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[quote name='Rumble' post='186139' date='Apr 26 2008, 08:14 PM']+1 for Michael Manring - forgot about him. Looks a bit funny too [/quote] saw him play live about 4 years ago, blew my mind

ahh Fred Baker...taught me at Derby Uni a couple of years ago, amazing player, knows his sh*t...likes a good chat.

[quote name='oddjob' post='186100' date='Apr 26 2008, 07:03 PM']you wanna sound big and punchy and in tune. Compressor and Tuner Demeter Compulator in the for sale section, lots of people including myself recommend them, or EBS multicomp are the two major contenders. Tuner: Boss TU-2, Korg DT-10 i think, or peterson strobostomp if you think you can hear a difference of 0.1 cent. For 3 piece type stuff like u2 greenday chillies my personal preference is not to go with effects that take away from the bottom end of the bass like fuzz or synth. You just want to be rock solid, punchy, supplying the low stuff otherwise it looses its energy. IMO.[/quote] yawn...booooooooooring haha i know what you're saying though, those are kind of the foundations of a pedal board. I've never had a problem with keeping the low end with fuzz effects in a band situation though. Good recommendations though if those are the first pedals you own.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='186048' date='Apr 26 2008, 05:49 PM']The Yamaha QY10 is a hand-held music workstation produced by the Yamaha Corporation in the early 1990s. Possessing a MIDI sequencer, a tone generator and a tiny single-octave keyboard, the portable and battery-powered QY10 enables a musician to compose music while travelling. Got to be worth the postage to someone? Is in it's box and with the manual. Stick a fiver in my paypal and it's yours.[/quote] take a cheque? dont have paypal

a lot of controversial bass players being named as being 'over rated

a massive factor in what you buy will be budget...? but this said, don't be fooled into thinking that the more you spend the better you sound will be as this is not necessarily the case. Maybe go to a local large music shop with a good selection of different pedals and try a few things out. A classic starting point would be a fuzz of some description, a good reference point would be a Little Big Muff at around £45 new (don’t know about Australian $). Great sounding budget fuzz. Give it a whirl...

another reason to avoid fleabay like you would avoid stabbing yourself in the face with a carving knife, f***em

I think that it would be polite to introduce yourself before you sell but if you're new to the forum then you may be completely unaware that there's a general feeling that this should be done before you sell, so some new users (like myself) are oblivious to this and sell straight away and then get involved more with general forum banter etc later. I agree with possibly having had to have made a certain number of posts before being able to sell. My housemates are members of talkaudio.co.uk and that forum has a regulation that blocks users from posting new topics in the "for sale" section until they have made 50 posts, although I think 50 may be a little excessive. Having said this, I do understand from the admin perspective that the marketplace generates a lot of traffic.

Sounds like an idea to wear thin shoes, my regular trainers of choice at the moment are these ...http://www.psyche.co.uk/man-145/footwear-168/goliath-footwear-slogger-trainer-44343-5740_zoom.jpg... so they're not exactly massive. Guess I will have to learn to be more accurate and concentrate on where my feet are flapping about. Sometimes I wear some Nike SB classics which are a bit fatter or Adidas Chile 62 which are thinner than all the others but mid set pedal stomping issues still occur. Maybe concentration is the key...

I played one of these in a recording session once when i was just waiting around cos it was the studio's bass. I wasn’t impressed at all but saying that, the strings were about 8mm off the fret board and were completely dead and the neck wasn’t straight. All in all it's left me with a bad taste for jaguar basses but I know this is probably just due to that particular one being rubbish. I think they look great though and I’d love to play one that's been set up well.

Man there are some nice boards on this thread! It’s blocking me up with so much GAS that I might sell a kidney on the black market… Just wondering though, some of these boards are massive and some are sooooo overcrowded, are all these types of boards the ones that you guys actually gig? And if they are, how often do you miss the pedal you’re after or click down two at the same time or accidently change the control values of another pedal in the process of clicking another one on? I’ve encountered all these problems and more and all I use at the moment is a Line 6 Pod XT Live with a LBM and a Russian (black) Big Muff and occasionally another Ibanez fuzz and a Digitech synth wah, although soon this will be expanding by 2…possibly 3 pending summer/grad job. I’m not that clumsy or anything and I don’t pull off any crazy moves on stage so it’s not that I’m getting distracted or anything. In my limited experience of pedal boards I’ve found that generally people’s proper gigging boards are made up of 7 to 8 quality pedals, or a bit less, to cut down on space and clutter within the actual pedal board. Just interested to know if the guys with massive boards have any of the problems that I’ve encountered with a relatively small set up and also if anyone has cut down on their pedals because it was becoming impractical?

cant you buy cables with surge protectors or something similar built into them 'inline'? I'm sure I’ve seen them about and I'm actually pretty sure that I used one at a gig once - that was a jack to jack straight into my pedal board but im pretty sure you can get all sorts like XLR to XLR, XLR to Jack, etc etc... that might do the job but I couldn’t recommend them as definitive solution.

Nice, shame its 8 ohms. I didn't even know they did a 12" cab. Learn something new everyday...

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='185095' date='Apr 25 2008, 09:44 AM']my local sound control only stocks doc's pro plugs which i don't rate - i had a pair for a while, but binned them in the end[/quote] they are what I use and they're great at canceling out the really damaging frequencies whilst allowing you to clearly hear what's going on. Having said that I'm developing some semi-serious hearing problems so I'm seriously considering buying a pair of builders ear defenders