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What's a sgetty loop?

I really like it. I always loved the one that the Alien Ant Farm guy had too.

Interesting stuff - thanks! I'll look up some videos. I like to do it when playing chords on my acoustic bass, as in tapping 3 or 4 strings at the same time.

When i'm playing the bass, one technique which I particularly like is to fret a note, and then to tap on the string i'm fretting at various positions on the neck. I don't tap hard enough for it to be called "tapping" as you don't hear the note which my right hand is "playing". What you do hear are extra harmonics and generally pleasing frequencies which aren't there when plucking or picking, or even when using artificial harmonics in the style of an 80s guitarist. This works particularly well on acoustic bass. So.... what's the name for this, who else does it, and where's the obligatory amazing youtube video of the master of this technique?

[quote name='Toasted' post='378802' date='Jan 13 2009, 11:40 AM']I love his drive sound. But I think it only works at relatively low volume.[/quote] What do you mean by that? It will sound crap if you turn up the CD in your car? Or if they were louder at gigs? Or.......?

Well I was going to suggest just making a CD with a click track on one side and the samples on the other. The thing is, if you came in after 5 instead of 4 beats, or anything like that, it would totally mess it up..........(because he says he wants to do it without a laptop).

"hallucinoginetics" or something like that? Cool!! I've not seen him use the bass keyboard pedal thingies on that DVD.

Interesting! Ta for that. I would love a DL-4. I guess he uses this for his reverse sounds on the primus live DVD I have and it's very cool.

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='371026' date='Jan 5 2009, 03:40 PM'][/quote] Can you tell what's on that? If so, can you tell me please? Was there somewhere particularly informative where you got the pic?

Nice. I reckon you should keep the limiter at that price. Even if you don't particularly like it you never know when a limiter will come in handy, they're very useful.

Ta for the link but I can't search on the les forum. Still, it seems he has more material out than I realised. Nice one!

Really? I thought the blue box was a ring modulator rather than an octave up? It does sound like the octaver on digitechs etc rather than a ring modulator but I await correction. Are there any sites that detail Les' rig?

How will you make sure your pre-recorded samples are in time with the live playing?

There's an octave up at one point so I thought maybe it was a synthy type pedal with envelope follower, octaver, and dirt in one box.

Does anyone know what pedals Les is using on the song "Mr Oysterhead"?

[quote name='Starvolt' post='362738' date='Dec 24 2008, 12:15 PM']I suppose it's cos it's one of the really well known Muse tracks. I'm still trying to figure out how to get the right sound for Muscle Museum.[/quote] Muscle museum is just plenty of compression and played right by the neck without much force IMHO. On the CD there is a piano doubling the part which makes it sound much more interesting. I don't know if it's actually a piano, someone disagreed with me on the Muse board about it once, but it sounds just like a piano doubling the part. It would be amazing if it was a pedal though!

[quote name='xgsjx' post='368734' date='Jan 2 2009, 07:17 PM']there's one or two 1/2 decent fx in the zoom if you spend a little time messing & the delay could prove useful.[/quote] There are some seriously good sounds in the Zoom if you work at it. Stick it in a blender and it's even better. I used to use mine for all my dirty tones, as well as wah and delays and phaser etc.

Can you give some info regarding "record labels sniffing aound" please? Also, you say that you have loads of gigs lined up, but there are only 3 dates on the myspace. I live in Stoke. I can easily keep up with this band. It's not my favorite type of music, but if it's really going somewhere then I could be interested. P.S I only own 6 strings, but don't let that scare you, I can play root notes with a pick.

I prefer his earlier sounds. You can find out all about them as the set up was rather more simple!

I used to gig with 20 odd pedals and I got loads of compliments from other bassists on my sound.

I would imagine it reduces signal level, rather than increasing it. You would have it turned on to reduce the level of your actives, and off to balance with your passives.