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If I could have a little bit more than three I would want.... input - split - A into compressor with attack, threshold, and volume control - B into a two stage overdrive i.e low gain grit, going into fuzzy teriotory with a footswitch - Mix the two into a limiter with just threshold control, going into a digital delay. Perfect! Any modulation etc that you want as extra can be put before the pedal, swapped about etc, but that would be an excellent unit to have at the end of your chain with a DI out etc.

If a pedal adversley affects your tone when it's bypassed, it's more than likely to do with it's sh*t design, and not a lot to do with the input signal. So, yeh, you can feed it a buffered signal, but then if the pedal destroys the input signal anyway, out will come a sh*t signal, and you'll need another buffer to get the signal up to the level required for the amp. Or am I talking balls?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='284340' date='Sep 15 2008, 04:21 PM']It's hard for them to find their way to the top.[/quote] LOL! Nice one, I almost laughed really loud in the middle of the office.

I wish another blind person would get famous.

[quote name='SJA' post='284260' date='Sep 15 2008, 02:27 PM']RHCP's Californication sounds awful to my ears, but I'm unsure where the problem lies- over-compression/loudness maximising etc. at the mixing stage or the mastering stage, and/or just a lousy mix to start with- which would suggest Rubin doesn't even know what makes a good mix.[/quote] I really like the sound of Californication. Yes it's very compressed, and yes you can hear some awful distortion at one or two points during the album, but it's a great drum sound, and all of the instruments cut through and sound great and.... Well I haven't heard it recently so it's hard for me to justify me loving the mix.

Yeh that's my point - Respect to Rubin for finding the right engineer, knowing how to call people up, make sure they're on time, tell them to shut up or whatever, but he's not actually doing anything to the sound.

XP-100 is generally the cheapest one you can get off Ebay, it does all the whammy stuff, some cool harmonies you can't get on the WH-4, it has a footswitch to scroll through 6 user-saved settings, and you can do that while you're in bypass. Also, if you're into that sort of thing, you could read up on the "XP-1000" and make yourself a fun noisy pedal!

I wouldn't really know about that. I was way too out of it during my degree.

Really?!? That's quick isn't it? Can't wait to see it!

Well i'll bring my stuff and if anyone's interested I will demonstrate, but i'm the shy quiet type so wouldn't offer it if you know what I mean? I would certainly enjoy a demo of your board(s)!

I don't want to do any showing off really. I just want to hear other people's pedals! I'll bring my 6 string though.

If you're going to keep playing with it try a tad more early reflections on the acoustic guitar!

I like the black one best!

I really liked the reverb on the vocals - it added character to the mix and seemed to set the whole band in a room - which I like. To be fair if you're going for radio play maybe it's a bit too much on the weird side?

Why don't one of you run some white noise through a PD-7 and screen shot a frequency analyser? That would settle it.

Lol! I use the B2.1U in combination with about 20 other pedals to get my tones! To be fair though, if I spent some time with it i'm sure i'd be satisfied with just that and my Barge Concepts VBF.

Look at the pedals and they should have a current rating (Ma) add them all up, and you need a PSU that can supply that current. I would get a PSU specific to pedals as they tend to be less noisy and supply more current. I know laods of people have the Diago one, I have a Godlyke, the rest get quite expensive I think so I would get one of those.

Yeh no problem, sorry I couldn't come up with any criticism, but it does sound really good.

I PM'd for an mp3 to listen to in the car and......... The mix is perfect in my opinion. If I was doing it personally, I would do things a little differently, but it wouldn't be any better. I think the mix really is spot on, you wouldn't want the bass to cut through any more than it does, the guitar sound is nice, the vocals sound REALLY good, overall it gels really well. As far as the music goes - you have a really good singer there. I would have had a full drum kit come in half way through and turned it into a rock-power balled type of thingy - it could make a good single! The chord progressions are really strong, and the bassline fits to it really well. Nice one!

Cool, I can't bring a decent amp set up so that would be useful!

Don't worry - I get the same feelings every time I do a demo. The best thing to do is just keep on comparing to a proffessional disc to reassure yourself. If you want any help you could post up some examples for opinions, or if you're not that into mixing it, upload the data and i'll have a crack at it. Dr Dave - i've done similar things. I got a great sound recording a DI, an SM58 on my cabs about 2 feet away, and a condensor about 6 feet away. I think it only works when the room sounds good though.

Yeh no problem, I really love that plug-in but sometimes I worry that I don't actually know anything and constantly spout bollocks, which is why I asked how you got on.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='280980' date='Sep 10 2008, 11:20 AM']Science is supposedly derived from the word [i]sciencio[/i], meaning truth (I think?). So arguably music is more true than any science we [i]think[/i] we know about. But I digress. Mark[/quote] Indeed. I was either not reading your posts properly yesterday, or just not thinking straight. Of course music theory can be a science! I'd never thought of it like that before. Thanks for changing my perceptions. That's two music-theory related revelations i've had on BC. I wish people would stop saying "same old boring topic" - there's always a chance to learn. Personally, I can't remember any theory, although I did know a lot. When i'm writing music, I try to listen for the right sounds, that give me the right feelings at the right times. When i'm playing with a band though, I know it's all my "internalised theory" coming out, along with years of sitting in the living room messing around and deviating from what I was taught.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='280971' date='Sep 10 2008, 11:10 AM']Is that making sense? Mark[/quote] Yeh, deffinitely, I agree with all of that. I was just saying that music theory is not a science - although it could be described as a collection of absolute facts - so i'm probably wrong? Nevermind!