cheddatom

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.

to get a real "woosh" from a flanger wouldn't you need some distortion too?

I use my guitarists Johnson combo for the top of my bi-amp rig. I used to use the effects on it, they're pretty cool but I prefer my pedals now. What are you using the J-Station for?

I use a barge concepts blender to blend clean in with the rest of my board which is mostly two chains through an LS-2

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1328535522' post='1528579'] how can a box of tricks played through various speakers or headphones really sound like say an SVT with an 8x10 cab. [/quote] well, it will take some tweaking, but if you have it through a loud amp and 8x10" cab you should be able to get close... or if you're comparing your headphone sound to the sound of a SVT with an 8 x 10" in an isolation booth with the mic being fed straight to your headphones. I'm surprised that 1976 found the effects too subtle. I use a B2.1U for modulation (and some other stuff) and find the phasers particularly "over the top" but this is good for what I want.

which cuts mids, the J-Lo or ODB3? I have my ODB set with the low control quite high and the high control quite low, giving me a big bottom boost for choruses and the heaviest of riffs. It doesn't seem to cut any mids? The J-Lo apparently just distorts mids leaving lows and highs clean, which would give you plenty of control to boost mids rather than cutting.

in my opinion, yeh, but you have to use it very subtley because anything other than very low gain does tend to sound a bit "fizzy" which is the main complaint about this pedal.

cool, well I may have a play this weekend

when you play without compression do you perceive the D and G strings as being quieter? It sounds like maybe you have a very bassy sound, and at the moment you have the compressor set to tame that bassy boom but leave the rest un-touched. If you're after the opposite then yeh a multi band would be the way to go. It seems unusual to me that you'd see such a massive difference between notes on the compressor, but I do tend to have a very "even" sound right accross my bass.

I saw them last year. It's not my kind of thing but deffinitely a fun gig and it looks like they pull some big crowds! Nice one

do you have the low end boosted on your bass a lot?

I can't see any compressors on there?

Rather than just circuit diagrams I was hoping for an explaination of how it works as well, although my post doesn't make that clear at all. Maybe what I really need is a text book

I wasn't comenting on musicality or longevity, just that a lot of people liked the idea that this was something "grass roots" (do you know what I mean by that? like sprung out of no where by the sheer power of the internet and good-looking youthful music fans) and when they found out it wasn't as genuine, they didn't like it as much... They weren't judging the music, they were judging the story

Never heard the music but from google it looks like she had a botched lip-job? The Artic Monkeys seemed to suffer a bit of the same thing. They were trumpeted as a success of myspace or social networking in general - a "real grass roots" thing. It turned out someone had chucked some money at them, and (at least for the people I know) this seemed to destroy some of that charm. Personally, I like to listen to the music and forget about anything else. Some people won't listen to the music of someone if they don't like that image or personality, and I think that's sad. To take it to an extreme I would listen to Gary Glitter (if I liked his music) where as other people wouldn't.

I looked into doing this and the main prohibiting factor was I would have to be there to open up and lock up, so it was not worth the time. I suppose it's different when you live right by your studio?

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1327751979' post='1516181'] "the CD of the new recordings that you burnt for me doesn't work" Time passes. " "Oh , it does work, I'd put it in the player the wrong way up." [/quote] hah, I gave a CD to a band mate once and he managed to slide it over his CD deck in the car, so it dissapeared, but wasn't in the actual CD slot. I didn't see it happen so was well freaked out, and when he managed to put "another" CD in the slot and play it, it was as though something mystical had happened. 2 weeks later he'd fished it out and didn't seem to find it as hilarious as I did! (this was a bassist by the way )

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1320323550' post='1425264'] I love my peavey TNT although I do pair it with a guitar amp. If anyone wants to hear the rig mic'd it's on myspace.com/nologorock [/quote] Just returning to this thread and I wonder if any of the peavey haters had a listen to the above? 'cos this is back when I used to mic my peavey rig for recording.

you're the bassist. Your rhythm will be the best to follow I'm sure you're totally right, I don't have a lot of experience in the genre