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[quote name='OldGit' post='847204' date='May 25 2010, 09:27 AM']You can be the one bass player on their patch that week that talks to them like they are a human and you are working together for a joint objective. or... just accept that some sound people hate their jobs, and musicians, then play that gig and move on.[/quote] I've always been nice to sound guys, and always approached them as though they are the expert. It's when I say "usually i'll use a DI and a mic on the guitar amp, is that OK?" and they reply "no mics for bass" or something equally rediculous. I'm pretty sure that it's not me pissing these people off. I've seriously had sound engineers refuse to move a mic from a guitar cab for another band to my guitar amp, just because I play bass, and "no mics for bass". I've also had a guy refuse to take a DI post EQ and one guy asked me to give him a clean DI, despite the fact i'm gigging with 25 pedals and there was no mic on the amp!! ARRRGH So yeh, i'm sure some bassists get all pissy when they only get a 20 second sound check or the like, and annoy the sound guy, but i'm pretty sure I treat them as nice as possible, and on the odd occasion you still get an utter tosser.

Heh, I read gafs rant and that's as much investment as I can make into this thread. All I know is, my band would never have asked me to play a different bass, and at gigs I would always talk to the soundman and 90% of the time get him to sort me a DI AND a mic, listen to my different pedals and levels etc. Obviously i've met the arsehole soundguys. I still don't know what you're supposed to do to get them on side.

When pedals are off, the level is "normal" and you should try to match the volume of when they're on to when they're off.

heh, it's a passive bass with an active pre-amp. Mine's 18V I don't know if yours is too. You need 2 batteries if so. I'll go and have a listen for a pop on my jackhammer tonight and let you know. (I bought one recently, really enjoying it on bass).

gwreetings wrotter. Does it make the pop on guitars as well? Do you have the gain set quite high? Is it louder than your clean sound when it's on? Have you tried it with batteries? Do you have full batteries in the bass? Does the PSU work OK for other pedals? Sorry for all the questions (and my drunken texting at the weekend).

I just bought a pedal off Shep. Nice guy, good comms, well packed, prompt delivery, would buy from this seller again A+++++!!! (my tribute to Ebay feedback) Cheers Shep!

Heh, everyone wants Timmy C's tone, and no-one's going to get it. I think he used a marshall guvnor but also used a lot of amp distortion. He blends clean in too on a seperate amp. So you want a dirt pedal with a clean blend.... err that wasn't much help. I haven't tried the current Guvnor, maybe that would be appropriate.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='843181' date='May 20 2010, 03:06 PM']Thats the approach I took. Actually, once an originals band is REALLY comfortable, like I was with my old band, even once a week isnt necessary if you are all busy and there are no new tracks. Ive done gigs with massive gaps between other gigs/practices! It actually made the gigs really fun and fresh.[/quote] Yeh, but that depends on how often you write. At the moment we're recording every practise and jam lots as well as playing existing songs, so still doing 2 days a week is fun. (I actually do 2 with CreepJoint, 1 with a new band, and 1 with The Premature Ejaculators, and I LOVE practising almost every night).

I've never been in a band that didn't want to practise twice a week. This is originals though. I guess with a cover band you wouldn't want to get bored. I signed up for the e-drama too, still waiting on my approval

I just thought i'd add an amusing video of us

Of course it counts! It's when you said "i'm going to see if I can incorporate this with my bass sound" I thought maybe you'd turned the whole thing into a pedal for bass!

[quote name='escholl' post='841636' date='May 19 2010, 03:43 AM']This started out as a DIY effect, an Ampeg Scrambler clone about....2 years ago? But I never had much use for it, because while it sounds really fantastic on my bass, I found it had to be driven quite hard to really sound good, ie I basically needed a preamp or even better another fuzz before it to really make it sing. So, it sat unused, then it sort of got added to another project... I'm trying to think of a way to incorporate this into my bass sound now [/quote] WTF is going on there?!?

I know you're steering away from the idea of using a computer, but I have toyed with the idea of using a racked server with some decent audio/midi interfaces (It could have been your interfaces that let you down). Also I saw Karnivool play to a click with loads of samples and effects changes etc. They had a full protools rig racked.

Hello all, you can hear what the music's like here: [url="http://www.myspace.com/creepjointmusic"]myspace.com/creepjointmusic[/url] and if you fancy an album just send me a PM - £5 shipped anywhere. this is my first full album (barring the Premature Ejaculators) I'm on drums, but I did record/mix/master the whole thing so had [i]some [/i]creative input! (two songs are mine too)

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='841771' date='May 19 2010, 10:04 AM']We did a gig in Stockwell years ago that was so empty (ie, no one) our guitarist too one look at the venue and left the band. Never seen him since. we got the support band (mates of ours) to get up with us, we had a jam for about an hour and then me and the singer (my girlfriend ) went and had sex in the bog while they did some blues thing Not a bad night really although we didnt get paid.[/quote] It gets to you after a while. sh*t gigs wouldn't be so bad if they were closer to home, but it's home gigs you can fill, and gigs further afield you're relying on the promoter for, and obviously we all know about promoters.

I think I had a fairly big sound with my band. Distortion, clean blend, parallel compression and bi-amping were the main ingredients IMO. Me and the drummer "locked in" just fine. No amount of practicing would give me the huge sound of adding a guitar amp.

Clarky, we played to a 3 peice support band once, it's not too bad.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='841095' date='May 18 2010, 04:34 PM']I think my wife actually said those exact words once. With a straight face. [/quote] To be fair you wouldn't normally expect to have to read the manual for your blender.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='841068' date='May 18 2010, 04:23 PM']The [url="http://lib.roland.co.jp/support/en/manuals/res/1811215/DD-20_e1.pdf"]DD-20 manual[/url] shows you (on page 26) all the different relationships you can set between the tap tempo and the delay time in terms of note lengths. I personally don't have a DD-20, but I've fiddled with one for a good long while and as long as I had the TEMPO thing set to a crotchet (quarter note, call it what you will ) the delay time was equal to the tap tempo. And, of course, you can set it to quavers (two delays per tap) or triplet quavers (three delays per tap). That's the beauty of the beast! Dotted notes are always a good one with delays.[/quote] Well, I did look AT the manual, it's just I forgot to look inside.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='841051' date='May 18 2010, 04:16 PM']Hmmm…. I love the pedal, but use the 2 headed tape delay and the Warp setting the most… This was my first Tap Tempo delay pedal so I don't have much to compare to.When using it at rehearsal, if I tap a solid rhythm along with whats being played then start playing it does react in time with the music, but not in the sense of one foot tap per delay so to speak. Almost like the delay is double time to the tap. I do find it easier to get my hear around when you change the display from Milisec's to BPM! Shep[/quote] I didn't know you could set it to BPM!! Excellent, i'll give that a go. At the moment it's as though it's going at 3 times the speed of my tapping, or something like that.

Nice. I recently got a DD-20 and i've been struggling a little. Probably because I didn't take the time to learn it with guitar or bass before adding it to my drum pedalboard. Anyway, do you find the tap tempo function OK? Mine reacts ok to differences in tempo of tapping, but the tempo of the delays don't bear much relation to the tempo of the tap.

[quote name='mildmanofrock' post='839885' date='May 17 2010, 04:27 PM']Arr, not deleted out of anger - just board embarrassment! [/quote] Ahhh, heh, really, this thread is more like porn than it is discussion. If you look through there are loads of boards with no comments. I'm not sure if I can remember yours but I think my reaction was along the lines "FS I wish that was mine, so shiney and organised" and i'd never post admitting to jealousy over another's board!

[quote name='mildmanofrock' post='839856' date='May 17 2010, 04:09 PM']Cheers. No comments from anyone on my board then? I thought this was a place to post your board and get some comments and advice. Not sure why I took the time to take a picture and post it. I'll delete it as it was obviously too non-descript/dull/sh*t to get a response. [/quote] How very mild-mannered! I'm not sure if i've taken this the wrong way, but it looks like you really have deleted your post of your board?!?