paul_5

Damn those pudd'n heeds!

[quote name='waldemar' post='1363270' date='Sep 5 2011, 07:09 PM']All black Japanese Jazz: [url="http://kenji-cij.blogspot.com/2009/11/jb-62allbk-jazz-bass.html"]http://kenji-cij.blogspot.com/2009/11/jb-6...-jazz-bass.html[/url] Anyone know how to get one...?[/quote] Why not put a fake auction on eBay. Remember to tell people not to bid though...

[quote name='paul_5' post='1360427' date='Sep 2 2011, 09:17 PM']Too late, I've just asked him about postage to Greece. Wonder how much 'nothing' will cost to get there and how long it will take? I'm sooooo weak. [/quote] Tommo replied today with this: £7 000 000000000000000000 ha ha I don't think he's taking me seriously...

Just bought a DHA VT2 pedal from Rich. Really fast, smooth, easy transaction. Great communication before, during and after the sale too, lovely guy to do business with - Rich, stop listing stuff or I'll bankrupt myself!

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1360405' date='Sep 2 2011, 08:59 PM']I dare someone to message him and ask how heavy it is? [/quote] Too late, I've just asked him about postage to Greece. Wonder how much 'nothing' will cost to get there and how long it will take? I'm sooooo weak.

Yup, low B here too.

I bought a DHA DI-EQ pedal from a fellow BCer and I absolutely love it. I've tried all sorts of different pre's / DI boxes (Ampeg, Trace Elliot, MXR, EHX, Sansamp) and this is fast eclipsing the lot. The balanced DI out is super-clean, switchable between ground, lift and float, and the EQ is really musical. Even though it's solid state it has a real warmth to it, and can do pretty much any clean tone you could imagine - everything from bright, blistering slap to old school thump and thud. My best purchase all year (and there've been a few...). It's small enough to fit in a gig bag and can be powered by a 9v battery as well as a standard 9v Boss style adaptor, so it's ideal for jam nights / acoustic performances. I've even used it to play for a couple of shows and just gone straight into the PA and have always had a great tone. Like all DHA products it's built like a tank, but much easier to operate. For £70 new it's a real no-brainer - I'll probably never go to a gig without it again.

I agree with this thread to some extent - there are a lot of snake oil salesmen about, particularly when it comes to musical / Hi-Fi kit. I too am a cynic when it comes to all the jargon (and let's be honest, some ingenious marketing) and would have been prepared to throw my hat in the ring with the rest of the scoffers up until last week. Last week, for the first time in my life I bought some George L cables. Not content with believing what I'd been told I A/B'd my 'old faithful' Van Damme and Neutrik bass lead with a 10' length of George Ls straight into Pro Tools and then used a spectral analyser to measure frequency / signal loss (I know, the telly's broke). There was a noticeable [i]visual[/i] difference in the graph results, but not much [i]audible[/i] difference. Turns out I'm losing 10dB of signal in the 10KHz-20KHz region (top octave of human hearing), but the drop was down between the -70dB and -80dB region - chuff all really. So, yes, there is a difference that is measurable. Is it significant? Not really.

If this pedal isn't on your 'wish-list' then you're dead inside. That is a scientific fact!

Cool, will record some tonight. Your little boxes really are the balls!

Chances are it's a cracky pot. Some witch-cleaner from Maplins (or similar) should sort it out. Failing that a replacement part is less than a fiver. anything else I'd take it to a recommended amp tech - there's a couple of local ones on pinned somewhere on this site (can't remember exactly where though). HTH

[quote name='DHA' post='1355037' date='Aug 29 2011, 10:17 AM']I am also after soundchips for my bass pedals and would be grateful for any please Dave[/quote] Would be happy to oblige. What format and where? Cheers, Paul P.S. we need to talk about a VT-1 EQ pedal with a custom finish...

Welcome to the club. There's a few of us from Lancashire on here (I'm from Blackburn originally). Maybe we should have our own sub-forum full of cobbled pedalboards, Thwaites bitter and flat vowel sounds?

Don't think I'll have the time. I'm in pre-production with an artist, auditioning for (another) band and trying to finish my solo stuff. TBH I'm not really sure this sort of thing is for me - I'm a bit grumpy at the minute and shouldn't really be around people.

[quote name='mcnach' post='1354898' date='Aug 29 2011, 01:07 AM']... and just ordered from Amazon as an mp3 download [/quote] ...and currently listening after downloading from iTunes an hour ago.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='1354837' date='Aug 28 2011, 11:41 PM']Not quite the same but I have a VT-1 EQ- drive, which has the same stuff as the drive but lots more too. I bought it to 'dirty up' the tone out of a D class digi amp, which I guess is what you want to do. It does it very well and produces a good variety of drive from just a bit of boost to well over-driven boost. I am impressed with it and it does exactly what I want from it and some other stuff besides.....[/quote] DO you have any sound samples of this little beauty, as there aren't any on the DHA website? I'm currently loving the DHA DI EQ, but want a bit more dirt to the desk, maybe this is the one.

also - dude should have maybe washed his hands before broadcasting images of them worldwide. Try to maintain at least [i]some[/i] standards, dearheart.

[quote name='phil.i.stein' post='1352565' date='Aug 26 2011, 03:20 PM']Darkglass b3k. you get (more than) what you pay for. Seriously. [url="http://darkglasselectronics.com/products/microtubes-b3k/"]http://darkglasselectronics.com/products/microtubes-b3k/[/url] refund available too.. [/quote] Yowsers! that's a GREAT pedal. Anyone want to buy a kidney? It's had a fair bit of abuse, but still works.

Every guitarist I've ever worked with has had a built-in delay function - they get the joke 6 seconds after everyone else... which is odd, because when they play they're always racing ahead. Go figure.

[quote name='Lozz196' post='1353202' date='Aug 27 2011, 12:11 AM']Scratchplate - well either black or tort will set the bass off nicely, in my opinion.[/quote] In full agreement with Lozz here; I've got a bitsa P bass in the same colour with a tort scratchplate - it's the balls. Modding a bass is a great way to learn about how everything works, and can be very beneficial, but if you already love the bass then what needs changing? Is it simply an experiment (in which case try it with a less-favoured bass) or do you have a sound in mind that this bass isn't currently providing?

Lighten up fellas! I've just had a skim through this, and quite liked it. Granted, RHCP aren't the band that we started out with, but neither are Metallica, the Rolling Stones, the Smashing Pumpkins, Take That, U2, The Who, R.E.M., Jamiroquai, Green Day, AC/DC etc... but you know what, people and bands change and evolve. RHCP have obviously moved on from "Mother's Milk", but if that's your preferred "era" then why not just listen to that album or others like it? We can't ( and shouldn't) expect musicians to live in a little plastic bubble and make the same album every three years or so, surely that's a bit too possessive? Sorry to have a bit of a rant, but we have all developed as writers/players in the last 20 years, and we've probably all listened to our early stuff and thought "what were we thinking?" why should the Chillis be any different - they're just people, the same as us, trying to find an appropriate musical outlet through which to channel our experiences. If you don't like it then vote with your wallet and don't buy it. Why do we need a thread that pillories an album before it's even been released?

[quote name='Doctor J' post='1350591' date='Aug 24 2011, 06:47 PM']The new ones are crap. The old ones, when they were painstakingly smelted by the hands of wizened craftsmen who only used steel unearthed by their own bare hands, sustained longer, had purer tone and made you more attractive to the opposite sex.[/quote] I touched one once and it cured my scrofula!