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I've gone down the George L's route. And I buy all the plugs, straight and right angled, used on here. The cable is cheap enough to buy online a couple of metres at a time. One tip when using this type of connector is to check each cable is working ok right after you make it. The first time I wired up my whole board only to find that I had no signal going to my amp. I had to pull the whole board apart and test every cable. Sods law, the second to last one I tested was the culprit. The only down side to George L's are that the right anged connectors stick out by 17mm, which is fine on pedals with north mounted jacks, but they add quite a bit of width to a pedal with side mounted jacks. For these pedals I sometimes use those low profile mushroom patch cables to save space.

[quote name='Drax' timestamp='1421258611' post='2659087'] Proabably sounds better than a Rickenbacker [/quote] Lol. And I freely excercise my constitutional right not to wear my trousers.

You can't assign every parameter to the control pedal unfortunately, but they give you enough to have lots of fun. To see what's available, press the TOTAL button. In the right hand window, and in the CTRL PDL tab, scroll the left knob to see what's available. What these parameters are depends on what effects you have in each slot. And you can only have one parameter selected for each bank of 3 effects. But you can always copy the bank to a new memory slot, then assign a different footswitch parameter. Simples! Have fun.

As I own a yellow label my experience is limited to that earlier model. But I've read plenty about the brown label not being in the same league. The newer builds may well still be a good compressor, with its ticking faults long since cured by BBE, but the yellow labels are the sought after ones, in my experience. You'd have to get a brown label owner to give an opinion too I guess, but it's going to be hard for you to decide which to get unless you can A/B them side by side which may prove difficult. For £50-£60 I'd take a punt on one and make your own mind up. If it works for you you'll have a great compressor!

I've had mine for a few years now. I use it for a hint of compression, just to tighten up my tone a tad. It's a very transparent compressor. It works wonders on my P bass tone. There are pedals out there with lots more controls and they all have their selling points, but this one only has comp, volume and a 0/-15dB switch. For subtle yet effective old school kind of compression it's the business. If your going to buy one don't get the newer brown label 'moustache' version, it's not that good. The one you want is the earlier yellow label version. They usually go for about £60 second hand here on BC. From what you're saying you want from a compressor an Opto Stomp should do the job for you. If you want to read lots of good compressor reviews, including the Opto Stomp, check out www.ovnilab.com. And keep your eyes open in the classifieds.

Another option to look at is a blender that has separate wet & dry level controls, instead of a blend control.

Yes, you'll need a TRS jack on your exp pedal. I have a Roland EV-5. It is made of plastic but it's lasted me years and still going strong. I can't comment on other pedals as I've just not had to use any others so far. You'll love using an exp pedal with the B3, for changing wet/dry blends, gain levels, octave levels, chorus levels - it's great fun.

I'm a full time player and my gigging bass is a Squire PJ with Quarter Pounder pick ups. It plays like a dream and in the tone department it spanks most Fenders I've tried. You don't have to spend stupid money to get a cracking instrument. And ffs don't 'fess up!!

I'd have to say my COG Knightfall66 (because it the mutts) and my Zoom MS60B (because it's so versatile).

The Tarkins are Big Muff based, and the TK-421s are Rat based. That's as much as I know.

I don't miss any of my big old heavy gear. Apart from the weight issue, in comparison with what I have now it all sounded rubbish. That's the clincher for me.

I'm shocked that the OP's drummer could speed up by 15BPM and think it's ok to do that. I can feel a difference of a couple of BPM and I find that annoying. If he was in my band I'd say he has to go.

[quote name='bakerster135' timestamp='1405680188' post='2504257'] COG Knightfall 66. That is all... [/quote] My favourite od/distortion too.

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1417182751' post='2617891'] Have a word with the well known modifier on Ebay. I would imagine he would be only too happy to do it for you [/quote] That's just brilliant, turning a real Ric into a Faker. I love it

The only way you'll ever know if it works for you is to get one.

I'm in a few bands. On the covers & function side I have to prioritise Friday and Saturday nights for earning decent money, so pub gigs on those nights will get depped out. Any other night is usually on a first come first served basis. My originals band works daytimes so no conflict there. I'm a full time player, and depping on & depping out gigs is the norm. Yes there are some bands that don't like it, but on the whole it's accepted as part of life in this business. It also helps keep us all from going nuts playing the same songs with the same people night after night, I love the variety. I'd say that maybe once every 2 or 3 years I have a problem with a double booked night that causes me a headache.

I can't believe nobody's said it yet, but why not get both?

Thanks Phil

I'm thinking about investing in some lights. The set I'm thinking about is this: http://www.thomann.de/gb/stairville_stage_tri_led_bundle_complete.htm Does anyone here have these, or any like them? Are they any good for small to medium gigs? Cheers.

[quote name='jetofuj' timestamp='1416482488' post='2610607'] Buzzaround![/quote] I don't have a clue what noise it makes, but inside and out that is a tidy job you did there

I tried a Mooer Yellow Comp recently. On bass it was truly awful, but it did sound better on a guitar.

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1414701966' post='2592521'] this thing KILLS after an analog octave pedal [/quote] Isn't that the truth!

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1414582416' post='2590880'] Want indestructable? Buy a TU-3 Want accurate enough to set intonation? Buy a Turbo Tuner Want cheap? Buy a snark pedal tuner or a pitchblack Want really cheap? Buy a clip on. Want to tune lots of strings at once? Buy a polytune [/quote] Spot on there. Nuff said