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[quote name='bartelby' post='891828' date='Jul 11 2010, 10:48 AM']Ta. I must never visit that website again... [/quote] Haha me too. I ordered two pedals from him a couple of years back when the dollar was weak and I've been waiting for their currency to crash ever since so I can order more.

[quote name='parker_muse' post='891578' date='Jul 10 2010, 08:27 PM']I can't stand any third wave apart from some sublime, which is much more melodic and harks to the more 2tone aspect.[/quote] It's really obvious that Sublime were listening to a lot of the old '60s classics and a lot of dub and a lot of west coast rap which is why they sounded different to everybody else. Whereas it's really obvious that the American 'ska' bands were listening to other white American ska bands. And perhaps childrens cartoons. They give ska a bad name, it really bothers me that that's what people think ska is now.

Haha, some top replies. See what I mean about how it reacts to different inputs though? It gets really unpredictable with a sawtooth, and many settings with a square wave are practically unusable, either just totally unmusical or almost no output at all depending on how the sampling rate syncs with the pulses. It's a strange little box!

I used to just dislike it but now I am starting to really hate that f***ing goofy American ska sound. If I ever bump into Reel Big Fish I will punch each of them in the face.

[quote name='fatback' post='891338' date='Jul 10 2010, 03:22 PM']LOL Spot on! Never been in a band yet where the keyboard player got laid [/quote] Our old keyboard player did alright with the ladies despite being horrifically nerdy, having extreme panic attacks every time he smoked weed (but still insisting on smoking weed all the time) and being named Lambert.

[quote name='burno70' post='891042' date='Jul 10 2010, 08:19 AM']Hmmm, samples of the bug crusher on youtube are a bit thin on the ground, I did find one with a guitar and I think I can see why it would be cool on the bass. Any chance of samples? I'm looking for a pedal thats a bit different and this could be what I'm after.[/quote] Hi mate. I knocked up a few quick samples just now. It's my Squier Jazz strung with LaBella flats and direct into my soundcard (post-effects obviously!). Each clip starts "clean", then the Bugcrusher goes to 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. [url="http://teop.org/media/clean_jazz_w_flats.mp3"]Clean bass, front pup soloed, tone up -> Bugcrusher[/url] [url="http://teop.org/media/oc2_soloed_octminus1.mp3"]OC-2 with the -1 Oct voice soloed -> Bugcrusher[/url] [url="http://teop.org/media/chunk_os_fuzz.mp3"]A fairly heavy fuzz setting from my Chunk OS -> Bugcrusher[/url] [url="http://teop.org/media/chunk_os_filt_fuzz.mp3"]A low-pass filtered gated fuzz patch from my Chunk OS -> Bugcrusher[/url] No other effects were involved, no compression, no EQ, etc.

[quote name='bartelby' post='891048' date='Jul 10 2010, 08:32 AM']What's the blue one on the left? Pedals with loads of switches always interest me...[/quote] [url="http://www.martoneaudio.com/meatwad.htm"]Robot Factory Meatwad[/url], a Lovetone Meatball clone, great filter. Mine has a couple of extra switches compared to the stock model, it looks like a robot hedgehog. The volume pedal on the far right is attached to the Meatwad as an expression pedal.

Oh there was a girl who my singer tried to hook me up with. Her name was Angela, she was all blonde hair and red lips and tits, and as dopey as you can imagine. This was in the USA, and she first asked me what I was doing over there (having just seen my band perform!). I told her I was working at McGuire air force base as a stunt pilot. "Oh really? Wow!" she cooed. I went on to tell her that I was an English Language graduate and to combine my two loves I became a specialist in skywriting, and that my post at McGuire was in order to teach the American pilots to punctuate correctly. Because cursive is fairly straightforward once you've got the hang of flying the plane, but semicolons are hard to write and often pilots who can write one don't know where it's appropriate to use it. Etc. She stood up to about half an hour of this before making her excuses and backing away.

I have a couple of dusters in my Warwick's case, one for putting wax on, the other for general cleaning. My Jazz I keep a towel in its case which I use for a quick clean after gigs, that's the only cleaning it gets, seems to cope OK.

FTR I used the Bugcrusher in rehearsal tonight with my ska/post-punk/dub -type band and it was an instant hit. At home through my practice amp I wasn't sure I could use it on a bass guitar pedal board, but the moment I turned it on tonight everybody was sold, it is a keeper. It all depends on the sound you give it at the input. It makes pretty much any sound more interesting, but it does it in very different ways depending on what you give it to chew on. It's mega, I'm in love with it. I expected to be disappointed and wasn't - don't you love it when that happens?

That's f***ing brilliant. Ian would approve.

I've never gone after girls at gigs at all. I did once invite a girl to come and see my band the following weekend, and we ended up living together for three years, but that's about as far as it goes. I have asked girlfriends [i]not[/i] to come to my gigs in the past, because I was a bit shy and didn't want them to see me doing something I really cared about in case it was a crap gig, but they thought it was because I was getting groupies. Pretty funny!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='890901' date='Jul 9 2010, 10:46 PM']Actives cause impedance trouble with some fuzzes. Shouldn't be an issue with digital models of fuzz. The Woolly Mammoth doesn't like actives, not sure about others, the Big Muff can give an output drop if your bass is very hot, as it outputs same level whatever you put in. SFX do a gizmo to correct the impedance issue.[/quote] TBH I recently shifted a Woolly Mammoth and the issues with active preamps are greatly exaggerated. It sounded great with my Warwick, and spent most of its life in the middle of my board with Boss buffers infront of it. I never felt like I needed to adjust the input impedance for it. Although I did once try to run my upright bass's piezo pickup into it, and that didn't work at all, all I got was a loud cracking sound and then silence, but to be fair piezo pup impedance is insanely higher than anything a guitar fuzz pedal should expect to see. My other favourite bass fuzzes are the Wren & Cuff Pickle Pie 'B' (if you want a traditional creamy fuzz with plenty of bass available and a clean blend built in), and the Chunk Systems Brown Dog which puts some people off because it doesn't have a tone knob, but it's designed to be filtered externally. Both are truly excellent designs that work very, very well on bass.

How did you lot measure your heads? I couldn't flatten mine out well enough.

If you want a hi-fi "super jazz" sound, why are you using a '74 Jazz? Get a Sadowsky/Lakland/Other NYC Session Posebass and leave the poor thing alone.

Sold my Woolly Mammoth to Phil, very straightforward, apart from when the lady at the Post Office asked what was in the box and she thought I was taking the piss.

Matt sold me his Bugbrand Bugcrusher. Even PM-ed me to offer first refusal and then held it for me for a week, what a star.

I bought Mike's Micro POG. He got it in the post the next day for me, much appreciated.

[quote name='burno70' post='889204' date='Jul 8 2010, 07:33 AM']Great board! What are the two pedals either side of the Squeezer?[/quote] Ta mate. The one on the right is just a TB loop switch. The Squeezer is inside it, so I don't have to use one of the Squeezer's switches for on/off I can assign them both to PREV / NEXT / MOD / TAP functions as I need to. The one to the left is the Bugbrand Bugcrusher I bought off Kennerz this week. It's a sample rate reducer and the one knob is the sampling frequency. It sounds a bit like an in-tune ring modulator, and if you feed it a distorted signal you get crazy pitch-related oscillation.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='887129' date='Jul 6 2010, 11:30 AM']I'm curious about the new MXR envelope filter though, anyone has tried both MXR and 3leaf and can post a opinion?[/quote] TBH the pair of them have almost identical features. If anything it will be down to how they generate the envelope from the input. I used to prefer the "Meatball" style envelope like you get on the Groove Regulator and my Meatwad which is very versatile and easy to play, but I've since decided the steeper DOD style envelope is actually really nice when you get used to it. It just needs to be more tuned in with the output of your bass, but when it is, it's very expressive. But if you swap basses, the Meatball style pedal is the only practical one, really.

So it's not wedged in the treble-side bridge wing, but somewhere else?

Is that a Bassmax? Any particular reason why you stuck it in the treble side of the bridge? And why you didn't include its output in your recording? Curious because I've got one on my bass but it has never sounded right despite endless fecking with it. Also, I'm guessing you're about 6'3"?

[quote name='Delberthot' post='888945' date='Jul 7 2010, 09:12 PM']When I was 17 I used to carry the School's DB 2 miles from the school to my house and I still have vivid memories of how heavy that was. One of my biggest concerns with gigs is going to be the transporting of it and whether or not I can fit it in my car[/quote] The geezer I bought my double bass off, brought it to my house in a Peugeot 306. I said "OK I'm less apprehensive about fitting one in my car now I've seen you can fit one in your car" He said "Not one..." and opened the hatch, and sure enough he had two double basses in there! Don't worry about fitting it in your car, even small cars are deceptively large.

Lovely. Drummer's the boss, and I just love trombone. I've got one actually, but these days I'm increasingly embarrassed about playing it. I think I was drawn to fretless bass and then double bass because of the similarities with trombone. And if that's iffy intonation I'm never uploading any clips of me playing DB...