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I suppose you could call a playing technique an effect - palm muting for example, drastically changes the sound of the bass. If I use a pedal to get my palm muted sound, but you use your palm, we're both getting the same effect, so maybe you do use effects even though you've got no boxes on the floor?

Great thread. I'm going to give this a go now the creepjoint album's out of the way. Also I have years worth of sessions I can export stems from - just in case we ever run out

I like to parallel blend it with a really harsh attacking overdrive sound

yes, that's the kind of insight I love. I guess you have a few more basics to cover on the blog, but when you have, a sort of general "step by step mix session" would be ace. I know everyone has their own methods/work-flow but personally i'd find that fascinating.

Great stuff! I feel like I know a lot of this stuff but it's like good revision. You should write a text book Si!

I've had problems with that before. I got a very nice guitar sound using a dry track on one side and then a delayed version on the other. When summed to mono it just disappeared. Obviously the delay time I liked meant it was totally out of phase with the dry track. But yeh i'll give it a go when playing. Maybe I don't notice 3ms because I can hear my bass quite loud acoustically when I play.

interesting. I'm going to try and figure out how much latency I can hear by playing through my computer and radually increasing latency. I think I get about 3ms at the moment which I don't notice.

I think he meant in like a Roland modelling amp or the like, which I guess would be pretty much 0 latency

I have the XP-100, there is a bit of latency. I use mine for octave up and pitch bends and it's fine for this. I don't really notice tracking issues but I would never use it below a D I suppose so wouldn't have noticed. Anyway, it has the harmony modes from the Bass Whammy apparently (not that I use them) I'd like to test the WH-4 against the WH-5. The WH-4 is OK on bass but the sound is thinner than the XP-100. I'd say the tracking is similar.

recent thread is definitely very useful. The rest of it is fine IMO

I do a thing with my whammy on octave up, quite a bit of distortion and EQ etc, all inside a feedback loop, going into a delay pedal. If I play very lightly, there's almost no attack to the sound which then swells out with increasingly high notes. Depending on what you're playing it does a very good church organ.

I would love to get the RME but I doubt i'll be in that sort of market for the next 10 years. Maybe by then there'll be some real 2nd hand bargains!

Heh, we're not all as fussy as 5imon I don't mind a tiny bit of latency, every audio interface i've tried has been fine for me. As long as you're not trying to use on-board sound or one of those cheap USB-Jack Cable things you should be OK. I used to have a dodgy copy of the ampeg SVX which was quite cool, but honestly I never liked the bass sounds as much as those you can get by adding your own EQ, compression, dirt etc. So maybe just invest in an interface and start playing about with free VST plug-ins.

I don't really have a clue when it comes to amp modelling or effects from the PC, but it does seem to me the B9.1Ut could be fixed easily, which would be my preference.

you should be cutting not boosting!! I have the 18V EMG system in my schecter and I never clipped my B2.1U but maybe that has a different input section

a choice of duration would be good, so you could set 10 seconds, or 2 minutes or infinite etc.

Just downloaded and it works really well! Could we have an audio click/bleep as well which can be muted? I'll try and do a quick icon but design is not my forte! EDIT: Here you go, it's crap, probably no better than nothing to be honest [url="http://creepjoint.co.uk/livebpm.jpg"]http://creepjoint.co.uk/livebpm.jpg[/url]

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1352212383' post='1860173'] Jeez, you guys heard of Google? [url="http://www.ollapp.com/app/clockwork-metronome-click-track/android"]http://www.ollapp.co...k-track/android[/url] [/quote] Not available yet? that "Metronome: Tempo" app looks like it'll do the job. it's 65p though and i've not yet added a payment method to my phone so can't try it at the moment.

I have metronome apps and one of them allows tap tempo. All you need to add is a "save as..." button. the program would then save the tempo, you type in a name, it stores it as name.tempo and then you can open these files from within the metronome app. I've done some programming in the past but I have no idea how to do android apps

Good idea. If you could have an audio click for the drummer to play along to as well, this would be the perfect app for me.

yep, sorted. If you like the sound then long term you might be better off with just a power amp, rather than the shuttle

why do you want your rack in the loop? Does it have a blend control? If so, I don't think it's possible. If you just want them in the loop for some other practical reason, then plug your ampeg pre into the rack, and then rack into the FX return as usual

ahhh well. I actually love an expression pedal on multi-effects. Being able to control the rate of a phaser for example, is something you can't do with regular "stomp boxes".

If you can get on one of the dance nights at The Old Brown Jug it'd suit you but it's probably too small a venue. Fat Cats in Hanley would be good but again you'd struggle to get people there. I'll have to make the effort and get to a gig in Nottingham.

if you assigned the expression pedal input to input gain (and you didn't need it for something else) you could have a pot wired to that jack, or even just a resistor to fix it at a certain value.