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[quote name='Beedster' post='1139825' date='Feb 24 2011, 12:17 PM']Turning down is never really a solution Tom! I'm not talking expensive trust me, just lower gain.[/quote] OK, expense a-side, why is turning down not a valid way of reducing the distortion you get?

could you not just turn the volume down on your bass, rather than swapping expensive tubes to find the right gain?

[quote name='mcnach' post='1139413' date='Feb 23 2011, 11:38 PM']The Boss bass overdrive is... horrible. Unless you want always tons of ultra fuzzy distortion, this is not a good one.[/quote] Total balls. Have you heard the bass tone of the guy from Karnivool? He uses one. Quite often people bring this pedal up and say it's only capable of weak fizzy distortion. It has a clean blend, and EQ to boost the low, and cut the highs, and it has a gain control, which is useless past 10 o'clock. It's perfect for a big bottomed growly boost! It's not good at fuzz, but it's great at OD.

is it that you're getting loads of reflections? I guess there's no room for bookshelves etc but you could buy some proper diffusers.

Sorry, I thought it was just an online thing. I hope it goes well anyway!

that zombie pedal is ace!!

Well, she sounds perfect to me. Even if it does take a year to [s]groom[/s] get her up to speed.

It happens all the time, check out the threads on couriers!

In site news there is a post explaining that they're in the process of changing the board software quite drastically, so I doubt they're going to tweak the existing software at the moment.

Yes!

I always tune to the harmonics on the 12th fret which seem to give a more stable reading, especially for the lowest strings.

I always wanted one. Do you have to put it in a blender? Does it lose any low end?

I have flats on one of my 6 strings. Using EQ and dirt I have no problem creating a horrible trebly distortion tone.

You shouldn't have to go custom though? Diago, Godlyke, Burkey etc should cover all bases

It's probably not that safe. If you get a decent one you won't get noise and it'll power all your pedals. I use a Godlyke Powerall, but that only goes to 3Amps (I think). There are others which can go further. I think someone was selling a burkey flatliner on here recently, it was a good deal!

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1123750' date='Feb 11 2011, 12:32 PM']It's a decent shot of you though. Huuuuge stage. Looks proper rock an roll.[/quote] That's LRV in Stoke. I bet you'd get a gig there with your 2 peice act, I think you have to contact the student union. It's an ace venue if it fills up.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='1123749' date='Feb 11 2011, 12:31 PM']I'd always imagined you'd be older, Tom. Dan[/quote] Heh, that's from about 4 years ago!

That looks ace shep! This is the only live shot I have of my board. It's not very good

Well, I have practised at industrial type places for the last 5 years. We try to come to agreements with everyone in earshot, stipulating what times we can play, and how they can get in touch if it's too loud. To be fair, if I ever [i]had[/i] to practise on a Sunday morning, i'd have to try and soundproof a bit.

[quote name='garethfriend' post='1122230' date='Feb 10 2011, 02:31 AM']It's not a residential building, it's a warehouse, there's no other houses anywhere near.[/quote] I'm just going to quote this as no-one has read it.

cheers! I'll check that out.

I'm not really into mastering in a big way. I know that I don't know what i'm doing so I try not to mess up my mixes too much. I thought T-Racks would be an easy way to a "polished" master, but, yeh, it just destroyed my mixes. It sounds like I should give it another go trying to be much more subtle. At the moment, i'm using the Stillwell Audio Major Tom compressor. If you set it to forward feedback, and set the ratio to limit you can get a lot of "transparent" compression before it starts to mush up.

beedster - are you not happy with reverb plug-ins? There are some fantastic plug-ins available. mythste - I like the multi-band limiter, but the rest was just way too over the top for me. That and it takes up a huge amount of cpu power.

yeh, with my setup as described, there is some serious low end. I also have a LOT more headroom so can turn up way beyond bollock-tickling level. This is with a sh*tty Peavey combo, so your markbass would do much better i'm sure.

you need something to cut out the very low end after the DI but before your amp. An EQ pedal? On my amp, I have the low shelf boosted quite high, but I also have a graphic EQ which I use to cut everything below 50Hz (or 60 or 80, I can't remember what the value is on the lowest slider).