dannybuoy

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1337585413' post='1662183'] I thought that swapping the wires over on one end of a jack lead would invert the phase. I'm pretty sure I learned it at uni? EDIT: Ahhh, but that wouldn't solve the problem when the pedal is off. Surely there are another couple of wires inside the pedal you could flip over? [/quote] There are two wires to the jack lead - one with varying voltage positive to negative, and one ground that stays constantly at zero. The ground is a common connection linking all the way from your guitar strings to the earth socket in the plug wall. It just would not work if you swapped them, you would probably just get a loud buzzing sound like when you half plug a jack plug in. You need another gain stage instead like a simple transistor buffer that can take the input and produce a voltage swing going in the other direction instead.

[quote name='Mark_Andertons' timestamp='1337780692' post='1665347']All too often tempting to just grab a plectrum! [/quote] It's not against the law! Sometimes a pick is necessary for certain sounds, I use both. Big fat Dunlop triangles for bass.

Can't go wrong with DV, I've bought stuff from them for over 10 years and always had great service.

I bought some from Maplin a while back.

Yamaha BB with P/J pickups? Fat beefy rock tone from the P pickup that you can add a bit of J-like growl to when using both pickups.

There are 2 versions of this by the way: Old version: New version:

Wrong I'm afraid, I wish it were that simple. To fix it you'll either need a new blender pedal (like the Xotic X-Blender or Wounded Paw) that has a phase invert switch, or stick another pedal in the loop just before or after the Bassballs that also inverts the phase. Many simple boost pedals invert the phase, e.g. my Cream Pie, Phat Phuk, and even SFT do.

[quote name='Al Heeley' timestamp='1337384170' post='1659308'] i always prefer the spiky side on the pedals then they stick to the carpet when i'm playing with them off-board.[/quote] I use spiky side on the pedals and that's the one thing that annoys me about them - I don't want them to stick to the carpet! The other reason to go that way is that most others do too, so if you buy a used pedal with velcro already on, you are ready to rock.

[quote name='thebuckets' timestamp='1337453848' post='1660415'] These look awesome and could go on my list of amps to try before I die! Only thing that puts me off is people saying they don't handle acctive very well. I'm using a sandberg basic which has quite a powerfully preamp. Anyone used one of these with a berg or other active to good effect! [/quote] Should be fine using the amp set to active mode with the gain set low - if not you can always put a lower gain tube like a 12AT7 or 5751 in the V1 spot on the right hand side to reduce the gain.

Did you see this from earlier today? [url="http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/05/heavy-heart/"]http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/05/heavy-heart/[/url]

Where did you order from by the way?

You may be able to hear your rig perfectly, but what about the audience? I think of it like the famous double slit wave experiment: This is with light, but same applies to sound waves, where bright=loud and dark=quiet. Imagine this diagram looking top down at the stage and crowd with two speakers side-by-side. If you have the drivers side by side, there will be spots in the room where they cancel each other out, and other spots where they combine to make it loud. One audience member might not hear the bass properly, but move a few metres to the side and the sound changes. If you rotate that in your mind so you are now looking at a side view of the room with the speakers stacked vertically. Now the sound is much more uniform as the peaks and troughs in the combined waves only vary vertically and as long as you don't have a dead spot at typical ear level, all should sound good. Of course it's much more complicated than this because you have many different frequencies at the same time, plus not everybody is standing at the same distance from the stage. Also the wavelengths of sound are much longer than sound - not entirely sure how that would affect it but I guess it would mean the dead spots would be much further apart. It's been a long time since I did any physics at school!

TIM

Looks a bit different to the Behringer. I wonder if they cloned the VT Bass and added some more bells and whistles?

Still waiting on my new tubes and fan I ordered last weekend to arrive! But in the meantime I'll leave you with my solution to sitting an OTB on top of an Ampeg SVT210AV, which not only has a handle on top but 4 countersunk cups which are only any good if you're stacking another cab or the Micro VR head on top. This should also prevent the head going walkies and cut down vibrations which might improve tube life. Closed cell foam from ebay, cut with a stanley knife and holes made by hand with a large drillbit.

I had a Squier VM P, which I then upgraded to a USA Standard, but I preferred the sound of the Squier! I was going for an agressive roundwound tone at the time, and the VM's excel at that with their Duncan pickups and 500K pots help with the brightness too. Although now I have flats on the USA P and going for a more vintage sound it sits perfectly.