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[quote name='ShaunB' post='12482' date='Jun 5 2007, 01:49 PM']Any ideas how to make the SOS work? I've been trying to access the FX Select (page 27 of the manual) which keeps taking me to page 55 which says go to page 27... *ahem* I crave the simple life. Maybe the pedal aint for me.[/quote] ha ha it's fairly simple once you gethe gist I think .. SOS er not got there yet but I did find I was recording accidentally during the initial play about so it is possible

[quote name='BOD2' post='12471' date='Jun 5 2007, 01:40 PM']One last tip. Try to keep the patches that you will use live "close together" so that it's easy to go from one to another with the minimum of foot tapping.[/quote] Yup that was what I was trying to say with the "centre, left 4, right 4", thing in my post [quote name='BOD2' post='12471' date='Jun 5 2007, 01:40 PM']And don't worry about overwriting the original patches. They're usually crap and unusable but there will almost certainly be a "reset" procedure to restore the factory presets and patches should you ever need to do this.[/quote] yeah on the GT6B you can reset the whole lot to the factory settings or just choose to reset one patch position

[quote name='ShaunB' post='9259' date='May 30 2007, 03:14 PM']Hi guys, any GT6B experts out there? I am having trouble using the very basic effects, say, just Compression, Chorus or O/D or Phaser, but for the life of me and scanning through the manual can't find how to bypass the pre-set effects which adjust different combinations of 2 or more effects, alot of the time with different pre-amp settings which I don't use/need. A simple fellow who wants a simple life... I thought getting rid of 4 pedals for one plug'nplay board would be the way to go - but I don't need my bass to sound like a chainsaw in need of a body... Any help gratefully received. [/quote] OK what you do is this: Find a basic sound you like (around P3/1 I think they are) Then take out or add in the settings you want, say compressor. Then save that to a user patch position, say U3/1 (it overwrites what was there so make sure you are cool with that) Then take what you have loaded into U3/1, add or subtract what you want, say add flanger, and save it to another user patch position, say U3/2 so switching between U3/1 and U3/2 will add a flanger effect to what you had before. Repeat as necessary. Haven't looked at just having compression and nowt else. I am sure you can do that though, if only by removing everything else from the patch.

OK It arrived .. My proposed method is this: - Reset to factory settings - look through the patch list in the back of the manual for stuff that sounds like the sort of thing you are looking to use. - try all the P presets but also have a look at the ones they have loaded into the U and u banks as well cos some of them are cool. - select the ones you will use (in my case that's two sets, one set for each band) - copy them to the patch addresses you want them to be at eg U4/1 U4/2 U4/3 and U3/4 U3/3 U3/2 - make a table of what you are doing... so in my case I'll centre my sounds for band 1 on U4/1 so in there I'll have my basic tone - SVT 8x10 + Compressor .. I got that from modifying the standard setting at er P3/2 is it? (manual not to hand) and by changing the various settings til I git the sound I wanted then saving it to U4/1. - then to the left (ie move to there by hitting the left patch pedal) I'll have my 4 normal settings - same as one but add flanger, and a couple of others. Then to the right of U4/1 I'll have the wilder stuff like the big wah etc. So I end up with a gigging sound set centred on U4/1.. Left 4 and right 4 from there gives me just about all I'll need for that band. Then I'll do the same thing for the other band centered on u4/1 The pedals at the front allow you to turn things like chorus, reverb, fuzz, on and off within that setting "live" as it were so you can take or add in fuzz or chorus as a temporary measure that doesn't stick on the setting oh and teh all important "bypass" pedal that takes teh whole big red thing out of the sound entirely So in the end I don't have to go very far from "default" to get the stuff I need for those gigs. Then if I think up something else to use I can add it one more click to the left or right. That should get you started .. Just don't ask me how to add in or remove the synth arpeggio things that shift it up a tone (weird or what?)

[quote name='chris_b' post='12261' date='Jun 5 2007, 01:37 AM']Play them the record![/quote] Ok I think we've nailed this ... Thanks

[quote name='Sibob' post='12242' date='Jun 5 2007, 12:32 AM']Why doesn't the guitarist know Has he not ears? :-D Si[/quote] Ah well it's more complicated than that. It's a community jazz outfit with an "open door, all comers" approach They are not learning by ear but from a score where their part is not written out .. They are largely expeccted to "know" what to do or be guided by older hands (some of which are 20 years younger than they are ) and they all take what the MD says as gospel ... The guitarists (and it's not just guitarists who are expected to play the skank in this stuff) are either beginners or moonlighting on guitar when they are really tenor horn players escaped from a brass band... or somesuch ... So it's not your normal "take this track and learn it" situation ...

[quote name='Sibob' post='12098' date='Jun 4 2007, 09:50 PM']To be honest, i think that counting things is something that well get debated for years to come. As long as the tune your doing sounds good and feels good............it is good! . And based on my very limited knowledge of reggae (i like it but never studied it), if i was trying to explain the basics to a guitarist, i'd just say "play the chops on the upbeat", simple as. Si[/quote] Yup and back we come to the problem ... When is the up beat? I know but the guitarist doesn't .....

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[quote name='The Funk' post='12019' date='Jun 4 2007, 07:34 PM']I think it can affect the feel of the music. I think that's why people sometimes get quite heated about how to count something.[/quote] I had a look through youtoob for drum lessons on reggae and none of them count the bits in, drummers etc? I'll have to get some sheet music for jammin the Exodus album or something and see what the transcriber's said ..:0 To be honest it doesn't really matter I just wondered

[quote name='paul, the' post='11996' date='Jun 4 2007, 07:10 PM']Excellent, nice find. Wish I still had my 62 ri.[/quote] Wish I still had my 62 .... and that slim frame ... Still got hair, thank gawd

[quote name='alexclaber' post='11720' date='Jun 4 2007, 10:45 AM']4/4 with kick on 3 and skank on 2 and 4. Counting it in half time with kick on 2 and 4 makes it much harder to feel the bubbling forward motion. It sounds like your musical director is treating it too much like a polka! Alex[/quote] Yeah well I think he lack skank in his soul ... more of a jazz man ..

[quote name='JPJ' post='11694' date='Jun 4 2007, 09:41 AM']I got mine of a guy in the US on eBay. Mine is the old equal sized cases with the uneven coils so that the top half covers the B,E & A and the bottom half the D&G.[/quote] OK .. I saw a numnbr of those but I like the quirkyness of the odd sized "pair"

[quote name='chardbass' post='11652' date='Jun 4 2007, 01:42 AM']A cool tip that's worth trying is to count slow ballads in double time (or feel the 8th note pulse) and up tempo tunes in half time (or feel the half note pulse)- it can stop you slowing or speeding up respectively.[/quote] Thanks Actually playing it is not the problem. The problem I have is explaining to gu|t@rists where to put the skank chop. I'd say "2 and 4", but the MD (who I dare not contradict for fear of loosing my solos...) says "& and &" and the strummers look blank and then get lost Well I was watching the Exodus 30 year Horizon programme last night on the BBC and I still think its 4/4 with the one drop on the 3 and the skank on 2 and 4 ..

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[quote name='lushuk' post='11282' date='Jun 3 2007, 04:22 AM']Hi just brought Si's Fender lyte as described, promised etc no sign of the trousers in the packing though! Top man many thanks! Eddy[/quote] Hey You should have said you wanted them! I'm sure we could have come to an arragement Thanks Eddy

Well I sent the P Lyte off with Interparcel and it turned up safe and well and fast ... That will be my choice for sub £1000 stuff from now on anyway ..

[quote name='Vasquez Rich' post='11150' date='Jun 2 2007, 08:04 PM']I did think of doing that... but it'd be too much arsing about.. I don't think anyone would be that interested.[/quote] Aw gwaaaan, You know you want to Maybe Oxfam could open a special website for re-cycled bass strings like their book shops ,,#Whaddaya think?

[quote name='ShaunB' post='11019' date='Jun 2 2007, 02:04 PM']...aha! Good thread that second one - funny how someone asked the same question... "how do ya just use the simple effects?" and there's a fairly simple answer, which I will try next time I have a free couple of hours... ;-) I think the lack of kids is really hindering me... I should have had one simply to explain the techy side of things and the willingness (and ability) to RTFM! But struggle on with it I will as there haven't been any bites at my attempt to sell it. If I have a breaktrhough I will pass it on (for good or bad)[/quote] They sell on Ebay for about 175

[quote name='Vasquez Rich' post='11096' date='Jun 2 2007, 05:11 PM']Where I used to work (I'm a metallurgist..no don't ask) we had a large ultrasonic cleaning tank thing. Fill it up with meths and dump the strings in it for half an hour... almost good as new, in fact I don't like brand new strings (a little too bright) so I used to clean and reuse strings a lot. Left there now so can't do it anymore. Richard VASQUEZ[/quote] Sounds like a business opportunity .. Got a shed?

[quote name='Tanc' post='11008' date='Jun 2 2007, 01:30 PM']The point I am trying to make is the DOUBLE STANDARDS bull sh*t that goes on in this forum. If I made a racist comment, or a rude comment about any of the mods, then I would get a warning as per the terms and conditions of the forum which includes sexism. A guy writes that he likes the way a breast hangs over a bass, which is sooo sexist that it's not funny, no one does anything. This is double standards. THIS IS WRONG!!! The WAY it [u]should[/u] of been dealt with, is the person in question should of received a warning and the thread should of been removed, or blocked. I should of received a pm from a mod or from the person in question apologising for the behaviour.[/quote] Yup I'd expect to happen too. Self regulation only goes so far and I for one am in favour of a little parental control now and then to avoid this forum falling to teh depths of some others.

[quote name='Gazm' post='10980' date='Jun 2 2007, 11:54 AM']I'd say it was faulty. If they all do this they would have failed the EMC testing part of the CE marking. Pete.[/quote] ha ha yeah well I called the shop and they guy told me it's normal for some amps to pick up strong radio tramsmissions some time "No" I said, "it's not receiving. It's [i]transmitting[/i]" at which point he got all excited and rushed round with his FM portable and found out that all the MB amps he had in the shop do it .... So I'm going to email Marco and ask him directly - hey why not. I tried the double layer of cooking foil (on the amp, not my head) and it did reduce the interference a little so I think we have identified the problem .. Thanks

[quote name='ShaunB' post='10932' date='Jun 2 2007, 10:05 AM']Hi OG, ...thanks for the pdf - I'll take a gander. From my readings (at least 10 times through the manual now - very un-manly!) I think I need to create my own patches which are simply just Chorus, or Phaser etc. But then if you want the auto-wah you have to click the pre-set patch pedals and hunt up and down - it really must be easier... Self-help group? Count me in! (is there tea and biscuits?) ...it all started when the guitarists said, "so, who's gonna play bass?" doctor... Let me know when you get the box... it is a sturdy, but rather expensive tuner...[/quote] ha ha yeah "I helped myself to some self help ...... I'm still diggin' on James Brown" Hum Ok may have to ask my scientifically minded wife to help me out , or my son. he's 9, he should be able to sort it More - mixed - opinions here on TB [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4247215"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4247215[/url] [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=334460"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=334460[/url] Loks liek "RTFM" is teh first bit but what's this about Roland not allowing a printable download of the book? Hum

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='10909' date='Jun 2 2007, 09:07 AM']Blimey, if thats what he does for mind reading, I shudder at the thought of how he stops their anal probes.[/quote] Why would he want to stop them?

[quote name='DrGonzo' post='10862' date='Jun 2 2007, 01:01 AM']Weirdness! Maybe just slap some tin foil on top of the amp?[/quote] Do I still need to do that if I'm wearing my Anti-Alien mind reading hat?