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DrGonzo
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Hey-o! Having a bit of a clear out after accidently spending all my money on stuff... Oops! Also, I don't really use them anyway, so really they're just gathering dust! Up for sale we have : Aria OD-10 (I think.. will confirm) - £25 Dual-Channel OD pedal, nice gritty OD with a second channel for extra boost. The boost is activated by pressing the pedal with the first OD on. Bought from BW about 18 months ago, used it a few times but I don't really need any more OD than I already have on my pedalboard. Korg 105-d Hyper Distortion - £25 Another 2-channel pedal, this time more of a distortion than OD. Sounds great, really fat valve-like distortion. You can also save your settings as its a digital pedal. Don't let that put you off though, it does sound pretty good. The only downside to this pedal is a slight delay when activating the effect - one for the studio or those with loopers so you can leave it always-on I think, although I used it for a while with one setting on clean and the second channel dirty (oddly enough there's no delay between setting one/twoo, just on/off... weird!) Effector 13 2ADD - £45 Bought this one from BassManKev a couple of months ago. Really dirty horrible buzz/fuzz pedal. Apparently quite rare, and certainly a pretty pedal. I'd like to keep it, but I can't really justify it at the moment, so it has to go! There is somewhere a clip from TaySte (as I remember) and pics from BassManKev, but I'm buggered if I can find em! George Dennis Optical Wah - £10 Old pedal from my git-arrgh playing days, but also sounds great on bass. A bit tatty, lost battery cover hence the cheap price. It's british built, and I think it cost around £120 new, so its a bit of a bargain! Behringer Bass Chorus - £10 Standard Bass chorus pedal. Bog standard, works fine. Nuff said! Only used at a couple of gigs, as new condition. Behringer Bass EQ - £10 As above, but pedal. Only plugged in about twice, sorted. Save yourself a couple of quid over store prices. Pictures will follow once I get hold of a camera that works, postage will be extra and will vary by the pedal, shouldn't be more than a fiver though. Please buy some of them, because I'm dead skint! Cheers! -
Might be nice to get a spare...
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Fender USA Hot Rodded Precision Bass **SOLD**
DrGonzo replied to rhughes44's topic in Basses For Sale
If its still with you at the end of next week I'll snap it, along with your arm if you're not careful! -
No instrument is any harder or easier to master technically. They all have their own unique ways of playing them that require completely different techiniques to get right. The thing that a lot of people don't get, and what I think Alex is referring to, is that your technical ability comes a long way second to your feel and understanding of the music that you're playing, no matter what instrument you're playing. Oviously the more technically competent you are, the more "amazing" your playing is, but to create amazing music you need to feel the music you're playing, and do exactly what is neccessary. Point in case - The Pixies. Technically cack, very little going on from anyone, the music is awesome and incredibly powerful. Compare them to your average pub metal band. All flash and technical wizardry, normally absolute crap to listen to. (Incidently, that's not to denograte any metal band players. If you put a lot of thought into what the songs are doing and where they're going, as well as having some speed chops and a good vibe in the band, metal can be totally brilliant - its just there are a lot of metal bands that spend more time showing off than playing songs.)
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I think they look a bit wierd, but they play and sound incredible! If the sound is a little... perfect... for you, there is always a DHA knocking around to filth it up a bit. Me, I don't have that problem! Filth aplenty in my setup...
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Hi folks, A bit of a weird request, but here's the thing... We're out on tour at the end of October/start of November and we've got a few dates to fill. We've got two gigs at our local rock sleaze pit, The Brickyard in Carlisle, booked before christmas, and we're looking for some high quality rock outfits that would be up for playing in a gig-swap style of arrangement. Basically we've got three slots spare at the moment, and we'd be looking for a gig swap for the tour. We've got a great following locally, two of us work at the venue and we've never played to less than 150 folks there. The atmosphere is great, PA is great and the engineer that's looking after the show for us is top notch. We're prety slugy riff-based rock, so if you think that our bands would go down well on the same bill, want to come play in a cool venue with some other great bands and can hook us up with a cool place to play then we'd dearly love to play with you. NOT like that, perverts. Looking forward to hear from y'all! Love, Bez
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If you want to cut down the amount of gear you need at the side of stage [i]and[/i] provide a decent alternative to the FOH board while removing the hassle of set-up you should try a little digital mixer if budget can cope - you might be able to get a Yamaha 01V96 reasonably cheap, or there's the old Behringer digital desk, can't remember the name now. DDX16/32 or summat... That way you get all your processing built in, all your monitor / IEM settings saved and ready to go and a cracking last-resort live board.
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Depending on how much gaiin ou want, I'd recomend checking out the D*A*M Ezekiell. I have one, also a VBA400, and it sounds amazing!
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1.14mm Dunlops (Purple). Tried a load of others, and nothing else is quite as flexible tone-wise. I find that if you slide the pick sideways on you can get a nice rounded fingerstyle tone, then for really digging in I've got the tickness to rweally bend in the notes... My bass tech loves me like!
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Hey-o Joe. Bez from The Brickyard here... I don't think I was doin sound when you guys played up Carlisle, but I do seem to remember some kind of bizarre drunken conversation about bass and distortion... apologies for being a drunken lout, but nevermind. Say Hi to Rose when you see er. This is weird - now officially at least three members of this ere board have I met at some point without ever realising it!
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OK, after looking about for, quite frankly, ages I've finally found the missing piece of my pedalboard jigsaw... Used mortar shell ammo case - perfect dimensions for a pedal board, looks battered as hell (=cool as f*ck) Just need to drill the hinges out and replace em with lift off versions... Rough pics to follow shortly... I can't wait!
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I'd say that the speaker's been blown by too much signal. Distortion like that happens in a speaker when the coil melts slightly when being overdriven (thats in a speaker sense, not as in fuzz...) and reforms slightly mis-shapen. Its catching on the side of the driver (magnet) and will slowly wear itself out. Also, its important that usually the master output control is not really a control of the overall output power, but a control of the gain applied to the signal from the pre-amp. So if the pre was really loud (i.e. clipping) the sound would be a lot louder than normal, and may well have pushed your amp over what the speaker could handle. Basically, like Oxblood sed.
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Asking a band to get 20 people and contribute financially is fine for the londoners (if it were to be in london) but what about us lowly northern mortals? I know we'd certainly be up for playing a reasonably well attended gig in London, and would Myspace the living hell out of it, but its a long way away and getting a crowd there just isn't practical.
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Just tell the keyboard player to stick all his parts into a sequencer, get the drummer to play to a click and buy 2 8x10s Sorted.
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Yup, that's the place. What band were you with then? Coupla years ago, chances are it was me that engineered the show.
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I got the Programmable one, and it sorted my bass out nicely - its very mid-heavy, so the scoop worked a treat. Great as a general pre-amp, I've got two main sounds, and a OD from it too. Tends to get quie trebly with the presence up, nasty digital OD sound, but with a bit of playing about you can get some amazing sounds. Well worth the extra for the three channel one too - didn't think I'd need it when I got sent it rather than the BDDI I'd ordered, but its worked out great! Especially because the place I ordered from forgot to charge me...
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Its weird, I've used plenty of ODs, cheap, expensive, digi, analogue and never had an issue with my active bass...
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Kev, I might well take that effector off you at the end of next week when I get paid... Can you wait? I am certainly a lover of all out bass thunder!
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Do you mean what high-gain pedals do I use? Sansamp 3-Ch Pre into Digitech Bass Driver into (Chorus) into D*A*M BEZekiel Custom into T-Rex Bass Juice All outputs are pretty much flat out to drive the pre amp in my VBA so there's rich valve compression when the BEZekiel is on... Tayste, was it you that helped design the Ezekiel? I still get amazed by that thing!
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Hey all, I'm thinking about getting a synth pedal, but I have a slight problem - what I want it to do is quite particular in one instance, so I thought I'd ask you guys if you had any ideas... The idea I have for this one part in one song (the main reason for buying one - although once I have one I can play about with it...) is for an octave below note to be played and held while I'm playnig another riff over the top... and ideally this note would fade out... The backup plan for this would be to get a pedal that will store a pre-recorded effect from something like a Juno... but I think a pedal that can produce this sound would be more flexible! Anyone got any ideas? I'm thinking maybe a moog pedal would do something like that, but I'm not really sure... As for the pre-recorded effect idea, I'm thinking a Zvex Lo-fi thingy would do it nicely...
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I can thoroughly recommend the T-Max. Unbelievable lickle things! A mate of mine has had two now, he loves them so much. Amazing tone, and seriously loud for a cheaper amp! I hated the only B2R I've used, but that was at a gig when I had to turn up and play through it, so I didn't have a chance to tinker properly. I was VERY disappointed though... I definitely remember that horrible mid-range thing MoJ - totally ruined my fx tone.
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[quote name='stewblack' post='12653' date='Jun 5 2007, 07:54 PM']I work in a cellar bar and one guy used an 8X10 Ampeg which appeared in a metal flight case. It took the entire band to get it up the stairs and out, and my were those guys sweating! hell, i was sweating just watching them.[/quote] Ahh... the traditional fridge in a box. I love it when people turn up with those. They look over at you with that puppy dog look in their eyes....
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I'd still suggest not running it in the red all the time, but it really shouldn't do any harm, no. go for it son!
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Any quality, original bands doing their own thing can and will be considered! PM me if you've got what it takes...
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For those on a budget, you may be interested to know that I managed to blag a set of filtered moulds from the NHS... Had an ear infection, went for a hearing test because I said I was a musician and sound engineer, blagged it!