EskimoBassist

Filter models on the B3 are meant to be pretty nice. To be honest, I think the B3 sounds absolutely perfect for your needs, you're definitely the kind of player they must have had in mind when creating it. I would gladly get one myself but I know that there's a few things I wouldn't be able to do with it that I would like to.

Yeah, I love mine as I'm sure everyone knows. Some don't like the imposed EQ structure upon the distortion channel, but in a band mix it sits really nicely. Secret is definitely in the blend control.

Ha well that's what happens when all your cables are cable tied and you can't be bothered to undo them just to try a new pedal! I was actually really blown away by the Proton, I know I prefer the Xerograph because of its' tweakability and expression control, but it's just so musical and intuitive. May have to stay anyway, though we'll see. I'd gladly trade it for an Analogman Mini Chorus w/deep mod or an Oxide. [quote name='lxxwj' timestamp='1330384067' post='1556751'] Eskimo, that is a beautiful setup you have there. Some day I'll be using that same PT Jr. too.. [/quote] You say PT jr now... you'll end up on something bigger like a Diago Tourman before you know it! I sure as hell did and have only just been able to convince myself to downsize. I only got a smaller board before because taking a massive board to university and on public transport wasn't feasible.

Here's what I was briefly messing around this weekend: Hopefully getting a TAFM in soon, still desperately searching for an IE Oxide and a nice chorus pedal aswell. Will all be transferred with an EP-2 for the Xero onto a PT-2 over easter - which will also be when I assault the classifieds with a great long list of gear to sell!

I've used an OC-3 in poly mode for years now, I can get it to track down to A and below without warble. Yes it is digital, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Super cheaps too.

Mad photoshop skillz, bro.

Your OC-2 in the classifieds is really tempting me, but I am just happy with my OC-3 instead to be honest. I mean yeah I would like to have that iconic phat dubby sound on tap, but the OC-3 is nice and precise - it would some convincing to push me over to the analogue side.

A little different to what's been posted so far, but my drummer (amongst his other drumming duties) has been doing kids workshops for a while, here's an instructional video with Funky Junk Trio. He's the one with the mop on the right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVRBJMEjZ8Q&feature=colike My guitarist is also desperately talented on the acoustic/folk front, couldn't find a video of his project High Beck Hill anywhere, but if anyone is interested here's a link to their bandcamp with some great music to stream. My favourite has to be Kingdom Blues: http://highbeckhill.bandcamp.com/

A valve in a guitar? I think if I played it there would be tears and broken glass everywhere.

I just received some pedals through the post from him this morning. Sent special delivery they arrived quickly and were packaged well too. Thanks a lot mate, pleasure doing business.

Nice selection, very neat. How are you finding your mxr compressor? I love my multicomp but if i was going to swap for anything else, that could tempt me.

Stumbled across this yesterday, very funny...and true.

I've got a proton in the post, I can't wait to see what all the fuss has been about it. I would perhaps consider one of the soundblox pedals, but the simplicity and size of the proton were big winners.

It really frustrates me how something which starts off realy interesting and exciting can devolve so quickly on talkbass. Yes it is a much larger community than BassChat, but this place seems pretty fair, open and self governing whereas more and more TB seems to be becoming more closed and heavily moderated, not to mention more heavily infested with unhelpful contributors. I use it as a database as it is full of some great reviews and insights, but I try to keep away from all the speculation and what not, lest I suffer the banhammer for expressing my own opinion!

I don't really keep anything on my board unless I know that I'll use it live - I was able to downsize from a tourman to a PT jnr using this logic. No matter what the gig is, I've always got my tuner, compressor and pre/DI with me and on top of that I have my octaver, gain, envelope, modulation and delay effects which I include to taste.

Sorry to read about this, hope you're alright. I'm sure another good gig will come around for you when you want it.

You've really got the volume on your fuzz maxed out haven't you bottomfeed?!

For me, no matter what the gig is that I'm playing, I've got to have my Tuner, Compressor, Pre/DI, Octaver, Overdrive and my Fuzz.

I was in this position myself and over the last 6years with the band I have gone from using no effects at all, to eventually using a full Diago Tourman crammed and now I'm down to 7/8 which I just about fit on a PT-jnr. All my crazy synth/filter/fuzzy madness stuff has gone, because despite wanting to create weird/incredible soundscapes for so long I eventually realised that it was better for all of us to just play to what the music requires. You can still use a variety of pedals, but as soon as it becomes obtrusive it will ruin the sound of the song. I mean different songs have different sounds, right? So you could bring your pedal induced [s]madness[/s] creativity to the band and write something off the back of that, but as far as bringing total originality to already written material goes, you're walking a fine line.

Any thoughts on the new MXR compressor? The LED set up seems pretty good and it seems pretty controllable too.

I once had this problem, being bought a pedal as a present but then flipping it for something better soon after. I went down the route of "it broke/was replaced by manufacturer for different product", could be the same get out of jail card you need. Also, the 3rd hand doesn't seem so readily available in the UK. I'd swap for the BEF pro if I were in your shoes.