Cantdosleepy Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 So I bought the Flitesound 1x15 from Wildman (who is a complete gentleman, by the way) on Saturday. Before then I was just practicing, using the Little Mark II into the cabinet part of my brother's Marshall 1x12 guitar combo. As you can imagine, that was not at all satisfactory. Saturday was spent irritating the neighbours with the wonderfully bassy sounds I now have at my fingertips. She sounds great! Especially with the VLE (vinatge-y) know on the LMKII bout halfway up, and the neck pickups down by about a third) Harmonics chime though it! Double-stops are amazingly clear! I'm a very happy bunny. Next I tried to plug my Bass POD in and see what cool noises I could pluck from it. Sadly it didn't sound too great. I didn't have time to tweak and tweak and tweak, an important part of BODding, and I lot some of the wonderful detail and warmth form the bass. My eyes fell back on the guitar speaker. With some tweaking and messing about and tangling of leads (and thanks to the awesome 'Tuner Out' jack on the back of the LMKII) here's what I managed to come up with: It's not sounding quite right yet, but after I've set up the noises properly (and eq'd the guitar amp's ingoing signal quite aggressively) It'll be monstrous. At the moment I'm just making ambient fuzziness with the 12" and letting the Flite play gorgeous uncoloured bass joy! Hurrah! Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. It isn't a real shot of my rig, has a bit about my bass, a bit about my cab, a bit about my effects. Feel free to move it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Ahh, I've been thinking about doing the exact same thing as you've done with my Pod Live and Ashdown guitar amp. Does it work alright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantdosleepy Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 It's sounding good so far, but I've only just started playing with it. It's so nice to be able to use the crazy aggressive effects without affecting my bass tone at all. I've been using the patch with the distortion whose rate you can control by using the expression pedal, and it sounds fabulous. I only wish I could somehow use the super-down-octave feature (like on the cryceratos patch, 9B?) on the bass cab, and a distortion on a high one. That would be mighty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHimself Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 i did like the same thing 'cept i use a real guitar amp and my bass amp together. Also my bass amp has a direct out so it's a lot easier to connect to 2 amps. Oh and you should think about using the "straight line" function on paint next time for the bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantdosleepy Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 I'm all about the curvey purple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 You might need to get that Jazz Bass sorted out ... Looks like our ebay friend "Mitten In Deutschland" has been at it ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantdosleepy Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 Bbbbbut he said it was a custom job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizbat Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Hi If you are finding the signal in one particular amp quite noisey you might want to try a palmer line isolator PGA 03, you can get them from thomann and it is particularly designed to keep your signal free from any noise you may get when running multiple amps. I have a pair of ampeg heads and when I started doing the effect channel in one amp and dry in the other routine I found that each amp on their own was nice and quiet but together one always hummed more than the other, the palmer cured it the minute I put it in the signal path of one of the amps (last thing before the input). Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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