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Has anyone got or used a Strymon Cloudburst? I love my reverb and ambient effects and just wondering if anyone here has used one and what their thoughts are on it with bass.

My selection,

I actually found it really interesting and what he says, he does speak a lot of truth as well as what is already known or has been the norm for some time. 

The catalyst in 1985.

24 minutes ago, Nos said:

So I bought the gnome ipro and a TC BC208 and tried it out at rehearsals. 
Rest of the band was impressed with how good it was and although driving the gain quite hard (makes it more punchy in my opinion) had to keep the volume right down, loads of headroom and great sound.

Huge thanks to everyone for there advice and reviews as I wouldn’t have given it a go without being on here and pulling from people’s experience 👍

That's great news, it's a cracking little mini rig, I'm super happy with mine and the Gnome punches well above its weight.

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

It should switch the effect on and off - it does on all my MS pedals. Have you got two choruses in the patch?

Not two choruses but two delays and I think a reverb. I updated the firmware to the MS-50 as Luke suggested above to allow for more blocks but it won't let me add a line selector as it says the DSP is full. 

This, it's a ESP 400 series Jazz bass from 1986 which I have owned for 37 years. My dad bought it brand new for me in 1987 and it has done thousands of gigs. It was made in the same factory as the Japanese Fender's so all the Fender parts are interchangeable. It was originally fretted but it had Barts fitted in about 1988 and then Jon Shuker made a fretless neck for it around 2012. It is the best bass I have ever owned and my main player and sounds amazing. It is however super beaten up these days but still plays like a dream.

Can anyone help with a small issue I'm finding.

I've been playing around with my MS-60B today and I've created a few patches but when I press the foot switch to turn the effect off, it's still present. So if I've got a chorus on and the red light is on, I press the foot switch, the red light goes out but the chorus is still on. Am I doing something wrong?

Update: I've worked it out, sort off. If the patch has 3 effects, I can add a line select to turn it on and off. However, one of the patches has 4 effects so I cant add a line select. Any way to work around this?

To me Americana was always those singer songwriters singing about themes that American's can relate to, usually with a bit of a political slant so artists such as John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ry Cooder etc. 

Last nights gig for me was absolutely amazing. It was a sort of open night in a beautiful venue called The Mill in Elstead. Backline is provided and 5 bands played, each getting about 25 minutes each. The sound is amazing and it's super intimate with a really appreciative audience of music lovers and musicians. We play very stripped back, heartfelt singer songwriter stuff with lyrics personal to the singer. I'm on fretless creating some ambience and our drummer is very chilled and percussive.

The first song is very atmospheric and as soon as I started playing, our singer said the two young girls sitting in front me who were about 16, their jaw's hit the floor. They'd never heard fretless and I had reverb and chorus and apparently they couldn't take their eyes off my playing. Mid way through the song, I get a sort of instrumental lead part and as soon as I go into it, the lady at the table whoops and shouts out, 'woah, go the bass player'. When I finish my little piece, the whole place applauds 😮 I've never had that and it was very much like what happens at a Jazz gig. Anyway, we play a blinder and we even had some of the audience in tears by how the singer had captured them with his lyrics. We get to the last song and we are improvising massively and our singer got the who room singing followed by a standing ovation 😁

Afterwards, we got a tonne of compliments and it turns out the lady who shouted 'go bass player' used to be a singer back in her day and one of the two girls was her daughter who is a singer songwriter. Her husband was also there and after chatting to him, it turns out he's a Jazz trumpeter 😎

What a amazing night and just makes it all worthwhile 😁

I bought one of these as a recommendation on here that they work really well for fretless and it has really transformed my tone. It's super hard to describe but it's just sort of sprinkled magic dust over it, it just sounds so much better, tighter, more balanced and a nicer voice. Mine is on all the time.

25 minutes ago, Nos said:

What cabs are people using these heads with as I'm looking to get the ipro V2 but need a lightweight cab to use with it?

There's quite a lot of positive feedback on the amps but nothing on the Warwick gnome cabs as far as I can see (from gigs anyway, someone replied to me about using it for noodling at home that was useful)

I wanted to build a mini rig to go with my Gnome Ipro 280 and looked at a lot of different small cabs. I'd read reviews from owners that the Gnome cabs are quite boxy and break up easily. I'd personally not tried them but I was put off by these reviews. I did consider a MarkBass Traveler but this was still a little too big for what I was trying to achieve. In the end I went for the TC Electronic 208 and I could not be happier. I'd read a lot of good reviews on here and elsewhere and not actually one bad review anywhere. I have now done a few gigs with mine and it is simply brilliant and pairs so well with the 280w Gone. The footprint is tiny, they are super light to carry and are about £190 new so great value. 

Just to add, my other rig is a Barefaced Two10 with a MarkBass LM IV but I am so impressed with my Gnome that I am super tempted to get rid of the LM IV and pick up the 500w Gnome.

Mine has to be Bill Evans and Miles Davis. Here they are together performing an amazing version of, 'On Green Dolphin Street'.

I'm also going to have to add Lisa Germano, the super talented violinist who played with John Mellencamp, Simple Minds and many other artists.

1 minute ago, Al Krow said:

 

What's the best way of getting that double track sound in a live setting? Is it easily do-able?

I'm thinking a multi fx with parallel paths may be simplest solution in terms of moving parts? Or perhaps a signal splitter back into a mini mixer?

But don't know if that's going to do much more than having a drive pedal with a good clean blend?

To be honest I really don't know as I haven't tried, I've only ever double tracked in a studio setting but I don't think you are far wrong with what you are thinking and splitting the channel.

An absolutely fantastic track. I'm not really a Prince fan but I love this track (Simple Minds also do an awesome cover) as well as the Purple Rain album, Girls and Boys, If I was Your Girlfriend and Sexy MF, all brilliant tracks.

I have thickened my sound up in the past by adding a smidge of Octave and a smidge of drive. It doesn't need much, otherwise it sounds affected but just a bit of each will thicken the sound. Its also a very common recording technique to double track the bass and leave one clean and the second with a bit of drive to make a lovely warm, thick tone. I was shown this back in the late 90's by Mark Wallis who recorded It Bites, Travis, U2, Primitives albums etc. and have recorded this way ever since. Sting also did it in the Police but he doubled up with an electric bass and a double bass. More recently, I recorded with a fretless Precision with flats and then double tracked with a fretless Jazz with rounds. Created a nice kind of cello sound. So a smidge of Octave and a smidge of drive will add a nice thickness to your tone.

Any fretless bass that has a lined fretboard

Rickenbacker's

Single Cut Basses

Danelectro Longhorn

Fan Fretted Basses

Anything pointy like Jackson's, Hamer etc.

Just don't get a fretless, it's so much more prone and noticeable on a fretless. My fretless Fender Precision and Stingray both have it but my fretless Jazz and maple neck Precision don't. Interesting that the two necks that don't were both custom made necks by Jon Shuker. A fretless Ibanez Musician that I'm borrowing also doesn't.

30 minutes ago, neepheid said:

We all need reminded sometimes just how insignificant and unimportant we truly are...

Something I got send a while back which does have some truth about it.

"In 100 years, say 2124, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, or preferably in the hands of an unknown collector. Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father? After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories. If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was. If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people. Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy. And we waste it day after day with greed, greed and intolerance."

4 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

Truth is, nobody cares, really.  There, I've said it.  Nobody cares.  Your circle of friends don't care and your circle of friend's friends don't care.

 

Hurts to say it.  You might get 5% turn up once out of curiosity, but that'll be it until such a point as you may be playing a big room, then there'll be this expectation of free tickets etc.

We played a special gig in Camden last year. Very much out of our area and not something we would normally do but our singer worked in London, he booked a back room in a pub, put on a few other acts and made a special night of it as a lot of his work colleagues said they are interested in the band and would love to come and see him play. Guess how many turned up? Just 1.

Sadly, as we all get older, people get other commitments like jobs, mortgages, holidays, kids etc. so everyone has less time, money or energy or even interest to leave the house.

Wow, absolutely stunning and so very special. I didn't even know that Stingray's came with binding either but it certainly adds to the look. Do you run it with flats or rounds?

5 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

But which songs? I'm guessing , respectively they are

Bat out of hell

Country house

Little monster

I predict a riot

7 nation army

I bet you look good on the dance floor

Someday

 

In which case I agree with you. Then again I'd agree viz whichever songs they are

With Blur it's pretty much most songs. I don't think Damon Albarn can hold a tune and the music sounds like a 6th form student band. Alex James is a great bassist though.

As for the rest then yes, you are right about those songs but I have heard other songs by all of those groups/artist and was equally unimpressed.

Meatloaf.

Blur

Royal Blood

The Kaiser Chiefs

The White Stripes

Artic Monkey

The Strokes

14 minutes ago, NikNik said:

Anything by Keane/ Nickelback.

Nickleback I get but Keane????

3 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

I went for the Markbass Nano 300 - I like MB stuff, there was one on here for a good price and it's louder than I need so it could find a place in a bigger setup somewhere down the line.
Cheers for all the input.

I see you bought @obbm one. Dave's a great guy and you'll get an awesome little head that will have been well looked after. Enjoy and let us know how you get on.