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[quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='316641' date='Oct 28 2008, 12:48 PM']erm.......volume.... apologies, it's stayed im my board from my last band where we had this overdriven into where each note faded in and out on bass. planning on using it again for something sameish with my newer band.[/quote] You could use it as a mute and take your tuner out of the chain - use the other chorus output for the tuner.

Grow a beard to go with your new cool image!! Seriously, I wish I had the money for a double bass AND lessons! Go for it.

[quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='316149' date='Oct 27 2008, 08:55 PM']simple but does the job.[/quote] What do you use your volume pedal for?

I think it should be as soon as you are all together in person. If they ask why you didn't tell them sooner, just say you wanted to do it in person and this was the first opportunity.

[quote name='Biggsy' post='313096' date='Oct 23 2008, 03:46 PM']I didn't know you could do that.. At the risk of sounding stupid, is that different from using the master fader?[/quote] Well if all your channels are clipping, and you bring down the master fader, you still tend to get distortion from the individual channels before the master fader.

For a good punky pick tone, I like the digitech bass squeeze - but it might be a bit too "full on" for you.

Something I do way too often is linking every channel on my cubase mixer to bring every fader down at the same time.

Les Claypool - Primus Dirk Lance - Incubus Timmy C - RATM I'm trying really hard to think of some more "credible" (at least to you musos) bassists but these are the only guys who have excited me and retained my interest - a lot of that is down to having an original sound.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='313049' date='Oct 23 2008, 03:56 PM']Try practising in the dark Or whilst wearing varifocals You'll soon figure it out![/quote] You're supposed to EAT the carrots!!

No luck, I am in touch with that guy tauzero pointed out, I haven't been able to listen to his stuff yet, but he says they're mostly based in brum so probably not. I don't know about an ad in the sentinel etc, I suppose I should, I really want to get gigging again on bass.

[quote name='dlloyd' post='312830' date='Oct 23 2008, 11:16 AM']I'm sure the ALC do a lot of very good work, ........ [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3197605.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yo...ire/3197605.stm[/url] [url="http://blog.01274.net/index.php?c=Main&e=ViewPost&postId=225"]http://blog.01274.net/index.php?c=Main&amp...&postId=225[/url][/quote] Yeh!: "ALC is a giving church. Just recently a £52,000 gift was given to a brilliant thing in the US working among the dregs of society there. Every year £1000s are spent on gifts, especially at Christmas. We are actively giving clothing and food to people who need it. Here is an article from back in 1998 on the church giving money for the new building: Super Sunday!, £600,000 given from the church, £160,000 of which came from the leaders. For some it meant "handing over £15,000 and for others £20. And about 100 children pooled their pocket money to give £1,000." There was that gift to help keep Bradford FC alive a while back (see this and this). These are just a few things, but the list is long." I'm sure that list is massive. They're obviously very generous.

I'm assuming you have a load of audio tracks lined up in a DAW on your computer and you just can't get your mix to sound right? I think a good tip is to start with the drums. Get the sounding great on their own, and have them so loud that they would clip if you didn't...... put a limiter on the kick and snare so that the very loudest peaks get "limited" down. IF the drums sound great, start mixing in the bass. Keep listening to the drums, and as they start to sound less good, think about what frequencies in the bass are affecting the drums, and try to EQ to compensate. If you have multiple layers of bass - why? Are they doubling a single part? For what reason? It may be necessary to cross them over using EQ, you may have to inverse the phase of one of them etc. Then add in the guitar and vocals. A good tip above is "use fairly heavy equalisation". You may end up with EQ settings that look rediculous, but SOUND good. If you get a rough mix done, upload it here and we can tell you what to do to it.

No I hadn't, thankyou!

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='311274' date='Oct 21 2008, 01:22 PM']You sure do look like one funky m*****f***er![/quote] +1

I don't understand why it would be anything to do with the sender. If USPS acknowledge that they picked it up, they should be able to tell you where it is.

I play a 6 string, with lots of effects. I like to play rock with a groove, but i'm up for anything. I can only commit to one practice a week at first as I "play" the drums in 2 other bands, but I would love for bass playing to be my main thing again. If anyone fancies starting a band or if any existing bands around stoke/stone/newcastle are after a bassist let me know! go to www.no-logo.ws to hear my bass playing.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='311107' date='Oct 21 2008, 10:39 AM']the sensitivity setting has to be set for every bass you use.[/quote] Surely that's obvious and the same for any dynamic-following pedal.

Feature-wise, I really want a Peavey Tmax. It has everything I want in a bass amp, but then I gig with a guitar amp too.

When adaptors are so easy, cheap, and small, why the hell can't they just build them into the pedals?

I don't know how to create a section in the wiki, but if someone does it I will pour in all of my knowledge.

Are you bothered about amp modelling or just effects?

Let's do it in the Wiki, I would contribute.

Amps (in my experience) are prone to accidents, rather than wear and tear. IE it's a lot more likely that your amp will die if someone drops it, than it is that your amp will die from lots of use. It doesn't sound like you need the money? If it were me, i'd have them sign something to guarantee they'll replace it if it breaks on their watch, or if you have insurance to guarantee that they'll pay the excess. If I was getting paid £150 per gig, i'd probably buy my own compact rig!