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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!

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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.

IMO playing near the bridge doesn't give you more treble, it just cuts some bass to give you more of a mid-punch than a low-thump. Treble is "click, clack, zip, scrape" etc I've never played a bass that naturally lacked treble, as IMO this is down to new strings and your technique. I've played lots of basses that seemed incapable of transfering the treble to my rig (it's a bi-amp with guitar amp so i'm pretty sure i'd hear it if it was there). Personally, for my funky or slap sounds, I prefer to play nearer the neck for plenty of thump, but I add in plenty of treble using my pedals and amp.

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beautiful bass and ingenius stand! Nice one

I played 4 for a while, and still do occasionally. I wouldn't buy another though - 6s only for me. It's not as though i'm always using the high C or low B, but I want the option. Obviously it can mean that you have to move up and down the neck less, which is a bonus. The main attraction for me is big bar (barre?) chords using the high C.

[quote name='GazWills' post='1037920' date='Nov 26 2010, 04:09 PM']do you really need a pedal board for 2 boss pedals?? surely just chuck em in your gig bag, they're hardly fragile![/quote] Well then you'd have to plug in patch cables and power cables every time. I bought a nice mojogear board off one of the stylish pedal whores on here (I forgot which one ) it's triangular and has a soft bag. If you put two boss pedals and a power bank on it, it'd look suitably populated.

gorgeous!

Depending on the effects, you might be able to attach them together. I'm thinking of those little strips of plastic with two screw holes in which are designed to put under the corder screws on boss pedals - you then screw the other hole to a pedal board, except you could put the other hole under the screw on the other pedal. That was hard to word!

Perhaps a new rule could be to link to the thread you bought your bass off, if you got it from BC. It would also help to track where the basses go! Is that an infringement of a basses right to privacy?