mike257

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1319907382' post='1420035'] I've just been shown this pedal,and it's great. It held it's own against a Tubescreamer,maybe even better in some aspects. [/quote] Good stuff, it's reassuring to hear good reviews first hand from someone who knows their onions!

I'd jump on Facebook and make a post here: [url="http://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolBandspage"]http://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolBandspage[/url] It's a cracking little community page frequented by bands, promoters and all sorts, and requests like this often pop up and get results. Well worth a try! If I spot anything local going on that might be able to squeeze you in, I'll give you a shout! Mike

I've always gone pitch -> tone -> time but as its been said there's no hard and fast rules. On guitar I always stick my wah right at the front before any drive pedals, but on bass always preferred it after my ODB-3/Hyperdrive.

Got a Thumper and an 84 in my souped-up Squier, sound fantastic and Andy provides excellent customer service too.

Let us know how you get on! I've dug mine out after reading this and going to try using it as a delay pedal until my Deluxe Memory Boy arrives. Also going to try out the 'Slow Gear' sim on one of our tunes, I've got one little part that's crying out for it. Rehearsal tonight, hopefully I'll get it set up nice and quick, don't want to be one of those guitarists who's always dicking about with his pedals!

Haven't tried it, but I've got one sitting unused in a drawer that I've just realised could fill some holes in my guitar pedalboard that I'm still saving up for. I wonder how well the tap delay and the whammy work?

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Good luck! Are you going to make a club-necked J while you're at it?

After years of trusty service, my home recording setup is falling apart around me - my PC has suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure (don't worry, the music is on the other two drives!) and the input jack on my trusty old Behringer V-Amp has packed in. As all it's used for is knocking up very rough 'song-on-progress' demos for the guys in the band to learn, I don't need super hi-fi, and it would be nice not to be tied to the EMU 1212 sat in my PC. Has anyone got any experience of the various 'guitar-to-usb' solutions floating around the low budget end of the market? I only need rough demo standard, and it'd also be nice to be able to throw it into the missus' MacBook and use Garageband for a few bits too. Any thoughts on things to try out (or horror stories to avoid)? Cheers, Mike

Can't knock that! Might go for a couple of sets when payday comes, all my basses need new strings on, but I can't justify dropping £50 on strings when I'm not playing bass in a band at the mo. Cheers for the heads up!

Wizards in an old Squier here, and love it. The naysayers may disagree, but if the bass feels good enough in your hands that you're going to keep on playing it for the forseeable, then it's worth taking the plunge.

Everyone seems fairly impressed with the Line6 M-series (M5, M9, M13) - looking to get my hands on one for a play, there's plenty folk on here got good experience of them.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1319218045' post='1411519'] Dunno about that... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QL-6eTHSHQ[/media] [/quote] Laughed myself silly at that - well played, that bloke!

I've never been one for sussing out profiles and measurements, and couldn't tell the difference between them all - just know when it feels 'nice' - but I think a J neck on a P is a great combo. My trusy old Squier P-Special has exactly that, and 14 years on I keep coming back to it because it plays great. Why not measure up your neck pocket, and try to pick up a cheap-ish J neck off the 'bay? Never know until you try! Scratch that, just seen the basses in your sig - have you tried one of your Fender necks on the Hohner body to see if they fit ok? Might be a quick easy way of seeing if it works for you!

That's the first Tele bass that I've really liked the look of - nice!

I've been auditioning bass players for the band I'm guitaring in - strange being on the other side and watching somebody else play bass. Here's a few things I've come across... The biggest one is [b]learn the material[/b]!!! Turning up not having nailed tunes you've been sent a week or two back is not going to win anyone over. Listen to the drummer and lock in as best you can. If you can't hear the drummer over the noisy guitarists, ask them to shut it for a few minutes so you can play with just the drums. I'm stunned how little attention has been paid to the drummer with some people we've tried out. Be prepared to adapt your usual sound/tunings/whatever - shows you're easy to work with and looking at the bigger picture. We've got lots of songs with riffy bits in that are quite reliant on hammer-on/pull-offs to open strings. Had guys turn up with a five string and insist on playing it round the frets on the low B, seemingly just because it's there - even though the feel is just not happening and would work better on a drop-D'd 4 string. Listen to the stuff they've sent you and try to pick out which bits can be open to interpretation, and which bits have important rhythmic/melodic interplay based around an existing bass part. It's great to show your ideas and your creativity, but also important to spot bits where the whole band locks in around a groove and support them. If you're trying stuff you haven't heard before, get the basic feel and structure down before building on it with ideas/flourishes - people will be more impressed by you picking up a song quick and nailing all the changes tightly than with you playing incredible fills but not getting the structure/grooves. Mostly, relax, be yourself, enjoy it. Good luck, hope it goes great!!

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1319027694' post='1409020'] Hey Mike, nice Van! Regarding the inverter, you`ll need a fairly hefty one if you`re going to run a couple of laptops and some phone chargers and it is as you`ve heard, wasteful to convert 12v to 240v only to have someone use a wall wart charger to drop it back to 12v again There are lots of 12v power supplied for netbooks and phones etc, encourage those using your van to buy one for their kit! I have one for my Netbook,cameras and phone. There are cheap triple outlet 12v+usb boxes on the net that you could stick on either side of the van, and the usb is dead handy for phones and ipods etc. I`d still fit an inverter, but use it only when you have to, to keep the load down. Btw what split charge system are you fitting? is it the 30amp smartcom? What Ah is your leisure batt? Soz for all the questions, but I built my own campervan and so got interested in all this sort of stuff. Regards, MM [/quote] Hi MM - thanks for all the good info! I'm going to do my best to keep 240v stuff to a minimum - 12v USB hookups sound great, I've been looking for something like that to mount in the wall panels. The split charge is an old Xantrex Pathmaker 200 - it was part of the vans original fixtures from its past life, and has a magic button to use both batteries to start the engine if your starter one packs in. I've kept all the useful parts from the electrical system so I've got the fuseboard, a mains battery charger and an RCD for my 240v hookup, and a bunch of other bits and bobs. The battery that was fitted appears to be a standard starter battery - it had been in a bank of two, but someone had long lifted the second one. I've been given a whopping big coach battery from my bus-driving stepdad that I'm looking at using, not sure on the Ah off the top of my head, it's in the shed at home. I'm trying to leave space to hook up two or three standard size batteries in the enclosure I'm building, so I can replace it all with 'proper' deep cycle ones when cash flow allows it. Also decided I'm using wired controllers when I put the xbox in - they can come out from under each seat and then no scruffy guitarist can get off with one in his back pocket! Been sketching out how it can all connect into a coherent audio system, between the front CD player, the front/rear iPod hookups, and the xbox - lots of switching!

Heard nothing but good stuff about these Joyo pedals - I'm hankering for the OCD clone (Ultimate Overdrive) for my guitar board. Seems like they're awesome for £30. Did you have to wait long for delivery? Aren't they usually shipped from way out east?

I used a Korg DTR-1000 when I had a rack, and absolutely cannot fault it. Had it in line with a mute footswitch out on the floor and never noticed any impact on tone. Stayed permanently wired between my wireless and my head, and powered from one of those aforermention Samson rack distributers, so setup was instant. Ended up going back to a TU-2 and slimming the 6U rack down to a small one to just hold my Ampeg - easier as my mute footswitch is still on the floor in front of me, but the readout is there too. No more turning my back on the audience every time a tune up is needed!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1318686182' post='1405209'] Good afternoon, Mike... It's easy enough to get 240v from a small 12/240 converter; enough juice for a game console or any light mains-powered gadgets ('phone chargers..?) Makes my recent acquisition look pretty tame (our 'world tour' goes no further than Domfront, anyway..!) Congratulations on your hard work. [/quote] Thanks! I'm chuffed with how it's looking so far, lots more planned though. I've had a look at the invertors for 240v power and one is definitely on the shopping list to put some sockets in for chargers etc, but I'm trying to power as much as possible from 12v directly. It's supposed to be a lot more energy efficient than converting the 12v into 240v, and then having the Xbox/TV power supplies convert that 240v back into 12 again. Will take a bit of fiddling with a soldering iron on the xbox, but nothing harder than rewiring a bass! [quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1318872247' post='1407243'] A long long time ago I had a Green version of this with a mattress or 3 in the back[url="http://www.scltd.net/www/bkmotors/applications/filelib/Ford%20Thames%20400E.pdf"]http://www.scltd.net...ames%20400E.pdf[/url] [/quote] Now THAT is a cool looking van! I'm definitely leaning towards sticking an Xbox in there, thinking of getting a cheap USB hard drive to attach to it and ramming it full of music and movies - jukebox on wheels! We're planning on driving to France next year for a holiday with the kids, so it'll be a lifesaver

Just had a band out in it tonight, they were made up, and threatening to book me for a European tour next year! Good times

Cheers guys! I think the family might have preferred me to keep the toilet in and build a full blown camper van, but there's plenty of space for a tent in the back when we do wanna go camping Been planning the layout for the electrics, it keeps changing, but I think I can squeeze it all in under the back seats and box it away nicely, hopefully making a start tomorrow. Also been scouting for TV brackets, got a 20ish inch LCD I was given with no power supply, and no idea if it works, but it runs on 12v so if it's any good I can hack it in there one way or another!! I've been reading up on making an Xbox 360 run off a direct 12v feed too, means popping it open and going at it with a soldering iron, but if I can find a cheap one off ebay then why not - not putting my own one in there though

I've got a load of Space Blanket insulation stuff spare that you can have on the cheap if you need it - seriously overestimated how much I needed for the van!! Looking forward to seeing this come together

The Line6 M series (M5/M9/M13) get good reviews on here, especially for the kind of effects you're after. They have all the models from the individual delay/mod pedals like the DL4, and loads more stuff, and none of that silly amp simulation to get in the way of your real tone. Whichever one suits you will depend on how many effects you're looking to use at once and the connectivity/programmability you need. The M9 is probably a good start though - there's a fair few users on here who can give you some real-life feedback on them.