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[quote name='Cantdosleepy' post='255550' date='Aug 5 2008, 04:41 PM']Didn't drink last night. Band played like a bunch of eejits. Feel bad today. Sent an e-mail about how bad we were. No-one agreed. Feel worse.[/quote] Was it the first time you've listened to your band sober?

[quote name='vegas_hooker' post='255861' date='Aug 5 2008, 10:58 PM']Surely your guitar playing friend could just buy some lower gauge strings and use what he has? or an Octave pedal? Seems an excessive and expensive way to go.[/quote] The baritone we bought was £90 between us, and can hold tension at very low pitch, and can handle high guage strings. Sure a guitar might have been able to handle it, but it's always a risk when you don't know what you're doing. An octave pedal will not track polyphonically, so not really an option. I think he's gone off the idea now anyway, we have a friend who is quite good at bass, so we've got him to do some bass to new stuff we're working on with me on drums. It's not as much fun but......

Kev was talking about it, I think he's selling one, it sounds pretty good to me, but i've never had one to play with.

I have been playing it with a standard set of baritone strings. It sounds great - especially amped. I have it tuned quite low at the moment, but there's not enough tension. I had a bass string on for the lowest string, but I had to unwind the end of it to make it fit the tuning head. I want some new bass strings to put on, but ruining a new pack of expensive bass strings it slightly out of my price range at the moment!

[quote name='Wooks' post='255388' date='Aug 5 2008, 01:55 PM']Spot on no experience whatsoever I think I might have bitten off my than I can chew with this thought!! [/quote] Wow there!! The chips we are talking about wont work after you've been chewing on them!

[quote name='Toasted' post='255384' date='Aug 5 2008, 01:54 PM']He uses answerphone chips in the lo-fi-loop-junky [/quote] Cool - you can get them from maplins I think, I was considering doing it for a while but...... I'm lazy. It can't be that difficult, a footswitch to record, a timer circuit (555 chip?) for repeats, and a stop footswitch!

Ta for all the replies (Nancy), but this has been revived due to Wild Frog. Since starting this thread I did actually buy a Yamaha baritone guitar off ebay and I just have to adapt some bass strings now to get it tuned as low as I want. It's very nice!

I've always managed to drink a case of beer, or a bottle of gin with the rest of the band, as well as some smokes. But yeh, when you have to go to work the next day it's probably not a good idea. I have an excellent coping method for the morning after, but it's probably not wise before work.

[quote name='Wooks' post='255359' date='Aug 5 2008, 01:29 PM']That's what I was thinking too mate!![/quote] If it's something that you want to do though..... If you go onto the Zvex site, there is a simple cheap "lo fi" sampler type pedal. I reckon he's done it with those chips you get really cheap that will record an play back a few seconds of audio. You could just try that for now - if you have some electronics experience? (I assumed you did from your post).

I think a high quality digital delay/sampler would be cheaper to buy ready made.

I think it's just the amount of work you do. You're "hyped up" for ages, you move a lot of heavy gear, when you're on stage you're concentrating and nerves can create real tension in muscles etc. It's just a stressful thing for your body to be going through. I used to drive to all of our gigs and I have a ridiculously heavy rig - I was always f*cked the next day.

I will have a look at the manual when I get a min.

is the phat head a distortion but with attack time, so the distortion only kicks in after whatever time you set it to? In which case can I buy it please?

Sorry to hear that Mr Fudge! [quote name='Oscar South' post='253177' date='Aug 2 2008, 10:26 AM']its just fact that good quality stomp boxes can blow away even the best multi effects. .................... I will admit that this is technically just 'in my opinion'....[/quote] Yes it IS just your opinion! [quote name='Oscar South' post='253212' date='Aug 2 2008, 11:06 AM'].....I'd say that the majority of decent quality single effects sound far better than the majority of multi effects.[/quote] That's a slightly different point. There are a lot of pedals out there that sound better than some multi-effects. However, there are probably just as many that would be put to shame by the likes of TC electronic, line 6 etc. I think the reason you like single pedals more is because they're easier to set-up and tweak. I don't see how it has anything to do with sound quality - some are good, some are bad, you can't possibly justify such a sweeping statement. It's like saying "the Ampeg VST plug-in was modelled on the real thing so of course it's going to sound worse". Some of the richest bands out there use multi effects for a reason. Muse for example.

Nice one! I would love a compressor pedal with so much control. Why do other people think it's ok to have attack, sustain, and nothing else!

The digitech bass squeeze can get half way there. If I use my boss AW-3 but have it set to a pedal wah type thing, with the expression pedal, I put the pedal all the way back and it creates extreme trebley attack. Then I put that through some overdrive to round it off a bit. It does sound loads like i'm using a pick when I do that. If you have one or can try one, i'll find the settings and post them.

What are you using the exciter for? I would have thought to brighten up the whole sound, and for a DI? Stick it at the end! Otherwise, your order is fine and obviously it wouldn't take more than an hour of experimentation to make sure you have the right order.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='252637' date='Aug 1 2008, 12:16 PM']No - response was to Cheddatom's accusation of erroneousness on my part! To think.... [/quote] I think the impression I got from your post was that you were refferring to any criticism of so called "virtuoso" musicians by anyone without a comparable ability as pointless (at the least). Fair enough that you would prefer people to articulate their opinions clearly instead of just say "that's crap". I obviously missed the "that's crap" style criticisms.

Me and my guitarist have been using planet waves for the last 5 years, doing around 30 gigs a year on average, and at least 100 practices a year. One broke when he plugged it into a cheap guitar that had a weird small jack socket. It was replaced for free - lifetime warrantee. I did break another, but that was because I closed some cymbal stand legs on it, cutting it in half.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='252135' date='Jul 31 2008, 04:03 PM']You could of course mute all the unplayed strings... Alex[/quote] Yeh this is the obvious solution. Certain strings will resonate if left open and you play another note that corresponds to it somehow (harmonics and fundamental and all that balls?) so if you don't want them resonating, mute the other strings.

I really would try my suggestion. I used to have my whole board going into a limiter, then straight to the amp. Now, I mix a bit of clean with the whole of that chain before the amp, and I have sh*t loads more punch.

The LS-2 is a very useful pedal. You could use it to switch between two different volume levels - useful for overdriving dirt pedals. My tip would be to put the LS-2 at the end of the chain, put just the limiter in one loop, and nothing in the other, and blend the two.

Nice, but don't you think the LS-2 is overkill for just a bypass loop?

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='252011' date='Jul 31 2008, 01:09 PM']No they don't. They know that they are not as capable as the people they criticise but, in order to increase their self esteem, they negate the value of the things they can't do in an effort to subconsciously justify the fact that they can't or won't do the work necessary to attain those skills. The tragedy is that they actually have to work astonishingly hard on their train of self-talk in order to maintain a belief in what they are saying.[/quote] I think that's erroneous bilbo! I'm not as good a bass player as Victor Wooten, but it wouldn't stop me criticising something I hear, just like I cannot play the piano, but I can quite happily critique a piano peice. So if someone who is considered a piano virtuoso played a peice and it sounded crap to me, I would say "I think that's utter crap" and it wouldn't have anything to do with my self esteem. [quote name='Oscar South' post='252003' date='Jul 31 2008, 01:02 PM']Another thing is that this 'X player has accomplished so much more than you so you can't critisise him/her' thing has to stop, anyone can have an opinion and voice it about anyone, theres no pre-requisite requirement to meet.[/quote] Damn right!!! Loads of very accomplshed painters probably thought Van Gough was crap, and voiced it. I'm sure lots of crap painters also thought he was crap. Now everyone thinks he was amazing. Van Gough probably had some strong opinions on other painters, and those painters probably said the same as Bilbo about him "he just calls us crap 'cos he's crap himself". Just because someone is popular or not, is not an actual indication of their creative ability, if creative ability can be quantified at all.

BUMP! 2 BCers have bought it - i've only heard good things! We've sold about 30 now!