paul_5

All of those issues can be solved by sitting it on top of your amp. Kinda stops it being a pedal though... I had a VT1 EQ for (Many happy) years and used the 12v supply from my Donner DP2 power unit - delivers 12v at 500mA, so I just used a polarity reverser that it came with and never gave it a second thought. Before using the Donner I used to use a 12v laptop power supply with no ill effects - 12vdc at a couple of amps and it was already centre positive, so no need to invert the power supply. The only thing that I've heard that came even close to the DHA unit was a BlueTube 903 Tube drive. 3 band EQ and a 12AX7 (ECC83 to you and me) tube that is fully enclosed. They tend to be rare and expensive these days though. TC electronic do a Tube Driver for a LOT less than you'll find DHA kit for, but I've never used one. As with anything there's the Behringer version - the VT999 which again uses an honest-to-goodness vacuum tube with an EQ circuit, but again, I've only seen them.

Evelyn, A Modified Dog. - FZ

^Mag-bloody-nificent^

What I'd recommend is to take all of the pedals out of the chain and put them back in one at a time. This will identify where exactly the distortion happens, if you're still getting distortion without any effects then the problem is either before them i.e. your bass, or after them i.e. gain structure of your sound card/interface. If you get distortion using just the DI when the drive or blend is set to clean then it could be your power supply isn't delivering enough voltage and you're running out of clean headroom way before you should. It's time consuming, but it's guaranteed to work.

In their defence, both of those albums are incredible!

there is a third part to this equation...

Of course, given the resurgence of 'Puppetz' in Stranger Things they'd be foolish not to reference it it the video, but that's about the only thing of note in this. Lars playing 'Overkill' underneath Kirk and James playing Diamondhead riffs.

Valley Girl - FZ

These days, with long covid I'm not gigging at all. I miss it. Like most memories though, I suspect I'm not remembering the load-ins, waiting around, whizzed punters, ultra late nights and motorway service station meals.

6 underground - Sneaker pimps.

Shell Pink for me.

OK, I was a bit harsh on Rubber Soul - it's essentially the 'pivot' album between mediocrity and outstanding, but not a firm favourite of mine.

I like the Beatles from Revolver onwards - for me those albums represent the Beatles at their creative peak, catalysed by pioneering studio techniques. I rarely (if ever) listen to anything before this period as I find it all pretty insipid. YMMV.

WOW!! That grain just POPS OUT!!! that, sir, is a thing of beauty.

Christ. On a bike. I can't even.

What swung it for me (apart from being free) was the library of loops have a 5/4 section. You try finding prerecorded percussion loops in odd meter!!

Free 'fruit shaker' percussion plugin for Kontakt and Kontakt Player, not played with it yet, but who doesn't need more percussion, right?

Mex on fire?

Sounds like a really good Rat tuned for bass, but Lemmy? Not even close.

yes. 2 custom Jazz basses, one fretted, one fretless, and a P bass just 'cause.

Mellow Down Easy - Black Crowes

Mine cost me a fraction of that to make!

for AU (Apple/Logic plugin format) it'll be (hard drive name)\Library\Audio\Plugins\Components