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Big fan of P.U.T.S. This one (and the whole album) is pretty much compulsory at a BBQ

He seems to do alright for himself- any pedal released sells out almost instantly, I am keen to try one at some point as he must be doing somethign right! I suppose its good that he doesn't do the usual thing of either put up his prices or scale-up production, doesn't make getting the pedals easy though.

"and who goes in on a Friday?"

Nice one, am just giving that a listen now- good stuff.

....new pedal today, EBS Black Haze, sounds marginally different (lower gain) to my MXR Brown Acid. Sounds best to actually be parallel blended with the Brown Acid and add some clean blend - just to make the difference even more marginal!

I really do! I'm sort of half serious- if I got a multi FX that did everything just as well as individual pedals it'd be great but there would be a pedal gap in my life that I'd have to fill practicing Bass!

Kabaka Pyramid & Medisun 'Natural High'

Alborosie 'For the Culture'

The big disadvantage of really good multi-fx is not having an excuse to faff around playing pedal Tetris and buying and selling pedals that are just marginally different!

An impulse (response) decision but I've just gone and bought the NUX. Will report back!

That ticks a lot of boxes, and there are additional things like an adjustable noise gate https://www.nuxefx.com/melvin-lee-davis.html there's a lot going on. My couple of reservations are: The Bass and Treble EQ frequencies seem very narrow range and are quite low/high leaving big gaps in the EQable frequencies, that area around 60-150Hz is one I think I'd want to be able to EQ. Also 12db is a bit mild. Perhaps it works well though, I guess the designers know what they are doing and set it like that for good reasons. It needs to be plugged in for firmware updates/laptop drivers installed etc. not a big deal but it almost always annoys me as there is usually some sort of faff and it makes pedals seem a bit like they have a limited life- like phones/laptops that are only supported with updates for a few years then one day your new version of windows decides it'll never communicate with the pedal again. I assume you need to plug into a computer to select which IR is being used so I'd probably end up just using one rather than connecting to a Laptop every time I want to switch between them (if I'm plugging into a Laptop I might as well use a DAW for a lot more control). I'm tempted though, for the price it seems hard to beat.

Doodle is an easy way of checking when people are available- people just need to follow the link you set up and tick boxes for the dates they are available https://doodle.com/en/ And Teamup is a shared calendar once you have the dates organised https://www.teamup.com/

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Redman's still got it:

Nice resurrection. I'm into hip hop, which reminds me:

I'd say the Bass on that is fairly clean - the distorted wah type sound is from the guitars. You could do something similar with a Bass though, probably needs distortion + Wah and perhaps an digital Octaver pedal that does an octave up. A multi-FX like the Zoom B1-4X is probably a good starting point to get a feel for what each effect does before buying individual specific pedals.

I'm with you on the C4, it's nearly great but the interface meant I didn't gel with it. Also agree about phasers - it seems to be one of the least used and discussed effects but is one of my favorite, funky in a more subtle way than envelope filters. I'll have to try the grape phaser (currently using the EBS Phaser which I like a lot).

Another option: I like the EHX Switchblade Pro for 2x loops parallel /series and order switching + clean blend.

Prime Directive: Upsell cables

These were the ones I used: Line 6 convertor Current doubler

The Stomp has a current draw of less than 900mA ..... So I used a current doubler (not voltage doubler! ) cable running from two 500mA outputs of a normal power block (harley benton) and a barrel size convertor. All worked fine and does away with the need to use the line 6 power supply.