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OK, if you turn up to a gig with a bass, and ask if you can borrow a guitar rig, 99% of guitarists will refuse. You don't want to take your own amp, so your only option is to use an amp modeller (like your zoom). The amp modeller will have some speaker modelling too. All of this affects the sound. If you plug your amp models into a guitar amp, the guitar amp will be further changing the sound. When you get to a gig, and you DI your amp model straight into the PA, the sound coming from the PA speakers will be totally different to the sound you had at rehearsal through your guitar amp I really would just take the guitar amp to gigs

but you don't want to take it to gigs with you, so are you hoping to use other bands' guitar rigs? Or are you going to DI? If you're going to DI, you need to make some good amp model sounds, which the zoom should be capable of. When you're monitoring this though, it needs to be through a PA rig, not a guitar amp.

I don't see the problem with using your zoom pedal. There should be lots of overdrive/distortion options which you can tweak. At the very least you'll find out which models you like and then you could buy the real thing, but you should definitely be able to get an acceptable dirt sound out of it. If you're after a guitar sound, you probably want a guitar amp. You could use the amp models on the zoom, but then if you plug that into a bass amp you're not going to hear what it'll be like DI'd. If I was going to do what you're doing, and it does appeal to me, I would have the pog running into a guitar combo and carry this to gigs with me. On the subject of the mastotron... Have you tried the mastotron before the zoom, in order? So plug your bass into the mastotron, then the mastotron into the zoom? And are you using a clean patch on the zoom when you use the mastotron?

I've done a lot of jamming in my time. Some of it turns into a stop-start song-writing session, which is a cool way to write. Others are hour long psychedelic jams where everyone just seems to compliment each other's playing, and it doesn't get boring as it's constantly changing. I've never done a 10 minute blues in E, but that'd be fun if I was on guitar

Not sure, i'll pass that on Thanks for everyone's help on this!

yes, it specifies the minimum, so you can't go lower than 4, but you can go higher

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1433255720' post='2789458'] The other thing is the Compact doesn't have a hump in the 120Hz region like the Two10, so an alternative approach is to cut at about 120Hz and boost lower down. I know the TC head has a lot of tweakery available so if the midrange/treble tone from the Two10 is what you like then all it comes down to is tailoring the bottom end, which is a simpler thing as it really comes down to amp power and cab volume displacement and you have plenty of both. [/quote] It might be useful to make some frequency response graphs, like you get for microphones, so that people could see the differences between the cabs, and get a starting point for their EQ settings if they're moving from one model to another.

if it's the hump at 60Hz you like then an EQ pedal or the like could do that. Maybe try boosting this frequency with your 2 2x10s plugged in, see if you can get the sound you like

just on this "I want to control my own dynamics thankyou very much" point... If you pluck the string harder, you get a more middly, aggressive sound. You might get some "clank" from the fretboard as well. This makes the note sound louder, even if it isn't technically louder. A compressor won't change that. So, you can actually vary the "dynamic feel" of your playing, without giving the sound engineer a headache.

I'm sure he's changed the battery a few times. The only "pop" is the noise when he plugs the jack back in

yeh vodaphone

Never heard of them, just listened, thanks! I'll be buying some of their music

Ahh, I didn't see you then, sorry, we were rushing from another gig just before in audlem. Great set up at Darwen though!

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1432585256' post='2783078'] Played MainStage at Darwen Music Live today. Nailed it. Lots of happy campers [/quote] Nice one! Which band were you in Paul? My band Headsticks were on just before Space

well, it was worse than ever and he's resigned himself to buying a new guitar. Everyone I've asked about it is totally baffled

As a general rule, it's best to assume that the gig will be more fraught than the rehearsal, so if you're not happy with rehearsal, don't do the gig. Can't you just persuade him to ditch the phone?

well a lot of good bassists either need music to read, or improvise over chords in a pretty "standard" way - however impressive their technique What CW does with muse is to compose a bassline which makes so much more of the song than your standard root-5th-jam would do.

If there are going to be bits where the bass is right up front, or even soloing, then a mid cut combined with volume boost (you could do this with an EQ pedal) would be good to turn on for these sections, then go back to the more middy sound to gel with the rest of the band.

what's this saturday night performance I've missed? On TV? I was well into muse up until Absolution. They seemed to lose their "edge" whatever that was. Anyway, yes, he's a monster player!

I started playing guitar when I was 7, and picked up bass when I was 15. I bought it because someone needed a bassist for a punk band, and I'd always been fascinated by the bass because my mum was well into motown, disco, and funk When I was 22 our drummer left so I took up drumming to try and continue in the same sort of musical direction with my singer/guitarist mate. Drumming always just came naturally. Obviously there's a things you have to teach yourself - disconnecting your feet from your hands (mentally) was the first big hurdle Anyway, I realise now that I've always been a drummer. I walk in time, I hear rhythms in all background noise, I drum with my teeth, feet, fingers, and hands, almost constantly, all my life. I remember playing with chop sticks on pots and pans when I was about 5.

I'm surprised you're not getting any noise recording your bass directly into your sound blaster. The inputs on it are likely not designed to take a guitar signal. If anything it should be better recording from the amp, but, I really would recommend you get a decent audio interface if you're getting into recording.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1432204158' post='2779084'] Nope, it's a fourth. [/quote] Depends which way round! He was going from C to G, which is quite common to do over a C chord, where G would be the 5th

yes, tell us more!

whatever you do, for god's sake, don't complain!