paul_5

Here's my 2pworth. ProTools isn't the be-all and end-all of DAWs, and I'm saying the as a PT user of 20 years. If I had my time again then I wouldn't have chosen ProTools; Avid (the current owners) aren't great at providing bug fixes and patches, and are focussed purely on making money via subscriptions - I have a perpetual license, but some of their plugins have stopped working until I reactivate my subscription. I think Reaper should be high on your list of DAWs - costs very little (in comparison to Cubase, Protools etc), will use any kind of plugin format (VST, VST3, AAX, AU etc...) and is ridiculously economic on CPU and RAM resources - meaning the you can do far more in Reaper before your computer starts complaining about lack of resources. If I had the time to learn a new DAW then this would be my first port of call.

13A seems a lot for a tube pedal, unless it's got proper HT in it!

A good indicator is current consumption - the vast majority of analogue pedals will be happy with roughly a hundred mA, digital stuff will a usually in the region of 500mA. Unless you’re running a valve pedal - they need lots of juice too. the obvious exception is digital delays - they can quite happily run at 40 or 50mA, but they will have delay times going into a few hundred milliseconds - much longer than analogue delays.

Looking to ‘bass-iffy’ a Klone Centaur Clone that I built on veroboard a while ago. My change in guitar playing means that I’m not really using overdrive anymore, as it’s running at 18v I might put an active DI in there and retire my DHA VT1 from active duty.

I know that I find Jazz profile necks easier to play, and therefore practice for longer - this is a good thing. For this reason I have J necks on all 3 of my basses. Electrics and pickups etc... have come and go, but they’ll always have J necks. If you’ve got the choice to tailor an instrument to make playing less of an effort why wouldn’t you?

It’ll never catch on! 😄

I think there’ll be less headroom one the resistor value increases. Of course, this is all conjecture, that’s just the simplest way to fit a ‘make it filthier’ switch!

£20 for an extra switch - it’ll just be a change of resistor to set the minimum gain of the overdrive loop.

Really looking forward to watching this when I get home from visiting family-types.

That’s a DEEP rabbit-hole!

Slayer and occasionally Lamb of God, not really found anything else up that end the spectrum that really tickles my fancy.

After being a huge Rush fan for about 20 years I borrowed a ‘70s Rickenbacker 4001 from a friend to do some studio sessions with. Plugged into my (then) Ampeg rig it sounded immense; both the engineer and myself were grinning like a pair of loons. couldn’t get on with the super skinny neck, so did the session with my Jazz. Shame.

Surely any Peavey kit is a vintage Land Rover or Toyota Hilux?

Guns of Bricks-ton - the Clash

12v dc can easily be dropped down to 9v using a 7809 voltage regulator, you’d need to invert the dc supply though, as the laptop supply would be centre positive.

I’m not likely to need to tow a car out of a ditch though- .115” for an E string?!?

More of the latter, not so much of the former, I’m a pragmatist.

Given that all of mine are Bitsa basses mine would have to be a kit-car of some kind, nothing flashy mind, all ‘utility vehicle’ sort of thing.

Just got a set for £18.50. looking forward to restringing my fretless...

A wazzok of bass players?

Are they any good for.... ...oh what’s the point!?! Seriously though, how do they sound/feel?

Family Affair - Sly & TFS

MoonDance - Bilbo

Just picked one of these bad boys up as a pre for a home-made speaker cabinet to practice the six-stringer through. Very, very good little box. It’s a clone of a discontinued Sansamp, am excited to see what it sounds like as a direct preamp into Protools...

Depends on what sound you want from the envelope. I’ve had pedals set up this way to give the octaver a uniform signal to help the pitch detector, and it also gave the envelope filter a fixed input for uniform synth style attack, like I said, depends what you’re trying to achieve - analogue synth tones, or ‘porn bass’!