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[quote name='tonyclaret' timestamp='1330674986' post='1561228'] What about this? SKB Model PS-100 Guitar Effects Pedal Board (Pedalboard) With Rack [url="http://bit.ly/z9SG2p"]http://bit.ly/z9SG2p[/url] [/quote] my guitarist has one, it's great

I find that if you've been playing songs without a click track, for most of them you'll have developed subtle tempo changes which know-one notices until you start trying to play to a click. It's possible to play to a click with "feeling", but some of your songs might not suit it - they might need the subtle tempo changes.

if you're already using a bypass pedal, one with a built in boost would be a perfect replacement. It sounds like your bass has a very high output, and you don't mind driving the amp with that, but when going into the Korg it doesn't work, so you turn down the input gain on the Korg. It might make more sense to turn down the bass and put the input back up on the korg.

just as a bit of a drummer - quite often i'll get to venues where the shared kit is a disaster which won't stay still, or even if it's my own kit sometimes the venue won't have carpet to put it on (I used to take a mat but lost it). sh*t happens, so better to be prepared for it. In my old band we would arrange the set so that every song flowed into the next one and made sure there were breaks on guitar/drums/bass at various points so we could tune/move stuff without there being a break in the music.

The looper will repeat whatever you record. If you record bass with delay (the delay pedal is before the looper in the chain) then it will loop bass with delay. If you put a delay pedal after the looper, it will add delay to the loops when you play them back. In the case of multiple layers, I reckon that could get pretty damn messy either way - it depends how tight you are I suppose

no way, no-one plays like me. I could get someone better!! But not a replacement.

that thing over Withnail & I near the start - is it "whiter shade of pale" or something? It's a sax solo anyway and it's ace

I miss this feeling - only done local gigs recently

I think a lot of the reason using a guitar rig as well is that it pronounces your mids way more than you would ever normally do with a bass amp. I do use a guitar amp, but my pedal board sounds pretty much the same through studio monitors, so I think my pedals are doing a lot of that mid boosting. A bass big muff (for the clean blend) and some extreme EQ might get you there. I think most of the HUGE sounds come from using more than one pedal or amp, and that's why a multi-effects unit would be good, because you can experiment with all that without the expense.

guitar distortions work very well with bass, as long as the pedal doesn't cut our your low end (most do) or you have a blender to use with the pedal which will add in plenty of punch and get your low end back

ODB-3 certainly has a monstrous low end, I use mine to provide thunderring lows when needed, often blended with another dirt pedal (parallel) which is handling the top end.

IMO the newer zoom units (B2, B3 etc) are miles ahead of their older units. I just thought it'd be a cheaper way to get an idea of what you want - rather than buy a load of dirt pedals and/or blenders and keep trying them, you can get an idea of how to get your sound (IE you could try a tube screamer blended all in one box) and if you don't like the B3 in the long run, work towards replacing it with seperates. Otherwise it's pretty difficult unless you can get access to a big dirt pedal collection. I bought all my pedals blind, and it's been a pretty expensive experience!!

you probably want a Zoom B3 then

if you go to the custom shop page, there's a link for the image of the loop logic. It's pretty self explanatory there. I don't think there are prices if that's what you're after

I wouldn't get the Boss ODB-3, that's only for subtlety IMO - if you use it for a more extreme sound it just gets fizzy.

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' timestamp='1329212719' post='1538706'] So does this do the same as an LS2 then? [/quote] the loop logic I have is the same as an LS2 but it lets you select either A or B as well as A+B mixed, and they're all levelled out

I love octave down and fuzz but I really don't think it's going to cut it in a metal band - too mushy

Ahhh, I could do without checking them out but my guess is you want a dirt pedal that gives a big mid boost - something like a clean blended rat or tube screamer. This seems to be the sort of sound I hear on modern metal (my girlfriend listens to loads). I'm not sure what would do it in one pedal - i'd love to try out that Tech 21 bass boost pedal. I got a Tech 21 XXL recently which is very cool but probably too high gain for what you're after. EDIT: I was playing straight through my Red Llama clone the other night with just the bridge pickup and even on very high gain settings it's really punchy and loses almost no low end. I don't know if anyone uses these on bass usually though?

any particular sounds you'd like to get close to? I can think of so many different "heavy" bass sounds and ways to get them...

most recorded bass will be EQd and compressed... do you need a CD drive? You can probably download the Zoom drivers and use Reaper as your DAW

I got mine used from the marketplace here, it works great and the switches are very cleverly spaced - I can switch both loops at the same time very easily, but I don't knock the wrong footswitch accidentally when i'm just turning on one loop

I replaced my LS2 with a SFX mixer pedal like Shep - it does the same as your set-up oGREENYo in half the pedals.

thanks, i'll check that out

hmmm, I am sceptical about the effectiveness of a passive blender like that. What do you have in your chains xgsjx? Any problems with levelling? I just spent >£100 on a SFX pedal which will give me two loops independantly, or the two blended together, with no volume difference between the 4 settings (Dry, A, B, A+B ) and I would like to think it was worth it, but maybe not?

arrrgh why do I need an apple product to use this?!? I would deffinitely buy one if I could just download the pedals from somewhere and load them onto it using a USB cable.