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[url="http://www.buildyourownclone.com/lazysprocket.html"]this kit[/url] is pretty cheap

I've seen the slow gear circuit around on the web. I reckon you could make one easily enough

[quote name='nipplebass' post='1259062' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:23 PM']here's my newly completed board! Left over laminate flooring came in handy. All effects running through the VT's loop![/quote] nice one! What wood is it? I bet it's heavy!!

We need to define "sound" and "tone" really. For me, the word sound is too vague, but even "tone" takes into account all sorts of performance factors such as where you're plucking with your right hand etc. On the one hand, I could "sound" or have the same "tone" as jaco, simply using a squire jazz, a decent chorus pedal, and an amp with flexible EQ. On the other hand, I wouldn't be able to re-produce the performance aspects to his sound. Or looking at it from the gear point of view, I don't need an SVT or a MATAMP to sound like i'm playing through one. ...so I don't think i'm really disagreeing with you Prosebass!

Each photographer has their own style. However, some photographers use filters and other effects to dramatically change the original image. Sometimes this requires special equipment to acheive. While a style may be recognisable accross a group of pictures by the same photographer, clearly all of the pictures don't share the same effect/hue/look the same. So, while Les Claypool has a style all of his own, and you might be able to recognise that accross his multitude of tones, in no way do all of his tones sound the same. Therefore, the tone is not in the fingers.

I use an NS-2 for this, and I think it works fine. That being said, I've never used another hardware gate, other than in the cheapo behringer compressors - seemed OK.

For delays, it depends what you're after. Vintage, modern, analogue, digital, looping, reverse, tap tempo etc etc A good cheap starter is the Marshall Echohead and it sounds great.

No problem. There are other multi-effects out there, whether or not they're as good value-for-money I don't know. I always hate to think someone might make a purchase based upon something i've said, in case they end up hating it!

[quote name='PauBass' post='1253501' date='Jun 2 2011, 08:52 AM']I love Jon Stockman's from Karnivool tone, listen to this: [/quote] Excellent tone, but I wouldn't really call that Fuzz, would you? More like overdrive IMO EDIT: maybe not, I haven't listened to it in a while, i'll put it on when I get home

no Just because the actual footswitch is momentary, does not mean that the bypass function of the zoom is momentary. If you plugged a latching footswitch into the Zoom, it would keep switching to bypass and back. It would do the same if you bought an FS01 and kept it pressed down. EDIT: On pages 21 and 22 of the manual, it explains how to set it up. It's pretty simple. Follow those instructions, and when you press the (momentary) footswitch once, it will bypass. Press it again and it will turn the effect(s) on.

When the Premature Ejaculators were gigging, it was a must to be drunk before playing - kind of like a band rule.

From a quick google, it looks like the FS01 is non-latching/momentary. Most guitar amp channel switches are latching, so just make sure to get a non-latching one. I know BOSS do both kinds and they have LEDs but they're probably £30+.

[quote name='shippo' post='1252840' date='Jun 1 2011, 04:28 PM']Is there an OFF/ON effect indicator light? If there is an off/on light does it recognise the "Clean" Patch as being off or on? Without being able to visually see whether the effect is off/on live on stage I image is going to create problems. I'd hate to start playing bass in an acoustic song and suddenly come thundering in with some accidental bass-fuzz and then have to switch it off inappropriately mid song. I therefore thought that a separate channel switch which has an off/on LED indicator will eradicate the problem of not VISUALLY knowing whether the effect is off/on on the B2.1u or not.[/quote] If your clean patch is A2, it will display A2 when you're on clean. If your distortion patch is A1, it will display A1 when you're on distortion. So, when your guitarist counts in the nice quiet acoustic number, make sure it's on A2, and you'll be fine. I can see why some people might prefer an ON/OFF LED but personally i've always been fine to use it this way. As far as I know, with an external footswitch it will behave how you like, but just check in the manual - you can download it for free from the zoom site and do a Find (CTRL+F) for "bypass".

It's been a while since I read the manual, but yes, I think that's correct. Like I say, personally i'd prefer to just create clean patches at every other position. This means you don't have to carry around the extra channel switch.

[quote name='woodster' post='1249561' date='May 29 2011, 07:52 PM']"it'll sound loads different when there's people in here" No it won't...[/quote] It depends on the venue. A local venue to us changes dramatically. You can only really use the soundcheck for monitor levels as the FOH sound has to be done once the crowd is in.

You have to remember the patches. They all have a letter and a number. So, you might set A1 as your dirty sound, A2 as your clean sound, A3 as your filter, A4 as a copy of A2, A5 as a chorus etc etc The display displays the letter/number combination.

I think i've answered this in your other thread. Anyway, just to add, you can plug a channel switch into the EXP input to use as a bypass switch if you want.

[quote name='shippo' post='1252614' date='Jun 1 2011, 12:58 PM']The Zoom B2.1u seems pretty good from what I've seen online so far, but how is it in a live scenario? How do you turn a pedal sound off and on? From the online videos it looks like the left foot switch goes down the bank of sounds and the right foot switch goes up the bank of sounds? Also how many combined sounds can you use at once?[/quote] You basically have to set up a series of patches, and each one of these patches has one or more (or none) of the effects modules activated, with your settings saved. Then you switch up and down the patches. If you set every other patch to a "core sound" it makes it pretty easy to use in a live setting. It has a couple of drawbacks - I don't think you can use the synth and drive modules at the same time for example. It's worth having a quick read of the manual, as you'll HAVE to if you buy one.

I often use sounds that when solo'd are horribly dirty, but when in the mix just sound very bright and punchy. In the case of the DB maybe it'd be best to just add dirt to the upper mids, as perhaps then you'd be less likely to introduce feedback..?

just butting in as i'm a big Les fan... I think you could recognise Claypool's style through any rig, but style is not tone. He's had so many different tones over the years. Of all the players I can think of, he's the last person i'd expect to read "the tone's all in the fingers" about. He uses all manner of basses and effects and has created such a wide variety of tone over the years... Unless you were a musician I doubt you could tell it's all the same guy.

I bought some speaker leads from Nick. They arrived as soon as humanly possible, in great Nick, just as described. Cheers!!

[quote name='Dudgeman' post='1251003' date='May 31 2011, 12:58 AM']Hysteria is another good one..I know how the sound is made, most don't, but I am not going to open that can of worms here.[/quote] have you been to the muse board?

Some bands sync all their pedals to the same tempo, but i'm not sure how easy that is

[quote name='Truckstop' post='1246797' date='May 27 2011, 10:54 AM']...my new band's very Elbow/Mogwai/EITS kind of stuff so I use reverb effects A LOT! Truckstop[/quote] cool! Sounds like some of the stuff i'm doing, but I always tend to use delay as opposed to reverb. I don't even think I have a reverb pedal!! Maybe my zoom does reverb

[quote name='Truckstop' post='1246756' date='May 27 2011, 10:22 AM']Reverb! Truckstop[/quote] Really?!? What do you use that for? I always assuming you were playing really heavy stuff - it's funny what impression you can get from just a little picture!