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Some people just don't like it, and you may be one of them. All i'm saying is that if you're losing the "punch" of your clean signal, turn up the clean blend, and if you're losing low end, turn up the low EQ. There's so much low end available from this pedal... I use mine just as a boost for low end really, I have other dirt pedals I blend with my ODB-3 (IE parallel not series) for the high end dirt. Having said that, i've found that I can get a nice low gain sound (for me) out of it. If I were to use it on it's own, I guess I would have... low EQ set to 3, high EQ set to 10 or 11, Gain set to 9 or lower, blend set between 10 and 12 - these are hours on the clock face.

[quote name='Pollinator95' post='1333419' date='Aug 9 2011, 11:42 AM']You could try blending the dirt with the clean signal, with the Boss LS-2, for example. [url="http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/products/en/LS-2/"]http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/products/en/LS-2/[/url] You could also make your own blender, or get a dirt pedal with a blend control.[/quote] But his dirt pedal already has a blend control

Are you going for a high gain sound? If not you should play with your ODB-3 more. It has a blend control to add back in your clean bass. It also has a low end EQ control which can boost the low end of the whole sound to rediculous levels. The high end EQ control can be used to get rid of any fizz on high gain settings.

All compression will raise the noise floor, unless you're not using any make-up gain. On the boss LMB-3 the enhance circuit is awful and I think this puts people off.

I think it's a stereo volume pedal and an LS-2 really.

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' post='1328923' date='Aug 5 2011, 04:28 PM']Yep thats what i mean, like the opening bassline, is 2 Deep Impacts run one after the other I know faaar too much about Muse gear as my brother is a [i]huge[/i] muse fan boy and a contributer to the muse wiki haha, There is no keyboard on Time is running out, i'm almost certain[/quote] Honestly dude, it's a keyboard. If you'd spent any time on the Muse messageboard you'd have heard this a million times.

Actualy Ernie Ball do a stereo volume pedal which has a pan mode - this might work? You'd need a blender on top of this though.

heh, the amount of times i've got a great sound on a solo'd track only to have to re-do all the EQ when it's in the mix...

It's weird, i've heard of a few people happily using Fuzz to replicate that sound. To me it's very "buzzy" - synth like in a way almost no fuzz pedals are.

yeh. I don't know if the deep impact would come close? I've never tried one

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' post='1326335' date='Aug 4 2011, 12:15 AM']The pedal board on uprising was prettu simple, pretty much replicateable with a muff and Deep Impact (which you do have!) Thats as far as i know as it was a similar set up to Time is running out which was two deep impacts[/quote] The bass sound for the verse of Time is running out by Muse (is that what you mean?) is just a keyboard with some clean bass.

A lot of the advice seems to relate to headroom, peaks, getting more out of your gear etc. If that's all you want i'd highly recommend the BOSS Limiter. (just don't use the enhance circuit)

Heh, when I was gigging a few people actually offered to do it for me. I thought i'd better decline as then i'd have no excuse not to run around and jump up and down etc.

But then i'd have to touch my actual pedals with my feet, like some sort of rotten plebeian

I'd bloody love one but i'd need more like 20 loops than 10

[quote name='phil.i.stein' post='1324915' date='Aug 2 2011, 09:37 PM']cool, i've always been curious because of the negative comments, but never tried it myself. i may have to try one out and ignore the bad press.[/quote] As i've said before, if it's good enough for the bassist from Karnivool, it's good enough for anyone. Incidentally I think Karnivool use those gig rig switching systems - very cool and much more tidy than my tap dancing effort.

I thought that "gig fx" did exactly what you need but I can't find it on their site now. I wanted to do a similar thing myself a while ago and this was the only pedal I could find to do it. It was too pricey for me so I just danced on two volume pedals instead. I used my LS-2 to mix the two signals together.

nice! I'd happily gig with that board, it seems to have most bases covered

I always used a schecter with soab bars, both pickups about even with tone flat. I recently aquired a new bass with jazz pups and i'm using this with no neck, all bridge and EQ flat. It sounds amazing!! I use a lot of pedals etc so i've always "cut through" but this jazz has taken it to new levels. You might find that the lack of low end from the bridge pup gives you more headroom to turn up your amp, which obviously will help too.

I notice you're in stoke... If you need to try out any pedals you're welcome to PM me!

when I say "nuances" I mean subtle differences in harmonic overtones and distortion etc, not a big mid scoop.

any tube screamer type pedal with the tone turned down would do this sort of sound wouldn't it?

Just on the ODB-3 - on low gain settings with the hi EQ down it's allright. I don't think it'd be a tubey sound though.

I slap my 6. I never learned to hit the right strings, I just mute all the wrong ones instead.