GarethFlatlands

Bought an Eden WTX264 head off Simon, the amp was posted promptly and he maintained very good communication throughout. Arrived well packaged and sounded great. Can recommend.

Really gutted, he was a fantastic player and had such a good heavy singing voice. Spent my afternoon figuring out Cave In bass lines in tribute.

I'm not sure, I got in touch with him a few months ago and have been learning web dev stuff in the meantime so haven't spoken to him in a while. Even if he's not, I might carry on with it anyway, it'd be a good resource and useful if I applied for a web dev job later down the line.

Thanks for the suggestions so far. A noise rating is a great idea and one thing I'd thought of but neglected to mention in my original post. Controls possibly fell under "ease of use" and as there are too many possible options, I don't think it'd be feasible or useful to use this as a criteria for comparing comps, although it would be great in a comments/other information box somewhere. Power supply and dual/single band are certainly possible, as is metering (a simple yes/no or something more in depth?) as is valve/analogue/digital. Clips are a great idea but a huge amount of work and out of the scope of what I'm hoping to do. Maybe once a list is generated from the options available, being able to dismiss options would be useful to narrow down potential candidates?

First up, I wasn't sure whether to post this in the effects forum or somewhere else so feel free to move it if needed. I'm not sure if anyone has clocked but on the main page for Ovnilab it states they're working on a system to compare compressor options. In the hope of re-training myself in web development, I've offered to help out if I can. Before I get in too deep into coding and find it's not what people want, what are people's thoughts on how such a tool would work? What kind of features would you like to be able to compare comps by? I've got as far as searching by maximum price and think scores for ease of use, transparency would be useful, as well as format (small/large pedal, rack) and type (1176, Ross clone etc). Please let me know your thoughts and I'll take them to Cyrus and hopefully get something up and running before the sun runs out of fuel and expands to engulf the Earth before collapsing in on itself. Thanks Gareth

Best - The Japanese Fender P I posted about elsewhere. Black with a maple neck, SD Quarter Pounder pickup and Badass bridge. Like with the Mexican Strat I got a few years ago, I wish I'd been playing Fender for much longer. Worst - Not a bad buy but it was a bit "impulse", the Maya Jazz I have a mod/repair thread on. A decent bass but I lack the skill, time and inclination to do a really good job fixing her up, and I was £200 down in initial outlay and bits when the Fender above came up, so that was an expensive time. I'll slowly finish getting it to a nice state and then probably just end up selling it on for a loss.

Thanks all, you've confirmed my assumption that its basically an iPad or nothing when it comes to tablets and music production. I doubt it's up to anything strenuous looking at the specs so I think it's a case of wiping it, selling it and sticking with the laptop.

I picked up a cheapish tablet from a friend in a job lot of stuff he was selling due to leaving the country. I don't think I have any use for it generally but was wondering if anyone uses a tablet for making music and had suggestions for what to do with it before I decide to just sell it on? Any good soft synths for touch screens, Kaoss Pad style uses or just anything creative? It's an Acer Iconia W4 running Windows 10 so not top of the range but OK by all reviews I've read.

Do you need effects/amp sims? I got an EHX headphone amp, 1/4 inch input, mini jack out and one volume control that cranks the gain when turned up. Nothing else but sounds surprisingly decent with bass. £42 ish.

I'm a casual fan, got a couple of albums which I like but no urge to work my way through the back catalogue. The documentary was interesting but not very revealing. They're all too nice! I'm always in awe of the musicianship, no idea how Geddy plays bass so well and sings. It's made me want to practice to get be able to play faster for rockier stuff we do, preferably with my Jazz and a nice burpy tone.

[quote name='NOIISE' timestamp='1420535432' post='2650281'] No problem. We are also considering making a vst/au version, but this will be down the line. For now we are concentrating on v1.1 of FLUX:FX iOS version! [/quote] So it's been 2 and a half years! Any word on that VST version? Recently picked up a Windows 10 tablet from a friend who's leaving the country and have no reason to keep it at the moment, but if there's some interesting stuff like this I might keep hold of it.

I'd have met Rick Savage if I'd been 10 minutes earlier to a function yesterday.

I've done it, it was a gig in town which is 10-15 minutes away on the bus and I used a Zoom B3 with headphones for monitoring rather than an amp. For the most part though I think a car isn't necessarily essential, but you're relying on someone else in the band to sort your transport out which isn't something I like doing.

My Unichorus seems to be very noisy as well. I was never sure if it was a daisy chain PSU issue but I only got it for about 20 seconds of one song so I never got to the bottom of it.

[quote name='DHA' timestamp='1503604842' post='3359667'] Yes, same spec as the VT1-Di-eq so headphone out and aux in. [/quote] Thanks, I've got a standard DHA DI-EQ and it'd be perfect for me it had headphone out as I'm running it into an EHX headphone amp at the moment and the extra cables are a hassle. I'll keep an eye out for when the new model is out.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1503603838' post='3359660'] The Cali Complressor arrived already - what a lovely thing that is! [/quote] Don't! I want a new comp and really want to try a Cali but they are expensive.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1503498949' post='3358743'] (Dear Wife. "What? No, I've had these pedals for years. I just started using them again recently which is why you've never seen them before.") [/quote] Fixed!

Do these have headphone outs? I'm looking for a 1 box gigging solution but there's oddly few pedals like this with a 'phone out.

[quote name='tantummenace' timestamp='1502643846' post='3352652'] Thanks Gareth... So is it always the 2nd chord you use? i.e --- A B C D E F G to make a AMaj7 it would be A C E G right? Or am I very wrong haha [/quote] Not quite! That's the A minor scale (the same notes as C major) so you're making a minor 7th chord rather than a major 7th. Not sure what you mean by 2nd chord? The A major scale is A, B C#, D, E, F#, G# so making Amaj7 with 1, 3, 5, 7 would be A, C#, E, G#.

And if you want to make a chord (or know what bass notes will 'go' with it), you'll usually need the root (or 1st), the 3rd and the 5th and any other notes in the chord. If we look at the C major scale, the notes are C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. It we assign each it's number we get;- C(1), D(2), E(3), F(4), G(5), A(6), B(7). So to make a Cmaj7 chord, we'll need, 1, 3 5 and 7 so C, E, G and B. This works with any scale so learn your scales!

Like all the TE gear I've played but the weight is a huge issue since a back injury and constant fatigue so I can't see me ever getting anything by them unless it was very close by and I could keep it at the practice room. The EQ sliders always confuse me too, I never know where to start!

I got a Japanese Jazzer too recently, although mine is a Maya. Took some work to get it back up to scratch, most of which is on this thread which I hope is somehow helpful. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/300755-fixing-up-a-maya-jazz/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/300755-fixing-up-a-maya-jazz/[/url] The ground wire on the bridge wasn't attached and I temporarily sorted it (honestly, I'll probably sort it properly never) with a strip of aluminium tape. Sounds pretty good now and has done a few gigs, although it's been relegated to backup status after I got an MIJ Fender P. Congrats on the bargain!

I've always played G# but the little run down the bass comes in on contains a D and a C# which confuses matters slightly. I asked our guitarist (annoyingly talented, perfect pitch and only 23. Little bastard ) and his reply was: "Ooh now then*, it's like E blues, I call it, with those maj min notes clashing. Major key with a minor scale over the top!" Now I'm even more confused! *he's from Yorkshire

How's your theory? I didn't learn any for years and wish I had done much earlier. Makes it so much easier to get a decent basic line down which you can then tweak depending on what the rest of the band is doing or what you think the song needs at any point. Other than that I'd say talk to the guitarist and explain things. He might already have a line in mind for certain parts which should give you something to springboard off rather than jumping in blind.