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Crowther Hotcake XLF - Brand New! SOLD!!!
Finbar replied to ChocolateTelevision's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
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By using a blender - it puts the pedals you want to mix with your clean signal in a separate loop, and then controls the amount of signal from the loop and the amount of clean signal to give you your blended one Silent Fly - I'll have a look through all that article and see if I can glean anything from it. Otherwise though, I think I'm going to wait until my Shuker is finished and in my hands before I hunt for more distortions. Thanks guys You know I'll bring this thread back sometime ¬_¬ Buh.
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Soundcontrol Sheffield has Boss, or Boss That's the only stuff I've been able to try out in any length and detail! One more thing to consider - will an active/passive bass make a difference to distortion? I've only ever used Actives (except my first Squier which I never used with effects), though I'm getting a passive either late December or in January, so is it worth holding off trying many more distortions until I have a passive instrument to try them with seeing as it will be my main bass?
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So after a little experimentation I've still drawn blanks on this ¬_¬ I've found that shops just don't carry any of the things people suggest, or I've seen elsewhere, so I have no way to test stuff. Buh. Are there any shops/places that people know with any of this kind of stuff around? Near Sheffield would be awesome...
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Pretty much, Si Yeah, it was almost certainly the Delano that Jon showed you, 7string. Looks well good ^_^ Jon mentioned that he'd recently defretted a Conklin 7, so I'm assuming that's yours
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Ee, I really should upload those pictures I'll put them up once I've got the next set off Jon. Although I did go to see him the other day, and the pickup is sweet ^_^ It's enormous!
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You sir, are a gent If you get back to me about those other cables, I'll get you my address to post things to - just whack them in with that lot? Do you take paypal by the way?
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[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260179645678&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=016"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E:IT&ih=016[/url] Diago Gigman pedalboard. Any questions, direct them through the auction, as it's my guitarist's and not mine. It's a good piece of kit for anyone with 3 largeish to about 6/7 small pedals anyway though, I had one for a while and they're as reliable as anything you'll get pretty much. Enjoy -
Just 2, Dave. [quote name='obbm' post='84606' date='Nov 6 2007, 08:46 PM']Chris I think I've got some that I bought for my non-existant pedal board. How many do you need?[/quote]
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Just sent him an email before you replied actually! He's already been really helpful, so I'll have sorted most of the problems already I think Got a new problem though - where can I get those things you can connect two pedals of the same type by? They are basically a double ended 1/4" jack with about an inch between them. I have no idea what to call them to do a google search I need a couple of them. [quote name='Hamster' post='84568' date='Nov 6 2007, 07:11 PM']Have you had a chat with our resident cable guru - OBBM? Hamster[/quote]
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Okay, just got my nice new pedalboard and my nice (sometimes) new pedals to go on it, but before it's going out gigging, or a picture of it is going up on the pedalboard thread, I need a few leads to go with it, as I've discovered the batch of 20cm ones I have aren't all up to the job (plus they're generally a bit cack ). So a couple of questions. Can I get these any cheaper elsewhere, and with a right angled end instead of straight: [url="http://www.diago.co.uk/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,41/category_id,3/manufacturer_id,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,206/"]http://www.diago.co.uk/component/page,shop...art/Itemid,206/[/url] I also want to use the George L's patch leads, but don't want them all with right angled ends. Diago are the only UK supplier I know of for these, and they only stock right angled ends: [url="http://www.diago.co.uk/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,35/category_id,4/manufacturer_id,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,206/"]http://www.diago.co.uk/component/page,shop...art/Itemid,206/[/url] So any ideas on what to do for that? Except order direct from George L's in America for like 6 plugs :/ Cheers, Chris
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GT6-B does need two simultaneous (awkwardly placed) switches to activate the tuner though ¬_¬
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Not got mine yet, still being built. But already I can vouch for him and his instruments. Every one of them I've played at his workshop has played like absolute butter, flawless playability - as you'd expect for a custom instrument. There's a 5 string he had in last time as just a stock instrument - strung as a tenor, and gawd, I nearly changed my mind from my custom to buy that on the spot o_O And good value. Okay, my seven string is a bit above the average price, but to get what is basically a custom Jazz bass for (correct me if I'm wrong) a very competitive price with an off the shelf MIA Jazz ain't too shabby. The electronics aren't anything special unless you ask for them to be And sometimes you just don't need anything magical to get a good sound. He's also a tremendous chap. He always finds time for his customers, he's incredibly helpful with designing the instruments from scratch and telling you what will and won't work. It's all just attention to detail. Plus he lives like 45 mins from me on the bus I dunno, that's just my view on it all. Anyone else?
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412s are the way of the future. Don't know why they don't catch on more -
PS-5 sold pending payment. Alesis F2 still up for grabs -
Just got some v early pics from Jon. Just a couple of pieces of sawn-up wood. I'll post them on here later when i've got a few minutes
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Weekend Bump
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May be interested in this shortly, but not sure. I should have bought all the pedals for my pedalboard in a week or so, so I'll know how big a board I need then. If it's Showman sized, I may be in touch. I have a suspicion I may need a Tourman though :/ -
Okay then, I recently bought a Boss PS-5, and found it wasn't really what I wanted. So I'm going to offer it to you lovely chappies. Basically, for those of you who don't know, it's a pitchshifter capable of lots of different intervals up or down, up to 2 octaves. It also has an intelligent harmony mode so you can choose which key you're playing in, as well as a tremolo arm effect, and a detune function as well as a flutter feature which sounds a lot like a very wide chorus. It has a mono and stereo output, should you have two different amps to connect it to. There is also an external expression pedal input for it, so you can add an expression pedal and use it like a Whammy pedal, but with more control over the wet/dry signal mix. With the blend up to 100% wet, and with the harmony setting, you can create a makeshift arpeggiator (if you have enough sustain, and the spare hand!). Otherwise, it tracks pretty well, unless you're trying to go two octaves down on the B string or something (in which case... what ARE you trying to accomplish? o_O). Only been used at one practice and a little bit of messing around at home - only transported either in it's box, or in the pedalboard. No marks on it, but there is some velcro on the bottom for attaching to a pedalboard which is easily removed. Comes in original box, with manual. £75 shipped Secondly, I have an Alesis F2 expression/volume pedal for sale. Pretty much what you see is what you get. It's an expression pedal, and a volume pedal, though in my experience works better as a volume pedal. There is a screw on the back which allows you to adjust the tension of the pedal. It has a metal casing, as you'd want in something you stand on a lot! You can adjust the minimum value for the pedal, if you want to use it for a set boost/cut level, and the positions can be reversed so that when the pedal is down, the volume is full, but when it's up, the volume is off, or vice versa. I'd keep it as a volume pedal, but I already have an Ernie Ball one, so have no use for this. Again, it's been used at one practice and a little bit at home, and has only been transported in it's original (well packaged) box, or in the pedalboard. No marks. Also has a few strips of velcro on the bottom for attachment to pedalboard which are easily removed. Comes in original box, with manual. Don't have my own picture, but this stock one is exactly how it is: £30 shipped I'll take cheque or Paypal, but I will have to ask that the buyer pays the extra paypal fees if they choose to pay that way. Thanks for your time Cheers, Chris
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Where were you two weeks ago when I was looking for one of those tuners ¬_¬ Ended up buying a silver one instead :/
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Bit of a question then - do you happen to know anyone who custom builds that kind of thing? And what kind of price you'd be looking at? Infact, what voltage does a Whammy even run off? Thanks, you're being really helpful tayste
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Okay, so here's the update: The volume pedal function on the Alesis works pretty well. With the switch on the back, it'll do position up or position down as your zero volume point, though the position up one seems a little counterintuitive! With the resistance set to it's lowest, the pedal stays exactly where you put it. Makes your volume louder or quieter, exactly what it says on the tin. The expression pedal bit is perplexing me though. Just like with the volume setting, the switch on the back just changes whether the zero point is in the up or down position. After a certain point, the expression pedal stops affecting the signal, and goes back to an unaffected signal, even with the pedal at its fullest extension. While I tightened the resistance screw to stop this happening, the end result was still less than satisfactory. When using the pedal, I don't seem to get the pitch shift effect I wanted from the PS-5. I just seem to get a very strong chorus kind of sound. The pedal is definitely set up for pitch shifting, not the detune, tremolo or flutter features, and the delay time is set to 0. The pitch does seem to shift slightly, but not to the intervals I'm shifting it to. It always ends up as some very dischordant note, nowhere near what it's supposed to be. I'm guessing a Roland one would work better - is this just due to the way the Alesis works? I really actually would prefer a Whammy. Only things putting me off are 1) I've heard a lot of stuff about the Whammy being notoriously easy to break, and 2) I don't want a separate power supply just for the Whammy, when I already have a 12v and a 9v PSU on the board. Is there a way around this? Cheers, Chris
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The Low F# doesn't have enough practical applications really (though some would argue otherwise), but as I'm in a band and use it as a band isntrument, the higher string is much more useful for chordal work
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BEADGCF Or, that's what mine is currently tuned to, and what this one will be. Some people will tune it differently to that, and may have a high Bb instead of a low B, or (more commonly) a low F# instead of a high F. I know Dood's Doodle was made that way, and my guitarist's Galveston 7 string bass was delivered with F#BEADGC tuning.
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The only new thing in/near the effects chain has been a new Boss pedal, but I've run it as just bass -> volume -> amp, with no power to the Boss pedal already, to check if it was noisy or anything. There was no problem at our last practice with my Marshall amp, it's only happened the one time I've used it since with my Roland amp at home, so I'll see if the problem still happens the next time I use it with my Marshall rig, and if it does, I'll take some action and look at getting some cleaner. Thanks Train of thought here, but I can't actually fit the pedal on the Diago Gigman board I've borrowed off my guitarist - if anyone has a Showman board they'd be willing to let go of, let me know Cheers, Chris