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I bought a cheap project bass from Lawrie. After a couple of weeks of non-communication I asked for help on the board and got a phone number. After a brief phone conversation Lawrie was in touch and apologised, and offered some free bass books as compensation, which was nice. I received the bass in the condition it was described, well packed etc a day later.

Nice one. What sort of sounds are you getting out of the lo-fi pedal?

I listen to music quite loud in the car, or when i'm mixing, but I don't mean club volume levels. As far as bands go - a lot of "musicians" really don't have the first clue when it comes to creating a mix. Sometimes all that takes is experience. When my band started we used to practise in a spare room that was so small, none of us realise how loud we were until neighbours from the top of the road (about 20 houses up) started complaining. I wouldn't knock playing when pissed just for the sake of it - i'm sure some people play better or at least equally well when pissed.

[quote name='ogrimark' post='964207' date='Sep 22 2010, 10:29 AM']Many thanks. but unlike a catholic priest you did not touch me which has left me feeling empty....... [/quote] sorry but you're a bit over my age limit.

Your amp has a minimum impedence rating, it must see at least this much impedence from the cabs. The more cabs you add, the less impedence your amp sees, so be careful! Someone more knowledgable will be in in a sec, but I felt the need to post so that I may forgive you. You're forgiven

I just don't understand this thread. When you buy a dirt pedal, you don't (usually) buy it to leave on for the whole of a set. You're going to want to create some contrast. You need to like your clean sound as well, plus a distortion pedal distorts what goes into it. It will sound different with different basses. I use loads of pedals, does that mean I have to play a sh*t sounding bass? Weird.

[quote name='spinynorman' post='963373' date='Sep 21 2010, 02:57 PM']I've just been looking at the LS2. It looks to me that it has one instrument input and two send/return loops. Manual doesn't show how would that work with two basses. Has anyone actually used it that way?[/quote] You can use it to just switch between different volume levels I think. But, if you wanted to you could plug each bass into a seperate effects return, set the level properly, and leave them plugged in.

I use an echohead on bass, it's ace!

I've been playing drums in a much quietter band recently. It's been very hard to try and adjust to playing quieter. At first I was playing with hot rods and brushes, and I really like the sound of them. However, when I listened back to the recording, the whole thing felt dead - there was no life in the drums. I swapped to some nice light 7As and now it's going really well. I have to say though, I play much better when i'm playing loud - especially my kicking. I realise that's just down to practise (and a sh*t kick drum pedal). Also, it depends on the drums and how you've tuned them. I had a guy with a really nice pearl snare come to record with me once. It should have been really loud (apparently) but this guy tunes it pretty slack. I have this yamaha snare and a "power dot" skin, and as soon as you've tightened it it's louder than anything - never needs micing up.

It looks cool man. However, every time I look at the headstock I think SWASTIKA for a second. Perhaps there's a different way to put E and H together?

in what way is he a dick? I really like his first album.

[quote name='Beedster' post='951719' date='Sep 10 2010, 12:19 PM']PS Tom, I don't need cables to fall over, I'm clumsy enough without them mate, I'm already getting into some quite serious stability-challenging situations, and that's without anyone else in the room [/quote] Heh, I don't enjoy falling over my cables!! I'll be very envious of your studio when it's done.

fiendish! I've got to get me one of those

Yeh I just can't afford a stage box at the moment so I trip up every time I move from the computer to the drums :-/

It might be worth getting a "stage box" to keep cabling tidy. I wish I had one. IME it's near impossible to avoid spaghetti on the floor.

Can you explain what's going on with that octron? I didn't think they had 4 footswitches

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='950343' date='Sep 9 2010, 10:17 AM']And have to explain the callouses to the missus?[/quote] I cover mine in superglue. Seems fine

you think fat fingers sound good? You should try playing with your cock!

Just a quick point - Lots of BCers seem to have this idea that the bassist is some sort of "rock" for the band to stand on. Less is better than more, no-one ever listens to the bassist anyway, etc etc. I think you're mixing yourselves up with the drummer. The drummer is the guy who holds down the band..... (i've written and deleted loads of bollocks, I just can't word it correctly)... if you watch any "jam bands" or just something like the mars volta, the drummer might be playing something f***ed up, but he's still holding down the band. To a certain extent the bassist can improvise whatever he wants without ruining the "songs". So yeh, the bass is very important, and funky slap soloing over a rock ballad wouldn't work, but there's deffinitely lots of room for improvisation on the bass - a lot more room than for the drummer! [quote name='Lord Sausage' post='950231' date='Sep 9 2010, 08:48 AM']For me, playing devils advocate is for pompous tits who convince themselves its entertaining![/quote] I couldn't disagree more.

That sounds like my kind of rig! Nice one

So how does it sound?

It all sounds very interesting - variable bass traps?!? I'd like to see some of those.

If you want a purely mechanical solution to turn one pedal off and on using a huge footplate instead of a small footswitch - i'd imagine that would be very easy to do. I got the impression you had more than one pedal to turn on and off? If it was just varying levels of dirt you wanted, perhaps an LS-2 always on with one loop going through your dirt pedal, and a volume pedal after than. The volume pedal is all the way off for a clean tone, and the more you rock it forward, the more dirt you hear. Attach a huge peice of wood to the volume pedal and it should be easy enough.