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I think if you're just playing roots, following the guitar, have the standard "thumpy" tone etc... Well, you are pretty un-noticable. The guitarist might as well stick an octave pedal on. And your job is easy. I'd say at least 80% of bassists fit the above bill, so that's the reputation all bassists get. I don't mind

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1348136717' post='1809734'] When I'm writing those three things are so intrinsically linked that they all develop at the same time. [/quote] that happens to me but I guess I just prefer the stuff which starts with beats. I end up with weird time signiatures which I hardly ever imagine with a melody at the same time... no idea why!

most of my best ideas actually start with beats, then bass, then a melody

I was having fun with this lot last night. It's ages since I made time to play on my own plugged in, and it was so much fun!! I have my sounds down perfectly now. If only I had some more PSUs I could add on my jamman, slicer, XXL, OC2... Maybe it's best that I don't

I imagine a lot of melodies. Sometimes it's very easy to translate them from my head to an instrument. Sometimes it's almost impossible. My back-up plan is whistling into a little recorder. The most frustrating thing is when you're trying to get one of these melodies out, but your limitations on the chosen instrument distract you from the melody in mind, and you end up forgetting what you were aiming for. Thankfully the older I get (but I don't practise much, or listen to music) the easier it is to get these melodies out.

Cheers!

[quote name='bigd1' timestamp='1348045360' post='1808379'] I think most of you seem to have missed the point that "The Customer is ALWAYS right". [/quote] Correct, and in this case the Landlord is the customer!

What's a filter factory lfo?

if it's a new thing then new strings would be the first test I think

I've done it before. Mic-pre into the effects return on my peavey combo. It mixes the effects return with the main input which is my bass. I used the mic pre to control the level of the kick. I also used EQ to cut out most of the low end from the kick mic 'cos I was worried about f***ing the speaker. It seemed to work fine. Also, when I started playing drums I used a guitar amp, cut most of the low end, and used pedals on the kick - envelope filter and delay being my favorites.

I've had this problem in a couple of amps. Replacing the power caps seemed to be the most common suggestion, and did work for me. No idea if this is good advice or not!

The OP is being modest. I've seen this rant in the flesh and "small" is not the word you'd use to describe it. Without a doubt the most desirable rant i've ever come accross. If I had the cash...

well it deffinitely wouldn't look as cool :-p

yeh more options for parallel blending etc would be very useful. I don't know of any multis that actually do this?

I'm pretty much the same as seashell, unless the band specifies otherwise.

in that case she could just tell them to f*** off, as it's just for a small portion of the show (from what I understand from her blog)

I think she's great in the Dresen Dolls. After reading the link to her blog post, I would say the article in the OP puts a ridiculous spin on this. She's asking for fans to come and join in with a couple of songs. She has a paid up band who are on every date of the tour, but to create variety in every different city, she's doing this. It sounds like a great idea to me. If you get up on stage to play bass with one of your favorite bands at their gig, would you stay there until they wrote you a check? Or would you f*** off back into the audience and carry on enjoying yourself?

well, you only really have 5 "outboard" units, you are running them in mono right? In which case you need something with at least 6 ins and outs. I would aim for 8 in and out. I guess you're aiming at a laptop else i'd recommend an M-Audio Delta PCI card which are great. I use mine for routing to pedals when we're DIing guitars and bass. Quite often I record a dry track, then feed this out to several pedals, record them all seperately (at the same time), then mix them together in the computer.

I think to have more than 2 or 3 parallel lines you'll need a mixer to blend them back together anyway. I like this approach but yeh it's not practical. You could replace the faders with volume pedals but got knows how you'd get foot controllable aux knobs. I suppose the answer is to get a soundcard and do this in the computer, then get a controller for that.

Clarky put me in touch with his mate so I could buy a pedal, all went swimmingly, cheers Clarky!

I think it depends on whether you want to construct complex patches with loads of effects on top of each other, or if you want to simulate a few single pedals. I think the B3 is somewhat limited to the latter method? As opposed to the B2.1U or B9.1U which can do the former.

nice one, i'll check this out later

some people struggle when borrowing my amp but it does tend to be people who EQ by eye, rather than by ear (not saying that's you)

I've had my TNT150 combo for almost 10 years. I bought it used! I've done over 100 gigs with it. It goes LOUD which is what I want from a bass amp. I combine it with a guitar amp for extra top end etc. but yeh, seriously heavy (not a bad thing IMO)

well, I used to do exactly that daisy chaining my zoom B2.1u with other pedals. The total was about 300 ma above the maximum capacity of the PSU but it never cut out or even sounded weird. If it works for practise... But yeh just get a decent PSU