dannybuoy

Pedaltrain 2 with a soft case? Also, if you've never actually seen one, the Pedaltrain Jr is bigger than you might think it is from looking at pictures on the web - does me fine and holds my 8 pedals. Dangerboy squeezed 13 onto his, but he crazy.

Go for a Zoom B2.1u. It has loads of effects, and the amp models sound great - I used to use one as a backup for ampless gigs. It's a bit fiddly to tweak for live use, but at home it's ideal. It also acts as a USB recording interface and comes with Cubase recording software.

Me too. I previoiusly has an Ibanez LU-20 which is also excellent for half the price... but I sold it to get the Korg because it looks so darn schexxy!

How about this one mate:

[url="http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/mb150s-iii--112/10173"]Gallien Krueger MB150S[/url]

Is well over your £200 budget but you might find a second hand one cheap if you're lucky.

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That should get you off to a start. But it sounds like you want a nice low gain overdrive, for which I would recommend a DHA VT1, Barber LTD SR, or a Sansamp BDDI or VT Bass.

I would guess you just move the jumper, but if nobody comes back at you with a definitive answer, just phone GK, or you can PM Mr Gallien directly through talkbass! I've been looking a these amps myself - you gonna be using live on Wednesday?

It has two, 600 watt power sections. So you can run each "side" at 4 ohms. (quote from the Genz Benz dude at TB forums).

The TBers were saying they wanted parametric mids and switchable tube/FET channels, it looks like they responded.

Is it a good idea to run these together through the same amp? Seems to me like the 1x15 would draw double the power of the 2x12 even though it can only take half the max power of the 2x12. Great price on great cabs though, but I just thought I'd throw that out there!

So do I but I like the idea of really cheap cabs at the moment and I know that 1153 is a good 'un that's really good bang for buck. Check out Alex's cabs at barefacedbass.com. You might be able to get away with replacing both of your cabs with a single 'Big One' (it's not that big).

I thought the 1153 was pretty lightweight for a 15 anyway - I was actually looking out for one to add a bit more bottom to my 10" iAmp 350 combo so let me know if you want to get rid of it!

EA will send you a free replacement strap by the way. I'm still waiting for mine to arrive though...

Can you show us what the frequency reposonse of the Big One is like compared to the Compact?

I made some clips of the VT2; the clips where just one tube is active will sound just like the VT1:

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=16907&hl=vt2+review"]VT2 Review[/url]

EDIT: mp3space.com seems to have disappeared so my clips are no more!

Digitech can only output a blend of octave down plus your dry signal, while others can solo the octave down, which sounds awesome on the Boss OC-2. EHX Octave Multiplexer apparently sounds very similar to the Boss. The later Boss OC-3 doesn't get as good reviews by the way.

The OC-2 sounds like a synth so is great for dance or drum'n'bass. The Micro POG though is more like a pitch shifted version of your bass, tracks better and also has an octave up feature.

I've seen plenty of bargains go untouched on here lately mate, it seems many people (myself included) just aren't spending much at the mo! For what it's worth, I saw one of those combos go for over £380 on eBay last week so you may get more joy there. Good luck with the sale, I have one and it's a great amp.

Put it in the for sale forum. Stuff seems to be moving very slowly at the moment though due to everybody being skint!

You should first of all try patching them together using the fx loop out of the SWR to the fx loop return of the new amp. This would bypass the tone shaping preamp stage of the 2nd amp meaning and make it just amplify the SWR tone. This might not work though if the SWR FX loop is wired up in series.

Another alternative is to take a lead from the tuner out of one amp into the input of the other.

What I would do though is get a Boss CEB-3 Bass Chorus pedal, and using a very subtle setting hook each side of the stereo output to a different amp, and put each amp on the opposite side of the stage. It will sound phat!

Filters sound better after fuzz IMHO, although you don't get quite the same precise control over the filter. Chorus works really well after this type of sound as can phasers and flangers. And delay! Might be worth pickng up a a second hand Zoom B2 multi fx or something so you can try out all of these fx and more.

Yeah, it's Timmy C in a box! There's some good clips of it in the Talkbass Wiki; I was gassing for one of these a while back, but now that my Pedaltrain is full, pedal GAS has been replaced by amp GAS!

All 3 of those are awesome pedals. I would jump on that Bluebeard if I didn't have a Supercollider Oscillating Beast on the way!

Ha, nice user name! Buy it!

I've got one, awesome envelope filter.

Where are you based? Is this the 1153 model? If the answers are London and yes then I could be interested!

Silent Fly, one thing that pishes me off about the Humphrey version is that it's way too loud and even with the level and gain controls set to 9 o'clock it's above unity volume. Is it the same with the stock one, or has Mr Humphrey added mega gain to it? How easy would it be to change a pot or resistor to alter the range of the level control (i.ie reduce the max volume anf give me more useable range)?

I liked the reverse step filter. Most of the others I found myself from similar tweaking, but that one was new to me!

I have the Bad Monkey (Humphrey modded version). I don't like the sound of it too much soloed, but it sounds AMAZING with a full band, really makes the bass stand out in the mix. My drummer and guitarist GRIN when it comes on. I have considered swapping it for a Barber LTD SR which is a very transparent sounding OD, but then I saw the Barber B-Custom Cool which is able to do the LTD standard + SR tones plus take on heavier overdrive duties as well. These have just come out and I've not heard of any bass players using them apart from a few people raving about them on the official Barber forum. If I was buying an OD I would probably try one of these on a whim.

The Polish Love pedal is getting a lot of hype on Talkbass, hand made real cheap by some guy in Poland. Can supposedly sound like a Cream Pie at low gain, but get quite crazy too.

Cream Pies are discontinued, made by Tone Factor then Mojo Hand, which I think was just a rebrand so it's all the same company. Because they're hard to find and hyped up on the interwebs, they hold their value pretty well, you could probably pick one up for about £80.

The DHA VT1 sounds amazing, but is a chunky box with a large 12v power supply - which may not be as much as an issue for you as it is for me (trying to squeeze as many 9v pedals onto a Pedaltrain Jr as I can!)

I think the B:Assmaster is a bit too insane-in-the-membrane for what you're looking for... although I really want one of those too!