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If all you need is extra gain, and you put the micro amp before your filters, yeh it will help.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='727340' date='Jan 28 2010, 10:22 AM']I'm not sure how to react to these comments, and probably shoudn't, but I get the feeling this is becoming personal. Janek anyone?[/quote] It's never personal on the internet, it's just some people take it that way.

[quote name='umph' post='726862' date='Jan 27 2010, 08:49 PM']are you handy with a soldering iron? i'm thinking of doing a DIY thread for a blend pedal, they're extremely simple![/quote] Please do!!!

I'm confused. You should only really be using one sound card, so use the SB. The problem is that you have a front panel for the SB and the mic input doesn't work? Do you have the SB software installed? They give you a mixer where you should be able to see the mic level. EDIT: But it works on the back, so that's not the problem. Perhaps a dodgy connection then. It might be worth just getting an extention to plug in round the back. Better yet, get a decent pre-amp to plug your mic into, then plug that into the SB line in.

I looked at the link, that seems pretty amazing! I can't wait to see what it looks like.

What's the new one OG? That looks weird.

Would a heavy drape have to cover the whole room, or just the area we're using? Would duvets be appropriate? Thanks for all the help guys.

[quote name='redzombie' post='722797' date='Jan 24 2010, 02:02 AM']Can't say I can think of a single person (bass or guitar) who puts their wah after the preamp, perhaps this is why lol Have you considered running your effects infront of the preamp, using something like a Boss LS-2 as a blender?[/quote] +1

Thanks! Is gobo just another word for rectangular box? Would cardboard boxes stuffed with rock wool have the same effect?

In our old room, the ceiling was fairly normal height, but triangular (there's a word for that!?). The walls were made of some really cheap plaster board, loads of windows, a little bit of brick. We had a great sound in there, it's fairly lively, but not mushy. The roof collapsed so we've moved to a new room within the warehouse at work. This room has a very high ceiling, also triangular. It has very hard walls and ceramic tiles on concrete floors. We're getting loads of reverb, which isn't so bad. The drums sound great, but when the guitar and bass kick in it's one big wall of mush. I think it's a problem in the low end, but i'm no expert. Any advice on what to do? We could drape something to create a false ceiling. I could buy some rockwool and make some bass traps. Could we sort it with EQ? There are some pictures [url="http://img693.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=image084c.jpg"]here[/url].

Playing the bass, yeh, it really winds me up. I used to point it out to the drummer, and he'd take it badly but try and work on it. Since i've been playing the drums, it's become obvious to me just how difficult it is to retain a constant tempo. If I don't think, and just play, and everyone else stays at the same tempo, it's OK. However, as soon as I think for one second "have I slowed down? have I sped up?" then I get paranoid and feel like I should try to fix it, and then paranoid that if I "fix it" i'll ruin it! So yeh, it's hard.

That's so weird! They lock the session into one big secure file? You should have asked for just the audio directory. EDIT: Sorry, that wasn't to antagonise you, just another possible solution.

Your bass goes into the input of your amp, FX send goes to the input of your pedals, output of your pedals goes to FX return. If you have the sensitivity on your pedal set to the max and you're still getting feedback I guess you're too close to the amp and you need to rest your fingers on your strings to bring the ouput of your bass down below the threshold of the gate.

I used a zoom multi for ages in my band. I used it blended with a compressed signal, which I would sometimes add distortion to with another pedal. I also had another dirt pedal in line with the Zoom. I used the zoom so that I could switch to complicated effects with the press of one button IE phase+fuzz with the phaser rate controllable with the treadle. Also wah and digital delay with the wah controlled.

It could be that the gate needs to be in the FX loop?

Marshall Echohead is a cheap introduction to delay. It has 6 (I think) very different modes, plus all the normal controls and tap tempo input, stereo output etc.

I'm going. Someone posted a thread about it a while ago and I got the impression it was sold out, but obviously not.

Nice! That's a useful custom pedal.

It's just I work right next to one so can take back stuff if it's wrong etc. If they don't have the right values, i'll order online from somewhere else. Thanks for all the help guys!

OK, i'll just get the closest matches I can from Maplins and giove it a go. Thanks!

Thanks! Now I just need to know if I can use any opld replacement caps?

No, replace all the silver with black!