dannybuoy

[quote name='1976fenderhead' timestamp='1412846006' post='2572539'] My one niggle with this is the lack of an overall volume control, or individual volume controls for each voice. What if I want to use full wet octave up but find it appears much louder than the dry sound? What if I want to mix in a bit of octave down but find the same thing? [/quote] This is the sole reason why this pedal does not interest me, I had the same issue with their Hazarai pedal. Lack of individual volumes (or blend plus master volume) cripples their Bass Big Muff too.

I've been in bars where a pint glass goes round and everyone puts a pound in, but there wasn't any live music as far as I can recall!

Since he doesn't actually say in the ad that it's been modded - there is a chance that the bridge pickup was added by Fender when it was ordered from the custom shop! Just sayin'

I kept my LaBellas on for quite a while and they did get better but not quite as smooth as I was used to with other strings. Giving them a good rub down, or just playing bass after eating a bucket of KFC sounds like a good idea. I thought the TIs I first slapped on my P were silky smooth straight out of the packet, but I fitted some to another bass recently and they felt quite sticky too, so maybe I was wrong! Pyramids though - they are like eels!

My favourite flats on a P are TI's, I believe they are what Pino uses also. Lots of midrange character, very compliant, and silky smooth once broken in. I also really dug the Pyramid Golds for a bit more heavy thud, they also sound broken in straight away and are the smoothest feeling strings ever. I didn't really get on with Chromes or LaBellas - too high in tension and they felt stickly compared to the TIs and Pyramids. The last P I bought came strung with Rotosound flats and I was very impressed with those too, very bright sounding and nice to play, probably a fairly new set. I took them off in favour of rounds fairly quickly as I already have another P with TIs, but I think I will put them back on at some point and give them more playing time.

I hear the LH500 has a tube pre, but it is very clean - which suggests it's not that high gain. So if you boost into it, you might start to add a little bit of tube compression and distortion as well as volume, which sounds like a good thing, as long as you don't boost it to the point where it sounds nasty. You won't damage the amp like this, it's hard to say about the speaker but probably not - what is the cab rated for and how many ohms is it?

If going for a sea theme... Cthulhu!

The Unibass has 2 outputs, so no need to split your signal, you can drive an amp from each output. Just plug your bass straight into the Unibass rather than hit your bass preamp first. You can then turn the guitar on and off by turning the Unibass on and off. Then if you want to be able to drop your bass out, easiest solution is to use a tuner to mute that line.

Also, extensions such as AVI and MP4 are 'containers' - they can hold lots of different video formats. It's possible to convert losslessly from AVI to MP4 if they both contain audio/video streams that each format supports. This also means you could re-encode an AVI with embedded MPEG2 video into an AVI with embedded MPEG4 video for example. There is no such thing as a 'standard' AVI format.

Look in the settings - if you are re-encoding video, there should be some options to change the resolution and/or bitrate. Otherwise you are just converting using whatever default settings your converter app is using, which won't give you much control over the resulting size.

If you're having the switch, may as well make it a series/parallel single, it's not any extra effort, just have to get the correct on-on-on switch!

I have a Gramma pad, it doesn't shut my wife up entirely, but I suspect she would complain a lot more if I did not have one!

^ This. Although if you have an active bass, or an effects chain with at least one non-true-bypass buffered pedal in it, then the impedance won't be an issue, in which case passive DI all the way.

That's a very diplomatic way of phrasing "are you lying about the power output of the new amps also?"! Nicely put.

[quote name='rmorris' timestamp='1412433713' post='2568932'] It would make these sort of discussions much more useful if people referenced the sort of sounds and tones they are looking to get... [/quote] Normally I'd agree with you, but this isn't a "which pedal should I get thread", but a "let's list all the cheap but good pedals people should check out of they're on a budget" thread!

Maybe try a Badger Schism or something? One for sale on here that might still be around: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/236241-badger-schism-xv-parallel-loop/ Most dirt pedals will be ok, the SFT and simple boosts like the Phat Phuk and Cream Pie were the only phase flippers I've encountered, also a few wahs and the Phase 90.

That doesn't sound quite right, I thought with a Jazz, the 2 single coils produce hum when used alone but cancel when blended together. Wouldn't mixing a QP and a Stack give you the same result as a PJ combo - only one pickup is hum cancelling, the other hums and therefore so does the combination?

It should give good results if the output impedances of whatever is going into it are close to each other, so you should get good results most of the time but there may be certain pedal combinations that don't play well together.

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1412600366' post='2570221'] The Orange Terror 500 is not the most versatile BUT!!!! it has a 40hm/8ohm switch on the back, so you can use it fully at 8ohms! If you get one, change the pre amp valves, IMO, the gain with the original tubes just sounds horrible after about 9 0.clock. [/quote] Just don't turn it past 9 o'clock then!

Before you run out and buy a daisy chain... I found running a Zoom multi on a daisy chain to add lots of noise to the signal, same with EHX digital pedals, so I always end up running them off of a separate power supply.

The Aguilar TH500 and the Orange Terror Bass are the loudest 500W heads I've ever played, much louder then the 600W Streamliner I had. It seems that Aguilar and Orange rate their amps honestly by rating their amps as 500W continuous, I wouldn't be surprised if the Genz was 900W only in bursts and was actually similar to those amps in overall output. If it's raw power you want, and a tubey sound, the Orange Terror 1000 would slay everything in a volume war! The GK MB Fusion 800 would also be a similar match volume wise for the STM900. Also the Ampeg SVT-7Pro is 1000W.

The necks don't have the graphite reinforcement of the US Standards I believe, but they never used to back in '62 either! I'm not a fan of the greasebucket tone circuit myself. It's good for removing treble bite but does not provide that fat low end boost that that traditional circuit does when you roll off the tone, which works really well for the Motown sound. Easy to fix with a new capacitor though!

I thought the MIM sounded really flat and dull compared to the MIA here. Mostly down to the pickups I would assume. I know MIMs used to come with ceramic pickups instead of alnico, anyone know if this is still the case?

I think that must be a misprint or misinterpretation. Any solid state amp that can run at 4ohms will be stressed less by running it at 8ohms, never heard of one that will only work at 4ohms. It's just the design of a tube power section that needs the correct impedance hooked up to the correct output socket.

Lots of controls there! Is there a simple feedback mod for Rats that could be added to a second footswitch perhaps? It's my favourite mod to add to a Big Muff, just takes everything up a notch and makes the sound go crazy as your notes fade out.