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bought a darkglass harmonic booster, really easy and kept me up to date with postage etc great guy to deal with! andy

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1385651066' post='2290704'] For the first time ever, I have more than one pedal, so I thought I'd make a mini board: [/quote] do you use the mastotron and xero at the same time? as they look very close? andy

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1385504357' post='2289175'] 412s can get very loud, but it's not just a volume thing. The Marshall sound is dense and can cover everything from around 100Hz right up to 4kHz, ie all over the bass guitar. You need to find the tonal gaps in there (if there are any) and boost those, or (better) get them to cut a hole somewhere for your bass. Often guitarists boost the bass/low-mids too much to get that thick chunky sound, great on its own but wipes out the bass in the mix, and it sounds better overall if they get a tone that's a little thin on it's own. When I do sound, Marshall-type driven guitar tone gives me the biggest difficulties with the mix 9 times out of 10. Especially if there are two of them, and especially especially if the guitarist comes with ego attached, which with Marshalls they usually seem to :/ Also, those Marshall overdrives give a very compressed tone. You may want to compress the bass to match, or you'll find the note decays too fast in comparison. [/quote] thats solid advice, guitarists dnt normally like to eq, if they can t hear themselves they turn up, but my band had a practice session where we spent time on the guitar sounds so we have a treble heavy gritty guitar a mid heavy rounded guitar and my bass which kinda glues those two sounds together. took a bit of time to sort it but sounds a lot better. also and i found this out in the studio, a sound you think sounds awesome alone wont sound anywhere near as good in a band mix. also is there anyway of taking your amp each time? then you have a constant bass sound as ebs to ampeg although both awesome wnt sound the same . andy

my fav fuzz is still the swollen pickle, at atleast half the price, does sound nice tho have to admit andy

Boss limiter on route to me

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1384842955' post='2281292'] Logic suggests to use a limiter last in the chain if you have other effects that could generate there own volume or low-frequency spikes. Basically, stick your limiter after anything that could cause a volume or low-frequency spike, whether it be your bass playing or a filter effect or whatever. [/quote] that makes sense looks like it will be first into the lmb-3 and then into a thumpinator then onto the orange after a crap load of effects of course

ive also tried adding a bit of reverb to my sound that worked nicely as it filled out the sound, maybe get something like an ls-2 and add the dirt over your clean? also i agree with adrenochrome a small volume boost might fill the sound out as the rhythm guitar is now not adding any volume so your part wont be as loud as if you were with the guitar. andy

yeh i was thinking this year is a bit to much of a push that seems like a gd date andy

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1384722753' post='2280057'] A combination of Thumpinator and limiter should work well. There was a Thumpinator for sale on here recently. [/quote] yeh sadly just missed out on this, have managed to score a boss limiter is it best to through this up front in the chain? andy

i get you dnt wanna break away from the punky feel to much but maybe adding a few cheeky runs or adding something to the riff when the guitar breaks away. from experience you can never fill the gap of the rhythm guitar with a bass, so theres no magic effect but mabye try an octave or something that will give you a 5th up but have it really subtle in the mix so the bass just gets a bit thicker but doesnt try to be a guitar andy

so im really happy with how my rig sounds atm sits nicely in the mix with my band. i use an always on overdrive (mesa flux drive) to push the terror into nice gritty drive, but thing is im extending my effects soon thanks to tom from cog effects, and im gonna be pushing some octave and fuzz through the amp aswell and have been looking at ways to protect my speakers in the obc 410. i know to watch the volume etc and listen for farts etc but with everything going on its gonna be a bit hard to hear if im over exerting a speaker. im wondering if its worth me in vesting in something to go at the end of the chain to just control big low or high spikes and level out the volume. from looking around im thinking that a sfx thumpinator at the end of my chain should stop the speaker over working and some sort of comp at the start to stop volume spikes coming from my playing i switch between fingers and pick and vary the attack alot. i want to keep the dynamics in my playing so not looking for crazy comp, would i be better of putting that in the effects loops? just looking to see ppls views. if theres and alternative to the sfx then please tell me also thinking of the xotic comp but suggestions welcome. andy

anyone interested in getting something together? on a weekend maybe? id be happy to bring all my rig and effects etc would struggle to find time to organize it on my own but will happily help? andy

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1383165682' post='2261159'] Inertia is complete [url="http://www.cogeffects.co.uk/inertia.php"]http://www.cogeffect....uk/inertia.php[/url] [/quote] so this on facebook this morn looks awesome!

toms just started on my pedal in the early stages so still a few weeks before i get my hands on it! andy

Tom at cog is awesome, or if you dnt need to control levels could get the bigshot aby? Has phase switches and is pretty cheap

i can get a nice clean sound from the 1000 maybe have something to do with my set up and i must admit to changing the setting on my bass a fair bit. maybe try the head on a dif cab? andy

easy answer i know its not true bypass but i never saw it as tone sucking.....the boss ls-2

currently in discussion with tom about an epic :-) andy