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I've always rolled my own cables - instrument cables, microphone cables and everything in between. You've not had fun until you've tried to cram four cores of 4mm[sup]2[/sup] multicore speaker cable into an NL4 speakon........ But, I digress. I like the look of curly cables. Just not sure I'd ever want to use one. Prefer to use a regular cable cut to the right length for my needs. R/A jacks at each end are helpful too, especially going through a rack. Tried the first generation Neutrik R/A jacks with the mute ring but it kept sticking and never cutting out at the right point, so I invested in a TU-2 pedal tuner to mute the bass signal.

I'm doing much the same thing - running clean-ish bass through a couple of 1x12 cabs and the distortion channel is high-passed through my pedals into my 1x10 combo amp See threads [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/235876-omg-not-another-pedal-order-topic/page__p__2439296#entry2439296"]here[/url] and [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/289-post-your-pedal-board-basschat-style/page__view__findpost__p__2458314"]here[/url] Hope it works out! Ian

This is mine Name/Brand of bass: [b]Squier by[/b] [b]Fender[/b] Country of origin: [b]Indonesia[/b] Estimated original cost [b]£175 new[/b] Fretboard: [b]RW [/b](DIY defret) Strings:[b] Fender #7350 Stainless Steels[/b] (think they're 45 - 105) Type of p/ups[b]: [/b][b]Original p/ups probably. Single coil J type in bridge, humbucker P at neck position[/b]

To clarify, so far we have: 1. Me - US 78, standard pups, maple 2. JohnnyBoyRotten - Squier, SD QPs, rosewood 3. Hertsbass - US 2012, standard CS pups, maple 4. Grandwazoo - Dingwall PJ5, Dingwall pups, maple 5. Charic - MIM 2006, SD QPs, maple 6. Seashell - MIM, standard pups, rosewood. 7. Balcro - Encore; own-brand p/u; Made in Korea (probably); Elite Stadium 45-105 rounds; maple. 8. Bottle - Squier Precision Special, standard p/u's, Fender #7350 roundwound strings, rosewood fretless

I used to have a mahoosive backline - EBS 4x10 and 1x15, plus two 1x12 cabs in a stack, probably close to 1,300W power handling with all the amps I was running. Absolutely insane overkill for a church band. I learnt the error of my ways I have now downsized to just the two 1x12 cabs being powered by a single channel of a 200w PA amp, and my effects go through a small bass/guitar 1x10 combo cab. I think this will be plenty. I'm no longer obsessed with absolute volume any more (and my back thanks me ) I think you need to carry gear appropriate to the venue and the style of music - unfortunately these are sometimes mutually exclusive. Judgement comes with experience. Ian

I'm trying out Lonely Boy by The Black Keys by playing up the neck past the 12th fret and chucking on loads of OD on my dirty channel. Just need a delay pedal for the slapback echo and a Boss Harmonist pedal for the opening octave-down divebomb and I'll be sorted ;-) the glissando down from E (12th fret to open E) is a bit of a pig, otherwise sounds OK. Next on my list is Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake, as I think that gets really funky :-)

More updates! Have scored a pair of Joyo pedals from member Jus Lukin - very nice bloke to deal with and a very reasonable deal on both the Ulitmate Drive and Vintage OD so I have both to A/B now Plus a new Diago Micropower power pack ordered from Amazon has just dropped through the letterbox so now I can finally separate both pedal boards Ian

Just bought two pedals from Jus Lukin (Andy). Very nice bloke to deal with great communication. Sale and postage concluded very quickly and efficiently, and pedals arrived well packaged and as described. Can't fault the service at all! Ian

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1401351170' post='2462619'] I'll be selling mine, in excellent condition, if you wanted both for the price of one? [/quote] Ooooh yes please! I'll PM you

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1401178485' post='2460746'] This rig is getting me excited. Can you photograph the whole thing? Are you gigging it? [/quote] Steady on! Yep, I'll get some piccies added on here in a few minutes. I'm not currently gigging, being between 'projects' but I'll be taking this (or a similar incarnation) to the Herts Bass Bash etc. I'm hoping by then to have an OD pedal before the big muff - currently GAS'ing for a JOYO OD, Vintage or Ultimate Drive (I'm gonna order both from Amazon and choose which I like better) EDIT: Here you go! [attachment=163813:Pedalboard 003.jpg] [attachment=163814:Pedalboard 005.jpg] [attachment=163815:Pedalboard 006.jpg] Ian

First post in this thread! Here's my humble offering - still a work-in-progress [attachment=163437:Pedalboard 002.jpg] Board A (on right) is my 'Utility/Drive' board - Signal chain is Bass > TU-2 > (split/bypass) SansAmp Para-Driver > Rack Crossover Ch A, bypass on SansAmp goes to the Bad Monkey OD then on to Rack Crossover Ch B. Rack Crossover low pass > PA amp > 2x 112 stack Board B (on left) is my 'FX' board - signal chain is Crossover high pass > Palmer D'accapo reamper > Bass Big Muff Pi > CEB-3 Chorus > 110 Combo amp. Big Muff is set to 'Dry' so it passes some clean signal through. Have got room for a couple more pedals, thinking of the JOYO Vintage Drive to go in between the Palmer and the Big Muff to add some drive to the clean blend signal there. Cheers Ian

[quote name='bakerster135' timestamp='1400167673' post='2451403'] I was messing round with the rectifiers (silicon 1n4001s) on the second channel last night actually, and they sound REALLY good with high gain, 2 o'clock blend and boosted highs. Really meaty! Might stick with this and keep MOSFET on the first channel for low gain, they're completely different sounds. 1n4001s don't seem that popular as clipping diode choice generally I've found...Wonder why that is? [/quote] Take a peek at this thread - I learnt something new today too [url="http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=79986.0"]http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=79986.0[/url] I'm now getting COG-Gas. Anyone have a cure for that? "My name is Ian and I have an ....... effects pedal addiction" Ian

I quite like these two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzmJuXAgD8 Nice bassline And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbAeTywPiP4 Pretty sure that's played on a fretless too. In fact the whole album 'Relish' is just one bass treat after another

Lil' update time - been mostly trawling through YT videos and one thing that immediately comes across is how aggressive sounding the Joyo UD is on guitar. I mean it's a real gainy monster and doesn't do 'clean' very well. Most of the demos I've seen have had the gain on low or minimum and it still bites really hard. I'm actually shying away from it and maybe opting for something a little lower-gain and tamer (hence my suggestion of the ED Speaker Cranker). Joyo do a Vintage Overdrive which seems (to my ears anyway) to be a lot less aggressive in the mids and a little more controllable. What I mean is that the Gain control seems to cover a more useful range of operation without it running off into high-gain nasty aggressive OD. Obviously videos on the 'Tube don't convey everything but from some of the pedal shootouts I can see how the Vintage Drive might work better in my setup. And it's considerable cheaper than the Speaker Cranker! I've seen it on Amazon for under £30 so I may well pull the trigger on it anyway. I'll keep you posted Ian

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1398960288' post='2439480'] Planning on putting together my own board this year and I want to make some simple, but useful, pedals of my own. A looper, amp switch pedal and an effect order switcher. The order switcher is nice and simple. I am sure that if you didn't want to make one for yourself then there would be a company that would make one for you. I found this diagram for it. Thought I'd mention it in case anyone might find it useful. The hardest part might be finding a 4PDT footswitch, but if you're not bothered about the indicator LEDs then you can get away with a 3PDT switch. Which would mean you wouldn't have to power it, too. [/quote] That's bang tidee Great idea and really versatile. Thanks for posting that KB

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1398959277' post='2439468'] I'm in Little Paxton near St Neots, you? You should try a guitar amp sim out on the high end signal too - maybe the Joyo British Sound for a Marshall-in-a-box, or the Tech21 VT Bass or Oxford! [/quote] I'm currently in Soham, so not a million miles away I like the amp sim models but I'm wondering if i can score a low-wattage guitar amp, say 15W and a small cab - i'm guessing not too hard to find second-hand

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1398950748' post='2439322'] Complex chain you've got going on there! I like chorus last, distortion will make the effect less pronounced, but then again you might want that! The Bass Big Muff works really well with a dirty overdrive on front. I do this and set the BBM to dry mode so I in effect have overdrive mixed with boosted fuzz. Some fuzzes don't respond well with an overdrive in front, and same goes for some overdrives, so it really depends on the pedals in question. About those ODs - I didn't like the Joyo UD on bass, but I think it would work well in your application where low end loss is not an issue. It does sound harsh compared to some other pedals though, so depends if that's what you want. I have a Speaker Cranker and love it - although it's not very flexible with it's single gain knob. I use it as a dirty boost near the end of my chain. I use an SFT in front of my BBM, both that and the BB Preamp work really well in front of it in my experience - but you're already sending it a dirty high-passed signal, so it's hard to judge what would work best in your setup! [/quote] Thanks Dannybouy I see you're in Cambridgeshire too, whereabouts are you located? Lots of good stuff in there - I'm trying Fuzz into Chorus then on to my small practice amp, which doesn't need to be cranked as much, and it seems to cut through really well. I mostly want the OD to give it a bit 'more' (harmonic 'girth' is the only way I can describe it) when dropped in front of the BBM. The high-passed signal going to the pedal chain is quite clean with just a hint of drive underneath, so the OD just has to give it a kick without overtaking the fuzz. That was why I thought the Speaker Cranker might work as it is a relatively low gain OD I believe. The Joyo is a bit of an unknown to me but gets some love on here and Talkbass and some *gasp* guitard forums I think I will go with OD > Fuzz > Chorus As you've also pointed out, one can use the Dry mode to add some of the underlying OD'd signal to the fuzz before it hits the chorus. Interesting times ahead Cheers, Ian

Hi Chaps Bit tongue-in-cheek but it is a bit about pedal order with a sub-question about overdrives 1) I currently run my bass into Pedalboard A which has a SansAmp and a DigiTech Bad Monkey in parallel. The outputs go into a crossover and are low-summed into a PA power amp driving my 2x112 stack (thunderous lows as well!). I've set up the SansAmp and the Bad Monkey for pre-amp, EQ and level and 'always-on' rather than any major drive as I want the lows relatively clean. I send the balanced high-passed output of the Bad Monkey side of the crossover to my second 'Pedalboard' (just a plank of wood at the moment ). Chain goes something like this: [i]High-passed output > Palmer D'Accapo reamper > EHX Bass Big Muff > Boss CEB-3 Chorus > Line 6 110 Combo amp[/i] I'm looking to see what people do with the effects order: Fuzz into Chorus or t'other way around. 2) Told you it was also a bit about drive as well. I'm looking for a guitar-type OD to go infront of the Big Muff and I wondered what people recommend. On my shortlist is the ED Speaker Cranker and the Joyo Ultimate Drive so I can punch in OD as and when I like it. Order would be something like this: [i]OD > Fuzz > Chorus[/i] What are people's opinions on running OD into fuzz or fuzz into OD, or putting the OD last in the chain after the chorus? Thanks for keeping up with this one! Ian

[quote name='Jonnyboy Rotten' timestamp='1398775231' post='2437448'] I think the reason there are a lot of P basses is coz we are gonna have a P bass blind 'listen-off' to see who can tell what P is what and how old etc etc.... .... [/quote] Oooo intriguing. Can I add my Precision special (DIY de-fret but with original roundwounds on) to the blind listening trial then? Ian

If it's anything like the GK MB-500 I had make sure the little button on the back is switched to 'Line' rather than 'Headphone'

Oooh looking at the list - lots of Fender P's. Crikey Hopefully see more Jazz basses on the day :/

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1: TheGreek - Ritter Cora/ ACG SC Harlot and Genz Benz 3.0/Vanderkley MNT112/ Drum machine.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2. Charic- ACG Finn 4 (Drop C), Custom MIM P bass with Shuker neck, Yamaha RBX6JM, Hartke Kilo, Bergantino NV610, TC Electronic Gmajor 2, Tech21 XXL, Behringer Bass Chorus [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]3, Aende - Markbass F500, SWR 112 Cabs, MM Stingray, some effects......)[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]4. Sibob - Barefaced, Markbass, Fender Precisions, requests taken from the effects library [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]5. Lozz196 - cakes[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]6. gary mac[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]7. Truckstop[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]8. seashell - Fender P[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]9. StephenYork - Alpher Custom Bass, EBS TD650 and either Markbass 152 or TC BC212. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]10. Bassface2K10[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]11. Doctor of the Bass[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]12. Captain Bass[/font][/color] 13. Ratman - Streamliner, Bergantino HD112, a few effects, Squire P. 14. Barkin 15. Hertsbass - Fender P, plus a couple of pedals 16. Bottle - modded Ibanez GSR-180, modded Squier Precision Special (de-fretted), amp and a couple of 12" cabs, some pedals :0

Bummer! I've been thinking about an octave-down pedal after seeing (hearing?) SiBob's OC-2 goodness at the last Herts Bass Bash. Gutted I sold my BSW now although that was a couple of years ago and I had an ODB-3 at the same time which I just didn't get on with. Now I'm looking into effects seriously, I'm kinda wishing I held on to the BSW. Ooops. Quick question (apologies if it's been asked) how does the BSW octave down compare with OC-2/OC-3 Ian

Hey Chaps Looks like I may be able to make this one now Not got much of a rig any more but I have a few new pedals Be good to catch up with you guys again. Thoroughly enjoyed last years' Bash Best, Ian

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1389703534' post='2337002'] Make a folder - i.e a new track, then drag the two tracks 'into' that track Add a reaeq to each track inside the folder, use a hi-pass and a lo-pass filter as you like on the two tracks, set their levels Add any other fx you want to work on the sum of both of them to the folder track.... [/quote] Hi Simon I'll give that a nudge! I can see that would work for the two tracks that are 'low summed' together. For the clean track that I'm also band-passing or high-passing, would I have to copy that track into another folder/track arrangement? I think I may have got my head around things now. Thanks Simon (and also to everyone else who's replied) Ta, Ian