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well he wants two different volume settings and a footswitch to change between. I guess you could build that pretty easily. I have seen LS-2s go for £50 used and it's not like they're going to break.

At last I am back in a band on the bass, it's called Kilta. Admitedly we've only done one gig, but I'm hopeful for more this year. We're an instrumental 3 peice and have added some samples in on recordings which are here: [url="http://soundcloud.com/kilta/sets/kilta"]http://soundcloud.com/kilta/sets/kilta[/url] It's a recording of one of our practises. We actually had the samples live as well, synched to some video. Any comments/criticism welcome!

you could use an LS-2 for that I think

that's kind of harsh on the drummer - you think they could have done that at rehearsal!

You could use compression with a slow attack to try and kill the sustain I find playing with my thumb over the end of the fret board on the bridge pickup seems to work better than what I can do with pedals.

i've been playing with some pedals at the weekend. My favorite sound is still blending a lo-passed ODB-3 with my Ibanez SS10 (a tubescreamer with some sutble chorus). However, as far as single pedals go I really like the Tech 21 XXL and LOVE the Red Llama

I like the BBM on dry mode. It does have a volume control, I just have mine set very low. I use all sorts of blending and dirt pedals but this is one I would never bother blending. How strange everyone else seems to have struggled with the dry mode!?!

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1330698175' post='1561808'] Yep. I discovered that when my band's drummer quit and I started programming drum machines, using rehearsal recordings. Some of the songs drifted my 5- 10 bpm from verse to chorus. You couldn't really tell listening to it. but the idea of sorting click tracks for all the songs makes me break out in a cold sweat... [/quote] yeh I just use it for songs which suit the same tempo all the way through. I would never try and program tempo changes, deffinitely not live!!

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1330697109' post='1561785'] That's what I mean - long sections with no drums need something from the drummer to keep you in with the click! [/quote] Well the way you emphasised the word "always" made me think you thought the drummer had to play in every part with no beat. For example, we have a song with such a section which is 26 clicks long. We'll regularly play this without any input from me, but very occasionally i'll have to start pedalling hats half way through.

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1330691189' post='1561631'] That's the one thing I forgot in my last post - drummer has [i]always [/i]got to be playing something, so even in the bits where the drums drop out, he's got to give you a bit of hi-hat or something to keep in time with. Forget about that and it all goes tits up! [/quote] I do it with my band and we're tight. I only start pedalling the hats if there's a very long section with no beat, or if the guitarist gets a little too excited, which is almost never.

[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.