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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

the Boss LS-2 would give you the ability to blend your normal signal with a seperate but parallel chain which goes through the chorus. There are other pedals around which allow this. Some amps have a blend control for their effects loop. I don't think the Bass Attack has an effects loop?

I thought the BSW did a fairly clean octave tone, you just have to roll all the synth sound off. I can't remember which control it is but it has to be all the way anti-clockwise.

I think it depends what you're doing with the zoom. Obviously the rating on the back is it's maximum current draw, maybe if it's doing less processing it's not drawing as much current? I'm totally guessing.

OK, a good example - I've seen quite a few big bands in Nottingham Rock City and they're always done before 11. I think it's because they have a club night afterwards, which plays rock music until the early morning. They're still playing different kinds of loud music in several rooms, why not keep a live band in one of the rooms all night long? It's the same for our local venue

OK, so maybe I don't know what i'm on about. All the local gigs i've played have started between 7 and 9 and finished between 10 and 11. The same goes for all of the "big name" bands i've been to see too

How do the two 4 x 10s sound together? Personally, i'd rather that than trade one for a 15.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1346933526' post='1794961'] We played a gig last month that didn't start until 1.30 in the morning! [/quote] That sounds ace, where was it?

you can't have too much, the more the better

yeh, food late at night as well - why doesn't that happen in the UK? All you can get after 10:30 is dodgy takeaway

What I don't get is why live music has to finish by 10:30 and then a night of music/drinking begins. Maybe there are some clubs in some cities which have live acts on all night, but I don't think i've ever seen one in England. People go out to get pissed, dance, chat to their mates. In most clubs the music is as loud as the live bands anyway, if not, turn the band down. Put the band on at 10, people will watch! I guess too many sh*t bands ruined that concept by emptying the clubs? It's just that when you go out in other countries, there does tend to be a few live acts performing in bars and clubs all night long. E.G in Boston I went to a club, walked in and it seemed like a hip-hop/dance club, but above me there was another floor which was more relaxed with much quieter music, and below me was another floor with a live funk band. Apparently, people are staying at home to get drunk before they head out to the club later on, so putting bands on later would make more sense right?

I get this feeling when I remember to turn up really f***ing loud. There must be something about my style which lacks confidence unless I can feel the bass rattling my balls.

I don't understand why people assume variety in sound will give the soundman a nightmare. Just get your sounds right before you turn up at the gig and there won't be any problems.

I think "the bass" describes a section of the frequency spectrum providing the root of the harmonies. It's easy to fulfil that role as well as extra duties. I have a sort of "bass channel" on my pedalboard which just provides the low end of what i'm doing. This means that when i'm playing big chords, "the bass" is still there, along side the big distorted guitar chords i'm playing

You certainly do! One of them wouldn't let me use a guitar amp once, 'cos guitar amps are for guitars, stupid.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1346679612' post='1791831'] I always send FoH a pre-EQ DI... [/quote] I meant that I turned up to a gig with a huge 25-pedal-board and the guy asked me to just feed that to the amp, and to give him a totally dry DI. He didn't offer to mic the amp or anything, just assumed that a totally dry bass sound would be better than my pedalboard, without even hearing it. It would have been fine in a tiny pub but it was a fairly big venue