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I'll head over right now mate. Recently bought my first short scale this week! A fender musicmaster with new/added pickups. I love it so much I'm already looking for another for different tunings!

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1423833688' post='2689500'] The notes on your bass are the same as what notes the guitars have, regardless of tuning, they'll simply appear at different locations if one is detuned and the other isn't. It's quite possible for you to play in standard tuning instead of drop C# like the guitars, but when the guitars are playing a low C# on their open lowest string, instead of you mirroring that, you'd need to play the C# on the 4th fret of your A string (or whichever position of the neck you choose). The reason why most bass players will mirror the tuning of the guitars in this instance (if not playing a 5 string) is so they can get the low note equivalent of what the guitars are playing, maintaing the octave spreads between the bass and guitars. As guitars become more and more detuned, they obviously approach the basses sonic territory, no-one ever got excited about a bass player who is always playing in the same register as the guitar player I spent years playing in C Standard (C, F, Bb, Eb) because both guitarists were tuned to that, not because I couldn't play the songs in standard tuning, but because I wanted the low C note on my 4 string, tuning the rest of the strings down simply meant I was still tuned in 4ths (intervals between strings). Si [/quote] Loads of help as always Si. Thanks

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1423826463' post='2689404'] Sorry, I misunderstood. Yeah, drop the whole guitar down one and a half tones. Will be fine. You'll need to make sure you've got higher gauge strings to improve the tension though, otherwise the strings might be a bit flappy and uncomfortable to play. [/quote] I'm sorry, this is pretty much unknown territory for me. Will it not sound odd if I'm playing in a different tuning to the guitars?

Not a fan. I understand their practicality but don't really like them

Hi all, So my band decided they want to start writing again in C# tuning. My issue is I don't like any drop tunings at all, nothing where the low string is dropped lower than the rest. We used to do everything I drop D, which is wasn't keen on. Anyway, any advice on what I could play instead without it sounding terrible? I read that Kim Gordon is still playing in standard when the guitars are in C# on sonic youth albums. Failing that, will C#standard/ C Standard/ d standard work? Open auto any/ all advice. Cheers!

http://www.brightonion.co.uk/products/Mini-Looper.html There ya go

I still can't manage to find pictures (or for that fact availability) of these new ones in anything but fireglo, help anyone?

Does this mean there's gonna be an influx of VT Bass's and Sansamp's hitting eBay fairly soon then?

Haven't played on but been toying around with buying a bass driver too and a custom fuzz. Spoken to him on and off a few times and seems to offer a top shelf service and the prices are good. A note for bassists is he always has said he can mod anything for bass (although his stuff seems to be transparent-ish by nature) for free.

[quote name='paul j h' timestamp='1420542914' post='2650384'] I love the Gene Simmons tone in the demo, doe's anyone know how much these cost? cos I want one. [/quote] Listed for pre order at £60

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1412069824' post='2565264'] Doesn't the M80 already do distortion/OD? [/quote] It does but it's just distortion and as described above if I blend enough to hear the effect I lose too much low. That and the fact it effects frequencies and changed my sound. I just want something that doesn't change everything the minute I turn it on.

Anyone? Recommendations on something pransparent but dirty?

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm only looking for medium gain OD, I haven't really got on too much with distortion. It's worth noting that I am contemplating a programmable sansamp as I can match the tones of each channel but up the gain but I'm wary about this as I had a Behringer BDI21 can't as above I couldn't get the gain without upping the blend (and losing my sound). It's also worth noting the end of my chain is an MXR M80 for my clean sound.

so the story is that (not that I've tried loads) but I can never find an OD that I like. Everything I've tried usually sounds like when turning on the pedal I have changed my whole set up, they always have an effect on frequencies. I then moved onto using drives with a blend. What I then found is to keep my low end(and any of the sound I started with) I had the blend so low that I was barely getting any gain at all. So what I want is something that sounds like my rig but grittier. I am using whatever set up if provided in various rehersal rooms so the sound must be provided by the pedal rather than something to drive valves. I play post rock, but that doesn't really matter.

Was really temped by one of these but I'll never buy a drive without a blend ever again.