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I was trying to blend my EHX Bassballs with some clean signal, like I do with several other pedals using a Boss LS-2. But with this pedal it seems that the output is severely decreased and sounds... "funny". So I suspect that the effected and dry signals are not in phase. A quick google search indicates that this is not a very rare occurrence. I should be able to cure it simply by adding a patch cable that swap the two wires of the output of the EHX, right?

[quote name='Chrismanbass' timestamp='1337474347' post='1660683'] sorry mate, i'll try harder next time. Sounds like my school reports all over again. [/quote] ha ha, all in jest (well, 50% ), no worries I'm not going to give you any marks... this time.

[quote name='haimesy' timestamp='1337414084' post='1659445'] PMD [/quote] an PMd back!

[quote name='Chrismanbass' timestamp='1337132436' post='1656060'] did an audition for a function band once for some guys and was told in the emails back and forth that i'd be there for about an hour turned up at the audition and was imidiately asked to set up 'great' i thought i'll be in and done quickly and not have to sit around waiting for the other guys to finish, so i get into the audition and play through the songs and all is well the guys are ok not great but ok and as i'm packing away the singer comes up to me and says 'oh do you have to be somewhere after this' and i without thinking said oh no sorry i just thought we were done 'no we'd like you to stay if thats ok' so i put my gear back up and another guitarist comes in and sets up and off we go again turns out they hadn't had any replies from any other bass players and were just expecting me to fill in for free so that they could audition all of their 8 guitarists that had replied needless to say i didnt stay very long after i found out [/quote] I tried to read what you wrote three times, but I always run out of air when I'm the point where they ask you whether you could stay. Here's some spare punctuation marks for you: ..,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,,,,,..,,.,,.,.,.,..,.,,,,,.,,,.,.,.,,,.,.,,.,..,.,.,,.,.,.,.,,..... Don't be shy, they're free

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1337182917' post='1656822'] By contrast, if one lives in suburbia, there are buses and trains. Marvellous things - not as cheap per mile a s a private car, but then one doesn't have to front up thousands in the first place. [/quote] ideally. But reality often hits you in the face if you try to use public transport. One example: I often have to go from where I live, North of Edinburgh, to another location, also North of Edinburgh. It's close, but not close enough to walk, and certainly not if you have to carry something large or heavy. By car it's about 10-12min. By bus? Usually over an hour. Why? Because I have to take a bus into the city centre, and then another from there. There used to be a bus that connected me, but it stopped after 6.30pm. Now even that is gone. In Edinburgh, over the past few years they have revamped the bus lines removing peripheral services and making them more radial, and often lines that went across the centre now they stop there, so you may have to take two buses (with subsequent wait in the middle) to carry on. The thing is public transport in every British city I have been in is not very good. I would love to see a better coverage. Even if frequency has to be reduced, having something like "bustracker" that allows you to know when any given bus will pass by any given stop reduces the waits and allows you to plan your journeys much better. But the coverage is generally poor, unless you just want to go to the city centre and back. What gets me is that 12 years ago, the service was better, and as the pressure to get people to use the public transport increases the service becomes worse. It seems to me they worked out that say 70% of the users travel in and out the centre, so they can improve that, have a majority of users happy, and forget about the remaining 30%. Or something along those lines.

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1337173590' post='1656602'] Surely the real fact is that we should all be driving electric cars by now. And the bods should be making life hard for petrol users. [/quote] But I am not sure we are prepared for that. Let's see. Tomorrow everybody in the north of Edinburgh buys a new electric car. We all charge it at night at home. Oh wait, we don't have power points yet... but let's assume they could be installed overninght too. What happens about the extra electricity demand? Are our lines ready for that? I suspect not.

Nooo What a coincidence that last week I put a whole lot of Donna Summer in my car's MP3 player... I had a huge crush on her when I was 12 or so.

I doubt he'd like me to just walk in to play with it for a few minutes and leave... and I cannot lie and act as though I am a possible buyer, because at this minute I am not. Pity, because he must live like 3 minutes away from me!

I sold my ASAT style bass to Mike. Good communication, reliable. A real pleasure. I hope you enjoy the bass!

I'm growing an interest on those Squier VM Fretless Jazz basses. I have two P-style fretless [1], and I would let one go to entirely or partially fund the fretless Jazz. The thing is I would like to be able to try one first. Tried in local shops but they seem to never have one when I show up. I was wondering whether there is anybody in Edinburgh (or reasonably close) who has one and could let me have a quick try. I could bring along my fretless P for them to try too. This is not with a purchase/sale motivation, it's simply for curiosity. Although obviously I could entertain offers to either buy or sell, but that's not necessary. The two fretless P basses I own are very different: #1 cheap Sue Ryder P-bass. White/white and maple. Defretted and slots filled with sycamore veneer (pale). DiMarzio MOdel P pickup. D'Addario nylon tapewound strings. #2 not so cheap Fender Precision CIJ 70s (2007). Natural/black and unlined maple. Original everything. Status Hotwire flatwound strings. I love the feel of the Fender, but the sound of the Sue Ryder. Oh, and the Fender is a stunner, with my all-time favourite combination of natural/maple. So I'm really not sure what to do about this... which one would I let go? I should try the Fender with the D'Addario strings, and perhaps the DiMarzio pickup. It feels great, and I like that the side dots are at the fret positions, not in the middle, so I find it very easy to play. Just not as exciting right now as the Sue Ryder to listen to. If it can sound like the Sue Ryder... then it looks like a winning combination: looks, feel, sound... However, the Sue Ryder is not bad at all, and I don't play fretless very often... I would get very little money for it, but if I keep it, it can do the job and I would release a decent amount of cash selling the Fender. The thing is I really prefer the neck on the Fender... Decisions, decisions. If I end up liking the Jazz so much, I might just let both fretless P-basses go! so... anyone around Edinburgh with a fretless Squier VM Jazz?

I had some time to kill, so I did it... but the results were disappointing. I mean, what dd I expect? To get a result saying "you hate music!" Enthusiasm for music - 96% "You probably also spend more money and use more of your free-time than average on music-related activities." No, really??? Musical Perception - 99% "You scored high for perception, which suggests that you have a good ear for music. You can probably sing in tune and are better than average at keeping a beat. You can also tell the difference between types of instruments and musical genres. People with high ability are often able to create music on their own or with others. You are likely to have performed well in the other musical tests." I have rehearsal in an hour, the band will be happy to hear I didn't have them fooled until now! Emotional connection - 70% I'm frankly surprised only 70% But then, if this just indicates what percentile of the population you are in, it's not so surprising. A lot of people do feel an emotional connection with music even if they lack musical skills. "Your results suggest that certain music can reconnect you to past events and memories, but that generally music doesn’t have the power to completely change your emotional state." Well, it almost can! Social creativity - 88% again, playing in a band... (or bands) Musical curiosity - 94% I am a bit eclectic, yes. The "group the music" task was not so easy. A couple of the microsecond clips had me confused. I got all down except I mixed up a "rock" and a "hiphop" one... On "match the beat" I failed 2 of 8... embarrasing. But they were early on where I was not paying good attention and thought they were going for obvious mismatches, not slightly off-beat... ah, got me! On "tap the beat" I got most of them high, but one was "low". Embarrasing... I will blame the keyboard! On "melody memory" I got all... except the very last one. I said it was different and it wasn't. To be honest, I was not entirely sure and I was a bit tired of the exercise by then. Ah well... time to get ready. Tonight I'm inflicting the fretless on the band. I need to get better at it and nothing like being put on the spot a bit

[quote name='Ska Man' timestamp='1337028176' post='1654403'] Hi Guys, [attachment=107957:098.jpg]Ive got an OLP stingray for sale. Its a natural wood finish with 1 pick up and 3 band passive eq. A guy is interested in it and has asked if I would give him €200 and the OLP for his Tokai Jazz. The Tokai is 80's and mint. Can anyone tell me if this is a good deal? How much are each of these bass's worth. Sorry if these questions are a bit lame but Im not really up to speed on whats what as Ive owned and played a Fender P for the last 18 years. Thanks for any help gentlemen. Mick [/quote] 3-band passive EQ? I wouldn't call it that. Yours looks like one of the very first OLP MM2 basses. They did have two (passive) tone controls and one volume control. I would have assumed they would work like G&L L2000 passive tone controls, but the one I had didn't: both controls worked very similarly, but perhaps a previous owner had replaced the caps with the wrong values, as the wiring did seem to have been messed with. Those Tokais have great reputation, and as much as I love OLPs, those very first ones tended to be heavy and not that inspiring. It seems like a good deal to me.

Thank you!

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1336715016' post='1649815'] Limiter? Rubbish!!! It's an easy mod. Don't put the pot just before the output jack - that'll control both effected and uneffected signals. You want to put the volume pot between the output of the circuit and the footswitch so you're only controlling the effected volume. Done this a few times with mini qtrons (actually have one in my work bag returning it to Gareth Hughes of this parish today - although for this pedal I removed the rotary switch, hardwired the pedal to low pass and put the new volume pot where the rotary switch was - stealthy, makes the pedal much more useable and there's no change in tone that I can hear). [/quote] aha! indeed, that sounds like a great mod to the micro QTron with its volume bump... and I only ever used it on Low Pass anyway... I must try this with the Bassballs... when I gather the courage to open it up and mess with it

Make sure there's no football on!

essentially like a passive guitar volume? I thought of something like that, but I am not sure what kind of value pots would be appropriate, and fear it would change the tone too much while turning the volume down (a compromise I could maybe live with, I can do a test before drilling any extra holes and see if I like the results), so I was wondering more about an active option... probably much better to use the LS-2 for that, eh?

I love my EHX Bassballs. In fact, I just bought another. I had a nano version originally, and just bought the larger USA version which has been modified to give you access to the two internal trim pots with two externally mounted knobs. I love it. But I find it a bit frustrating that as you increase turn the main knob to the right, the volume increases, especially with the distortion switched on. This pedal would improve a lot if there was a way to adjust the final level. I can put it in a loop of a Boss LS2, which is what I normally do when I have a pedal that gives me trouble level-wise. But I was wondering whether it would be easy to add a level control. I haven't seen this modification described, so I suspect not, but... maybe I'm wrong!

John bought my beloved OLP MM2 with Seymour Duncan pickup and preamp ("Natillas"). Very pleasant communications, I can't be happier with the way the sale proceeded and I'm happy this bass went to a good home. I hope you enjoy the bass and play it like it deserves A real pleasure.

I bought Nic's modified EHX bassballs pedal, he posted it very well protected and arrived very fast. He even put a new battery in it! Great communications before and after, when I asked him a question about power supplies. Top marks Loving the pedal, thank you Nic!