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but to power 24 pedals I'd need 4 wouldn't I? Anyway, sorry, i'll stop de-railing, i'm sure there's a dedicated PSU thread somewhere.

I love the idea of a 5A supply, but i'd rather use a £5 daisy chain than a load of £40 distributors I'm planning to get myself a new PSU soon so was considering the gigrig but didn't realise how pricey it was

about the gigrig system - why would you need a distributor, rather than just a daisy chain?

in that case you're going to need a couple of delay pedals, a whammy, a feedback loop, an OC-2, a wah....

you're clearly setting yourself up for an expensive hobby. Be careful! I only wanted a variety of distortion sounds. 50 pedals later and yeh, I do love them, but christ when I think of the money...

I do this all the time. I have a Barge Concepts clean blender which most of my pedals go into. Then I have an LS-2 to blend two levels of dirt in parallel, on top of the clean.

If you're going for very high gain with the XXL I can see the clean blend being useful. You would want the chorus un-blended as obviously you can set the "blend" on the pedal it's self.

actually the boss daisy chain is designed to feed off a DC-out (for LS-2 or TU-2 or the like) but yeh I have other daisy chains which start with a female socket

are you sure you're going to need a clean blend? You won't need anything special PSU wise but obviously buy the best you can afford. No tips on the actual board sorry, but only 4 pedals, it can't be hard!

If i'm fooled in to thinking a performance is entirely live (and I would include live triggers in that) then I don't care if they're playing to a click/BT - obviously I don't care because I don't know. E.G watching a band play to a click with some BVs on a BT, and someone miming the BVs - I probably wouldn't be able to tell, and it would be infinitely more entertaining than watching the lead singer sing along to a BT on their own. You'd still get to see the musicians do their thing.

cool! I'd not heard of this either. It's a bit pricey for me but no doubt i'll buy a used one off the forum in a year or two

I have too many to list here!

when I was young, about 14 I think, we went to Lake Garda in Italy as a family. I saw 2 or 3 really amasing jazz bands and couldn't stop watching the bassist. It re-affirmed my love for bass and made me actually buy one to begin the switch from guitar. It would be a horrible shame if today's 14 year olds are not getting the same experience, but I suspect the "problem" is less rife than the thread implies.

I don't know Bilbo, what proportion of people would never order food at a hungry horse? Compare that to the proportion of people not prepared to listen to a backing track. It's probably similar

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1348567679' post='1815190'] No its not. Its exactly the same but indoors. [/quote] Yeh, where it's warmer and they serve beer - point proven

For me it's just slightly above the guy in the street with panpipes and a backing track

that wouldn't power a speaker

I have a lot of high end in my sound. Not "tweeter highs" but "guitar amp highs" if you know what I mean? I use an NS-2 and it's perfect... My problem was hiss but also feedback as I use a lot of distortion

I think sometimes you get an over-abundance of musicians in the audience, and a majority of them would rather watch you play than dance about. We were supposed to have a gig on Saturday night in Salford. The headline act was bringing a drum kit and backline but never showed up!! 2 hours drive, 1 hour waiting around, all for nothing. Why would a band do this? I hope it was a f*** up at promoter level rather than fellow musicians screwing us over.

I think a lot of multi-effects units and practise gadgets have built in rythms, but I wouldn't expect them to come with a power-amp. It seems to me you wouldn't want to use that sort of basic rythm pattern live.

very cool!

nice! What's the grey pedal hidden away in the middle?

A lot of people think that age correlates to musical experience. Also, a lot of people think that how long you've been playing correlates to ability. I've not had the ageism described in the OP, but I have had people be impressed just by the fact that i've been playing guitar for 20 years. In reality, I know people who've been playing for less than 5 years who are miles better than me. The amount of time you've been playing for has no correlation to your ability IMO.

All the Moog pedals, Human Gear Animato, Boomerang phrase looper pedal thingy... Can't think of anything else

[quote name='lxxwj' timestamp='1348182925' post='1810689'] Ahh, the fabled 'night shot'.. Great pick of effects, I might add. How's the old Ibanez flanger on bass? And what's that black Boss pedal with the pink stripe? [/quote] Yeh, I wish more people would do the "night shot". When I get more power, it's going to look like you're flying over new york The Ibanez is an SS10 chorus-distortion. It's actually my favorite dirt pedal on both bass and guitar. You can have the two effects in either series of parallel. It's very responsive to dynamics, really boosts the high mids, and gets very very nasty when you dig in. I really want to buy some more because i'm worried it'll break soon and i've no idea how to re-create the sound. The black pedal with a pink strip is an arion analogue delay which I use to make oscillations