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[quote name='OldGit' post='291536' date='Sep 25 2008, 10:06 AM']Hang on ... a bass related post? Who are you and what have you done with Teri???? Nice one Teri, thanks! Clearangel looks like a shopping channel rather than a dealer .. [url="http://www.clearangel.net/Home.aspx"]http://www.clearangel.net/Home.aspx[/url] EG their Zoom B2.1u page points to 10 possible suppliers of the product, not listed in price order doh! so the cheaper one ("sound control" 0)) is at the bottom.. Still it's a start..[/quote] Thanks OG! I was looking for clearDASHangel all morning due to MrsT's poor spelling! (and thanks to MrsT for a well meaning post).

That looks great! I would prefer it with a black plate though, and yeh, I would love to see a 6 string version!

[quote name='crez5150' post='290689' date='Sep 24 2008, 11:15 AM']Oh god we're not going back over this again are we....?????? [/quote] I have no idea what he's on about. If you play for applause you could get applause, but you could get booed. You could get paid, or you could get fobbed off. You could get wasted, or you could drive home. You could get laid, or you could get dumped. You could take inspiration from the applause and create some amazing music, or you could continue to bash out classic covers. What is your point Bilbo?

[quote name='metaltime' post='289766' date='Sep 23 2008, 11:22 AM']Yeah i no ive been on the look out but ive found it really difficult to find them. But your right i need to get some.[/quote] They generally only come out around christmas time AFAIK. It would be good to know of a shop that stocks them all year round.

He shouldn't have a lyric book IMHO. The singer for the PEs always wants his lyrics to read, but we tell him "no, f*cking learn them" so he tries his best.

If it was just a snare close-mic'd track clipping, then I would leave it. As it's the overall 2 track stereo recording, I assume it sounds quite bad? Any limiter should be able to sort it. I don't know what plug-ins you get with Audacity, but there are lots of free and "free" VST compressors around.

I had an e-mail from a dutch customer, and it said it came from "Fantasy Coons". Can someone translate it please because I feel really racist every time I laugh at them and probably wouldn't if I knew what it was.

[quote name='tauzero' post='287146' date='Sep 19 2008, 10:54 AM']No, just a Superfly editor, a computer, and a USB lead... You can set compression attack with the editor, so you could experiment with that and see if you can get it limiting the peaks a bit better.[/quote] Wow! That's pretty cool.

[quote name='Finbar' post='286105' date='Sep 17 2008, 06:03 PM']Working that day. Sucks :/[/quote] Sew the seads of a dead relative! do it now so they can have their funeral on the 11th.

This is deffinitely me, but it doesn't look much like me, and I have no idea what that t-shirt is!

If they've agreed to collect it you should now be able to get your money back?

Is it done?

I got mine for £85 but that was a private sale, not an auction.

[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='284877' date='Sep 16 2008, 11:40 AM']Don't we both agree that a limiter or a compressor with 0ms attack and infinite ratio would solve his problem? [/quote] Yup But that's not what you were saying earlier? A compressor with 0ms attack and infinite ratio = a limiter. You were saying that a compressor does compress attack, "That's kind of half of all it does". I said it doesn't, unless you set it exactly as a limiter, which would make it a limiter. There's a reason there are two different names for these things. Not trying to make an argument, just explaining my reasons for posting

The reason I said this was because his amp is clipping, so the loudest peaks are affecting his amp. If he wants to reduce those peaks he would do better to get a limiter, an/or a compressor set to 0ms attack and infinite ratio. The he can set the threshold so than only the loudest peaks are limited, and it will stop the amp clipping. If he uses a compressor with a slower attack than 0 to do the same thing, then the attack portion of the note will always come through and will always be the loudest, and the "peakiest" and wont stop the amp clipping at these points. This "a compressor, in principle, makes loud bits quieter and quiet bits louder" is not neccessarily true when you correspond the dynamic response to time. Yes, you can use a compressor to make loud bits quieter and quiet bits louder, but the attack part of the note will still be avoiding any compression, and wont be made any quieter. If the compression is so great that the rest of the note is brought up to the same level as that of the attack part (i'd say it'd sound awful!) then the amp would constantly be clipping, although seeing as his perceived level will be louder, he can turn down the amp and it shouldn't clip. So basically, although your post makes sense, I think that a limiter could solve his problem, where a compressor wont.

Don't worry about my shoes! I don't have any gigs on bass for the forseable future I was on about at the end of the chain, because I read that a long cable can degrade your tone as much as a non TB poor buffered pedal, I tend to have a cable at least 20m at the end of my chain so...

Heh, I find it interesting too! I deffinitely do hear differences on my board, being that there are 20 odd crap buffered pedals on there. So you are best to have one decent buffer at the start of your chain, and one at the end then?

[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='284811' date='Sep 16 2008, 10:27 AM']er... since when doesn't a compressor compress the attack? That's kind of half of all it does...[/quote] A compressor will compress the attack if you set the attack time to 0 seconds - but then you might as well call it a limiter without the infinite ratio. The attack control on a compressor sets how quickly the compression kicks in, so if you have a slow attack time, or anything other than 0ms the first portion of the note will not be compressed. Unless again I am talking out of my arse? I thought I knew about this kind of stuff but maybe not?

So it's the fact that the first pedal in your chain will interact with passive pups, and putting a pedal with an output buffer first in the chain means it won't interact? I think I need to do some reading up before I can understand this.

If the clipping is caused by peaks in your playing, yes a limiter will help! The compressor probably doesn't help that much because it wont compress the attack - often the loudest portion of your notes.

[quote name='timmyo' post='284381' date='Sep 15 2008, 05:25 PM'] A buffered signal is inherrently far more resistant to the adverse affect of long cable runs or the sh*tty cable that people often use in patch leads (mostly a prob when you have lots of TB pedals) or the top-end loss you get with a pedal with really bad buffer circuit (or odd input or output impedance). A buffered signal will be less (if at all) affected by these things - so better to buffer up front (or us ea unity gain buffer/line driver or active pickups if that's your bag) than to be affected then buffer the adversely affected signal back up to the correct overall level (but with top end missing, for example)[/quote] I don't understand why a pedal that has a sh*tty bypass would affect a buffered tone less than an unbuffered tone? I don't think the problems arising from the poor pedal would be solved by feeding it a stronger signal? I.E I have a couple of pedals that "suck my tone" when bypassed. They do it if i'm using a passive bass, or if i'm using an active bass (buffered or non). If I send the signal after the crap pedal to my amp using a 30m cable, then it sounds a bit dodgy, if I put a buffered bypassed pedal after the crap pedal, then a 30m lead, it sounds fine but still with the crap bypass from the crap pedal. EDIT: If I am completely misunderstanding what a buffer does please explain!

I would take the jacks off the board by using some wire, if that doesn't solve it, replace the jacks, if that doesn't solve it........... no idea.