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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.

you could just solder a patch lead onto an existing jack lead. Are you sure the parallel outputs don't work as Dood suggests?

Sounds good - did you take pics? It'd make a good build diary.

you could use a couple of door bells to control a looper - can't be too hard.

just a poweramp would be fine. Depending on the type of poweramp you might have to increase the ouput level from the pod a fair bit.

When I was playing bass i'd always have gear-geeks asking me about my pedalboard etc. Since i've been playing drums I don't think anyone's approached me - in two years!! Maybe the old stereotypes don't hold up so well.

could you not just get your drummer to switch pedals for you with his left foot? I have a pedal board next to me when I drum (but it's for drums).

Yes I did (although I didn't realise anyone took any notice!). It's pretty cool. Basically I bought the pedal and EXP pedal together because it was the only way I could make that cool vocal sounding wah on the first Audioslave single (can't remember the name). But yeh, after I got over that I started using it in weird ways. It can do some standard wahing but that isn't what it's best at IMO. As far as comparing to the EBS or a Dunlop, I wouldn't know sorry.

Cool, do you have any bigger pictures? You can upload them to BC as an attachment.

I didn't think Dave was saying that the SVT is the only good amp. He was saying it's the only good amp for him. I think the point of the OP was that if you want "that tone" (and that's your tone, not Daves tone, that tone that you like, the really good one) and you have it, then stick with your gear. Sometimes very inconvinient gear is worth it just for getting "that tone". As I said previously it would be close-minded to stick with one amp and never try any others. Why Dave didn't try out the lightweight amps before selling his SVT I have no idea.

[quote name='D-L-B' post='944138' date='Sep 3 2010, 01:55 AM']Should I bring up paedophilia and kill it once and for all?[/quote] Oh, another dead baby joke. Disgusting.

Just got my new headphone amp from Andy. I'm becomming a regular customer! Therefore he must be a great seller. Cheers!

[quote name='dave74200' post='943543' date='Sep 2 2010, 03:54 PM']It was once you've found your sound, stick with it yes. The grass isn't always greener etc.. I stated why I sold my original SVT head, too heavy! To me though, it's worth the weight.[/quote] In one sense, I totally agree, the grass isn't always greener. However, in the case of bass amps, you can always give the grass a quick try out. I get my sound out of a peavey+behringer+guitar amp + loads of pedals set up. That's my sound, and it isn't broken, so i'm not looking to fix it. As far as i'm aware, the grass doesn't get any greener, but that doesn't mean I would turn my nose up at the chance to try an ampeg. It's just I wouldn't sell my rig without finding a better one first.

Dave - was your main point supposed to be "once you find your sound, stick with it, don't mess about trying other gear because it's lighter/more reliable because it'll never reproduce your sound"? Or was it literally "all amps are sh*t except ampegs"? Either way, a most enjoyable thread.

Heh, Dave it's all just part of the fun you get on internet forums. More provocative posts like yours would be welcomed by me at least!

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='942299' date='Sep 1 2010, 04:13 PM']I've seen the guitar teacher thing a lot, where he supplements his income by teaching bass as well.[/quote] Yeh I don't get it any more, but when I did the Sentinel used to have a few ads for guitar teachers in the classifieds, and most of them would advertise bass lessons as well.

Hmmm, I had guitar lessons for ages, and when I started on bass it was playing whatever the guitarist told me to. Then I got into real bassists and I feel like I took to playing the bass quite easily. I could do with some lessons now as I realise how much i'm missing out on, but I can't afford them. There are a lot of guitar teachers who also advertise bass lessons, and I would suspect that the majority of these aren't "real bassists".

[quote name='D-L-B' post='942093' date='Sep 1 2010, 02:09 PM']Barring the statistical probability of someone eventually guessing right, There's not a single person out there who could listen to my recordings and tell me beyond all doubt what gear I've used to achieve each tone.[/quote] There's a member on here who swears they can tell if someone's using an ampeg rig from outside the venue.

I played a gig the other day and afterwards asked my neighbour who was playing in a band after us what he thought of the tone. He said he didn't like that "peavey sound". I pressed him on it, and he didn't have any comment on the actual frequency content, dynamics, timbre etc, he just didn't like "that peavey sound". there are all sorts of strange prejudices surrounding gear and tone.