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I too have heard good things for this pedal. Would love to get one!

The only problem I'm having is that I always hit the pole on the E string pup. I play fingered and quite powerfully. I suppose I'll have to lower it

Yes, the results will be published. I'm giving this a week to run before I collect everything in.

I'll start it off then: First Bass Owned: Shine 845 'Go To' Bass: Jazz Bass 'Your' Bass: Thunderbird

Hello. I decided to start this for my own interest but I suppose it'll prove interesting for most of us. What I'd like you to do is copy the form below and reply with it filled in. In a couple of weeks I'll collate the responses and we'll see what's out there! -Your [b]first bass[/b] is fairly self explanatory. -Your [b]go-to bass[/b] means the one bass you'd take to cover all bases in a way. For example you get called to a gig blind and you need a reliable workhorse that'll be able to do anything and work well. -And [b]'Your' / signature bass[/b] means the bass that gives you YOUR tone, The one bit of wood that's your signature. You can only put ONE bass for each category, no matter how much it might pain you! [b] First Bass Owned: 'Go To' Bass: 'Your' Bass: [/b] EDIT: Thanks for all the replies so far, please make sure you only give ONE bass for each answer, and that you answer all categories, otherwise I can't use your infos

Righty then. For those of you that were interested: Here is a sound clip of the Ryder straight out the box: [url="http://soundcloud.com/alexmcalpine/ryderbass-stockstrings"]http://soundcloud.com/alexmcalpine/ryderbass-stockstrings[/url] And now a clip of it fitted with fresh super slinkies: [url="http://soundcloud.com/alexmcalpine/ryderbass-slinkystrings"]http://soundcloud.com/alexmcalpine/ryderbass-slinkystrings[/url] Both tracks recorded by DI straight in to Logic. Will do the same for the tele and strat later this evening.

Not me singing though, was the guitarist! Will adjust them now to make it sit better.

[quote name='crez5150' post='1119535' date='Feb 7 2011, 09:57 PM']Fail I'm afraid..... Actually when a digital system drops off.... it drops off completely unlike an analogue systems that will transmit interference.[/quote] A digital system is either 1 or 0, on or off. The quality is FAR increased as a result of the transmissions being more robust. Just look at the quality of DAB compared to standard broadcast for evidence! [quote name='crez5150' post='1119535' date='Feb 7 2011, 09:57 PM']UHF will generally transmit further[/quote] Actually VHF transmits further but at the wattage output you get from wireless systems, the VHF/UHF/SHF difference is irrelevant. So that's not the case. The only thing that is of benefit is that the SHF waves of a digital system running at 2.4GHz etc. are far more penetrating and bounce around a lot. This means that the signals are much better in urban or audience environments. [quote name='crez5150' post='1119535' date='Feb 7 2011, 09:57 PM']generally the low end digital systems such as Line 6, you can really only get 12 systems/channels working at once[/quote] Digital systems are far more compact in their bandwidth usage. You can get more channels in less frequency space compared to analogue. [quote name='crez5150' post='1119535' date='Feb 7 2011, 09:57 PM']if you use 2.4/5gig systems on stage you run the high risk of knocking out other networks operating on or near the same frequency banding. not good if your FOH engineer is using wireless control for his line array/main pa speaker controller[/quote] This is true for all broadcasts, it just so happens that 2.4GHz is used a lot for other applications whereas the bands used by analogue wireless equipment are only occupied by wireless equipment. It just means you have to make sure that you are on an unoccupied channel. And there are enough that this shouldn't be too hard. So what was that, I failed? I'm not sure that was the politest way you could have put it, especially seeing as you were wrong.

My three have arrived Pictures and sound clips to come.

The digital systems will offer a much better transmission quality. Not only this, they are less dependent on line-of-sight as analogue systems. If you've got the money, there's no real alternative!

I suppose they can be done with less but when trying to get a full modern rock sound it's hard to skimp. A lot of Jazz stuff is done with far less.

And they are now SOLD OUT!

Well if we run through it we have: Overhead Left and Right A microphone for each of the toms 2 microphones to each snare drum in order to get both the drum and snare sound. A microphone to the hi-hat A microphone to the ride cymbal to bring out it's definition 2 microphones to the bass drum. One captures the overall sound and another the attack. So there we have our 13. ideally I would have placed two microphones at the far end of the room in order to get a nice natural reverbish noise, but I didn't have enough stands.

13ish is standard for studio work. Often more are used.

[url="http://soundcloud.com/alexmcalpine/rock-and-roll"]http://soundcloud.com/alexmcalpine/rock-and-roll[/url] Edited to include suggestions. This soundcloud link should be more friendly to your computer as opposed to the mp3 I listed above.