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I can lend you a peavey 1 x 15" combo if you want? I'm 30mins at the most from Stafford. When is the gig though? I am away tonight and tomorrow day. I reckon it's the speaker distorting. Buy/beg/borrow a cheap 2nd cab to add to your combo (if it can handle it) or borrow an amp at the gig IMHO. I would DI rather than mic up an amp that's "shagged".

I think if you took a DI before the amp using a complicated effects set up, then having an SVT on stage to monitor would be a bit silly! Maybe not if it's mic'd up though. I always struggled with this - no-one liked my DI from the Peavey combo 'cos it's noisey, no-one liked the DI from my pedal board because it needed a lot of top rolled off, and some bass boost etc, basically what I was doing witht he EQ on the combo. The only way to get a good sound through the PA was to take a DI from the amp, roll all the high end off to get rid of the noise, and then mic my guitar combo for the top end. It's a shame some engineers are not that obliging!

I don't get it and feel stupid

[quote name='dood' post='271826' date='Aug 28 2008, 03:07 PM']Well, no not at all really. My cab's are more 'hifi' than flat response.. Thats just personal taste.. There's really no reason why you couldn't use a dirty great SVT head and cab if you wanted. I'd just rather have the sound I hear behind me being close to whats going out of the DI.[/quote] Doesn't hi-fi = flat? Or does it mean mid-scooped? I was thinking that if your DI sound is eaxactly how you want it, then you would need a flat rig to re-create that for monitoring.... As opposed to my rig which I have to DI post amp Pre and EQ.

Yeh the main reason I needed this pedal was so I could control my phaser frequency with an exp pedal. Weird that they can't just link the ring mod as well.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='271731' date='Aug 28 2008, 01:01 PM']possibly, i'l have a look throught the manual again... edit: looks like you can't do it, which makes little sense to me tbh, and the external exp pedal can only work as a volume pedal[/quote] What would be the point in an external expression pedal then? You'd just buy a volume pedal. That's pretty crap to be honest. You could buy a ring mod and build it into a wah pedal, or a Moog ring mod, or one of those exp pedals with a pipe coming off that fits over your pedal's knobs.

Have you read the manual? Maybe you need to plug an exp pedal into the extra input or something?

I think Dood's approach is excellent but would require a fairly loud and flat (response) rig for monitoring no? I get a similar effect (if words can describe a tone!) from my pedals.... dry, mixed with........ compressor, mixed with overdrive, the combined mix going into a limiter but it needs some EQ after the whole chain on my amp, and I use the two amp set up to get a flatter response.

[quote name='Marcus' post='271285' date='Aug 27 2008, 08:04 PM']We used to regularly take bookings for an acoustic version of our U2 tribute show, smaller venues, or those with a tight budget used to love it !! Had a Thursday night residency at Durham County Cricket Club doing the set without drums !! Bit boring like if i'm honest !!![/quote] How can you do U2 without a delay pedal?

Unlucky Matt!

Nuts?

Yeh, I think that if you're going to run a crossover, you should have your whole effects chain at the start before the crossover. If you just want to have a clean low end as well as a seperate effects amp, there's not much point in a crossover unless one of your pedals really kicks out a load of lows.

Yeh there's already a thread about it. I'm wondering whether to sell some pedals to buy this. I will leave it a while and try and find some feedback on it.

[quote name='Finbar' post='271116' date='Aug 27 2008, 03:58 PM']I may see if my guitarist will let me do that ^_^ Be a laugh at any rate. I've just been looking into crossovers though. I still don't fully understand everything about it, but it seems if I were to use an active crossover in my rack, I could send the highs to a distorted channel, and the lows to the clean channel and then each to a different cab, which would make a lot more sense to me. However, having two identical cabs wouldn't really make much sense for that, am I right? Just throwing more ideas out This whole thing really interests me![/quote] Yes, you are right. You would want a cab suited to monsterous lows for the lows, and a cab suited to high mids/highs for the top. I don't think there's much point in having an actual crossover if you have two pres with EQ though.

Yeh I have done acoustic sets of re-arranged electric songs before, but I wouldn't try to just play an electric set as usual without a drummer. Program a laptop or arrange your songs for an acoustic style IMHO.

Not had experience but make sure to record the data as well as the sampled sounds, that way you can mess with it later.

Are you going to have a drum machine or sequencer instead? Wont the songs sound weird without drums?

The Funk - No problem, perhaps you'd like to come round and watch it on my projector screen with mavis and gertrude? [quote name='ste_m3' post='271072' date='Aug 27 2008, 03:18 PM']Twat.[/quote] Is there any need for that? If I was more of a twat i'd have reported you to the mods for being so abusive. If I was as much a twat as you insinuate i'd insult you back! God knows why you're calling me a twat?

Grilf - nice one. Do you mind if I borrow that word for my new DVD? Confessions of a Grilfer.

[quote name='The Funk' post='270906' date='Aug 27 2008, 12:28 PM']I don't know what this says about me but I read the title as Old Breasts - and then ventured inside for a peek.[/quote] I just googled granny in image search. Do not do the same if you have "safe search" turned off!... ...unless like me you have certain disgusting fetishes.

[quote name='Finbar' post='271044' date='Aug 27 2008, 02:53 PM']Yes Messing about with crossovers is something I haven't thought about much as my mind isn't very technically inclined. I am curious though, but don't really know how to go about it.[/quote] Try it with your guitarist's amp, just turn all the bass down on that and turn the highs down on your bass amp, play through them both at the same time and feel your c*ck grow.

It sounds to me like total overkill. If you want to blend a clean tone with a distorted one at the end of your effects chain you could do it with a pedal. Also, you could mix the two pres you like into just one power amp no? Maybe you should try bass - pitch shifting - split - A Dirty amp with pedal board in loop - B clean amp. I reckon if you have the money and desire for a dual-amp rig, you would probably do better using your pedal board going straight into a proper bi-amped rig i.e two amps crossed over. A good test might be to take a line out or something from your existing set up, and feed that to your guitarist's amp (turn down the bass!).

[quote name='BassManKev' post='270798' date='Aug 27 2008, 09:52 AM']yes, but a £189 board?? i dont think anybody [i]needs[/i] a board that costs that much! make your own![/quote] I didn't look at the price to be honest. I would make my own, but some people prefer to buy something that is proffessionally done. As it happens I managed to get a keyboard flightcase in exchange for a phone!

I don't get it to be honest. You want your pedal board going into 2 different pres, one of them distorting the whole time? I know people will use a dirty amp and a clean amp at the same time to get a great sound, but if you have a good dirty tone on your pedal board..... I use a bass combo and a guitar amp at the same time, all after my pedal board. My pedal board has a clean blend, and the amps are crossed over. Adding an extra bass amp to this might be fun for volume, or adding a bass amp for a clean signal would be good, but then I wouldn't use the blend on my pedal board, but adding a distorted amp to the set-up? That would ruin my tone and leave me embarassed at quiet sections! I'm sure you're making sense as you've have some replies, but could you explain in lamens terms what the point is?

When i'm gigging I need a board way more than I need an extra bass!