dannybuoy

I'd say ignore the meter, your ears will tell you if it's approaching its limit by sounding distorted. I would say it's fine to give the amp section a thrashing, the meter in the red doesn't mean it's about to blow up or anything. Whether or not the speaker can handle the amp being cranked is another issue, but I would assume it was designed with adequate specs to cope, being a combo. If you can plug an extension cab into it, that would be the way to get more volume out of it!

Agree with the above, also the Source Audio filters can cop a good down sweep too. I've sold my Zoom units now, but they have a really good Q-Tron model in them, although I can't remember if they can do a down sweep, anyone able to confirm?

[quote name='HazBeen' timestamp='1455843016' post='2982981'] Interesting, thanks folks. [/quote] I've owned a bass with Bart soapbars and also tried another in a shop and thought they both sounded flat, dull and lifeless. I'm sure they're not all like that though!

[quote name='AREA' timestamp='1455831939' post='2982893'] HaHaaa, hey Guys, just found this Video, where Adrian presents the Cazpar 5. At the End, the Song from 6:00 Min. So funny, Adrians Performance as well as he is a phenomenal Musician. How can I embed a Video here? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6imbpSnNA0"]https://www.youtube....h?v=G6imbpSnNA0[/url] [/quote] Just remove the s from the https: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6imbpSnNA0

If it happens to be a Roadworn or Highway One it will have a nitro finish which is thinner and less shiny than the usual paint job.

Rather than folding up a 1m cable under the board there are some shorter ones about! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DC-Power-Plug-5-5x-2-1mm-Female-to-5-5-x-2-5mm-Male-Right-Angle-Adapter-Cable-UK-/131687406094

The bassist's role is unpaid, but I bet the singer managed to secure an impressive package!

What are you using right now and what's the power rating of it? It should be written on it somewhere in A or mA. 1A should handle that lot no problem - it's the digital pedals that chew through the poower though, you can't run too many of those off a supply only designed to power one pedal.

The bass one adds a DI, tuner and headphone amp though (as well as a bit more on the FX side), so I would expect it to cost more.

You shouldn't need a noise gate, if you have excess noise issues it's best to try and work out where they are coming from and fix the problem there. Pedals often used for slap are EQ to scoop the mids, compressor/limiter to tame the peaks, and a filter to add funk. The best filter I've ever played for slap is the MXR Bass Envelope Filter.

Link still works for me. Go to BBC News and search for Kanye.

It's great for those that want to mix and match, e.g. getting a P with a J neck or vice versa.

Most headphone amps and mixers are designed for mic or line sources and don't have a high impedance input suitable for direct connection to a passive bass. Those Behringer mixers people posted earlier ([url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/277361-behringer-ub802-mixer/"]I'm selling one![/url]) fall into this bracket. You [i]can[/i] just plug in a passive bass but the tone will suffer as a result. Do you have an active bass, or a pedal you can use in between? If not then get something specifically marketed as a guitar/bass practice unit. I have a PJB Bighead and cannot fault it, there's one used on here right now but at £110 it's probably more than you want to spend: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/279189-phil-jones-bighead-headphone-amp/"]http://basschat.co.u...-headphone-amp/[/url] The Vox Amplug is a cheap solution - make sure you get the bass version, and there is a an improved v2 out now too (which also means v1 versions are cheap as chips on eBay). The Zoom B1on is about £40 and has a headphone amp, aux in, tuner, drum machine, looper, and 100 FX, which is stupendous value. However the headphone amp is not powerful enough to drive the higher impedance headphones that are commonly used in studios. It was OK with my earbuds but quiet as a mouse when plugging in the big cans.

Pitchfork 'only' gives his album 9 out of 10, Kanye, insulted, wants white people to stop reviewing it: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/kanye-west-white-publications_us_56c27e0ae4b08ffac12643f3?ir=Entertainment&section=us_entertainment&utm_hp_ref=entertainment

Just when I thought he couldn't be any more of a complete and utter twunt, he goes and ups his levels of twuntery tenfold.

Indeed, if I get one it won't be from this country!

[quote name='elephantgrey' timestamp='1455564491' post='2980291'] The doubler isolates your compressor. For the rest of them Gigrig do an [url="http://www.thegigrig.co.uk/isolator-c2x15357227"]Isolator[/url]. Isolated power supplies separate all the outputs of a supply so they are not all interfering with eachother. The distributors are basically daisy chains (although they are nice and neat). In my system i run my generator via a daisy chain into 3 isolators, a supernova, an evenflo adapters and a distributor (some pedals don't really like isolated outputs, but it's best to isolate if you can). I use a noisegate on my zoom ms60b to cut out the noise from my dirt pedals. How i set it was to set threshold to minimum (so it does nothing), engage all my pedals, and increase the threshold (without playing) until the background noise just stops. [/quote] If you aren't running that Zoom isolated, you might find your pedals are extra noisy just by having it plugged into the power supply. I've always run a daisy chain, and always had to relegate any Zoom or EHX digital pedals to their own separate 9v supply to cure noise issues.

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1455555626' post='2980173'] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/248743-the-christmas-alternative-rock-factfilethe-arf-christmas-bassist-quiz-answers-posted/page__view__findpost__p__2709144"]http://basschat.co.u...ost__p__2709144[/url] [/quote] [quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1425631146' post='2709144'] Road accident statistics: Between 2000 and 2014, one in four of the pedestrians knocked down on the Abbey Road zebra crossing were not wearing shoes. [/quote] I could even believe that!

Could be any combination ofthe following! Some pedals are just noisy. My Aguilar Agro has a white noise hiss no matter how I power or isolate it. Some are susceptible to radio interference. Some pedals amplify the hell out of any existing noise and cause feedback. Big Muffs do it, the worst I've heard for this is the Boss ODB-3. Also some pedals leak noise into the power supply where it enters other pedals if they are sharing the same supply. A lot of Zoom and EHX digital effects do this. There is a workaround to wire a capacitor up to the DC jack to perform some filtering that I've seen someone have success with in a recent Talkbass thread!

I used to drive down Abbey Road fairly regularly, there were always tourists hanging around by the crossing trying to recreate the famous album cover. Cars slow down or stop to let people cross but 99% of them have no intention of crossing so wave the drivers on to pass through. Other cars that are used to it don't even bother to slow down and just assume nobody wants to cross - an accident waiting to happen!

Yes! You could always wait for this: http://youtu.be/crktZIiLKjQ Their site says 'Coming Summer 2015' so it must be delayed!

It sounds like it also simulates a blanket over the cab - it's a bit too boomy and way too dark for my liking! Even through headphones, I prefer the sound of it off. This GK box is an attractive alternative to purchasing yet another box (e.g. Torpedo or OmniCabSim) just for cab duties.