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Yeh if you want to keep your highs clean I think the J Lo pedal would be perfect as I read it just distorts the mids. I've not tried one but would love a go. If you want a pedal which enhances your highs, maybe something like a Tubo Rat which does a very good clanky tone on low gain settings.

I spent some time before my gig on Saturday and actually cut down to 11 pedals - the least i've played with in at least 7 years. It was quite refreshing and deffinitely a lot lighter. And I could carry it with one hand if my back wasn't knackered!

That's half my body weight. I don't think i'm in the running

I would have thought it'd be fine to just get a stereo splitter, I don't think you'd get that sort of attenuation

does anyone know if the looper can store loops "offline"?

hah, i'll weigh it when i'm done, then we'll see who has the heaviest penis extension... I mean... Errrm

I have my first gig on bass in ages at the weekend. My big board has a rack tuner built into it but it's been very temperamental recently so I thought i'd better take it apart. I haven't seen my board without pedals on in ages and it's very intimidating to try and get it all back together for Saturday. I can't seem to get the tuner going either. At least i'm only using 18 pedals for this band!

I've been thinking of doing this with a looper pedal but maybe it'd be easier to do with a laptop or something. The Jamman and Boss RCs are the only loopers I can find which store samples when turned off.

I prefer my wah before dirt... TU2 > OC3 > SYB3 > CEB3 > Flanger > CryBaby > ODB1

I can't hear the clip but I think the EHX Freeze is similar to the DD3 hold

the Marshall Echohead is ace IMO, one of the best value pedals around.

yeh it looks great as a delay but I really fancied something I can save samples in as well as to use as a looper.

Does the flashback save loops when turned off? I get the impression the RCs and Jamman can do this

just got my pedal from Bassnut - it couldn't have arrived quicker, and it was very well packed etc. A pleasure to deal with!

Ic an't watch the vid but I went through a phase of checking uot his solos a while ago. It seems to me he uses a lot of octave up for his solos, as well as some dirt, envelope filter, delay.

a blend of dry with both loops? Makes sense I suppose

As 5imon knows i've been struggling with guitar sounds recently, so this is a very useful thread. Ta for all the tips!

what does it do? It looks like two TB loops but there's a pot too - intriguing.

power supplies deffinitely make a big difference, and I would guess properly shielded patch cables would too

lol, yeh, Evil Empire sounds sh*t in mono IMO you don't need two or more valve amps, but you do need a few pedals. Blending a bass overdrive with a guitar distortion, and plenty of control over the EQ on both channels seems to work well for me. Different compressors on each channel can be great too. You also need plenty of high mids from your rig. This might mean you need to add a guitar amp - my peavey 15" combo would never produce enough high mids for this sort of sound.

If you can hear the hiss while you're playing, then it won't help. A gate only cuts out noise when the input drops below the set threshold (sorry if i'm teaching you to suck eggs). I use an NS-2 to cut out feedback on high gain settings - I use a lot of dirt and compression and it can feed back horribly. With my gate all I have to do is set the threshold to kick in when I mute the strings.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1323369003' post='1462655'] Think the one clean/one driven amp is a starting point. There is a lot of clarity in his sound, as well as the drive, so can`t see how it could be done with only one amp. [/quote] If you think the CD is all of his amps recorded and mixed together, then reproduced out of one amp... you don't need two amps if you get your blending right.

I used to gig with 25 including a zoom multi effects. Thankfully i've managed to narrow that down somewhat. It gets a bit stupid when you're doing more tap dancing than playing