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[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1349652229' post='1828820'] Holy **** this is GREAT! [i]Very[/i] impressive and just my cup of tea. Amazing how you create that sound. I assume it's some kind of MIDI voodoo and the fact you have a pedalboard the size of Nebraska?! Awesome stuff. Your drummer is super-tight too. I know I missed you guys last time you played near Manchester, but give us a shout next time you're in the neighbourhood as I'd be really keen to see you live. Enjoy the tour! [/quote] Thank you dude! Appreciate it. Our big selling point is that we do this stuff in an analog (ish) fashion so all our stuff is recorded exactly as we play it live with no over dubs. We use no loops, samplers, sequencers and the only midi involved is a time clock to make my tremolos run in time with the track speed. All the sounds are created from drums and bass guitar though effects pedals... So it's from lots an lots of time playing with pedals creating sounds and textures! Really glad you like it! Am hoping to be back in Bolton before the end of the year... Maybe Manchester too!

[quote name='RichF' timestamp='1349647164' post='1828776'] superb Shep. Love the track. You are an inspiration mate. [/quote] Thank you dude. Thats a compliment of the highest caliber! [quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1349647661' post='1828781'] Really cool! Liked it! Good to hear something different. Them pedals must have cost a few pence and i thought Alice Cooper was drumming til it when close up. Good drummer too. I have a friend who is in a group that's similar but totally different. Just drums, gtrs and lots of pedals but they are dance pop. Check em out at www.hotbeatrepeat.co.uk. Hope you get more comments than the track i recently put on this forum! ha ha But once again.. really good...class! [/quote] There is a couple of pence in my pedal set up... Thanks for the kind words... I'll add that link to tomorrows playlist as well! Always interested to hear electronic-styled music done on real instruments!! Tom (drummer) is badass and would prob appreciate the Alice Cooper comment!! [quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1349647690' post='1828783'] Great video Shep! A real treat for all the gear junkies And I really enjoyed the song too! [/quote] Thanks dude!

Been a while since I posted my pedalboard... Check it out in our new music vid!!! http://youtu.be/hG940DEAazQ

I've been busy!! This evening I (we) have released a new video. I've been a musician for 13 years and this is the 1st thing I have a real sense of pride over. Most folks know I have a mild obsession for effects pedals and that the music I play is effects heavy. My band has done well on the local scene but struggled to branch out as people just don't 'get it' until they see it. Due to this, a year ago we set out to write a track which was characteristically 'us' but REALLY pushed the boundaries of what we could perform live in our usual style (no samples, loops, sequencers, laptops, keyboard synths etc) - Something that could be recorded live and then performed live and sound identical with no over dubs in the studio. We also set to record a video which was professional but also suited the track and showed off the live aspect of what we did. The track we produced is called Synthetiks... (please, please, please listen with headphone or on a stereo - theres lots happening below the frequency response of laptop speakers!). [media]http://youtu.be/hG940DEAazQ[/media] That track was recorded with a single drum take and a single bass take and then the video was done over night in the studio. We play that tune live exactly like that and everything you hear that is not a drum beat is from myself. The thing that makes me feel really proud about it is that we have been able to put together an 11 track album (digital pre orders here - [url="http://ourhelicalmind.bandcamp.com/album/synthetiks-the-versions"]http://ourhelicalmin...ks-the-versions[/url], released 15th) which contains that tune plus 10 re-workings of the tune all done by musicians and producers we really love and respect. People that were excited to take time out of their schedules to produce a new track inspired by the music we had written. The contributors run as far an wide as Waatu (Canadian HipHop producer) to Men Imitating Machines (Australian live Dubstep duo) to Djevara (London prog-noise crew) to Basschat's very own Sibob!!! (and loads more as well!). I always dreamt of creating a truly international collaboration and finally at the age of 30, I have We are following this up with a 10 day European tour starting on the 19th (so I'll be away for 10 days from then) and it looks like we have a few Electronica-based clinics coming up at colleges and the like later this year. Exciting times. I hope you like the track. Thanks (as always) to the BC crew for being so awesome, and to Si for his hard work on contributing to the record.

Playing with my board today and local beatbox legend LeeTabix came a long for a jam with the aim of creating a new live project. This is the first (badly shot) idea we played with... Fuzzrocious BDPG - WMD Super FatMan (drops in later) - Moog ClusterFlux - TC Nova Delay... http://youtu.be/iegz7LZl-cc

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1349526932' post='1827355'] change to the board as after a long time hunting I've found (to my ears) phaser heaven!!! no room on the board for a tuner any more, so the TU-2 will have to live on the floor for a bit! I wish that pedaltrain made a wider single-tier pedalboard [/quote] You could get a Polytune Mini on there though!

More pedal mayhem... PLEASE BE AWARE - MY WEBSITE IS NOW CLOSED. THE INTERVIEWS CAN NOW BE FOUND HERE -> [url="http://simonpoulton.tumblr.com/sheponbass"]http://simonpoulton.....com/sheponbass[/url] Ben (or Benjamin) also uses the name Aen amongst others. When asked which name should be used here he simply replied, "I am known by many names, and all of these are false!" Ben is the man behind Dwarfcraft Devices, a company making a serious name in creating some of the noisiest and most 'off-the-wall' effects pedals in the world. Dwarfcraft's dirt and synthy/glitch devices have been finding homes on more and more artist's pedal boards than you can shake a stick at and once you hear some of the toys on offer it's easy to see why!

Absolutely. No one way is right. You have to try every combination before you settle on an order. It's not just how one effect sounds ran into another, but also how different effects sound with a different number of buffers before/after them. Your chorus may now not be suffering from impedance issues as you buffered pedals have evened it out just right for the pedal/bass combination.

NICE! Wicked little essentials board!

Awesome stuff!!

Beats my reviews. Very informative!

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1348390858' post='1812929'] Isn't there a bass harmony machine? Can't recall the manufacturer though [/quote] Digitech. The BHM4 Bass Harmony Machine. It was a 1U rack unit. I only ever tried it in a store (Academy of Sound years and years ago). It was cool. But it was a long time ago and I thought anything that made noise was cool!

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1348383798' post='1812848'] Have you seen these: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRaUZWiIEM[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl6Kd-65rX0[/media] I'm guessing you have. [/quote] Yeah. Oddly I found the hog tracked awful with any other effects in front of it but the Pitchfactor tacks perfect even with my mental signal chain being fed into it. I preferred the tone of the Pitchfactot too. I've spent a few weeks with a HOG. It's an excellent pedal, but doesn't have 20% of the Pitchfactors veesatility and won't track toffee when fed sub octave into fuzz into bit crusher into envelope into tremolo... And that matters to me.

The Pitchfactor is my weapon of choice. Does multi-voice harmonies including a 4 voice setting with delay. It also has whammy settings, an octaver, synth section, detune and a million other things. It does however cost a fortune!

[quote name='lxxwj' timestamp='1348338121' post='1812591'] Awesome interview. I remember watching those videos a year ago and having my mind blown. One question though, what's the EBS pedal on the veeeeery far left, right above the Whammy? [/quote] It's the Octabass (you can see is close up at 1.17 of the 1st video link)

I've been excited about this one for a while. A man I often mention as a big influence - Bond! PLEASE BE AWARE - MY WEBSITE IS NOW CLOSED. THE INTERVIEWS CAN NOW BE FOUND HERE -> [url="http://simonpoulton.tumblr.com/sheponbass"]http://simonpoulton.....com/sheponbass[/url] Radek Bednarz usually goes simply by the name Bond. He is regarded among many bass communities to be one of the founders of bringing electronica and dubstep-styled bass to the live performance arena. His work is at the forefront of what can be achieved on live bass and his work constantly pushes the boundaries of what's possible with stringed instruments. I've mentioned Bond and his work a number of times throughout my blog and always sited him as an influence of mine. Naturally when he agreed to discuss his set up and approach, I jumped at the chance!

Hey, got your PM. If you can answer the questions I've PM'd you then I'll try and get a solution to you in the morning! Shep

If you do - let us know how you get on!

Shipping late next week!

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1347998196' post='1807987'] Finally got time to actually read that whole interview with Jarman. Quality stuff. Hope they get over here some time soon. [/quote] Me too! He mentioned they were aiming to get over to Europe soon! They have a track (a live re-interpretation of our tune) on our new release that we are putting out next month and it's AWESOME. I love what they do.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1347997074' post='1807956'] It's a brilliant site you've got there & I'm happy to point anyone to it.. On a side note, I've noticed that some effects can respond to what's after them as well as what's before them (Moogers being prime examples). I've noticed that depending what pedals I have turned on, the chorus that's after the LPF can affect the envelope amount. Weird! [/quote] I would of thought that what you are hearing is the envelope being exploited more as the chorus sweeps a higher frequency range. If you have dirt on you'll have more top end harmonics, which will be amplified in the higher frequencies by the chorus. The envelope in the LPF will be heard in those high peaks as the modulation sweeps up. The envelope amount won't be moving, but th sweep of the chorus is making more of that envelope audible. I may be wrong... But that'd be my explanation

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1347993997' post='1807880'] experimenting with layering distortions for a bass + shoegaze guitar sound [/quote] Nice pick of effects. The mess hurts my eyes though

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1347977254' post='1807513'] Like simwells says, there's no rules. However, Shep's blog might be of interest to you... [url="http://www.sheponbass.co.uk/blog/category/signal-chain-bassics"]http://www.sheponbass.co.uk/blog/category/signal-chain-bassics[/url] [/quote] No rules - chuck them all out. What works for you might not work for others. Effects respond so different in different orders so you need to move them around to find the sounds you love. There are practical restrictions, like old analogue octavers will basically track sod all after modulation or heavy dirt, so you're limited as to where they 'will work'. Failing that go mad! Thanks for sharing the link dude! [quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1347993953' post='1807878'] ta never mind the effects im distracted by the music page now [/quote] Glad you like it!! Shep

Cheers rOB, I do my best! Plenty more lined up as well!!