Si600

I can't be the only one who finds it really difficult hearing or recognising the first beat of a bar, so any tips on how to find it?

A work colleague of mine has just walked from John O Groats to Lands End. On the way they spent the evening in a pub with a couple of chaps with guitars. One of the punters said that they'd always meant to learn to play. At which point the guitarist said "Well, you aren't dead yet!" which strikes me as the perfect attitude to have about learning new things Hope you enjoy learning your new skill and have fun!

It's amazing what an hour making weird noises and reading the instructions gets I've got a list of effects stacked up in sequence to cycle through with the footswitch and made a patch with 4 ODB3s in it, then my real one and the OD channel on the amp... Won't be doing that again! There are some strange things on there that I have no idea where they'd be anymore than a novelty but the seq filter is my favourite oddity I think that for what it is and what it costs these pedals are a cracking buy, I need to adjust the levels on it and my compressor/noise gate a bit though. Pipped by Dood!

Rather than ressurect Dood's old thread I thought I'd start a new one with my questions, unless you want it adding to the other one to keep all the info in one place? I got one of these wee beasties last night and so far I'm very impressed and more than a little bit lost! 1, Is there a suggested place in the chain for it, currently it's set up Tuner - GE7B - ODB3 - MS60B - Compressor/Noise Gate. I've not played with positioning, just chucked it in the chain to play with it. 2, The Cry and Talk wah seem to have a LOT of gain on them, to the point of almost being a fuzz pedal. I've never used a real one, so is this what they are actually supposed to sound like? 3, One of the Synth models doesn't seem to track very well, if I play even medium fast by the time I'm at the end all I'm getting is clean notes, again, I've never used a real one so I wouldn't know whether this is normal behaviour or not. 4, Overall it's a great bit of kit, once I realised that the memory patches were a whole string of effects in one go and how to find the individual models it mostly fell into place but now I need to watch Dood's review and RTFM, though the manual does look a bit thin for the amount of stuff this thing looks capable of!

Bought a Zoom MS60B from Nick. Excellent communication, speedy postage and item as described. Just need to learn how to use it now!

GK MB500 or MB500 Fusion. The Fusion is a bit more than your budget but the other one should be OK. I hope, or I shall look even stupider than usual

Iiiiiiiiiits Jaegermeister Time I've actually seen a fellow BCer play, how about that!

I saw these guys in Kitzbühel earlier this year and I'd forgotten all about them until I was looking for something else on YouTube. We popped in for a couple and enjoyed it so much we stayed to the end. I was a bit worse for wear by the end so didn't think of plugging the 'chat but if you're on here, good bass skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRPTtvK9VE4

Is the neck glued on?

Is it worth getting a decent mixer that would form part of a PA at a later date?

TBH down tuning one string isn't exactly difficult I just like over-engineering the solution

Can you get single ear headphones at all? I find that if I listen to a track with my Walkman ear buds I can follow the bass much better, but then I can't hear my playing, especially if I'm not plugged in. I usually use just one of the ear buds, but as they're stereo I'm worried about missing bits as I haven't got both of them in. Is there a single mono earbud solution, or any bit of kit that I can plug the output from the Walkman, or laptop, into so that I can play along and hear it at the same time?

I was playing with odd tuning last night, DADG for Killing in the Name. Just out of curiosity is there an effect patch or stompbox that would replicate that, like a mutant octaver or something? The more I think about it as I write the more problems I can see with it so it's probably been tried and thrown away as a bad idea!

You can use split bicycle chain to mount pedals, you could make up some wooden rectangles and screw the pedals to those and then put the Velcro on the wood. I won't be near a computer for another day or so, so can't post pics, but if you search for my 19" Pedal Board Build in the build diaries thread you'll see what I mean :-)

In the meantime, how do I enter the competition for the Zoom MS60B?

[quote name='Si600' timestamp='1375694919' post='2164277'] It's a GK MB500 Fusion and I've currently got an ODB-3 which I hadn't considered using alongside the GK as it already has a gain stage. I'll try it when I get home and see what happens [/quote] Now that was an interesting experiment. Compared to the natural overdrive the ODB-3 is quite harsh and tinny, but that may be the settings. Put them together and it's a whole new sound. There's a solid body to it from the GK and the Boss adds a layer of bright snarlyness to it. I quite like it but it's a one song thing I think, adding the Boss for a chorus maybe otherwise you're trying to bash two pedals at once which doesn't quite work!

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1375706391' post='2164484'] Why not use the zooms own power supply ? or buy individual power units there not to dear on ebay better than messing things up by underpowering them. [/quote] I can, but I was wondering whether I could keep all the pedals self contained with the rest of the board. I've not got either Zoom yet, see "What Effect" thread, but the MS60B is looking very nice for the price. I suppose that I could mount an extension block in the case along with the pedal board. When I build the case of course Hmmm, it might not be a bad idea anyway...

I've got an effects power question, can you run a 9v 500ma unit from a 9v 300ma supply? Both the Zoom B3 and MS60B are 500ma but my board supply only has options for 100 or 300ma.

Choices, choices It's a GK MB500 Fusion and I've currently got an ODB-3 which I hadn't considered using alongside the GK as it already has a gain stage. I'll try it when I get home and see what happens The Zoom B2 looks like a tidy bit of kit as well, I'm not sure it's as customisable as the MS60B though. Anyone using a B2?

[quote name='TG Flatline' timestamp='1375692339' post='2164220'] To answer your original question, if it were me I would add a chorus or phaser in one slot, another gain-based pedal, and an octaver. I'd echo what Kev says though, and overall I'd probably suggest a multi-effect initially. Good luck [/quote] I'm quite taken by the Zoom at the moment so I'll have a look at that. You'd run another OD pedal alongside the valve channel on the head? What does that bring to the party?

Good idea, thanks. When I hear "multi-effect" I always think of the big box with five switches that each do their own thing. I hadn't thought about a programmable stomp-box. Is it still true that dedicated boxes are better than their programmable counterparts? It doesn't help that I don't really know which effect is which and what they sound like

This is proper noob question, well, what do you expect from a proper noob and I realise that there are a million different answers and it's all subjective anyway. I've got a GE7B and I'm using the inbuilt O/D on my amp for a bit of dirt when I need it. So far both have done me well, using the EQ on the chorus or if there happens to be a bit of a solo line ( ) for a bit more presence and using the O/D all the way through if it suits the song. Our repertoire is decidedly punky, but with forays into AC/DC and ZZ Top. I've got three 'slots' on my board and I'm not scared of a little tap-dancing or using effects in our originals, what would you suggest putting on it?

Heehee, Pitch up and slowed down sounds weird It makes Ken Casey sound like a chipmunk on He, and also shows how busy he is on what on first listen sounds a simple song. Well, it sounded simple to me [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPAiddHu6KQ[/media]

Thank you, I'll try that when I get home. If I can get a handle on this then I think my confidence in learning new songs will go up. How much would you slow it down by in % (as that's the option there is)?