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[quote name='lateralus462' post='327699' date='Nov 12 2008, 03:52 PM']dunlop wah seems to be the way to go then - bit of a bugger cos they're pretty expensive.[/quote] I remember a while back someone mentioned that the only difference between the bass crybaby and a regular crybaby was one or 2 components, and they were gonna try modifiying a regular one, might be wirth looking into seen as the regular ones are about half the price, can't remember who it was though

[quote name='cheddatom' post='327586' date='Nov 12 2008, 01:49 PM']There are some great wahs on the Digitech XP-100 as well[/quote] Have to disagree with you there, they're good for guitar, but i've only ever found the "dark and deep" usable for bass, the wahs were designed for guitar and they cut out the lows completely, i've A/B'ed them all against my crybaby and to me the crybaby sounds better, but that could just be me

I've got a crybaby bass, 105q, it's very good, but it's a very traditional wah, and the lowest you can set the tone filter is the mid frequencies, so you can't get a massive low end sweep. You may want to have a look at the digitech synth wah, the msd earthquake, but that's pricey, the morley dual wah, i think fulltone do one too, theres plenty to choose from, it all depends on personal taste, do you want a massive low end sweep, or are you gonna use it more for mid and high freqs?

i would tell them whenever you can, whenevers comfortable, as long as you agree to do all the remaining gigs you've got booked,it sounds like a pretty amiable split, so if they decide to go on, you should probably help them audition a new bassist, that seems like the best way to do it if its an amiable split.

thanks for the advice people, i'll probably end up going for a bad monkey, a cream pie's gonna be too hard/pricey to get hold of, and a barber's gonna be too pricey. Looking into it HA does 2 mods, a regular one a bass specific one, but i'll probably have to import on form america, so i'll give you a pm silent fly and see how your prices compare cheers people

I know, all i seem to do is make posts asking for advice on pedals, bear with me I'm considering wandering in to the minefield that is midprice boutique Overdrive pedals I've got my cherry pop fuzz, which i adore, but its a very full on synthy angry fuzz, with insane gain in the membrane, so i'm conisdering balancing it out with a low gain, more subtle overdrive, with very very good low end response. My first thought was a cream pie (very unfortunate name), but i got very confused looking into them, no-one seems to sell them new or second hand, and they're made by 2 different companies, any cream pie experts (i'm looking at you tayste) care to clarify where i can get one, how much they generally go for etc.? I'm also looking at a barber ltd special recipe or a humphrey audio modded bad monkey, any advice on any of these? cheers

I recently bought my Xp-100 whammy and giga-delay off evilBay. The xp-100 i probably over paid for (£140 inc. Shipping) but i think i got a pretty good deal on the giga-delay, (£120 inc. shipping), the guy said it was in pretty good condition, but if it hadn't had the pedalboard velcro on the bottom, i would have thought it was new, not so much as a blemish. I do see what you mean though, i've been watching [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=320310032034&Category=22669&_trksid=p3907.m29"]this[/url], i know they're rare and sought after, but £360? It'll probably go for over £400

[quote name='Protium' post='309433' date='Oct 18 2008, 08:05 PM']What is the small white box with the green knob (top right)?[/quote] Looks to me a Catalinbread Serrano Picoso, a very highly rated boost pedal

Tool - Schism I just bought an xp-100 whammy, so i'm having a tool binge, tool aren't for everyone, but i love justin chancellors style, it's a challenge for me because i play with fingers as close to the neck as i can, i dont like playing near the bridge or using a pick, but he's got some great bass lines

I've recently fixed my project fretless (I defretted my first bass), as i've previously only ever put groundwounds on it, I was wondering if anyone could reccomend some economy (<£20) flatwounds? I'm after a warm, but not flat tone (which has been my experience of grounds). I only really use it for noodling, so i dont want to spend a bomb, thusfar [url="http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/products/601-picato_stainless_steel_flatwound_bass_45_105"]these[/url] picato's look pretty good, any opinions?

Just thought i should bring some closure to the thread, i eventually ordered one of [url="http://www.johnnyshredfreak.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=12&zenid=41e3810df33df184edfca67a83c5a144"]these[/url] and a daisy chain. For the time being it'll only be used for my soon-to-arrive giga-delay, crybaby bass and cherry pop, i'll just run my whammy off a seperate socket. Thanks for the help people!

[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='294099' date='Sep 28 2008, 07:38 PM']For distortion: Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss[/quote] which kyuss basslines would you say use distortion? (sorry to go off topic, but i'm a kyuss fanboy)

You may have read my earlier thread, but I couldn't get it sorted before the move down to canterbury. So Now I'm looking for a good amp tech in the canterbury area, don't mind going to whitstable, but ashford's probably the limit distance wise. It's my circa '97 (I'm pretty sure it's pre-gibson) Trace Elliot 150w combo, the head has died, the speakers fine, but i just get a hum no matter what i do with it So any reccomended amp techs near canterbury? cheers

bits of teen town (weather report) for jazz and or bass buffs, hysteria by muse for rock buffs, and the charlie brown (or peanuts, i'm not sure which is right) theme, (with tapped harmonics) for everyone else

Not [i]strictly[/i] an effect, but effect related. Anywho, how do people rate [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=31292"]these[/url] power banks from maplins? I've seen quite a few in the pedalboatd porn thread. The 6 connections will be enough for me, but are they any good? To be honest £20 for a power brick seems a lot to me, but it's pretty much the cheapest i can find, AND it's from maplins, quite possibly my favourite ubiquitous chain store. cheers

I'd say the [url="http://www.smokeyamps.com/"]smokey[/url], but I imagine a bass would make it actually smoke

An xp-100's cropped up on evilBay, I managed to find some suprisingly helpful videos on youtube, a bassist doing pretty thorough play tests of the xp-100 and the bass whammy, all the vids are [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/10000Names"]here[/url], sounds pretty good to me, at least for what i'll use it for, so i'm gonna brave evilBay and give it a shot, anyone know how much 2'nd hand xp-100's usually go for? It is pretty battered, but allegedly it's all cosmetic, which i can certainly live with. Unfortunately the guy's listed it as rare.....so every two-bit well-off idiot who's never even heard of a whammy pedal will buy it just to sell it on for twice for price......which is why i call it evilBay No real reason for the new post......just the thread could use some closure..... cheers

If you're set on a combo, then a trace will do you right, but i agree for that kind of money a h+c makes much more sense. I'd probably say again an old Trace cab, a 1x15" and a 4x10 is my personal reference, but there's pletny of size combinations out there. Brilliant clarity and low end but very punchy mids too, and they're built like big green carpet covered tanks, my combo's been dragged to every seedy pub in a 50 mile radius in the back of a citroen picasso, and ne'er a scratch. Don't get one if you have a cat though, mine's destroyed the carpet on one corner, and the entrie thing is covered in a layer of cat hair........ Head wise I can't help you, but to be honest I wouldn't say a trace, for that kind of money you can do better, eden, markbass, marshall etc. My dream head is a Sunn 0))), but each to their own

[quote name='cheddatom' post='257407' date='Aug 7 2008, 05:27 PM']Interesting. I think your reverb might disapear when playing in a band, which is why I asked. Are you using it to simulate a live room kind of sound, or is it a big long reverb, like an effect rather than a tone.[/quote] I used reverb in my old band, i had a a holy grail that i unfortunatley sold, i loved that pedal, I used it as an effect, it didn't get lost in the band mix, but it was a post-rock/soundscape band (we were just ripping off mogwai and didn't want to admit it), and you can only really get that sound live when everything is saturated in reverb, but my bass lines were quite prominent too. I can see in your point, in a conventional 4 piece rock band, it probably wouldn't fit and get lost in the mix I should probably answer the original question, eh? I would go for 3 effects that need minimum adjustment, and are generally used together, probably Phaser, Flanger and MAYBE an auto-wah, or ring-mod filter type thing, if it fits your sound, but a chorus or compressor seems more sensible

[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='283201' date='Sep 13 2008, 03:09 PM'][attachment=13308:DSC00313.JPG][/quote] I see you like big black russian balls That joke was so bad i think i deserve to be banned....... on a less innunedo laden note, i didn't even know EHX made russian bassballs, does it sound any better than the american piece o' crap?

Pelican - March Into The Sea (The full 20 minute original, none of this 11 minute edit crap)

[quote name='Oscar South' post='283130' date='Sep 13 2008, 12:38 PM']I messed around with my friends a while ago, works fine with bass. Be warned though, its almost entirely unusable in any bass playing situation.[/quote] I'm not worried about that, I play weird post/noise/experimental rock weirdness, for one of my old bands songs i played bass with an xbox360 controller.......a whammy's just what i need, i also play guitar So any more opinions on which version? I know general opinion is the wh-1 sounds better than the wh-4, but is it so much better that it's worth paying more for a 2nd hand wh-1 than a new wh-4? Does the xp-100 offer anything more than the wah features? I've got a wah pedal i'm very happy with so i'm not too fussed about that. cheers

My student Loan's imminent, and who needs food or textbooks when there are whammy pedals? So any opinions on how the wh-4 (or any of them, except the bass whammy) treats bass? I'd always assumed it would be terrible, being a pitch shifting pedal i imagine it would have to be designed for a specific frequency range, but purusing the pedalboard porn thread, i've seen a lot more wh-4's and wh-1's than i'd expect, so they must be half useable. edit: i know there's the bass whammy, but i've been looking on and off for a few months and only seen two, both on the wrong side of £350

I've no idea what's wrong with it, i jacked in and turned it on like i've done a thousand times and it just hummed, no matter what i do to it or set it at, it just hums, the "gain-o-meter" isn't lighting up, the output knob's always been a little scratchy, and it still scratches, but it doesn't make a difference to the hum, i've tested the speaker with other stuff and that's fine, so it's defenitley the head, i've taken it out and had a butchers, and nothings visibly blown or shorted, i'm half compotent with electronics, but i've no exeprience with amps so i'd much rather take it to someone who know's what their doing. What are the Northallerton guy's rates? Does he charge to take a look, charge for parts, charge if he can't fix it, replace it if he kills it etc.? Cheers