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Ok, i must admit i thought he was interesting - having looked about, i have changed my opinion from 'interesting' to 'mental bell-end': http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rage-against-the-machine-bassist-gives-band-update-talks-isis-trump-20151002?page=4

What a miserable old git... Ok, so Metallica have 'more to say' than Lady Gaga? Really? Because they're old white guys with guitars? Compare 'Born this way' with 'Battery' - which one is making the bigger statement? Oh wait, is that cherry picking? Totally generational 'my music is better than yours' bulltrousers...

Pedant's corner: Isn't that an AR-15 not an AK?

Me too! They weren't really that well known but most people i play it to go 'that's flippin' awesome!!' Except for the people who go 'argh' at the feedback... I reckon actually i am now quite close to getting this sort of sound: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_VYNNkCDFo[/media]

Ok, this is now just me talking to myself... The Hotblood-Royalchip pedalboard is probably (minus more fiddling) a go. BSW into cheap Nux delay/looper into zoom 505 for nasty digital low definition flanging, phasing and octaves and suchlike. Clean out from the BSW into Joyo California and Tremolo. All into little mixer and out to amp! Drum machine goes into an EQ pedal then the mixer too for added thud. Loopers are harder to use than KT Tunstall makes it look! [attachment=204867:IMG_20151111_205944.jpg]

Its getting bigger... [attachment=204634:IMG_20151108_183055.jpg] This is for my 'Royal blood go Hot chip' experiment. Its an 'unconventional' signal path, i know. It goes: Phaser, fuzz, amp/drive, splits at the bass synth wah, the clean signal goes EQ, mixer and out, the synth signal goes tremolo, Zoom, mixer and out. Putting the phaser in front of the fuzz makes awesome 'whung whung whung' noises, if you're wondering why i did that!

Ok, i got bigger board! The small one is now the 'look, analogue is just better, ok? No, i don't know why either, but it is!' And the bigger one is for putting all the stuff that goes 'wiggy wiggy pew pew' and mixing it all together. [attachment=204104:IMG_20151101_162726.jpg] and: [attachment=204105:IMG_20151101_164555.jpg]

Noise: [media]http://youtu.be/sqS_Q57IzzE[/media] Recorded on my phone, tried to tweak the sound a bit!

I've been sort of obsessed with trying to sound like this since about 1993: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay_uOANgo4M[/media] I've found some blurb about how they recorded - One sound is apparently a guitar stuck in a moog! THey also claim to be just using guitars and bass and drums, no keyboards, in which case i'd like to know what the 'dugga dugga dugga bow!' sound is at the beginning!

The BSW does make some totally unusable noises! If you want to be bootsy collins or do 'uptown funk' its great. Its also quite good for being the Human League but the knobs are very sensitive (arf) and its easy to from 'cool sound' to '70s Dr who monster' and then not be able to get back again. I got it cheap and wanted something that would split my signal and have an octaver on it. The floor pedals are Joyo - 'Voodoo Fuzz', Fuzz with octave up, tremelo, and 'California sound' aka a copy of the sansamp California. And a behringer 'vintage phaser'.

I can do 'RAWK' - that's easy, at least as my idea of rawk involves pretending to be the jesus and mary chain, so you 'just' split the signal and go fuzz-wah-distortion-amp and let it feed back! This attempt is more 'dirty techno'.. Prototype 'rig' below although actually it will probably be all moved to a bigger pedalboard. The bass synth wah and the zoom are in the effects loop of the mixer with everything stuck through the mixer. The drums go 'wiggy wiggy squelch' in a satisfyingly 303 ish way, and playing the bass in makes the synth do some interesting harmonics - the zoom is for delays, pitch shift, arpeggiator, that sort of thing. I tried recording it on my phone but the mic couldn't cope! [attachment=203966:12119054_772773632850897_8348037716409622312_n.jpg] Additonally: Re knobs: Yeah, that's a reason why i'm heading back to digital! I could do with digital presets and analogue sounds...!

Hi! So there i was, watching Hot Chip at the Brixton Academy, and jolly good they were too, when i wondered just how much of that type of noise i could make by myselft with all of my pedals and other stuff, like what that Royal Blood bloke does. Only not rock. So far i've stuck the drum machine into the bass synth wah which makes a satisfyingly acid house 'Wiggy wiggy pew peow' sort of noise, my zoom has its arpegiator so i'll try the bass into that and then into the BSW. I'm kind of wanting to do as much as possible just coming out of the bass but i've also thought of getting some sort of kiddie casio keyboard like i had when i was a kiddie, and bunging that into the mix. Anyone tried similar? I know i could use a DAW on a laptop, but that's the no fun option...

I sort of want one. Saw Hot Chip at the Brixton academy on friday night and found myself wondering how much of that sort of sound i could make in a 'royal blood goes acid house' sort of a way!

Thankks you!

Our drummer is a laptop. Makes life a lot easier! This is interesting though as i've been seriously considering getting rid of my 'big' amp as a i can't practically use it loud enough to get 'my' sound out of it and our upcoming 'bigish' gig has backline anyway. As we mostly play comedy nights, my little warwick BC15 is a bit too loud sometimes, where the lyrics are the most important thing so 'quieter' means 'hear the joke'...

Probably good for dubstep...

Hurrah! Thank you!

I just got one of these off of amazon for £21: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BK3VA5U"]http://www.amazon.co...duct/B00BK3VA5U[/url] Its a nux PG2, its no POD certainly but then my headphones aren't sennheiser either! But its got approximations of everything my pedalboard does and it clips onto my bass strap... EDIT: been mucking about with this all evening. Its really rather good - certainly for the price! I can get some nice basic bass tones out of it and it will also go full on Muse if i feel like it, and the amount of thud makes my headphones rattle.

This is where i realised the bass is the lead instrument on a lot of music i love... Fuzz, nasty dirt... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AL2oTiTU0[/media]

Thanks guys! I'm talking about sample rate of digital effects going live rather than recording? So 32khz can convert sound up to 16khz, thats right isn't it? So anything above 16kz coming off my bass will be lost, but its a bass, not a 'treble' so, erm... i've also tested my crappy earholes using the tone generator in Audacity - My tinnitus is about 12-13 khz and the highest sound i can hear at all is 14khz. So it sounds alright to me... Probably sounds a scratchy mess to anyone else..!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rikcon2016-london-tickets-17114369540 RikCon 2016! Argh! We're scared... April 2016, that london, thanks to our surprisingly popular Rik Mayall tribute song, '[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGYoE1YlLs"]Who said you could die, you bastard[/url]?' Some very silly and possibly drunk at the time people, have asked me and my mate Kris to turn up and try not to poo our pants... Come watch!

...And additionally, apparently bass amp speakers have a frequency response of between 2.5khz and 7khz so actually there's little point in a high sample rate anyway! Argh!

Thanks for the answers! I actually use my musical cohort's (guitar) POD for recorded stuff. Its taken some tweaking but we get some really nice sounds out of it. I am tempted by the B3 but don't reeaaaally need it as i like the sounds i get from what i've got. Digital gear is what confuses me the most, sample rates and bit depths and processors and wuh..? For instance why did zoom go from 32khz to 96khz to 44.1khz? Was the 96khz just a sales gimmick? And if 32khz is about equivalent to chrome tape, aren't we supposed to 'prefer' tape?

What music do they play in your church?! Church of metal!?

This yer: https://forum.guitar.com/complete-rig-25/fratellis-208007 mentions an ABY box so there's possibly and clean and OD mix going on? Especially on the recording, they probably did two tracks, one clean and one dirty?