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Valves and "tried and tested gear" are over rated. Digital amp modelling can replicate some of the most intricate of tones, it's almost a miracle, and yet without even bothering to open their ears and listen, half the gear-buying public immediately shout "NOTHING WILL EVER SOUND LIKE MY FENDER THROUGH AN ALL VALVE AMP".

yo, sorry, I replied to your PM before reading the post. We can meet up if you like no problem. It's about 3 x 5 inches or something.

That's a cool board lateralus. [quote name='gnasher1993' post='589721' date='Sep 4 2009, 02:46 PM']I feel guilty enough that I'll have two delays by the end of next week.[/quote] WHAT?!?! Everyone should have at least 2 delays!!!

yeh there's nothing more fun than a continuously growing pedalboard! I wish mine was still growing :-( Have you ever tried a Whammy? And is it worse or better than the PS5? You should take it to your jazz gigs!

Heh, we were talking about this last night, it is a sh*t state of affairs. We played the Fiddler's Elbow in Camden a couple of times. It seems to attract quite a few locals. The deal there seems to be: your first gig is a try-out, sell 20 tickets and you get another gig, after that just do your best until they can tell you're sh*t.

yeh seeing as you're going to have both chains coming out of active pedals, and I assume they have level knobs, then one of those headphone splitter thingies will do. Otherwise I have this mini mixer I bought off ebay for £10 that has 3 channels 3 knobs and a mono jack output. You could probably find another, or if you really struggle I could send you mine. I never use it.

I had 5 whammies 3 octave pedals and a digital delay all in a feedback loop so suck on that nerrr neerrrr

when you start playing proper gigs through a proper rig I think you'll find you want a blender to add some clean back in. It's an interesting set up though. What do you use the PS5 for?

they will work on anything, I used a bespeco one for years - about £15.

the standard seems to be earnie ball, but there are loads of cheap plastic passive volume pedals around. Can't you use your knob?

you might like to try a digitech whammy.

Danelectro french toast is a good cheap starter. It'd be helpful if you had a blender for it. I started off using effects with a view to fill the gaps left where we'd add rythm guitar in the studio. I realised at the end that I just loved the distorted bass and used it almost all the time, just with varying levels and tones. So I agree that it's not necessary to add a pedal in for guitar solos, but it IS fun.

Nice one!

cool i'll have a listen later. The weirdest thing for me is how you'd want different sounds for the same sounds from night to night. I suppose it adds an extra bit of variety, but for me I find the sound I need for a specific section or song, and then use it.

you need a momentary footswitch with 9 poles or something on it, and 4 jack sockets. I'm sure someone on here is kind enough to draw a diagram for you but it's almost just common sense. You can't break anything anyway. The bit that costs is the box to put it in, perhaps you have an old pedal you could use the box of.

God that IS weird!! What sort of music are you playing?

It might be easier to make yourself a momentary bypass loop (very simple) and buying a cheap tremolo.

Hmmmm, I don't play that much anymore, but at band practice last night I got to have a go on the bass with my pedalboard, and the slap tone was amazing. That's some compression blended with some OD limited and blended with some clean. So much punch, but the hard attack of the slap gets eaten by the OD and limiting which makes it bite loads without the peaks, which in turn means you can actually hear the notes and note just clunk clank clunk clank. I guess if you're into clean sounds then you should be able to get the tone with just touch control alone, although that must take a fair ammount of practice!

Pro Tools is known as the "industry standard" but that doesn't necessarily make it the best application. As said above, it would be good to know how to use it if you want to be a pro. You don't need a mac, but you do have to run it on mac OS and I beleive you have to have some digidesign hardware?

It's very similar. I liked pro tools, but I don't have the money for it. Basically anything you can do in one DAW you can do in another give or take a couple of tiny little nifty features and such.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='586591' date='Sep 1 2009, 03:42 PM']Someone with a simple MIDI floor-switching unit and a rack of well chosen multi-effects will have a far more versatile set up.[/quote] ...and will have spent a lot more money! It depends on how complex you get I suppose. To do the same as I was doing with a rack and MIDI switching would cost you a hell of a lot. To go from using 5+ distortions, a couple of modulation effects and a filter to using a POD or similar would be a considerable saving.

lol, why do record attempts have to be serious? It would be interesting to have an actually gigging biggest pedalboard competition. I think mine would have deffinitely landed me in the top half!

Surely slapping without compression needs to be REALLY loud to be effective? I'd get a limiter.

looking good!!

Oh well, maybe next time?