reduce it down to less than about 1-3W, you don't need a load - I just use a Palmer Speaker Sim DI box (PDI-09). I contacted London themselves to confirm this works before trying it, and he ran me through the mathematics of it. So with a small head/combo and this you don't need a speaker... but the DI also has a speaker out, so you could have that as well.