bobbass4k

bassist who can do wrong? Mark Hoppus because we expect so little, surely he can't get any worse?

Definitley depends on the music, my delay and whammy are never leaving my board (when i get a board, at the moment they're never leaving my floor) but most players don't need a whammy, for my music (weird noise/post/experimental/dance/stoner/doom/space/rock/metal/punk....even i dont know what the hell i play) the big 4 are: Whammy, delay, overdrive/fuzz (lets just say dirt), and my feedback looper if it counts When i say delay is never leaving my board, i mean my dd-20 is never leaving my board, to be honest i can't remember the last time i used it for straight delay, but i use it for soundscapes, and weird effects, and i love it to bits, i probably wouldn't use a bog standard delay The big 4 i think all effects players should have: od/fuzz (dirt), chorus, compression, some kind of filter/wah, mainly cos they're all straight effects that can be worked into a regular line and still sound good, not make the effect the focus (like delay or whammy), just compliment the sound

the intro, and most of forty six and 2 has a flangery/phasery/chorus/general shimmery effect [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tja6_h4lT6A"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tja6_h4lT6A[/url]

I've got a behringer limiter that's suprisingly good, it does what it's supposed to. I'm not really using it though, I don't play slap or use filters that much, so it's sitting unused most of the time, you can have it for £12 posted if you want.

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='407218' date='Feb 12 2009, 01:30 AM']That looks pretty good - add £2 for a mains lead though. Does it come with the daisy chain?[/quote] Unfortunately it doesn't come with a daisychain, they sell them for £2.50, but to be honest i'd get something better, it's the one gripe i have with it, the connectors don't flex very well, which gets very very annoying if you have pedals with the power jack on the side, and there isn't a lot of wire between them,, but the actualy supply is fantastic

I've got one of [url="http://www.johnnyshredfreak.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=12&zenid=240abf60e7861096f4161bdc982e658f"]these[/url] and it's brilliant, from what i've heard it's essentially the same as the diago. It'll power 1.5amps with no hum, which is at least a dozen regular pedals, but the daisy chain lead is only boss type 9v, so they won't power eveything

[quote name='gafbass02' post='404531' date='Feb 9 2009, 05:18 PM'](how exactly do you spell cry-seas??)[/quote] crises well, that's my contribution for the day

That's odd, one of the things i love about my devi ever cherry pop is that it's noise free. It's very high gain , and it's very noisy and sensitive when actually playing, but with no signal going in it's silent. If you turn the bass volume down all the way and there is still noise, then it's definitley the pedal, and compression or gating probably won't help, it's just a noisy circuit. If it's completely quiet with no signal going in then it's just high gain/very sensitive, and gating or compression will probably help, but you could try other things like turning the gain down and boosting the signal with a pedal later in the chain

[url="http://www.allparts.uk.com/bass/sealed-bass-tuning-keys-c-277_1_54_62_64.html"]http://www.allparts.uk.com/bass/sealed-bas...1_54_62_64.html[/url] Their stocks a little unreliable but they've got the best selection

pretty much every queens of the stone age and kyuss song

edit: I had a brainwave last night, I've already broken my lightshade, so my damage deposit is gone, which means the carpet covered notice board screwed to my wall is effectively mine.......I've still got to cut it down to size and put some extra wood on so it's at a good angle, but it works pretty well. I also went crazy with some paint tester pots and painted my homemade feedback looper (the russian muff enclosure), I may have also been slightly drunk at the time and decided to decorate my wah pedal too.......Anywho, it seemed a little pointless to post a new pic just one post later, so i just edited this one And the " I think it should be compulsory too" nightshot

Finally got round to building it, it works pretty well, doesn't seem to like my chorus though, at really low feedback the signal just gets buried under a weird muffled phaser swirl kinda sound, and anything higher it just buzzes really REALLY loudly, same with my whammy. But it does like my od and fuzz, i spent the better part of today fiddling with them, still havent figured out exactly how they behave in a feedback loop, but it does exactly what i want: making really weird noises. With my delay set to a kind of stuttery tremolo, and a simple turn of the gain knob i can turn my bad monkey into a better sounding dirty synth apprgeiator than a lot of actual keyboard synths i've used. Now i just need some paint to repaint my big muff enclosure with a hilariously witty design, I'll post a picture of it with the rest of my pedals in the pedalboard porn thread as soon as my newly acquired sb7 arrives (can't wait to put that in the loop eitheir). Thanks for the help

[url="http://www.rapidonline.com/Electronic-Components/Resistors-Potentiometer/Control-Potentiometers/0.5W-12.7mm-Rotary-potentiometers/82067/kw/50k%20log%20pot"]http://www.rapidonline.com/Electronic-Comp...50k%20log%20pot[/url] The 50k log likes the fella, but you'll need to check the otherside to see how the pins mount onto the pcb, and check the measurements against yours, just to be sure.

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='397366' date='Feb 1 2009, 10:54 PM']I reckon this should do it using only a spdt switch. In 'bypass' mode the signal goes direct from input to send and direct from return to output jack. When loop is switched on, the return signal can be fed back into the send jack via the pot. hence this gives you the loop with no need for the true bypass switch - after all, the effects boxes themselves have an off switch you can use if you don't want the sound in the loop. [/quote] Cheers, that's just what i was after, i've already got the stuff, i'll give it a go now. Nothing like a little late night soldering.