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Wow, these replies are brilliant! Thanks all. While a lot of the factors are out of my control, my little tinkering to patches proved reasonably successful. The biggest win was dropping the attempt at a synth altogether for a couple of songs and just using a clean sound. This improved the whole sound of the band no end. I have a lot more digging to do! We've got two more rehearsals booked in before our fist gig and I don't know if we'll be able to schedule any more (it's really hard getting the five of us together as it is), but I'm going to suggest the instrumentalists arrive early for one and see if we can run a tech rehearsal then. Thanks again everyone.

I'm going to see how everything sounds tomorrow, I'll also see which ones work better so I can do some analysis. I'll float the idea of a technical rehearsal as well. I'm finding that I'm really enjoying trying to get the sounds right. It's a bit frustrating but the goals is worth pushing for!

And dirt is an integral component of the synth sounds I'm setting up.

That's true - our rehearsal room is pretty small. It could be part of the problem.

I'd have to play a gig before I'd be saving venue specific patches! We're still rehearsing.

Yep, I find the GT1-B next to impossible tweak on the fly. Even at home with no pressure I can't get on with multiple presses of the same button to change parameters. I'm stuck with it though, as I have already maxed out my cab budget and won't be spending anything until I actually earn something from playing! I'm not holding my breath.

Great ideas, thanks. I use a laptop to tweak the parameters of the different effects in a patch fairly efficiently, so that's a possibility when I've nutted it out at gig volume.

That sounds like an amazing bargain. I'd have taken that over my Eden cab at £170.

Hi Everyone, I'm hoping to gain some insight into dialling in heavily affected tones in a full band situation. I'm in a new band trying to emulate lots of 80s synth basslines. I'm doing it all on the cheap and only using my Boss GT1-B and an ancient Zoom 506II (!). I've watched a lot of videos and read a ton of pages about getting synth sounds and I've made a range of patches which sound pretty good at home. I'll typically use the single octave down into a fuzz then an envelope, sometimes with a modulation of some sort after all of that - depending on the goal tone that I'm aiming for. When I get into the rehearsal room it's all completely different and the sounds aren't what I thought they'd be - sometimes the bottom is missing, the fuzz is too much or it just doesn't sound very appealing. I've only ever used octaves and envelopes before with any regularity so I'm not really sure of concepts or rules to follow when trying to set up heavily affected tones. What do you advise? How should I try to set up patches so I can get closer to a gig friendly tone?

You might like this then (pretty sure it's last century!).

Shotgun, George Ezra, with the staff band at my school at Venue Cymru in Llandudno for our Year 11 celebration night. Got a great reception and I'm now the 'master of the bass' because I managed to play it (it's very simple)! Fender Jazz Deluxe into an Ashdown Rm800 through an Eden Ex112.

Sounds good so far. I have a rehearsal tomorrow so I'll try it out with a full band.

New cab to go with the RM800.

This is posted in the wrong topic! Damned Friday night drinks!

Very true! I haven't left any feedback yet. I'm annoyed that the seller took so long to do anything - he was adamant that the cab was in a depot near me with no evidence of that. And then the accusation. There was some weird crackling in the cab when I first plugged it in. I did wonder if the fraud allegation was a ruse to stop me trying to send it back if it was broken, but I've been playing it with no trouble since then.

True, it can be quite straightforward!

Since I added the tracking screenshot, radio silence has been maintained.

I agree, and was fairly well taken back by it. The tracking info stopped working after a few days but when I checked it now it shows the cab being delivered today.

That I'm lying about when it arrived and that they have information from the courier that it was delivered earlier than when I said it was.

So, my cab finally turned up. Now I'm being accused of attempted fraud!

Fantastic, thanks.

Now you tell me!

I've actually just assumed he packaged it! I thought couriers would refuse to carry it if it wasn't packaged appropriately. He's sold a ton of stuff, some guitar gear and hi-fi stuff, so I had thought it would be well packed.

Fair enough, and I'm happy for it to turn up. He's just been either dismissive or inactive. Freight was organised through a 3rd party (parcel 2go or something similar) so I imagine it would be fairly simple to sort out. I don't really understand how there can be no further tracking information.

I agree,no suppose I'd like him to be more proactive. He was really reluctant to even entertain the idea that it wasn't at my end. He has insurance, so I'm not sure why it isn't more straightforward.