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I played (drums) a beer festival on Saturday. It was in an outdoor dealy under a little tent, and we were camping over so could enjoy some beer. We were told it's be free beer for us as payment, but that turned out to be 2 free pints, which turned into cash wouldn't have bought the petrol there! Also we're pretty heavy and the crowd was quite "family orientated". Still, it went OK, but i'm thinking that next time I have to do an hour long set on the drums in sweltering heat I might avoid the 4 pints before hand.

Just a couple of comments: I did work very hard to get my first amp and it was giggable, and I took it to every gig, even when I knew there'd be a better amp to borrow. I would ask nicely and usually borrow the better gear, and I really appreciated it. I've "shared" my rig at a few gigs, and normally it goes OK, but i've had a couple of guys who seemed really nice, and looked like they were listening to me, and then went and wacked up the low shelf or similar. With my Peavey POS that can put it out of action for an hour or so as it calms down. Some guys just don't seem to care. I've been playing drums lately. Sharing shells does save a good 5-10 minutes, but, I get nervous sharing my own becuase I know I can't afford to re-skin it (no matter how cheap some of you think skins are).

Sorry I can't listen to the samples here. I've used it before, but only on a couple of notes in a song - i'd rather do another take. It can be used as a cool effect though

the echohead has tap tempo input but you'd need a momentary footswitch to use it.

It IS! I'm always getting help on here. Glad you're sorted

I lolled

heh, he e-mailed it to me too but I have no speakers at work. I converted to WMA. Hopefully he's all sorted - Pete?

That's weird. Does it play back on your phone? Has it recorded at 48Hz or something?

can't you borrow something from work? If you have a mini jack plug you could always strip the wires and tape them onto the inside of your bass's jack (yeh, I have done it, it was a little noisy!!).

[quote name='barneyg42' post='854153' date='Jun 1 2010, 09:24 PM']<<<<<-------AFTER Bit of an early one this.......late 70s/1980ish!! BEFORE------>>>>>>[attachment=51156:IMG1.JPG][/quote] I bet it tasted good though!

yeh we recorded for free at college and uni. Where are you? Maybe a BCer can help.

the jackhammer has a low control so you just turn that up.

can't wait to see it finished!

Primebass - I use a jackhammer and an echohead without pops - and this is with a LOT of compression after. [quote name='burno70' post='851772' date='May 30 2010, 12:37 PM']I'm lookin for a new dirt pedal - does this one do 'hair of dirt' or is it quite saturated? Cheers[/quote] It does both. It has OD and Dist modes - very useful IMO and pretty cheap.

I'm a bit confused as to what the pedal is like now, but, if it's two footswitches turning on two things, and you just want one to do both switches at a time, that should be fairly easy. If you look inside there might be lots of un-used contacts on the bottom of one of the footswitches, you could just take the wires from one of them, and solder to the other. The other option would be to have the pedal always on as you like it, and have it in a bypass loop. Then you'd just switch the loop in and out with one footswitch.

I'm not sure if your effects look cosy or smothered!! Good idea though.

nice work danny!

Hmm could be a dodgy footswitch then? but that's an easy fix.

use your tongue like a real man!

Are you saying that you put new batteries in your bass and it worked? I tried my jackhammer and it doesn't pop at all

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='847570' date='May 25 2010, 03:12 PM']My original point was that the 'bass is bass' attitude is sometimes annoying, like I turn up for the gig with a 5-string because it's a gimmick or something.[/quote] Yeh "you don't need ALL those pedals" "I bet you never use those extra strings", that type of thing? I've had that a few times but only really from arrogant youngsters, never soundmen (apart from the idiot who asked for a clean DI).

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='847435' date='May 25 2010, 12:57 PM']Yep, i didn't explained myself well. The lost of lows you get from a guitar pedal will give you the sensation of volume lost cause you loose a big part of your sound's fundamental. Not realy means it will be lower, just less filling [/quote] Ahh, I see, yeh.

I know the lines are blurry, but I thought in general autowah was time based, as opposed to an envelope follower which is dynamics based. No matter what order you have them in you should be able to achieve "unity gain". Using a guitar pedal for bass can result in a lack of low end, but wouldn't usually result in a loss of level. There's nothing inherently quieter about guitar pedals.

get back on the front page you, someone's going to reply!