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Generally you need seperate power amps for each frequency band. Obviously you could use a stereo power amp for a bi-amp. Some bass heads have built in crossed-over outputs, but these generally need a power amp after anyway. I think Trace did an amp with seperate speaker outputs for hi and low?

Also, (and I know it's too big) I LOVE the wahs on the XP-100

Always record a DI as well anyway, you could end up with a much better sound. Make sure to record a DI of your clean bass, as well as a DI out of your pedals. Use seperate DI boxes, don't use the DI on your amp. Depending on the type of music and mix, you probably won't be able to hear the hiss in the mix anyway, and if you can. a decent engineer will EQ it out for you.

There's one bass sound (that's used a couple of times) on Renegades that sounds like he's deffinitely torn a speaker. It's amazing!!! Battle of LA is a great album, but the more I listen to it, the more I think it's a bit "over produced".

[quote name='Changles' post='548673' date='Jul 23 2009, 11:02 AM']so i've got a hartke lh 500 going through the errr hydrive 115, great half stack, really love the sound i'm getting out of it, but there is a hiss, and i want to get rid of it in time for recording, which is this saturday am i right in guessing that a noise suppressor only gets rid of noise from the pedals? if so, what am i to do? thanks, charles[/quote] Do you have a noisy amp or a noisy pedalboard? I have both. When I recorded with them, I used a noise gate on the pedal board, recorded DI of dry bass, DI of pedal board, mic'd the amp(s) and low-passed them.

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='548733' date='Jul 23 2009, 11:37 AM']Is it possible that he's making up some of the secrecy stuff for a laugh? He must get bored with the same routine interview questions.[/quote] Heh, yes, I think so. Maybe he does it to try and turn his tone into a legend. He doesn't realise that he managed it without the hype!

Evil Empire is such a meaty sound. I use it to compare all my masters to.

Just re-read the OP. Are you getting: A a loud pop when you switch the pedal on B clicking for the duration whilst the pedal is on ?

I believe morley do a pedal with auto-switching? With the wah probe - I wanted it to go through my dirt pedals, which are all blended anyway, so it makes no difference to the low end. In fact, if you turn up the boost circuit it seems to add quite a lot, but I guess that's low mids.

Damn, I wish I didn't like it so I could make a whopping profit!

How much are they new? I got mine for £100 used at a music shop in stoke EDIT: I use mine blended though so there may be some low end loss

Has anyone else ever used a Zvex Wah Probe on bass? I do and it's amazing.

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='547266' date='Jul 22 2009, 07:57 AM']I guess we all have the right to adopt our own moral stance on this, I'm a bit disappointed some may view me as morally corrupt for offering to help out a fellow musician to cover the cost of the parts while I explore my electronics hobby. Is it ok to clone a vintage classic Tubescreamer type pedal? What about an A/B box or a simple treble boost circuit? I'm unclear why there is seen to be some sort of mystic preciousness about the ZVex pedals, which for me are absurdly overpriced for what they are.[/quote] I totally agree with you Al, there's no problem with building a copy of a circuit with a view to improving it or just generally practicing electronics as a hobby. That's exactly how Zvex started out. Having said that he does get really pissy if you talk about building fuzz factory clones, which is stupid, because it's just another fuzz face with feedback.

Heh, I read the OP and did not follow the link so wasn't aware that this was about ACG. I didn't even know they did guitars, I thought it was just pre-amps.

It's a bit crap that the story hasn't featured on here at all. I have no idea who this guy is or what his products are. You'd think he would have made a thread on the english bass message board.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='546539' date='Jul 21 2009, 02:51 PM']Nasty biting treble happens lower down than bright shiny treble which itself is lower than airey treble. Alex[/quote] Heh, it depends who says "nasty biting" doesn't it! I get what you mean though, I EQ out everything above 5K which probably catches quite a bit lower too, so perhaps I would never hear the difference you're on about.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='546492' date='Jul 21 2009, 02:25 PM']Because you buffer the signal more directly rather than suffering the high frequency loses due to the capacitative nature of a guitar lead. The issue isn't where the pots and batteries are but where the input stage of the onboard preamp is. The instrument cable acts like a passive tone pot, and the longer the cable is then the more the capacitance is so the lower the frequency at which it starts acting as a first order lowpass filter (just like bigger caps on tone pots cut more treble). Alex[/quote] That makes sense, thanks! Having said that, I can get really nasty biting trebly tones out of my passive bass, at least as "toppy" as my active with EMGs.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='546193' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:24 AM']your pup signal will be more enhanced imho by signal enhancement via an onboard active eq[/quote] Why would it make any difference whether the batteries and pots are in the bass rather than in a pedal?

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='546183' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:19 AM']Censorship. Got to love it. It's like taking a R rated movie and dumbing it down to a 12. Kinda makes it all pointless.[/quote] Still, better than a group of 12 year olds watching a rated R film, no?

[quote name='yituool' post='546176' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:14 AM']I take it noone is going to notice the irony in my post, no?[/quote] Can you spell it out?

[quote name='alexclaber' post='546164' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:07 AM']I read some stuff on talkbass about some new Villex models which I think could be more transparent but couldn't see anything on their site. But certainly more open than most P-pickups. Active EMGs are true active pickups with very low inductance coils, extended range and built-in preamp to buffer and add gain. IMO they run much better on 18V. Very hard to get that sound with a passive pickup because if the passive pickup isn't detecting much 5kHz+ then all the treble boost in the world won't do anything because you can't make something out of nothing. They are unforgiving but with a good bass and good technique they are not in the least bit sterile or untoneful. Alex[/quote] So I don't have "true" active EMGs, I just have EMGs and a 18V pre-amp Oh well, it sounds very good. I can make my passive bass sound quite a lot like my bass with EMGs by using pedals.

[quote name='yituool' post='546165' date='Jul 21 2009, 11:08 AM']People like you who use your 'wit' to act upon petty, meaningless issues like this are the ones putting internet debates in a bad light.[/quote] What the hell are you talking about? This kind of post is what the internet is about. The guy cares about the issue, so he makes a great big clever post about it, what's the problem? Fair enough if you disagree with his opinion, but to insult his personality is a bit harsh!

I thought that a lot of EMG set ups were passive pups with an active pre-amp? That's what it says about my schecter. In which case, you could install them with the pre-amp in a pedal or something.

people ARE strange!

You can kind of emulate it with the enhancer function on a boss LMB-3 but I wouldn't recommend it if you have any respect for your ears. Perhaps the aphex exciter would have a similar effect.