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Common advice for this is to get a multi player ffects unit and find one that you like. Then go out and buy the real thing, fall in love with it for about 2 weeks and then rinse and repeat. 😄
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The Great Mystery of Mid Scoop - What's the Appeal?
paul_5 replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Theory and Technique
I think it’s something to do with the human ear having developed to be more sensitive around the ‘speech’ frequency -round about 1kHz - too much information around this point in the audio spectrum can be tiring on the brain, so scooping it out makes for easy listening. I could be wrong though. -
And Club Tropicana too.
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I don’t really rate them for modulation effects, there are MUCH better phasers and choruses out there for similar money, but for guitar overdrives and distortions they’re exceptional for the money, and virtually indestructible.
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Less of a train-wreck, more like natural selection to me.
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One band I dep for has a ‘Hawaiian shirt’ schtick going on, so there’s that, but otherwise just jeans and t-shirt. I can’t abide things round my wrist when I’m playing.
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Gett off -O+>
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Jesus! That’s not even close!
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Obviously that could change depending on the knob playing it. I was offered a fretless Wal for a staggeringly low price years ago. Not buying it is probably my biggest regret (well, as far a basses go) as they now change hands for significantly more than I'm able to spend on an instrument. Having played it I can see why they are so expensive; if you think it looks good, just wait until you play one. -
Trace Elliot AH350SMX bass amp - *SOLD*
paul_5 replied to Grezza 1's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
Buy this amp and stave off infection due to its Anti-Covid properties!! 😄 -
500k volume pots will give you a brighter sound, but won’t make your bass any louder. what I’ve seen done to supercharge passive pickups is to place s bar magnet underneath the pickup, so that it increases the magnetic field.
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I can't stand his music but follow him on Twitter just for the barbed replies.
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Pssst, Rickenbackers can now be sold in BC classifieds!
paul_5 replied to Downunderwonder's topic in Bass Guitars
Yeah, is that actual buckle rash, or is it erm, knuckle rash? -
Assembling/building your own is absolutely the way to go with fretless, unless you're prepared to drop some serious coin on having a luthier do it. The beauty of the Fender bass is that necks and bodies are pretty much interchangeable, and if you don't mind putting a bit of work in you can reward yourself with an amazing instrument that's significantly cheaper than it would be anywhere else. My main squeeze looks a lot like yours - oiled and sealed wood is my favourite finish too.
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Awesome 'Faux'-C2 pedal. built like a tank too! -
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Because then would be too tempting! -
Made this in a whim as I got into a debate about whether it was the best bass fuzz in the world. I still reckon it’s a close second to the coloursound bass fuzz, so I’m offering it up for sale. Gated octave fuzz with clean blend and toggle switches for harmonics and filter. I managed to source original specc’ed transistors and transformer, so it’s as close as you’ll get without paying £200 for one. no Velcro on the back, and a delightful (but not too bright) blue indicator LED. sold.
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Fixed
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Very. well, quite. My finger technique is very aggressive, so that doesn’t change, but all of my stuff has been built me to do specific things, so it’s fairly essential.
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That would be Slash surely, since he pinched his ‘Appetite’ LP.
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indeed - I struggled to source 3 MXR style (and size) knobs in a garish purple. They were to go on my equally offensive Yellow pedal. How else would you decorate a ‘Prunes and Custard’ clone?
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The ‘squelchy’ feel of this comes from them being optical filters, instead of OTA chips, as well as a couple of other things, but an optical filter will always respond differently to an IC.
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I used mine as an experiment board - different pickups, tone caps, defretted it. It ended up in a skip cos it was made of chipboard, but it served a phase.
