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    Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

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    Posted · Edited by happynoj

    [quote name='EskimoBassist' post='834020' date='May 11 2010, 10:31 AM']EDIT: Forgot to say, just noticed you're the live Bassist for Charlie Barnes! Good times, I've seen him support Amplifier at the Manchester Academy twice now, it'd be good to see him with a bigger band, great guy, great music.[/quote]

    Yeah, his music is pretty awesome. It's easy being in his band because he writes pretty much everything. I've thrown in a few suggestions here and there, and written a couple of little bits myself, but mostly it's him, although I came up with all of the sounds that I'm using. It means that all I have to worry about is whether I can keep up with him vocally (I'm doing backing vox, and a lot of it is right near the top of my range) and whether I'm hitting the right pedals at the right time!

    [quote name='bobbass4k' post='834965' date='May 12 2010, 02:45 AM']I ran out of patch cables, I think the power cables may have ethnically cleansed them because I'm missing like 10 (someone please sell me some)[/quote]

    Did you check the bottom right of the photo? Looks like there's some down there...

    Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

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    [quote name='EskimoBassist' post='833803' date='May 10 2010, 11:47 PM']Happynoj, how do you rate the FM-4? I've read a few reviews but I'm still umming and ahhing about taking the plunge.[/quote]

    Personally, I love it. I bought it totally on a whim. I'd been in the recording studio for 7 hours helping my friend track some drums for his album and I went out for a bit of a walk and ended up at a music shop. They had that in as 'B-Stock'. I asked about it, and it turned out that it had been ordered from their website and the guy tried it out once, didn't like it and returned it in perfect condition, but they weren't allowed to sell it as new so I got a bit of a bargain. I played with it a bit when I got it home and thought that it was OK but nothing special.

    However, since setting up my board and working out what sounds I'm going to use with the band it has really come into it's own. I've got the first preset set up to be a really phat synthy octave down, the second is the weird swampy sound that Chris Wolstenholme uses on the live version of Sunburn, the third makes a really good basis for dubstep sounds, and the fourth is this crazy down sweeping synth/filter that almost hurts it's so intense. I'm using it in a lot more places than I originally thought I would, since our live sound is much bigger and louder and dirtier than our recorded sound, so originally I wasn't quite sure whether it would fit in. It's also got a ton of sounds that I'm not using.

    Tracking isn't too bad, although it depends on which patch you're using. It's not great on the low notes, but speed-wise it's fine as long as your playing is clean and precise - probably comparable with the OC-2.

    I can't think of other things to say right now, but if there are things that I didn't cover then point them out to me and I'll address them as best I can.

    Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

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    Posted · Edited by happynoj

    First PYPB post! At the moment the wiring is very messy but this is basically a test setup. I intend to tidy it all up before it sees any real use with the band. I know it's not all boutique-ey like some of the boards on here, but it does what I need it to at the moment. I'm already thinking about switching out some pedals though, especially the Muff.



    Signal Chain:

    Bass > NS-2 > Tuner > Amp

    [NS-2 Send] > LS-2 > [NS-2 Return]

    [LS-2 Send A] > BSW > FM-4 > DS-1 > BF-2 > Pulsar > Time Machine > SMMwH Left > [LS-2 Return A]

    [LS-2 Send B] > OC-2 > LBM > Q-Tron > PH-3 > SMMwH Right > [LS-2 Return B]

    LS-2 is set to Mix A+B, so the two loops run in parallel for blending different sounds together.

    Night Shot:

    Drum N Bass/Dubstep

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    Check out a band called Miloopa. Their bass player makes some sick sounds. Check out this track from around 3 mins in:

    [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UDjMpzhJo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UDjMpzhJo[/url]

    Akai Deep Impact

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    Posted · Edited by happynoj

    Good luck on getting a reply. I sent them a similar message a couple of months ago and never heard anything back.


    [quote name='civictiger' post='737158' date='Feb 6 2010, 01:24 PM']to be honest.. why Akai dont make them anymore is unknown

    But what is also unknown, is why another company dont make similar sounding one?! I mean come on.. if you cant beat them join them, so idk why another company hasnt made a 'clone' or a very similar sounding one without breaching copyright.[/quote]
    I suspect that no one has made a clone because it's a digital pedal, so all of the information is on the chip and difficult to get to.

    Feedback for chenzo_1

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    Bought an Electro Harmonix Pulsar from Vince (Chenzo). I paid, he posted it within 12 hours, it arrived the next day! He also answered all of my questions helpfully and promptly. This is how all private sales should go down! :)

    Feedback for FINBAR

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    Posted · Edited by happynoj

    Bought an OC-2 and a crazy self-oscillating DS-1 from Chris. Very easy to deal with, and very accomodating to my needs. He even agreed to come and meet me so that I could pick them up in person, and wrapped them up like birthday cake for me :)

    Transaction could not have gone better!

    Pedal Couplers

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    [quote name='sshorepunk' post='185755' date='Apr 26 2008, 09:40 AM']I use these.......



    The top ones, they are off set so can accomodate pedals where the sockets are at different heights

    They are EBS, available from Bernie Goodfellow

    Tony[/quote]

    They look like the ones I've got. Don't remember them being EBS though...

    Pedal Couplers

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    Posted · Edited by happynoj

    My local guitar shop from home sells them. I'm at uni in Leeds at the moment, but I've definitely got one of these hanging around at home that I got from my local.



    EDIT: I've actually got it here in Leeds. I've got a straight one and an angled one. The straight one looks very slightly bigger than the one in your photo, but it is much smaller than the other ones posted. When two Boss pedals are plugged into each other, they are 19mm apart (the central barrel is 12mm long, so the jack sockets on the pedals make it up to 19mm).

    I think they were about £2 each, maybe £2.50. If you let me know how many you need I can try and get hold of some, although it might take a week or two to get them to you.

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