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I've always used pedals to get the sound(s) I want out of mediocre amps. You might tell the difference between your valve rig and a pedal when you're playing alone, but int he context of a band with distorted guitars - who's going to hear those nuances?

i'd never do an originals gig without being totally happy at at least one rehearsal.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1300677' date='Jul 12 2011, 09:46 AM']The slicer syncs easy - Just plug in the midi plug with a clock going and it instantly snaps to tempo. Remove the plug and it instantly reverts to whatever tempo you had it running at before. DD-20 has no midi capability unfortunately... If it did it would be a better unit that the Eventide Timefactor IMHO. I use and old Red Sound Voyager for my midi clock (middle of board 2). You can either set it to any tempo between 90 and 180 bpm and off it goes, or its reads any other audio source you feed it, calculates the tempo and generates a clock in time. I feed it with the metronome that we both listen to so the midi clock is perfectly synced to the click we use.[/quote] I guess I saw the midi port on the back of the slicer and just assumed the DD-20 had one too. Does the red sound voyager output tap tempo which could be fed to the DD-20? I've never heard of that device but it looks great! (and discontinued )

very tidy shep I was playing with my dd-20 and slicer the other day along to a click. I usually just use tap tempo but I wanted it really tight. I've never tried to sync them with MIDI, is it easy? And can you get a standalone midi-clock to go on your board?

ahhh, i've not seen promo videos, I just thought it'd be dead useful for someone with a WH-4 (I can change modes on my XP-100 )

Shep have you seen the molten voltage midi 2 for controlling your whammy? excane - that's a great idea!!

[quote name='I am not excane' post='1294040' date='Jul 5 2011, 10:09 PM']So we've gone a few pages here with not a lot of pedal porn. Shall I jumpstart this? Yes......... I was bored. [/quote] All those pedals and no hoover?

I'm getting a similar sound, but I like it a bit brighter. I'm using a guitar distortion pedal (I think it's probably a tube screamer clone) blended with some compressed clean. I absolutely love his sound. I'll try and do some clips!

I always use a DI for the low end and whatever mics they have on the cab. I wouldn't want a kick drum mic. As I don't need the low end, any old 57 or 58 or if they have some nice mics for the guitars cabs... Some soundmen would complain, others were brilliant.

the cab would sound the same but be able to go louder? Or yeh, if you're pushing your cab too hard at the moment, then you would sound better

yeh, if you can see it working but not hear it, it's doing a perfect job. It's to give you more headroom basically - to make life easier for your amp/cabs (I think). [quote name='mcgraham' post='1287311' date='Jun 30 2011, 08:57 AM']That's an altogether [i]different [/i]kind of device that Max would be offering. His surname is [i]not [/i]Moseley. ...and I imagine it would be a more efficient way of 'doing it'... it certainly would reduce the need to find a willing partner![/quote] I might change my username to "the humpinator!"

on my amp I have the lowest fader on the graphic EQ all the way down. It doesn't seem to effect the low end but gives me more headroom. I guess the humpinator would be a more efficient way of doing it.

Sibob - I just had a listen at home. That sounds ace! I sold my OC2 thinking the octave down on my whammy was good enough, which it is for what I was using it for, but now I really want that sound back - when you have the whammy with no dry signal it's just not as cool. Are you using compression on the boss? The big muff sounds like it's set very low gain, which is why you're getting plenty of low end IMO. It's a cool sound though! A bass muff or some other dirt pedal at the end of your chain (after the silver big muff) to add some fuzz would be delicious!

Sorry to be bombarding you with questions! I'll just check out my mate's silver big muff later this week. I'll post back here with what I find.

[quote name='Sibob' post='1284398' date='Jun 27 2011, 05:45 PM']Yes, to be fair I'm sure it does depend on what settings you're using, mine is constantly set to Level around 10 o'clock, Tone all the way up, Sustain all the way down!. I don't boost mids anywhere in my signal, only bass a bit on the ME-50, I also take off some tone and bridge pickup on the bass, but nothing drastic. Si[/quote] If sustain is all the way down, surely you're not getting any actual distortion? Or does it not go all the way to clean? Most people want a big muff for some fuzz, for which you'd have to have the sustain knob at at least 11 o'clock IMO

...but maybe the main chunk of your sound is mids? Do you have it on a fairly low gain sound? When I tried it (I have 6 strings and a very bassy peavey combo) it seemed to rip all the bollocks out of my sound. Maybe I should give my guitarists silver one another go as he never uses it

[quote name='Wooks79' post='1284270' date='Jun 27 2011, 04:17 PM']Can you not just set up the stereo outputs on the GT-10 to just always leave one output dry and unaffected?[/quote] That would be good. I can't find the manual online but it looks like it has a computer editor, so there must be some advanced settings you can get into.

It's a good idea to try the effects in the loop of your "wet amp". I reckon your cheapo jack spliter could be causing the issue. If you have a tuner pedal or the like you could run infront of the Boss, you could use that as a splitter instead.

I swapped a fuzz pedal for a pick-up with Voxpop. It couldn't have gone smoother!

what bass and amp do you use Si? Maybe you don't have that much low end in your sound as it is? Or maybe you use a lot of compression?

[quote name='EskimoBassist' post='1283387' date='Jun 26 2011, 09:21 PM']The USA silver muff loses far too much lowend and so has to be blended heavily to be usable, IMHO. The BBM is cheap, sounds good and is widely available.[/quote] I totally agree. The silver one is next to useless without at least a blender.

[quote name='0175westwood29' post='1281328' date='Jun 24 2011, 06:12 PM']Thats wicked! Really like the whammy with delay. Are you using a volume pedal for the swells at the end? Andy[/quote] cheers! No, I just played it like that. I'm going to re-do it with less distortion to try and get a nicer sound.

I've attached a file. It's the end of a song i'm working on. You can hear the bass go from distorted to clean, to whammy, then with delay, then it starts to get weird with the feedback. It's not the best example really but it's all I have access to that's actually recorded.

[quote name='TomKent' post='1276655' date='Jun 21 2011, 08:55 AM']I've been gigging a lot in town recently (more than usual). None of the engineers let me bring my own amp and demand I use their backline, but that's not going through the PA ever (apart from being DI'd on occasion). I'm about to make a point of telling the engineers to go 'something' themselves soon and just bring my own amp because big tasty Krampera > 40watt Laney.[/quote] That's the story at the venues i've played in London. They want you to use their sh*t gear which just can't deliver on the bass front. I always took my full rig and used it.

I'm aware that my company aren't compliant with all sorts of regulations. It's not that we don't want to sort them out, it's just that it takes a long time. I imagine GAK would include the outgoing shipping cost in your refund anyway, despite the vague wording.