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[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1058079' date='Dec 14 2010, 12:14 AM']If you leave it in the same room, just let it warm up with the room when you are back. The risky bits are taking it from a cold place to a warm moist place, and condensation forming on it, then you have water and electric. Avoid that by giving it time to acclimatise. The other is taking a hot tube amp into a cold wind, like a rapid clear out from a gig, when a cold blast of wind can shatter your valves through thermal shock.[/quote] Cheers dude, I was wondering whether it would be you or umph first I might drape a precautionary sheet over it in case just in case it does get moist in here but I figured it was just a case of making sure the valves had a chane to warm up slowly.

I'll be leaving my amp (Simms Watts PA 100, all tube) down here for a month while I go back home for xmas . My radiator will be off and it gets mighty chilly in here. My main concern is if the tubes get really cold they might crack when I start using the amp again. Is there anything I can do preventatively? Or would I just have to make sure to acclimatize them gradually before using it? This is my first tube amp if you can't tell.

That's actually pretty good, and the vocals are very impressive. Probably better than Katy Perry's to be honest, I can't decide if she's actually singing in that register and it's just ridiculously autotuned or if it's shifted up an octave, I'd definitely pursue the singing if you aren't already.

I think a good bassist should be fluent in fingers and pick, fingers purists are just as bad to me as people who only play with a pick. It may just be me, but they're completely different techniques and sound. If I pick up a pick and just noodle, I play completely different stuff than if I noodle with fingers. I'm finding myself playing with a pick more and more lately, a big part of it too is feel. For fast, chuggy rock on one or two strings I much prefer a pick, it just feels better, I feel more free to rock out a bit, I can wave my picking hand around like an idiot and it feels more energetic. For slow, groovy stuff, or stuff that requires a lot of right hand movement, fingers are the only way to go. My pick of choice is Dunlop JazzIII, the black ones. I prefer the feel of tortex but the sound of nylon can't be beat for me.

Pitch shifting should go after tuner, and try dist before wah/filters.

Just got the proper board wired up:

[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='1052236' date='Dec 8 2010, 11:00 PM']Wow man, good to know it arrived ok and you're that happy with it [/quote] I was just about to PM you actually, yea it arrived today, absolutely loving it cheers. [quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' post='1052265' date='Dec 8 2010, 11:37 PM']What is the Slap Bass pedal?[/quote] Weird is what it is. It's sort of a compressor with a drive control. The drive is really crisp and clanky. It basically turns any bass into a jazz with new roundwounds on. It perfectly preserves dynamics (hence I assume why they called it the slap bass), it's very weird, I've never come across another pedal like it. I recorded some samples that I think are somewhere on the net, I'll have a looksee for them.

All my dirt pedals and the OC-2 and GR thrown in for good measure. I'm trying to decide which ones to get rid of. Ath moment I'm thinking Mastotron and CP, the UF-01 just does everything they can and more.

If the mid pot eliminated it the I'd say it's a certain frequency of interference, there's a billion things it could be, somebody else's amp, a PA speaker, even something as anal as the wattage of lightbulb they were using. If it happens again go through possible noise sources one by one (anything electrical is a possible noise source), try playing elsewhere in the room, turn off every bit of electrical equipment one by one etc. You could just reshield (or indeed shield) the control cavity, but I know I'd want to find out what was doing it.

I've got a second hand Simms-Watts at the mo and it's and it's probably the best amp I've had. It doesn't really do dirty to be honest (not what I'd call dirty anyway) but the tone is just sextacular. I'd definitely be looking at old PA amps if you're on a budget, I've played an Ampeg SVT and I definitely prefer my Simms-Watts.

[quote name='harvey1-8' post='1034210' date='Nov 23 2010, 06:49 PM']I think bobbass4k on here uses a Rat, he'd be able to give you more info.[/quote] Ooh, I got a mention, sweet. I do indeed use a Turbo Rat, at the moment it's my main distortion. I absolutely love it, I think the distortion "character" (that sounded less poncy in my head...) is perfect for a bass distortion. It's not transparent like an Overdrive, the only real distinction in sound you'll get is between fingers and a pick (which is actually a big difference). But it's not as full on as a fuzz. I use a blender with it, but I wouldn't say it's necaserry, it depends what kind of sound you want. Max (silentfly) does bass mods to the Turbo Rat. I'll try and record some clips when I get the time.

OC-2 > Fuzz > Filter. That does plug in baby spot on for me. No idea how wolstenholme does it (I would assume the deep impact is in there somehwere). But he definietly uses and ocatver and distortion in the chorus when the synthy sound drops out, admittedly 95% of a pub audience won't notice, but if you want to do it absolutely spot on it's something to remember.

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Couldn't you just put the board out of the way? Just off stage or behind your amp or something, unless you're doing vox and need to be in one place. The simplest option I'd say would be a true bypass loop, hook your effects into it with long cables and have the board out of harms reach. A 7 switch bypass loop would run you a fair bit though, and you'd have 14 odd cables running from stage to off stage. I suppose if you only use some of them in combination or can switch them on and off in between songs then you could get the number of switches down.

I have it first, but i've been thinking about i lately that it'd actually make more sense last. Surely you want to be tuning at the last possible stage before it goes to the amp? As that's the signal you're actually hearing (or closest to it). Don't suppose the attenuation from pedals makes much pitch difference, as long as they're good bypass. Just thinkin' out loud.

Wolstenholme loves his octaves If that's not bouncy I don't know what is. Octavey goodness starts at 2:01, no fuzz and not bouncy, but that massive octave run is one of my favourite things to play.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='1034320' date='Nov 23 2010, 08:01 PM']Can you not just convert to an MP3?[/quote] That is in .mp3, they're 1GB each in .wav, getting 600Mb of files onto a free (legal) file sharing service still isn't a cakewalk in the tea park.

How odd, should be fixed now.

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Probably a very select audience, but I demuxed Oceansize's Feed To Feed DVD's, so I've got the bass, drums, and vocals track for the first 3 albums and Music For Nurses. They're very useful for figuring out the songs, because the bass is very audible, but the drums and vocals help you keep place in the song too. Let me know if anyone wants them and I'll figure out a way to make them shareable.