stewblack

So glad I'm not alone! I was beginning to think that I was doing something wrong when I kept seeing others with their boards built to fit specific pedals! Although as I say I'm inching closer to something that feels right for me.

I came here because I like Steve Hillage ended up reading about Genesis tribute bands. Fascinating stuff actually. And I know absolutely nothing about the band. Made the conversation more interesting actually.

I'm learning a set for Tuesday. I am. listening to two tunes I'd not heard before. Grace Kelly by Mika and Take your daughter to the slaughter by iron maiden. The first is great fun, a cleverly constructed pop song. They should go far. The second one is not very good at all.

Mind you, old Ben Franklin said "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that"

I'm a couple of years in to this whole effect mularky and had assumed it was just a gas driven obsession like everything else. However, I have come to realise that I'm not hoarding effects, boards and psu's but actually get rid of stuff when it doesn't work out. I began to wonder if I could be heading towards my ultimate ideal board. Yesterday I took delivery of a Source Audio envelope filter. It's exactly what I have searched for. Perfect bubbling, liquid envelopes and a ton of variables. Even including this new one I only have 3 dedicated wah/envelope type pedals. I literally can't remember all the different ones I've had, there have been loads. Similarly distortion pedals. Down to 2. Octave pedals? Just 2. GEQ? 1. Compressor? 1. Chorus? 1. Pitch shift? 1. Multi effects merit a discussion all of their own, and yes, insanity creeps in here. Once used a board made up entirely of multi fx - all the same model. A surreal experience for all concerned, not least of all me. I'm a restless creative by nature. My instinct when I am satisfied with anything is to immediately ask, what more can I do with this? So to see my board settling into a recognisable set up is unusual to say the least. In a curious way though it validates my two years of fettling, fiddling, buying, selling and pi ssing off my band mates with, at times, some truly horrific noises. As Paul Heaton once sang, how do you know you can't swim until you've drowned?

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ADBLOCK! 😅😅😅

Oh don't you worry about that 😈

Bought a pedal from Jay , arrived a couple of days later, well packaged, as described, no problems at all. A perfectly smooth transaction with a highly recommended Basschatter.

I shall probably throw mother out as I speed up towards Ludlow - if she comes she'll want to stop with family - but we could have a three way at the garden centre,.

Only ever did it once in a kind of Glam Band put together for a mate's wedding. The drummer (one of the very best) said it was far from straight forward, maybe why not so many bands play it?

I loved this, wish it had carried on into the performance. What an absolute star she is. When I think of the fuss I used to make down at the Dog and Duck if someone broke a string!

Damn - if you don't want the gig I'd love it!! That's bass Nirvana right there

Inspired by this thread I just learned a neat run based on the minor pentatonic scale and spent a happy hour jamming over some jazzy backing tracks - not a thing I ever saw myself doing. I learned the run down from this video and jammed variations of it over this one. Stranglers fans will no doubt notice similarities with the run and a certain classic.

I'll have a day out and collect it from Ludlow, it's not a problem but thank you for offering to look after it. Mother has all sorts of family scattered around the Wye valley and forest of dean, I'll use it as an excuse to take her out to see them, then mosey on up.

I love this thread so much. Best of luck, you will never look back from this.

I had vast experience but had nothing going on so resorted to whoring myself out on line it can happen. Just give it a go, might be fun.

Really hard to pick bones from that. I'm in a band which is absolutely excellent but until recently had nothing online to share. Although we did crack on and fix that ASAP

Comes into its own live, really pounds through the mix