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I'm surprised at your thoughts on the XXL. I've not tried it personally (my gf promised me one for christmas but it still hasn't appeared ) but when I spoke to the guy from Karnivool he said it didn't require a clean blend as the pedal didn't cut any low end. Are you using the guitar or bass version?

You might prefer the sound/tracking if you play your lines an octave higher and set it to harmonise an octave down.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' post='1225317' date='May 9 2011, 05:19 PM']My point was the Cliff tone everyone always goes on about was not so much his amp sound, but his heavily distorted wah sound, which is quite easy to achieve with a couple of pedals. Once you have those the amp doesn't really factor into it. I think th only time you ever really heard Cliff 'clean' was on Kill 'Em all, and that sounds like a very dry DI sound to me. Not trying to bash Cliff in any way here, I love his playing and sound, I just don't think the amp plays too much of a part in recreating that tone.[/quote] A guitar practise amp would always be great for some filth to run along side your bass rig. I've done that a few times.

What an odd question! I'll weigh mine later if I remember to take it home with me

is the tone press noisy even with a battery? If so it sounds like a problem with the pedal to me.

Just out of interest, what are your settings on the jackhammer?

When you have the TonePress on it's own, powered by your PSU, is it noisy? Could you try a seperate PSU for each pedal to see if it's a problem with daisy chaining them?

[quote name='MartyBRebelMC' post='1212642' date='Apr 27 2011, 02:02 PM']I think the CS2 is a completely different pedal rather than a predecessor as it is a compressor not a limiter which gives a very different effect.[/quote] Correct!

Apparently the behringer plastic copy of the LMB3 is just as good. It's just plastic.

the enhancer will "amplify all the fretboard noise and other artifacts" and is also utter sh*t. As a limiter though, it's a great pedal! If you get the threshold set right you should be able to avoid amplifying your unwanted artifacts or adding loads of sustain.

This [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=133385"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=133385[/url] looks OK for the money! You shouldn't really get popping and clicking with the behringer card, but I don't actually have experience with them. My cards are PCI so I will refrain from posting more - I just noticed the one for sale and thought you may have missed it.

My girlfriend uses it loads. She refuses to choose from my music collection (ripped to the HD) saying that spotify exposes her to new artists etc. It's a nice idea but those god damn f***ing adverts drive me nuts!! Forcing people to pay and avoid those ads is going to save me hours of ear ache!

You know if you have the money for a mac, there are companies that make PCs specifically for audio recording/production. They use totally compatible hardware, the best components etc.

I have the digitech. It's OK but you don't get much control. Someone bought it me thinking it was what I wanted, but I ended up using it to give me a very clicky sound for certain sections.

I used to do that - try to kick my pedals off during muted sections. It got to where I was turning them off for every little half second break in a riff, which was a bit much. Especially when people laughed refering to my "tap dancing" :-/

You might be more of a tone connoisseur than me. I use a lot of compression and dirt, and I do get quite a bit of hiss, but the NS-2 is great for cutting everything out when I mute the strings.

Maybe try the compressor in the loop of the NS-2? That's how I have mine. But yeh, if you're used to working with studio gear, I guess a rack gate is what you need.

I've never noticed a cut in the low mids from my NS-2. Is sounds like you have your compressor set up to be pretty harsh!! Maybe a subtler setting would be more suitable. No wonder it was raising the noise floor when it was at the start of the chain!

yeh I think the NS-2 is "full band". It does work for me though, on a very noisey very fuzzy board.

perhaps a small blender just for the two pedals you have issues with would solve your problems. I have seen blenders in a very small enclosure but I can't remember what brand they were.

There's no compressor aspect to the NS2 is there? I have an NS2 but I have all (well, most) pedals in it's loop, rather than just having it at the end of the chain. If you have a compressor before it, it might be that there's not enough variation in gain for the gate to react properly.

so you have all your pedals in a bypass loop, and even when they're all individually bypassed, there is a drop in signal when you switch in your loop? Does it do this if you have your basses output turned down? Try about half way on the volume knob. but yeh, you should probably solve the problem at the source, so go through each pedal and figure out which one(s) is cutting out your signal and maybe replace that with something better.

can't you set your pedal's volume controls so that you get no decrease in volume when you engage them? If not that's pretty crap. A boost at the end of loop 2, or using an LS-2 as your loop switcher (it has volume controls) would work.

yeh it comes with LE which is not much use for anything beyond a basic demo.

You have to set the Zoom as your main soundcard, and then monitor through the zoom's output. In audacity there's probably a "devices" control panel or something where you choose your soundcard. You probably just wanted to play along to itunes though, which means you have to set the main soundcard for your OS to the zoom. But all that means plugging your speakers into the Zoom. I only ever used it as a soundcard once. I was happy to run it into the normal line input of my computer for the purposes of "noodling".