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He uses Ashdown live. I spoke to him after the gig in Manchester in December. He said he only uses two dirt pedals, and which one depends on which bass he uses. I can't remember which way round it was, but for one bass he'd use the XXL, and for the other bass he'd use the ODB-3. EDIT: And no clean blending with those.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1081045' date='Jan 7 2011, 01:42 PM']...I do think shops have to match online prices though, as most the time they are online themselves. There is still a profit margin there...[/quote] How do you know? Shops have much larger overheads.

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1079675' date='Jan 6 2011, 11:50 AM']Good point, but unless you was borrowing the guitar combo, would the cost of 2 cheaper combos not be far away from 1 decent bass combo?[/quote] Heh, maybe!?! I think i've just fallen into the classic trap of recommending one's own set-up without considering the reasoning behind it. Sorry OP!!

Everyone needs a whammy - that's your justification!!! There were a lot of XP-100s on ebay a while ago, but maybe they've been snapped up.

yeh, you have good points. In my kind of budgets, I would never afford a bass amp which could handle both lows and highs equally well. Bass amps which handle the lows well are relatively cheap, and the same for guitar amps with the top end.

I think if you have a lot of high mids and top end in your sound, then amps are going to sound fairly different. Have you thought about buying a guitar amp to run your effects through? It's a bitch to carry extra stuff, but if you have a 1 x 15" bass combo (or similar) and a 1 or 2 x 12" guitar combo, your effects will sound great!

what's with all the Warp 7 hate? My guitarist uses a half stack and it sounds amazing. You just have to turn the gain down!

I like cubase!! I only just noticed this topic. Install cubase. Then plug in the zoom to the USB. I think you have to install a driver. Plug some speakers, or headphones into the output from the Zoom, and your bass in the input. Open cubase, and go to Device Set-Up, and then choose the Zoom soundcard instead of the default direct X or whatever you have. You should be about set up now. To hear bass, create a new track in the "arrange window" (I think it's called that). You have to right click on the grey area at the left, and click "create new audio track", choose mono. Click on devices at the top, and select "Mixer 2". This should now look like a mixer, with the one channel you've just created on it. At the top of this channel strip are two lines of text which represent the input and output routing. The output will default to the master bus, which is fine. You might have the change the input, though I doubt it as I think the zoom interface is mono. anyway, on the channel strip is a little round button with a picture of a speaker on it. It turns orange when you press it. This turns monitoring on. Now you should be able to hear your bass! Highlight the red record button on each track you want to record. Press record on the transport bar to record.

I did get this the first few times I recorded. I think I must be tighter now, or I play simpler stuff. A bassist I work with sounds awful solo'd but in the mix it's fine - you wouldn't think so, but it does work!

yeh +2. I have an XP-100 and it's great. Having said that, i've now started playing most of my harmonies to get a "better" sound. Why anyone would bother using a pedal for a 5th up when you can just play it... I like the whammy for the octave up when I can't get any higher, and for the pitch bending, and when it's in a feedback loop.

I thought the ME20B would have an emulation of the ODB-3 in it? Which can certainly do grit, just turn the gain down!

[quote name='phil.i.stein' post='1056417' date='Dec 12 2010, 08:03 PM']i happen to be the one-string massdebater.[/quote] Is that a banjo string?

I bought a sub off Gaf. A thoroughly nice bloke! A perfect transaction in every way - cheers!

the usb interface is very useful if you don't already have a means of recording into your computer. The expression pedal is very useful for changing parameters "on the fly", and I use it for wahs, gain, volume, and for controlling the rate of modulation. You might be the kind of guy who sets up 3 sounds and just switches between them for the whole gig, in which case it's probably not worth it. The wahs aren't amazing on the B2 but i'm not using it for a traditional funky bass wah so I don't know if it can acheive that. I think some of the cheaper ones have a plastic casing, which is worth bearing in mind.

I'd say it's worth reading the manual and making some time to play with your new gear. If after you've properly tried it out, it still doesn't beat the behringer, then use the behringer!

I've got to get one of those slap bass pedals. In case anyone else didn't know what it was [url="http://amtelectronicsusa.com/productpageslapbass.html"]here's the link[/url]

Since my band stopped gigging, I forgot that I was allright on the bass. I've been playing more recently with a different (amazing!!) drummer, and remembered that i'm actually OK!

do not use musicventures.com and/or anything associated with "Andrew Smales"

the dude from meshuggah apparently programmes drums for the studio, but plays live. That's the right way round IMO. It would be weird to see a metal band without a drummer on stage. That could be a unique selling point perhaps? But for me the drummer is an integral part of any live rock gig. He's generally the one i'm watching

there's an LMB-3 in the for sale section for £30ish

using your rat or big muff blended should give some good results. Have you thought about making a small pedalboard so you don't have to plug them in for every gig?

[quote name='paul_5' post='1044375' date='Dec 1 2010, 09:39 PM']I reckon an EHX Bassballs will cover that quite nicely (fire up the distortion circuit and it's certainly close enough for a pub full of p*ssed up punters!).[/quote] I totally agree!

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1045241' date='Dec 2 2010, 03:46 PM']i can see the reasoning behind the sound guy getting there after the band are due.[/quote] Yeh, me too, I don't doubt that they're forever waiting for bands. We all know what musicians are like. I don't get annoyed with it anymore, I just turn up late. We never take longer than 15 minutes to set up though. (15 for a full kit, about 5 when we're sharing)

Every single gig i've ever done, they have specified that the sound check is at least 2 hours before we play, and the sound check never ever happens on time. Even for the decent venues around here with great sound guys, they ask you to turn up at 5pm to soundcheck and the soundgy turns up at 6:30.

You should be using ear plugs anyway, if it's loud enough for the others to need them. Adding treble doesn't reduce bass. Maybe the answer is to keep your sound as is, but then feed your signal to the PA or a couple of monitors or a guitar amp or something, and point this at the rest of the band with the high end turned up.