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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1385726277' post='2291531'] Next week I have an inner London gig which supplies backline so I'm going on the train, but I can count on one hand the number of times I've gone to a gig on public transport. I don't know how anyone gigs without access to a car or van. [/quote] i have an 8 seater van with an xbox, 2 tv's that takes me to gigs but its not suitable for jams and practices etc.

What do you do amp wise? I'm 29 I don't drive, one could argue I should learn but I have little need outside of music and even then it's not a huge requirement as I get to most gigs with my tour manager friend. Anyway I went for an audition for a band the other day and there was no issue with me not taking an amp and that I could hire one, ended up with a Fender rumble 1x15 combo. It did the job but it certainly wasn't fun and then there is an ongoing cost if I continue in the band. Now for a while I've been trying to have my portable rig as an iPad and a DI box and tonally I'm very happy and even with an amp this is my super portable fx setup but the idea is that most places will have a PA suitable for bass and it's becoming more and more clear (and I should know this I've gigged the area for years) that this just isn't the case. Just wondering what people use when they have to walk say a mile or two to a gig or jam session. I've been looking at some of the TC rigs with dolly's etc and just wonder if this is a solution but I can't say I'm a big fan of the tone. So I throw it out to the boards, do you guys carry lightweight heads because there is always a cab somewhere? combos? just struggle? Get taxi's everywhere etc? I'm hoping some guys from London who get to gigs on the tube will chime in. Thanks

Let me know when you're bored of it

It'll be the Micropower, I have friends who've had issues (not really the power supplies fault) some places have crap electrics and this isn't an isolated supply like the Voodoo Labs etc It does happen with daisy chain power supplies not a whole lot you can do about it but the tyring it on different circuits may work if its possible with the placement of the sockets.

Ground loop likely with poor electrics at the venue, try the ground lift on the di or a decent extension lead something with a bit of power filtering. Additionally try plugging the amp and pedalboard into different sockets (only works if they're on different circuits though) Do you find if you don't use the board and just use the amp you get hum?

Bought this off Beedster the other week with little convincing off Clarky and Happyjack Very happy now just to change the strings for more thump

I saw, I giggled

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1384879462' post='2281799'] Lets be fair to it........you could just clean-blend out the ODB-3 totally.....then it would be good! Si [/quote] Still using another pedal to fix the short comings of a pedal which sir is my case in point

[quote name='FretNoMore' timestamp='1384877704' post='2281765'] Well, if built-in blends are Ok but external mixing isn't, then this discussion is just an exercise in double standards or hair splitting. [/quote] I suppose what I was trying to get across bluntly is if you have to add pedals to a pedal to make it sound good then you're doing something wrong, the reason why I find blending ok in a pedal is that's part of the pedal's sound like the Assmaster its a very unique sounding fuzz pedal, even if you have a depth charge the Assmaster still sounds different. Trying to draw from my experience of having massively complicated boards, if you're using 4-5 always on pedals to get your sound and another 3 pedals to get a dirt sound etc then you are likely doing something wrong, you either have the wrong amp, wrong bass or wrong pedals. I have the same conversation with a friend near every week, he's constantly asking for my advice on pedals, quoting various bassists and what they did and how he likes to replicate this tone and how he pushes up x frequency etc and this that and the other and week in and week out I tell him he's using the wrong amp but he won't listen and continues to use a 800w pa head into 2 4x8 cabs. While there maybe no right or wrong in music there can be massive rights and wrongs in your equipment of choice, for 14 years my Rickenbacker sat on a stand because I thought they should be strung with rounds, changed it to flats because I took a chance and went away from most internet advice and voila a new main bass and a massive cull of my other instruments. I wish years ago someone had just let me try a really decent big muff clone instead of me pouring my money away on Fuzz Face clones and various blenders trying to get a fuzz tone that worked in a band.

here here It's an interesting debate and I've done it all from blending, parallel processing, bi amping etc end of the day I picked a different pedal and no longer needed all the other stuff. Most people that have been playing with fx for a while won't bother with what I've said but if it stops just one young player from buying £300 of pedals to fix the sound of his £50 fuzz pedal then my work here is done.

I've see[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1384870630' post='2281643'] I don't think there are any right or wrongs in music [/quote] I've seen a Jedward music video thats says different

It's a free world, but as someone who has owned most of the popular blenders and was responsible for the impedance buffer/blender from Barge concepts I stand by my convictions. But there are many sides to this coin, pedals with a clean signal through like say the Assmaster fine, part of the pedal, part of the circuit and the sound. Using something like an LS-2 to blend a fuzz with an octaver this is parallel fx processing not blending. Running always on fx blended with your clean to get your sound then you are likely doing something wrong in my opinion (humble opinion) For example I see guys complaining that the SFT inverts your phase so you can't blend it, well why do you need to its designed as a low gain od if you need more clean signal with it, lower the gain or buy the pedal that sounds right without the faff. I think Shep was hoping for the debate to be on his blog for the drama and the web hits so happy to discuss this anywhere. While it was a sweeping statement it was aimed at the less fx savvy that seem so keen to go hmmm my ODB-3 doesn't have enough lows, I should buy an eq pedal for it, then hmm still not right I should buy a blender for it and it's just the wrong approach. I use to use an always on OD this was because I was using the wrong amp, as soon as I got a tube amp I ditched like 3-4 always on pedals. Now I take a very uncompromising approach to everything so maybe if I was always flying to gigs, had back trouble etc and I had to have a small light amp then these solutions are more acceptable. So with that said all I have left to say is FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Bought a EUB from Beedster, as John was also collecting something from him (John is in York, Beedster right on the coast of what I consider mid Wales and I'm in Cheshire) a few days later he was nearby and we met up, so saved me a lot of travelling and train fare. Great guy went above and beyond for no reason other than being a true gent. I shall now go annoy the wife with my out of tune playing.