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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.

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.