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You're not going to use the mic so it can sound awful. It's just to feed the side-chain. You should be able to find some crap mic for £10 or less off ebay.

I don't know if there is a pedal compressor with a side-chain input. I think you're probably looking for a rack unit. You could have a footswitch on the kick drum mic so that when you don't want the compression, you just remove the input from the side-chain.

You could get a little clip on mic or trigger type thing to add to the kick drum when you get to a gig, seperate to the soundman's mic.

yeh, when SS came out I couldn't beleive he was doing it with fingers. That made me learn to use 3 fingers. EDIT: Not that he does! It's just there's no way I could do that with two fingers.

Where did you get the animato??

it should be normal until you turn the feedback loop on. You can get a momentary footswitch for less than a fiver from maplins, it'd be dead easy to swap if that's what you wanted.

new born used to kill my left hand when I was young.

a fun one is Zvex wah probe. If you put it in with a dirt pedal then the wah "plate" controls the pitch of the oscillation.

I use mine a lot. I really like it with my whammy set to octave up and some delay. You can get some pretty mental sounds, depending on what you have to put in the loop. Just try everything and have fun

Why does the OP imply this bass is going to go on sale? I did read the article, but can't find any mention of it?

most multi effects will have a few "types" and you can run one of each type at the same time. I think in the Zoom, you have amp, pitch/synth, modulation, OD, compression, EQ, reverb You can use one of each at the same time. So, you could have octave, chorus, compression, but you couldn't have wah chorus compression, 'cos the wah is in the same "type" as chorus. I'm not sure about the specifics of each "type" though

[quote name='Rumble' post='1087076' date='Jan 12 2011, 07:16 PM']Are you able to layer effects with the Zoom B2 and the Boss ME50-B?[/quote] If by "layer" you mean in series, then yes, but if you mean in parallel, then no.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1086324' date='Jan 12 2011, 01:24 AM']Well,I wouldn't say that he'd moved on from Primus-what with them touring right now and with a new album currently being recorded. I really like his solo stuff though.I've got a soft spot for the 'Holy Mackerel' album especially. And his London gig last year was killer.[/quote] Yeh I was there too, it was amazing. I really like the latest album that they played a lot of too. I don't really understand why some people would like early primus and not his latest solo stuff. It sounds like a natural progression to me. I can't wait for the new album!! [quote name='Chris2112' post='1086357' date='Jan 12 2011, 07:25 AM']....Les has an awful voice....[/quote] Lol, but he tries so hard to sing so beautifully!!!

If you want cheap, [url="http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/AB100.aspx"]this[/url] might do it. Otherwise SFX make one I think. what's up with the LS-2?

[quote name='51m0n' post='1062182' date='Dec 18 2010, 01:06 AM']Getting 'bouncy'... [/quote] Haha, nice one!

My shock and dismay at the op cannot be expressed in words. I'm just going to leave this here

I don't normally like the sound of tweeters, they always seem very harsh. I do think that amping the lows and highs seperately can help. When I record bass DI, i'll often have a go at EQ, compression etc in the computer to try and get a sound I like. I can never get as good a sound as when I duplicate the track and use EQ to create a crossover. I can't explain the reason for it, but that's my experience.

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!