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which whammy is that?

I've been rehearsing in a room at the back of where I work for well over 3 years. A few different bands practise there and we were always very loud until we received our first ever complaint a few months back. The guy said that his kid goes to bed at 6:30pm so when we turn up at 7:30 and play loud it wakes him up and stops him getting back to sleep. I highly doubt this as his house is a good 200 yards away from the room we're using, but either way he was clearly pissed off. Even though it seemed a bit unreasonable, we decided to turn down, and I gave him a card so he can call me if he has a problem in future. No more complaints since. It's just easier to get along sometimes!

I actually like the drives but you have to get pretty creative with the EQ modules (IE not just the tone controls on the drive model)

[quote name='mikebass84' timestamp='1383047518' post='2259435'] Yeah I have a clean blend with the OD chanel. I think it's modelled on the OD2 pedal but not totally sure without looking. [/quote] Yeh, so the OD2 doesn't have a clean blend built into it, you'd have to use a seperate blender pedal. The ODB3 is the only boss pedal I know has a clean blend, and this wouldn't do what you are after. I like the OD2 clean-blended on bass, great pedal, not sure what other pedals are our there which sound similar and already have a clean blend, sorry!

the bass big muff is probably closest to the muff model, but none of the big muffs are very pricey. I would see if you can try the different models out in a local shop to find the one you like. No idea which boss pedal that model is supposed to be, there are loads, but you're probably using a clean blend on that patch? Which make make it more complicated to replicate.

would it still invert the phase when bypassed?

I think the Zoom has several different kinds of each effect you mention. Each kind is generally modelled on an actual pedal, so if you like the sounds you have, this would be a good place to start.

yeh, fair enough, it just means you'd have to keep re-setting your pedal board each time you swap bass. If you mainly just use one bass then I guess you'd want it to work with all pedals on full output.

would you not just turn down your bass?

One man's reasonable is anothers fortune! I guess it can't hurt to get a quote

I don't have a lot of money so was hoping for something off the shelf

I'm after a DI box which will send a clean signal to the desk, and an amp simulating signal to a headphone amp. Better yet it would have a built in headphone amp with seperate input so that I could send a mix from the desk back to this box, and each player could blend the mix with their own instrument. Is there anything like this in existence? tl;dr A box to set your own headphone mix.

yeh it's not easy to build for stock. Where I work we manufacture things, sometimes we can build up stock, other times we are struggling to build to order. It's tough!

I think it's a great service for people to listen to and find new music. It'd be nice if royalties were comparable to radio play but that's probably not going to happen. Artists need to encourage listeners to buy music and/or merch, and I think that's working for a lot of people. I know my gf has bought several albums after finding the bands on Spotify I love Radiohead but wish he wouldn't rant on in such a manner

A pick has a faster attack and more high end than fingers. I guess a limiter with the threshold set very subtly could sort out the fast attack, and rolling off the tone knob on your bass could sort out the high end I play with a thumb pick so that I can switch between fingers and pick easily.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1380738153' post='2229857'] Is the boss fs 6 the way to go ? [/quote] I'm not sure which looper you'd find to control with that... can't seem to find any current rack mount loopers for sale

I was just thinking that to record and play back loops from a rack unit, you'd need a controller on the floor. Most MIDI controllers come with loads of switches, probably too many for what you want, so you might find that a "stomp box" actually takes up less room

you'd need a foot controller for the looper anyway so not sure there's much point? Unless you could control the whole rack rig with one controller which would be pretty cool.

the marshall echohead is a nice pedal, and it'll continue the delay after you latch off. If you replaced the latching footswitch with a momentary switch it'd be fine I think? Should be easy enough

I use the boss slicer for some choppy stuff, sometimes to make the bassline, other times just for cool helicopter noises.

I think to a point, it's fair to say that you have to put up with some of these issues when it comes to custom builds like this. After a point, it becomes bad customer service, and then criminal. Sharing info about the latter on the internet can only serve to aid others in choosing their builder. So yeh, put up with a bit of agro and delays, but if the builder is seriously f***ing you over, you should post about it! Where that line is drawn is obviously subjective

I think it's great as it is, I just with I had the time to join in more!!

I used to use a GFX707 blended with another line of effects. I actually loved the drive tone I was getting from it. I think it was a TS or a Rat model I was using. Whatever it was, it was ace. I really miss that pedal, I'd modded it with two extra footswitches to go up and down 10 patches, which meant I could switch between patches much easier. I leant it to a friend who I've not heard from in years

The boss (and similar) pedal draws current when turned off as it's buffer is always on. I guess the Pitchblack is true bypass? Not necessarily a good thing, unless you want to run it off a battery, in which case it has obvious advantages

£200 ish, don't mind buying used, just something drastically different to what I have