paul_5

Granted, but this thread is about a Hattie bass head, not a vintage bass guitar.

What a great idea! Lovely, meaty sounding bass overdrive too!

The gap that you're hearing between playing a note and it sounding through your PC is called 'Latency' - it can be reduced by reducing the buffer size of your sound card, but this comes at a price of processing power. My built-in sound card on my MacBook runs at a buffer size of 256 samples, which gives 12ms of delay by default. I can drop this to 32 samples the latency is 4ms - significantly less delay between sound in and sound out, but performance of my MacBook is reduced. If I plug in my 'portable' sound card (a little Alesis USB thing) I can get similar results, but my old (like, really old) MOTU firewire will run at half of those figures across 8 channels all day. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

£22 on some deoxit spray or £10 (maximum) on 2 new pots and ten minutes to solder them in...?

Hanging’s too good for ‘em - nail ‘em up!!!

I had a play about with it last night, as my plan was to import some Mellotron samples and not have to buy a soft synth mellotron. That is a MASSIVE rabbit hole - there’s so much functionality with this thing.

Some power supplies don’t like supplying analogue and digital effects at the same time. Have you tried just powering the zoom on it’s own?

Then got a proper guitarist.

As we’ve already had my favourites (Guy Garvey, Jarvis Cocker, Bill Bragg etc...) I’ll give a tip of the hat to Freddie Mercury’s upper class British accent that poked out every now and then. less favourable mentions go to Joe Elliott of Def Leppard and Milli Vanilli.

As was ‘Capricorn’ by Motörhead.

‘Murder One’ - written by Metallica about Lemmy.

Must....not......sing......

It worked really well, the best way would probably be to take the on board switches out of the equation, and just have it exclusively controlled by the foot switch - I might try that this week, as I’m off work with COVID.

Back when I worked on analogue kit with outboard kit I’d bring the FX return back to a spare channel on the desk - reason being was that I could eq the reverb (for example) to suit the song, also gave options for panning effects. These days I group the effects in with the source material (brass tracks with brass reverb etc), as it’s just easier to mute or solo the group and not have to find where the extra returns are.

It’s better than the alternatives though.

Fixed

Dave Hall VT1 EQ. Absolute magic.

Alas, ‘twas always thus 😢

I ran an 410hlf and a t coloured the sound immensely - a real hump at about 200Hz. Sometimes it was great, other times not.

I was in a and with my twin brother for a while - we had fun and didn’t fall out. There, I’ve said it.

I've done this sort of thing before - I use a DI box in front of the pedalboard, then take a DI feed with my overdrive units on it. Producer can chop and change, and as a player I can have more fun with a bit of filth.