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yeh a compressor is for taming peaks, not for boosting a signal. If you're happy with your tapping technique, it just needs to be louder, then a booster is exactly what you need. Sometimes an EQ is more appropriate than a booster if you only want to boost certain frequencies.

[quote name='Dave D' timestamp='1321478919' post='1439781'] The problem i seem to have is that i hold them too lightly and they tend to spin around while i'm playing and the pointed bit ends up facing the wrong way!! [/quote] Thumb picks would sort this. I use thumb picks so that I can swap to fingers without putting the pick down.

How's it sound at rehearsal?

Just bought a TB looper off Shep, got it two days after payment, nicely packaged etc. you can't get better than that.

they're dead easy to make if you're on a budget

you have to have pedals that go in the feedback loop surely? But yeh a feedback loop with a distortion pedal in will make some weird noises for you. If you could afford to get a multi effects, like one of the plastic Zoom units, and then put that in a feedback loop, you'd have loads of fun. Analog delays will make an oscillating tone which can be useful.

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1321364325' post='1438217'] Any top tips for someone who's been playing fingerstyle for (mumble) years and wants to try a pick? [/quote] Try some Extreme! I love playing with a pick [i]and[/i] fingers. I use both as well as loads of pedals to create loads of different tones. Limiting yourself just to one is fine for some bands I suppose. I recorded a band recently, and the bassist who always played fingerstyle at gigs used a pick in the studio. I asked him why and he just said "I don't know, it just sounds better when I record" and he was deffinitely right. It all depends on the song/band/sound in question I suppose.

maybe you play harder in the second set?

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1320336748' post='1425520'] You'll never get the sound of a 12 through using effects. [/quote] Cool, i've never tried one. That further rienforces my point that the difference in sound should have been mind numbingly obvious!

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 One day i'll hopefully get a Tmax head. I play drums in a band and the bassist uses the above rig. I once asked a fellow bassist from the audience what he thought of our sound, and the first thing he said was "yeh, I never like the Peavey sound". WTF?!? It's got an EQ on it! It's not a set sound!

It sounds like I might have used the wrong term or something. I thought this bass had one string one octave up, and another two octaves up, for each string. It looks like it actually has 2 strings, both one octave up from the main string. fair enough! It's still the same as me turning my whammy on plus 1 octave with some chorus after it for the entire practise. That's pretty mind-numbingly obvious to me.

[quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1320246496' post='1424304'] ... and it's a 4 with TWO octaves per string, and a bit of chorus to bring out the zing - a good way away from my normal tone... [/quote] WTF?! That's not just a tone change, you're harmonising with 2 extra octaves on every single note and they don't notice. I've played with some people I would have in the past described as "less than musical" but your guys are something else.

I assume it's a 6 string bass with octave up strings? How the hell could they not notice the octave up on everything you played? It's fair enough not caring about what bass you're using, but if I played a whole practice with my whammy on +1 I would hope at least my band would notice!

I used to use the line-input for years until I bought a proper interface. It was a little noisey, but not too bad. I'd always use a pedal as a pre-amp but it will work without - just use a VST amp

I bought some cables from Ian, they arrived the next day all packaged well etc. Perfect!

you;d need to blend it with your dry signal, but yeh. I don't think the POG can do 5ths or 4ths though?

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1319722778' post='1417730'] Sounds like it`s working perfectly for a Zoom. [/quote] My old GFX707 was a right noisey bastard but my B2.1U is pretty much silent

Have you used the Zoom with that power adaptor on its own? Was it noisey then?

the same problem's on the DI track too!

yeh it sounds like the PSU is the problem

you can probably change your technique to get rid of most of this. However, once recorded you can do a low with some compression and EQ. It might be that there's too much transient attack which a compressor would help with. It might be that there's too much of a specific frequency band. Personally, I find that if there's too much "clack" you need to cut around 2KHz, where is there's too much "click" you need to cut nearer 4KHz. My bassist has a weird technique where he's always slapping the strings against the fretboard really hard, and it creates this kind of "clacking" on every bloody note. A fairly thin notch at 2KHz seems to get rid.

I was just going to say the same as Si's last paragraph there. Try to use your amp for distortion, and use the pedal for different levels of boost, and EQ settings.