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you have to have pedals that go in the feedback loop surely? But yeh a feedback loop with a distortion pedal in will make some weird noises for you. If you could afford to get a multi effects, like one of the plastic Zoom units, and then put that in a feedback loop, you'd have loads of fun. Analog delays will make an oscillating tone which can be useful.

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1321364325' post='1438217'] Any top tips for someone who's been playing fingerstyle for (mumble) years and wants to try a pick? [/quote] Try some Extreme! I love playing with a pick [i]and[/i] fingers. I use both as well as loads of pedals to create loads of different tones. Limiting yourself just to one is fine for some bands I suppose. I recorded a band recently, and the bassist who always played fingerstyle at gigs used a pick in the studio. I asked him why and he just said "I don't know, it just sounds better when I record" and he was deffinitely right. It all depends on the song/band/sound in question I suppose.

maybe you play harder in the second set?

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1320336748' post='1425520'] You'll never get the sound of a 12 through using effects. [/quote] Cool, i've never tried one. That further rienforces my point that the difference in sound should have been mind numbingly obvious!

I love my peavey TNT although I do pair it with a guitar amp. If anyone wants to hear the rig mic'd it's on myspace.com/nologorock One day i'll hopefully get a Tmax head. I play drums in a band and the bassist uses the above rig. I once asked a fellow bassist from the audience what he thought of our sound, and the first thing he said was "yeh, I never like the Peavey sound". WTF?!? It's got an EQ on it! It's not a set sound!

It sounds like I might have used the wrong term or something. I thought this bass had one string one octave up, and another two octaves up, for each string. It looks like it actually has 2 strings, both one octave up from the main string. fair enough! It's still the same as me turning my whammy on plus 1 octave with some chorus after it for the entire practise. That's pretty mind-numbingly obvious to me.

[quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1320246496' post='1424304'] ... and it's a 4 with TWO octaves per string, and a bit of chorus to bring out the zing - a good way away from my normal tone... [/quote] WTF?! That's not just a tone change, you're harmonising with 2 extra octaves on every single note and they don't notice. I've played with some people I would have in the past described as "less than musical" but your guys are something else.

I assume it's a 6 string bass with octave up strings? How the hell could they not notice the octave up on everything you played? It's fair enough not caring about what bass you're using, but if I played a whole practice with my whammy on +1 I would hope at least my band would notice!

I used to use the line-input for years until I bought a proper interface. It was a little noisey, but not too bad. I'd always use a pedal as a pre-amp but it will work without - just use a VST amp

I bought some cables from Ian, they arrived the next day all packaged well etc. Perfect!

you;d need to blend it with your dry signal, but yeh. I don't think the POG can do 5ths or 4ths though?

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1319722778' post='1417730'] Sounds like it`s working perfectly for a Zoom. [/quote] My old GFX707 was a right noisey bastard but my B2.1U is pretty much silent

Have you used the Zoom with that power adaptor on its own? Was it noisey then?

the same problem's on the DI track too!

yeh it sounds like the PSU is the problem

you can probably change your technique to get rid of most of this. However, once recorded you can do a low with some compression and EQ. It might be that there's too much transient attack which a compressor would help with. It might be that there's too much of a specific frequency band. Personally, I find that if there's too much "clack" you need to cut around 2KHz, where is there's too much "click" you need to cut nearer 4KHz. My bassist has a weird technique where he's always slapping the strings against the fretboard really hard, and it creates this kind of "clacking" on every bloody note. A fairly thin notch at 2KHz seems to get rid.

I was just going to say the same as Si's last paragraph there. Try to use your amp for distortion, and use the pedal for different levels of boost, and EQ settings.

On the Primus DVD I have there's a great drum solo I play drums for a couple of bands. When it's reggae/hip hop sort of stuff, it's quite easy to be honest. I push myself to keep it interesting, but some would say I over play. I really don't care 'cos the band seems to like what I do! Playing fairly heavy rock is a totally different experience, and I can play about an hour at the most before I keel over. The more we practise the longer I can go, but it's still the most excercise i've ever done in my life!! Playing bass gives me occasional wrist pains but generally I could play all day long with no problem no matter what style of music. I've played gigs without a full kit though. Kick snare and a cymbal will do for me, but I like to have everything there.

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1319468229' post='1414429'] Our drummer has Toms but never brings them. It makes a massive difference not having a stickmeister wandering off around his/her kit and being dedicated to the groove. Does some amazing stuff on the hi-hat instead. There are some good drummers around and they are all busy. [/quote] How is doing a load of fills on the hats any different from doing fills all around the kit? The way I see it is: As long as all my kicks and snares are in time and at the right level, no-one's really going to notice anything else, so I might as well amuse myself. Sure, for some drummers they may have to abandon anything outside the basic rythm to keep time well, but I seem to do OK.

As a bit of a drummer - Who cares if I get bored and put a load of fills in as long as I keep time and dynamics? Sometimes the reason someone has a load of cymbals is 'cos just hitting the kick and snare can get dull!

that's exactly what I was thinking! very organised etc, especially compared to some of the messy boards in this thread (me included)

that's ace but two footswitches to go up and down banks would have been more useful IMO