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I'm using two allegedly guitar combos - one is little and the other, er, bigger.. ;D I split the signal using my behringer ultra-g direct box, the one with the 4x12 simulator - which stops the little amp exploding! Into the ultra-g goes fuzz and possibly tremelo and/or chorus depending on what mood i'm in! Then the main DI output goes to the little amp. The 'direct/speaker' output then goes into wah and my zoom 505 and into the bigger amp. The zoom can be muted, or i have an expression pedal for it that acts as a volume pedal when its not being wah or whammy. It makes a good noise!

I get quite a close approximation with a bit of compression going into a guitar Practice amp with the kids scooped to almost nothing and the treble at about 9 o'clock! Don't try this on your mate's boutique valve amp...

Oh yeah, and fretless as well!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1377874204' post='2193118'] More prejudices than a coachload of UKIP members on a European tour [/quote] Hey, we've all got our own issues. ;D I can't help it, i was exposed to punk at primary school age!

I guess being a grunge kid (and seeing as i may have sort of triggered this a bit) - anything with more than 4 strings, unless you're playing metal - anything that's ostentatiously flashy wood, PRS or anything too 'session muso' or jazz. Acoustic basses unless its 1994 and you're on MTV unplugged. Violin basses. Any bass worn above the belt buckle. Especially 5 string bookmatched and used for slap jazz funk fusion!

We Love The E.D.L | Intermittent Explosive Disorder http://www.intermittentexplosivedisorder.co.uk/2013/08/we-love-the-edl/ Trust us. We do satire, remember. And funk too...

Didn't post this at the time but hey, it's come up. A song (cough) 'inspired' by a certain scum tabloid, a certain journalist, and the oh-so-coincidental suicide of a teacher: We present: The Ballad of Dick Littledick http://www.intermittentexplosivedisorder.co.uk/2013/07/the-ballad-of-dick-littledick/

Mine's like that, knobs annoy me and the electrics were dead as it's a rescue from a friend's dad's shed. I like it, looks clean, very little to go wrong and sounds nice and throaty!

Fenders. Somebody i REALLY hated played a strat. Annoyingly my P-bass copy makes quite a nice noise, but i'll still be up-trading to a thunderbird when i can afford it...

People who wear guitars up high like they're pretending they're in the beatles. Also, the beatles.

Moaning mostly! Its a joke. We are a comedy band. Honest.

Seems quite topical at the moment... Still, bloody weather eh? Can't trust it, never know what its going to do from one day to the next... http://www.intermittentexplosivedisorder.co.uk/2013/08/hatless/

I've been fiddly diddling away with it and am getting used to it now... My band-mate keeps tuning my guitar to drop D so i'm getting used to ignoring the string closest to me anyway!

I kind of like it...

Here it is with it's big sis.

A 'mahalo' off eBay... 20 quid including postage... it's fun actually! worked out some chords and have been playing judas priest on it.

The real problem is, it arrived at work so its sitting on my desk looking at me and its just too tempting! This is why i had to take the nerf gun home!

Just had one arrive off ebay... Weird, the low string is high! Odd. Might stick a fatter nylon string on and tune it down. Or just get used to it. Feels a bit odd after the bass though! But i think its going to be fun.

Joyo california sound? Not so much overdrive, more a sansamp copy amp simulator. Drives like a nutter though... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioN1dq1sRcU[/media]

Minimalist... ;D Netbook running FL studio, creative speakers, external monitor... ;D Does the bleepy bloorpy stuff for me, gets bounced to my band-mates 'proper' recording PC when we add instruments and vocals.

Hello! Ok, possible silly question time again, but.... My elderly zoom 505 has a 32khz sample rate and 18 bit input, 16 bit output, and 128 oversampling. What?! So i know that for instance, the sample rate affects the frequency that can be sampled, and its about half, sort of? So the highest frequency the 32khz processor can hear is around 16khz - does a bass produce anything much higher than that (certainly that you'd want to hear anyway, i can happily deal with losing high frequency hiss and crackle). And then there's this which throws the spanner right among the pigeons: http://productionadvice.co.uk/high-sample-rates-make-your-music-sound-worse/ In the case of my ancient zoom i'm using it at the end of the effects chain for limiting and a splash of EQ plus reverbs and delays if i fancy them. So is it worth getting rid of the digital kit completely or is it actually not going to make much of, or any difference? There's any amount of stuff talked about digital vs analogue vs valves etc, and most of it bamboozles me a bit. My analogue fuzz and distortions do sound more pleasing to me than the digital ones, but that might just be my zoom being a bit rubbish at distortion!

Software wise you might want to give this a go: http://ubuntustudio.org/ Full-on open source OS based around the creative end of computing. Depending on your PC the virtual patch bay thingie (jack) can be a bit of a faff to get set up but once you do its pretty useful! There's also audacity which is free and pretty straightforward to use: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Depending on how hifi you want your results, you don't need a huge amount of kit - for the IED stuff we're using an elderly PC running cakewalk on winXP, with an older but expensive when it was new soundcard for input, and a POD upfront as the pre-amp. We're learning as we go, the first few tracks were a bit rough but its getting smoother as we go along, and our latest (OIrish folk) was almost completely acoustic and sounds not bad at all...

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1374055319' post='2144666'] Tone is made of an amalgomation of tonelets and noisers. The tonelets get excited by the noisers and propogate which gives you a treblier sound. If you turn your knob the other way this phenomenon is repeated, but another participant , the oompher is added, which gives a bassy sound [/quote] Oddly, that makes complete sense!

Thanks for all the great answers! So last night included half a bottle of wine and a load of fiddling, twiddling and general noise making.. ;D I nabbed a load of 'tone' videos from youtube which gave me ideas of order to plug things into things, and looked at stuff like compression and where that would go in a mix. Annoyingly, out of my two little rubbishy amps alone, i can actually get a sound i like, but i want a good DI tone that i can take elsewhere so nobody laughs at my dodgy amps. So, i moved the amps to a different spot so i can get more distant, set each one until i got a sound i liked out of both, playing to their strengths - 'twang' from the little squier, and scooped thump from the larger no-namer. Then with them both on, twiddled so that there weren't too many frequency clashes. It actually appears that the magic bullet is my ancient mk1 zoom 505 that i bought a bunch of analogue stuff to replace! Right at the end of the chain, using the stereo out to both amps - Limiter set on medium, little bit of room reverb, some noise gate and bass boost and its sounding pretty good..!

Thanks for all the replies, i had a feeling this would start some discussion and this has been great so far! Yeah, to complicate stuff, what with my 'band's oeuvre being satirical comedy, the sound we need depends on the song! What we've learned so far is to use the POD tube preamp and add any effects later for recording! All this stuff is so subjective too, it's really interesting to see what everyone thinks! Ok, time to go twiddle knows..