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I like to blend compressed clean with a tube screamer type pedal, jazz bridge pickup, played hard! You just have to boost the high mids loads. I used to use a guitar amp in combination with my bass amp to acheive that.

from the spec on their site it looks like any 12V DV supply which can do at least 3 amps will suffice

It depends on the instrument really. I have 1 guitar and 2 basses that stay in tune for ages. The rest of them all tend to slip out of tune fairly regularly.

I think if it's just building loads of layers it can get very messy, and if the guy is doing 2 or 4 of each layer it gets very tedious. I use my looper in a band context, so that I can keep a bassline going and create another texture on top

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1377286348' post='2185939'] No speaker breaking up but Tim C's recorded sound relies heavily on his cabs as well as modified amps. Around then in sure he was using 3 SVTs of somekind. 1 ran clean, around this time it's a very woolly thump, lots of highs have been cut, the other two set with increasingly more distortion. I've tried to get close to his Evil Empire sound, with my pedal board. One clean channel mixed with overdrive, using two BB preamps. 1khz boost too, brings out drive well. Could get a rebegades sound if I had an EQ on the clean channel. [/quote] I'm a big fan of his sound, and have read all about how it's done etc. I can do Evil Empire with a TS clone blended with some parallel compression and EQ. The sounds on Renegades that I'm on about are something else. I'll have to give it a listen and point out a specific section. It's not like anything he does on other albums, it sounds just like when you put too much low end through a crappy cab

xgsjx - I guess someone is using your laptops a little too vigorously.

I think if you're using it for browsing, you're not 100% confident in your AV and firewall, and you visit the odd dodgy website, then they're probably quite important. Otherwise you'll be fine.

Do you really need support for XP though? Unless it's got some sensitive data on it and it's used for browsing, I'd just keep the AV up to date and leave it.

Magic Garden studios (had a few hits) were running Mac OS on a PC when I was there a few years back.

flyfisher you could run W7 on your current machines I'm sure.

My genuine experience of using a Mac as a DAW was while at uni. There was a very nice pro tools rig with HD24 controller. It was wonderful to use until it crashed. It crashes every time we used it. I lost all of my projects twice over and was given an average mark after the uni tech gave up on trying to fix it. I've been to several pro studios running Macs and they all seemed fine. I've also been to several pro studios running PCs and they're find too! Personally I prefer to run a PC because I know how to fix it.

Macs will be more reliable if you're going to connect the computer to the internet, keep all the software up to date, and don't know a lot about computers. If you keep your music machine disconnected from the internet, and stick with the software versions which work for you (which I recommend) then without a doubt PCs can equal Macs, and they're a hell of a lot cheaper.

I like multis because you can turn lots of effects off and on with one button. You can do this with a pedalboard but it means spending quite a bit of money. I hate multis because it's easy to get lots in menus and they're rarely simple to use. I hated the Boss GT6b for this. I think the Zooms are much better, but it still takes a lot longer to set up a sound using this when compared to setting up a few seperate pedals.

there are a couple of sounds on the Renegades album by RATM which really do sound like a speaker breaking up. I don't liken this to any overdrive pedal I've ever heard - which sound more like an amp distorting than a speaker breaking. Anyone know what I'm on about? And how he got that sound?

I've used the nail file on my swiss army knife before - seemed fine to me!

I think it's obvious isn't it? That's why people go to see a live performance, is to get the visual, as well as the sound which they can hear at home.

Then you'll have a software-synth problem!

you have a pedal problem!

I thought you wanted to apply the pedal effect to the output of your vbass, to do that you'd have to use the Aux. I thought another cool option would be to blend them using the 3rd channel ... hadn't even considered switching between the two! That's a bit more difficult. Is there a mute switch input for the Vbass? If so you could wire that to the switch on the pedal, or to a switch in a TB loop (pretty easy, just two solder points), still have the pedal going to a third channel, but when you kick it on it would mute the Vbass

I don't think you'll get to control the level of the Aux send on that mixer so you may struggle. If you could just run it parallel to the Vbass using a 3rd channel that'd be simplest I think

I can't see a manual on the downloads page but it does say it has aux sends. Usually you would plug the send into the input of your pedal, the return into the output of the pedal, and then use the aux-send knobs on the channels you're using to mix in some of the effect. I would try that and see how it works, it might be cool! But it might be better to run the jack output of your bass to the pedal, and to a third channel on the mixer.

why not go from the vbass in to the pedals? Or do you really like the stereo sounds? Could you run the jack output from your bass into the pedals and have them in parallel? If you had an AUX on your mixer, you could apply the pedals to both L and R channels, yeh. What's the model of your mixer?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1376150539' post='2170289'] [b]...[/b][size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000] Other features include an Effect Loop with a Mix 50/50 switch (for parallel or series operation), ...[/color][/font][/size] [/quote] Does anyone find this feature useful? I've seen it on a few amps. I love a blend control with my effects but I hardly ever set it to 50/50. It seems to me they could put a blend knob on there just as easily as a switch, and it'd be much more useful.

I find that even when I play un-plugged, slapping is quieter than plucking and picking. Maybe there's some slap technique where you can get the strings to resonate in a comparable way? But for me a pedal or two is the answer. I like compression on slap as it gets rid of any nasty spikes (another hint at my appauling technique?). I happen to love the sound of distorted slap, so I use a dirt pedal to do the compression.

Men Imitating Machines were amazing to see, definitely going to see them live in a couple of weeks. Also tayste's board is tayste!