Happy Jack

I'm more impressed that I've managed to successfully post on a Topic without getting it locked.

Surprised to see that. My own style is best described as 'agricultural' and I often brush the wrong string, but I've not had any trouble with my Fission. It sounds like a signal chain issue ... perhaps you have another gain-adding pedal in front of the Fission? Incidentally, you can make the Fission sound WAY better by dialing down the disappointing in-built Distortion control and instead feeding the effected signal through a proper distortion pedal such as a Boss DS-1. I actually run mine through a Joyo Orange Juice: https://www.joyoaudio.co.uk/bstock-joyo-jf-310-orange-juice-amp-sim-mini-guitar-effect-pedal?language=en&currency=GBP&gclid=CjwKCAiAl4WABhAJEiwATUnEF6ze_RpfL4RcCMQauAX4aLs-RkALMPj31WfgTvu9jHCK2yS6oe4MDhoCI6kQAvD_BwE It's cheap, it's tiny, it sounds great, and there's a flip cover to protect the controls from accidental knocks when you have the sound you like.

Nah ... it's all done with Green Screen these days. 🤨

So then I clicked on this link and - wonderfully, absolutely wonderfully - it appeared on screen with a warning in the address bar: Not Secure. 😂😂😂

Late to the thread, but I finally had a look at this link. Ye Gods and Little Fishes, a piece of right-angled plastic just 5mm thick, held to the wall with electrical screws salvaged from an old plug, and with edges sharp enough to cut instant grooves in your headstock ... possibly the worst designed guitar accessory I have ever seen.

https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/cory-wong-wongnotes-variety-show-album-trailer/

Also worth a look: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-Logo-Schriftzug-Gold-Lange-ca-11-cm/124197386430?hash=item1ceabdb8be:g:kU4AAOSwP1deyRZo https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-Logo-Schriftzug-Silber-Lange-ca-11-cm/124192738340?hash=item1cea76cc24:g:mh0AAOSwR-texEeS https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-Logo-Schriftzug-Schwarz-Lange-ca-11-cm/124193872416?hash=item1cea881a20:g:Rm0AAOSw~rxexWG9

I'm waiting for Peter Jackson to buy the movie rights ...

Probably not helpful during a lockdown, but the numbers are really no substitute for actually hearing the thing in action. I've owned 2000W power amps that left me thoroughly underwhelmed, and 200W heads that are just ridiculously loud. And I'm only talking about solid state amplification. Move to valve amps and you have to start all over. This last two days, I've been playing through my old WEM Dominator open-backed combo (built 1971). Way too loud in the studio to crank even to the halfway point, and that's rated at 15W. Which is rubbish because everyone knows they actually put out 17W. With modern amplification it is highly unlikely that you will manage to blow anything up, and extremely likely that (in real world gigging volume terms) you will have more headroom than St. Paul's Cathedral.

Who did you bury under the patio, Chris?

I'm with Mick ...

Tempting, tempting, very very tempting, that's very tempting. But I shall act like a grown-up (stop laughing @Silvia Bluejay) and leave alone ...

Is it a very short song? 😂

Incidentally, having dissed so many choices by other Basschatters, it's only fair that I put one up for people to shoot at. For me this is easy. I am a HUGE fan of The Beatles so the only covers I actually prefer to the original song are when the original song was either complete **** or was a throw-away joke song, of the sort usually given to Ringo, one on each album. And that takes me straight to

At the time of writing, the best price online for a new Boss LS-2 is just £79: https://www.scan.co.uk/products/boss-ls-2-line-selector-pedal-connect-and-switch-between-multiple-amps-and-fx-devices-provides-2-lin?gclid=CjwKCAiA_9r_BRBZEiwAHZ_v12anRUQKA8Ru0RX1zdeHVgt3LPPjClPt6D-eynxjdaotmxUNOcHXuBoCW3sQAvD_BwE Alternatively, you could buy one pre-owned on eBay from ed_stratospheric of Coventry for £69: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roland-Boss-LS2-Line-Selector-Guitar-Channel-Amp-Effect-Switcher-Pedal-LS-2/124492605851?epid=1004331537&hash=item1cfc56699b%3Ag%3AUukAAOSweGVfeGEJ&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Do note the distinctive white brickwork and fake wood of the desk. Another option would be to buy from steveskingle of Coventry for £69: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roland-Boss-LS2-Line-Selector-Guitar-Channel-Amp-Effect-Switcher-Pedal-LS-2/324423876005?epid=1004331537&hash=item4b892b7da5%3Ag%3A64oAAOSwDiZf3e6h&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Do note the distinctive white brickwork and fake wood of the desk. Even better would be to buy from steveskingle of Coventry for £69: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roland-Boss-LS2-Line-Selector-Guitar-Channel-Amp-Effect-Switcher-Pedal-LS-2/324425387179?epid=1004331537&hash=item4b89428cab%3Ag%3ANU0AAOSwjGte5I8P&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Do note the distinctive white brickwork and fake wood of the desk. Don't be fooled into thinking that this is one person trying to sell the same pedal three times. It is clearly three different pedals, all identical, that one person owns. Or maybe two but they have similar taste in decor. You can easily tell that they are different pedals because the knobs are in different positions. 🤨

A perfectly reasonable question. The answer is, if you want to record a 'cover' that is completely unrecognisable as the song you've copied, then your time would probably have been better spent writing an original song. Or in SRV's case re-writing the same song as last time. Again. YMMV For the avoidance of doubt, I am actually an SRV fan. No, really I am. I like his style and his sound, and I'm no more bothered by the fact that all his songs sound the same than I am about many other musicians where the same applies. I just don't see how the piece of music linked to managed to achieve anything. He made The Beatles sound like SRV. Congratulations. Well done that man. 🙄

I'm assuming that many of my Basschat friends are genuinely posting cover versions that they genuinely like, and that they genuinely want to share them with their friends. That said, most of the versions posted above are such complete and utter **** that I am genuinely staggered that anyone would waste a few electrons on posting them anywhere except to Trump supporters they're trying to wind up.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!! Not a trace, not even a vestige, of the original song left ... just SRV playing yet another SRV sound-alike.

The biggest issue I have with my MonoSynth is that using the stomp switch momentarily kills the signal. I'm talking about less than 1/10th of a second but that's easily enough to be noticeable (and to throw me off my rhythm!) so like @stewblack I run mine in a loop to maintain signal. Does yours do the same?

If I'm reading this right, the Focusrite 8i8 gives you somewhat enhanced capability over the 2i2 at a cost of £309. https://www.gak.co.uk/en/focusrite-scarlett-18i8-usb-audio-interface-3rd-gen/927813?gclid=CjwKCAiA_9r_BRBZEiwAHZ_v10AcHkK45zVHZTH51rRBJJzXCKyiSURK2Ht0JrTVNKLplo37VOFz6BoCpMoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds On t'other hand, the Behringer XR18 with X-Air app gives you a complete 16-track recording studio for £389. https://www.andertons.co.uk/behringer-x-air-xr18-18-channel-12-bus-digital-mixer-for-ipad-android-tablets-zb852?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces&gclid=CjwKCAiA_9r_BRBZEiwAHZ_v101t4mH-E0XfYrqvVr7Ci2bERFfEl5YU6CqcGNgqPb7lmKa2q3k58BoCGIkQAvD_BwE @Silvia Bluejay and I use our XR18 to front-end Reaper v.6. It's early days yet for us, but it clearly works.

If you're recording direct with a PreSonus (or a Focusright or whatever) then I'd suggest running with the Canon which - I suspect - will be higher quality and suffer less from latency than the GoPro. I haven't checked the specs mind, so I could be completely wrong about that! For laying out guide tracks to play along with later, I'd also recommend: https://www.studiospares.com/zoom-h1n-portable-recorder_378720.htm?gclid=Cj0KCQiA3NX_BRDQARIsALA3fILoVoCoZF4E3jBr_OiAjR_j7UbRIRCXuRQdUDIhIuqKWClt-CRwdaIaAsjeEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds I've used exclusively Zoom handheld recorders for many years and @Silvia Bluejay now defaults to her H1N for pretty much all applications. Incredibly simple and reliable, and the sound quality is just superb. The last recording sessions I did in a studio (just before Xmas) we took along the H1N to help us sync the multiple videos we were taking. When we later compared the 'raw' sound from the H1N with the early engineer mixes from the desk, in truth there wasn't that much difference in quality!

For my Santa's Sleigh video before Xmas I used one of these for vocals and (separately) for bass and guitar: https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/170823313769008--presonus-audiobox-usb-96-audio-interface?gclid=CjwKCAiAudD_BRBXEiwAudakX5vqH1zj25p0qZk0eciynnMdrYs_xYHH5N2LvRkbll1VuuxL3EluLxoC1-cQAvD_BwE It offers more than you need if you're just recording a bass part, but you can't go far wrong for £72 and it will provide you with additional possibilities such as playing your bass through the Sansamp into your bass rig, run the Sansamp DI into Ch.1 and mic up your cab into Ch.2 ... instant bi-amping. I've been using Reaper for three months (video) and one month (as a DAW) and I'm happy to recommend it. The elephant in the room is your "suitable camera". Can open, worms everywhere ...

I have the almost-matching PBAC version, and it's a seriously nice instrument. The preamp on these things is really very good and my PBAC has a glorious Jazz neck on it.