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...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.

you can get some big chunky rubber door stops though I think if you're going to put anything under the back, you'd have to put a strip of rubber under the front to stop it slipping. In fact, if you did that, you could use pretty much anything to go under the back. I always thought it'd be nice to have a wedge shaped board, with a wedge shaped lid which would fold underneath to create the riser.

yeh i'll stick some clips up soon

My guitarist has the same board, but never bought rack effects, so he just uses that section to cram in his wah, volume pedal, and cables. Shep - would rubber doorstops be no good?

to do something like this properly, surely it would take some sort of processor with a loop for your effects, so that it can read the input of your bass signal clean, and try to replicate that after the effects are applied - why you would ever want to do this I haven't a clue, as if you want the original sound of your bass, putting it through a load of pedals isn't a great idea.

It just seems a bit nuts to imply this can return the sound of your bass, after its gone through a load of processing. It might make the signal look more like [i]a pick-up[/i] but which one? And does it help?

I've played a good few gigs, and there are not many venues where the monitors could give me what I wanted on stage in terms of bass. This is all originals venues with tiny crowds, so I suppose it all depends on what type of venue you're playing. I'd have nothing against gigging with no rig, but only if I was 100% the monitors could give me what I need.

I've been recording through my board for my old band. I've never had tones this good, and will no doubt post some samples at some point. Anyway, I split the signal to record a totally dry track, and one track through my board. The board is then split in 2. I use the dry track to provide all the very bottom end and the board for everything else. I'm not that into "electronica" but was playing last night, using my left hand to play simple bass lines, and using tapping and effects with my right hand to try and do some melodies - it was ace! I'd love to have a go at Shep's sort of line-up. Anyway, yeh, parallel processing is a must for most good bass tones - not just electronic.

What's it actually do? Just adjust impedence?

those sort of "soundscapes" is mostly what i'm using mine for. If you put it in a feedback loop, some of the harmonies it makes are amazing. Mine's an XP-100 but I bet the WH4 is just as good

I think the tone from the whammy octave up is a bit thin. I wouldn't use it to try and fill out the sound a-la unibass unless you have a very good distortion pedal to put in the LS-2 loop. I use the octave up for making noises and stuff. Sometimes i'll use the pedal to slide up an octave and back down, but I prefer the sound of an actual slide. The octave down on it's pretty good too. I've never really played with the harmonies much, i'd prefer to just play the chords.

"noise suppressor" describes the effect of a bit of kit. It might be a gate, but it might also be some sort of automatic EQ or filtering dealy. In the case of the NS-2 I think it's basically a gate.

[quote name='GeeCee' post='1269889' date='Jun 15 2011, 11:54 AM']No, I think Ken is right, at least speaking as a private individual in the US, not sure about businesses. PayPal does charge a different amount (e.g., 3.9% for payments under $3K vs. 1.9-2.9%) when handling "crossborder" payments and if I use my credit card to make a foreign, i.e., non-US, purchase there is a fee associated with that purchase related to the currency conversion. Credit card companies have started including that on the printed statement.[/quote] In that case it sounds like you're saying the buyer pays the extra handling fee? Like I say, there may well be charges, but they don't significantly impact our margin. Say we have a peice of paper that costs us 20p. We might sell it for £1 retail. If someone buys that for £1 from France, we charge them the appropriate amount for airmail (so no profit or loss there) and make our standard 80p. If there's a 3% charge for processing the French card - who cares? I mean, if your margins are so tight that they're being affected by such small charges, you need to increase your margins. Perhaps i'm being thick

We take foreign payments all the time, by paypal, credit card, or bank transfer. If there are any extra charges for processing foreign payments i've never heard of them. Our margins on small items mean that we always make a profit. Quite often this involves shipping something that weighs only a few grams and only worth a couple of quid. I'm not doubting Ken's business acumen, but something is very wrong there.