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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?

Have you seen [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=56659"]this[/url] ad?

There are some nightmare stories here. I've never had such problems. The only time I ever fell out with a soundman was at the a battle of the bands where they demanded that I use the same crap amp as the rest of the bands in the interest of fairness. I understood the point, but we were a three peice competing against 4 peices, I play with a bi-amp rig and loads of pedals and they wouldn't even let me use the 2nd guitar amp with a hi-pass.

They seem to go from £100 to £160. You can have mine for £100 + P&P.

Yeh but a Boss PSU provides 500Ma? (I think, I have one somewhere and it's more than 200 surely!)

[quote name='alexclaber' post='568018' date='Aug 13 2009, 02:42 PM']Or to put it another way, am I the only person on here whose right shoulder is much less flexible than his left due to years of bass playing? Try lying on the floor on your back with your arms straight and then bringing them over your head as though you're trying to stretch out as long as possible - my right arm really doesn't want to lie flat on the floor. Alex[/quote] yeh my right shoulder has become hunched over and I have to constatly correct my posture because of it.

AFAIK It doesn't matter what the pedal says it can output, if your PSU can supply enough current for the board, it doesn't matter if it goes in and out of your Tuner. If you're worried about it there are plenty of daisy chain adaptors which will fit the end of your PSU plug instead of having to come out of a pedal.

BUMP of desperation. Where are all the Stokies?

[quote name='OldGit' post='565848' date='Aug 11 2009, 12:47 PM']Been round this one a few times eh Tom?[/quote] Heh, you can say that again!! This is why we've cut out the crap gigs, and we're keeping in touch with promoters much more etc.

[quote name='Linus27' post='565810' date='Aug 11 2009, 12:04 PM']I am just wondering if gigs are worth doing these days, or not as many as the old days. Just seems to be less of of scene these days for original bands. Do you think thats because of the recession, lack of money, health and safety shutting places down, lack of venues, to many bands and not enough places to play etc??[/quote] No that's just the impression you get from playing crap gigs. Hold out for Friday and Saturday nights in decent venues.

[quote name='OldGit' post='565768' date='Aug 11 2009, 11:21 AM']... and how they complain about the promotor but do nothing themselves ..[/quote] Yes, there is that, but it would be nice if the promotor actually did some promoting. In stoke, they will put band names on a poster in the venue and maybe on the door of the venue. Apart from that there is absolutely nothing. Anyone can book bands and hand out tickets, promotors should be promoting shouldn't they?

Around here if it's your first time at a venue, the promotor only calls with last minute gigs and demands you sell a sh*t load of tickets. The idea is he sees what you're made of and decides whether to call you back in the future.

Can't you just tell him what roots to play and he can work out the chords?

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='564971' date='Aug 10 2009, 01:52 PM']Crikey! We could all do with some of those. Any chance of a list?[/quote] Our bassist is a 6th form teacher, so when we're in Stoke, we guarantee at least 20 mental kids moshing up front. Also, when we play in Stoke we generally know the venues etc. If you want to come play in Stoke we can guarantee you a crowd but not a bed as our house tends to get crowded after gigs. Our bassist also reckons he can pack the London gigs, but the proof will be in the pudding.

I used mine as a low end boost and low end distortion IE I blended it with another distortion which I used for my top end. I can't listen to the clip so can't comment on that, but basically if you want lots of gain/distortion/fuzz then it's not for you, likewise if you want it to increase your top end, it's not the pedal for you. This is why people call it Fizzy etc, because they have the gain too high and the treble knob too high.

Looking good!!