cheddatom

It all depends! If you put a compressor before pedals, you will limit the way that they react to dynamics. If you put pedals after your amp's pre-amp, then they could be overdriven by the louder signal. This might be good, but might be bad. I used EQ pedals to drive certain distortion pedals harder, so if you're doing something like that then using the pre-amp to drive them instead would make sense. If you have no other effects at all - putting the compressor in the loop could mean that you are giving it such a hot signal that the threshold control is useless. It could also lead to a loss of high (or boost of low) end which could be (un)desirable after the pre-amp depending on what kind of tone you get out of the amp-pre-amp rather than your bass's pre-amp. You might want to try bass>comp>FX return, completely bypassing the pre-amp. I think if you understand how compressors work, and what an effects loop is, then you should be able to experiment and figure out what works for you. There are reasons for the differences in sound before/after pedals/in a loop but being that the sound is subjective there can be no set rules.

I've heard quite a lot of bad things about the GT-6B but..... I used to know a bass player who played custom statii through a 2 x 4 x 10" TE stack, and he sounded amazing, and he used a GT-6B ALL of the time. I only quote his gear because I don't think you would spend that kind of money without researching your stuff, and I assume he did the same sort of testing for his effects.

If A works without the switch, and B works without the switch, then an AB switch will work!

I would have octave, fuzz wah, bass balls, flanger, fuzz.

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='263201' date='Aug 15 2008, 04:20 PM']Cheddatom.. for some reason I thought you looked like your avatar. lol[/quote] I do! The avatar pic was taken a while ago. I'm slowly growing into my skin.

I'm the one on the bottom left.

I always went for accuracy, but I got so many comments saying that I looked boring that I decided to compromise and try to move around a bit more. It's quite difficult when you're not used to it!

Fiendish, I hope it works out! I have a tone which sounds more like what you're afer - 3 channels - dry, compressed, distorted (quite nasty fizzy distortion) all blended and then into a limiter. Let us know what you end up using!

[quote name='BassManKev' post='262369' date='Aug 14 2008, 01:02 PM']with or without nails?[/quote] Without! Not that I remove them, I just don't use them except for popping. Dood - "I use compression, drive and eq to add bite to my sound. I tend not to use a pic unless there are very fast passages in songs. I prefer to to build speed with my fingers as it's easier to string skip on a wide neck!" I do exactly the same for the same reasons, although I do use a pick for chords aswell. I can do all my fast lines with fingers, but sometimes it's just more defined with a pick.

Well, you are using the words Grit and Full On Distortion - You wont get Grit by blending lots of clean with a little bit of full on distortion, for obvious reasons. You will get a cool tone though. Perhaps you could run a constant 50 or 60% blend with your full on distortion, and put a volume pedal before the distortion pedal so that you can control the gain. Do you not like the sound of the pedal at low gain? I think perhaps you might mean something different by the word Grit.

I seriously can get a pick sound with my fingers. I'll try and do some sound samples, but it'll be a while before I can.

[quote name='Finbar' post='261780' date='Aug 13 2008, 06:06 PM']Well I'm rejigging my pedalboard at the moment. I've always had my octave after my distortion just because I never really experimented with it, and it makes such a difference running the octave first o_O Synth-tastic. Anyway, quite a few little neat fixes and stuff (for me) going on, so I'm taking my time doing it all up, and I'm still missing a few pedals. Howeverrrr... I'm looking at getting a VFB-X or a modded VFB-jr (pedalboard space is at a premium, especially if I'm adding an expression pedal to control the blend) from Barge Concepts so I can use my Catalinbread Hyperpak for anything from full on distortion to a bit of grit. Anyone had any experience with doing that with the expression pedal? And are there any expression pedals I can set to have a minimum value so that the off/down position isn't fully dry signal? I'll probably shoot Barge Concepts themselves the same question. I have an ODB-3, but I don't really get along with it to be honest, even at some very low gain, mostly dry settings. If I can find a better solution, I will! When I've finished it, I'll take a photo. Its nothing to rival Tayste's new board, but I like it If anyone has any George L's jacks they're selling, I'd be happy to take them off your hands And another daisychain probably wouldn't go amiss![/quote] Are you thinking that you will have a little bit of dry and a lot of the hyperpak for full on distortion, and a lot of dry and a little hyperpak for low gain grit? I don't think this will work! You would be better off modding the dirt pedal so that you can control the gain with an exp pedal.

Heh, Kev, you never hold on to any gear! Most amusing. Having said that, I like the way you managed to sell your gear. When I was at uni I spent a lot of my overdraft on gear, and I could never bring myself to sell it.

Use a blending pedal! There are loads more than I first realised, but they seem to be quite difficult to find. If you search this forum section for blend, then you might find some info. I have a Barge Concepts blender thing, a DHA Bob the Blender, and a Boss LS-2. They're all good at their different applications, but I think you'd probably want the barge concepts one.

You should be as quick as possible else there'll be none left!

[quote name='joegarcia' post='259790' date='Aug 11 2008, 11:12 AM']Bought this the other week and love it to bits, listen to it loads.[/quote] HAHA! Nice one Joe, i'm glad you're enjoying it. Only another 6 weeks until we can gig again!

[quote name='Muse_Cubed' post='258622' date='Aug 8 2008, 11:57 PM']Despite my claims last year that my pedalboard was "pretty much perfect", I've been doing some tweaking. No pics yet (as I'm waiting for the last pedal to arrive) but it's pretty similar. Just horribly untidy but it was the only way I could fit everything on. The layout's better though, and pretty much all the pedals are pretty accessible. Bass -> Catalinbread Serrano Picoso (to negate output discrepancy between Warwick and Pedulla) -> EBS Multicomp -> Red Onion Triple Loop (w/Tuner Mute -> Korg DT-10) Looper Channel α: Digitech Whammy IV -> EMMA Discombobulator Looper Channel β: Boss LS-2 [Channel A] -> Akai Deep Impact -> DHA VT-2 Dual Bass Custom -> MXR Blowtorch -> Boss LS-2 [Channel B] -> Boss OC-3 -> EHX Big Muff Pi (Russian) -> Boss ODB-3 -> Wren & Cuff Pickle Pie B Looper Channel γ: Subdecay Noisebox -> MXR Phase 90 (w/Resistor and Tremolo Mod) -> Boss DD-6[/quote] Is your LS-2 blending the two loops or switching between?

That's a good idea. You could put some fuzz in the loop, have fuzz before envelope follower, and still have some dynamics for it to follow, which is pretty much impossible at the moment.

Try blending your xciter with your OD!

It might be that the aphex will work better with a more consistent signal, after the comp. It might be that the comp will enhance the bottom end of the aphex. You will have to try them and see what sounds best.

If you put a compressor before a dynamic follower (bass balls) then you are restricting the effect that your playing dynamics will have on the follower. If you put a compressor before a distortion pedal that reacts nicely to your playing dynamics - again the same issue. It depends on what you're using it for, but I would always have my compression towards the end of the chain for these reasons.