cheddatom

Perhaps Red Onion could do it, or Silent Fly on here. A feedback loop takes a bit of the return signal and sends it to the send. How much is normally determined by a pot. It can make crazy oscillations out of standard OD pedals. It gets very weird with digital pedals - try it with a couple of octaves up and some digital delay and a wah!

I was thinking about doing it before by adding another jack socket to my bass and winding two jack lead around each other - one for output, one for power. It was easier to keep buying batteries!

swapping drum kits over for every band on a 4 band originals night? You might be quick to change over, but not THAT quick.

I was going to suggest getting someone to make a looper with built in booster on one loop. Then get a feedback control on there and your existing pedals will make weird noises!

I would have thought it'd be better to adapt your bass to use an XLR cable, but I see no reason why using a PSU and battery clip wouldn't work.

[quote name='bumnote' post='625816' date='Oct 14 2009, 11:04 AM']Some years ago i was playing in a band and we were trying to learn I think it was a doobie brothers tune although I cant for the life of me remember which one. There was a stop and a drum fill where the drummer went round the toms. we couldnt get the re start right and we said to the drummer, John you are putting in 1 fill too many round the toms, the drummer on the record does 1 less than you do. His response Perhaps Ive got more tom toms than he has[/quote] LOL! Mine is generally when the guitarist says "there are this many beats for one of this riff" and then counts it out, then I write a beat to that count, then we realise that he counted wrong and I have to add in or take out beats.

I find it weird you're having no trouble playing the same stuff at home. This is weird but you might consider that you're not the one messing up. Maybe it's the other two? I've had that before, especially on drums where i'm playing the exact right thing but the other two guys keep stopping in the same place. I've always had to change what i'm playing to fit them. Just a thought!

It sounds like you only have the one minor tone issue. When I play over the bridge I don't get enough "bark attack bite punch" etc I just turn on an EQ pedal which cuts the low end a bit. Perhaps you could do the same with your X3 Live?

[quote name='peety' post='624951' date='Oct 13 2009, 01:40 PM']Is it unreasonable of us to expect him to honour these committments including rehearsal until we find a replacement[/quote] It's not unreasonable, but I would personally be uncomfortable. He's obviously not the bloke you thought he was, why do you want to play with him again? Obviously it's not just for the money else you'd have more gigs.

yeh you and the rest of the band really need to be able to play through mistakes. There's always the chance of one of you making a mistake and if you have to stop and go back to the start you will all look tw*ts.

Well on the graphic EQ I have the bottom fader (can't remember the frequency) right down, otherwise yeh, I don't see why not.

I've had it before when i've lent my bass amp to other bands and they run it too loud, the yellow warning light keeps flicking, and then at some point it dies with a big pop and the yellow light stays on permanently. You just turn it off and on and it works fine again. Well, last night I was playing for the first time in ages and it kept happening every few minutes, even though I wasn't loud enough to make the yellow light come on (until it popped). It only seems to happen when i've got my pedalboard on, but I do have a gate which totally gets rid of all noise between notes and all feedback etc (I have a lot of distortion and compression) so I can't figure it out! Is there a way my board could be sending a weird spike? Why can I not hear the spike? Can the amp be overloading from something other than input volume?

I have high and low on my peavey combo. My 18v schecter sounds good through high but better through low!

Well I went to audition with a nottingham band who got back to me the day after to say they'd let me know in a month or two, then a month later they asked me to do it. I decided it was too far to travel, but it was an organised decent polite band in nottingham.

Surely you could acheive infinite sustain with distortion and volume, and then EQ out the top end so it doesn't sound like distortion, just seriously compressed bass? I once had quite a nice synthy type sound using a french toast and a Black Liquorice with a hard limiter and a gate, and all the top EQd out. Perhaps I have the wrong end of the stick.

AFAIK (and someone will probably correct me) He has 3 rigs, one is always running, and it's clean, another is running most of the time and he chooses how dirty it is with pedals, another is switched in and out and is seriously dirty.

[quote name='endorka' post='620849' date='Oct 8 2009, 06:35 PM']They're probably not appropriate for acoustic situations such as the one in that video, and especially in the orchestra; it's not really a problem when everything is acoustic and relatively quiet, as you can hear yourself well enough to play in tune, and it's best to keep things simple - you just have to compensate for the different sound behind and in front of the instrument. IEM's for amplified gigs is something I've been thinking about though, do you have any experience of the various systems? Jennifer[/quote] No, I know nothing about them, I just thought it was a shame that you couldn't hear your true tone on stage and perhaps IEMs would solve it.

[quote name='Silent Fly' post='621407' date='Oct 9 2009, 10:46 AM']I am not sure I understand why you would like to run the effects in a second amp. Unless the the second amp has a very strong personality, from the sound viewpoint, you should be able to achieve the same thing with a blender.[/quote] Timmy C does it with similar amps doesn't he? There must be a reason for that.

I always thought what I needed to do was run a clean signal into a bass amp, and a dirty signal into a guitar amp. At first I couldn't afford, so got an LS-2 to blend instead. Then, my guitarist got a new amp, so I started using his old one. It sounded crap. Then I tried the guitar amp coming out of the crossover on my peavey bass amp, so after the end of my blended effects chain. That sounded amazing, and it's what I used for the next 3 years. I would imagine that the combination of both amps got me somewhere near the capabilities of a very powerful bass rig with amazing cabs with crossovers etc. The main thing I missed when running clean to the bass amp was the distorted low end!!

[quote name='endorka' post='620585' date='Oct 8 2009, 02:23 PM']It is really strange hearing the double bass from the listeners perspective, as it always sounds different from when I am actually playing it. Presumably being behind/above the instrument considerably affects the tone and volume, as I always perceive it as fairly thin and a bit quiet.[/quote] It might be worth trying some IEMs.

You need a pre-amp for each mic you want to record. These could be in a mixer, in a rack, or built into the interface you choose. Firewire is better than USB. I have PCI interfaces and use external pre-amps. It depends what you have already, and how much cash you have to spend.

I agree it's a great pedal, but it won't really help you sound like a guitar IMO.

When I play chords it sometimes sounds just like a very low huge guitar. I do that by blending clean with a very trebley attacking overdrive.

That's depressing!

[quote name='fatback' post='618589' date='Oct 6 2009, 02:28 PM']Thanks cheddatom. Unfortunately the work pcs don't let us use proxies. lll just have to go to Scotland to watch. hehe. Love the place, lived there for years. fatback[/quote] Oh the bastards. Befriend your IT man!