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Yeah I would echo Andy on that. I can't speak highly enough about the rat tail I have, great pedal for a nasaly OD. You could also look at fuzz boxes, the malekko bass master has a really fizzy quality that may hit what you're after.

Si, how many hours would you say it took? And what's your impression regarding the unit, is it spot on?

Which still isn't unique to a multi effects unit. But really... You've never had to balance your sound for a thumpy room by adjusting effects or even balancing out with equaliser adjustments? It's always been perfect. Everytime?

Compressors are an effect you'd want depending on, again, what you want to do... gain pedals compress the signal. Regarding what effect to use, if you know you don't want to use a revert/delay then it's all the more reason not to get a multi effect which will offer you options you don't want. As with most multi effects, you'll spend an age tweaking 3-4 patches to do what you need for practicality reasons.

Can you wear a cape though?

Is your signal spilt into two, a low frequency signal path and a high frequency signal path? Or are you saying that the synth was set up to just effect the higher frequencies within the original signal path? Just asking so that I know what you hope to do and what to suggest - obviously changing a synth for a OD will change the audio characteristics of your wall of distortion.

I'm not sure, personally a multi effect really swamps you down initially. In keeping with my previous post about the adjustment needed on patches, I think multi effects actually suit people who know what they want as a user group more. However, the trend is that beginners get a multi effects unit and not get the best out of it because they don't really know what they want. A common discussion on BC is the 'must haves' on peoples board and the common responses (whilst everyone's different) are the following: Overdrive/Distortion - fuzz is different in sound. Reverb/Delay Chorus Octave Four simple starting points to jump off from. I would get the really cheap single effect units first and decide if you A) like them use them C) need them - and then decide if you would improve on either of them. Including cables and power supplies, this approach isn't going to cost you more than picking up a single multi effect unit however It will help you develop an appreciation for how to use effects, including how to stack effects and adjust them for what you need. Otherwise you may find you have all the options but no methods, a pointless scenario. Good luck in your pursuits.

I started off with mutli-effects (Boss & Line 6) and you can get some very decent sounds out of them. However, I think you need to tweek each patch to get the sound you really want and in some cases you need to put a lot of time in to get something vaguely usable in certain settings. This means pushing lots of buttons as its mostly digital settings including amp set ups. You get a lot of bang for your buck with multi effects, undoubtedly, but you might be getting what you expected based on ease of use and signal path layouts.

Eureka! Silly me, I was responding to peoples adds for a bassist but I've put an add out that I'm an available bassist and three existing bands came through. One which I am totally excited by.

[quote name='Marty Forrer' timestamp='1487301950' post='3238787'] Yeah, to be fair I haven't played in a pop band for 20 years, and have no wish to do so. There's a lot of genres other than pub rock. Since the last pop band I have played Irish, Latino, rockabilly, country, jazz and theatre. Plenty of gigs outside of rock covers. My point to the OP is to expand your horizons, I could not be arsed playing in pubs to drunken 20 year olds making fools of themselves. There are much better gigs around, just put yourself out there. [/quote] You're not wrong, I'm talking to someone about starting a rockabilly band. The bands he reference are a bit cheesy but he seems to think it'll help us get gigging and about locally, so OK then. Yeah, its a balance between how much I want to play bass for the sake of it and how much I want to be in a type of band, both seem wrong when viewed that way. But its like how I enjoy golf now, I enjoy it generally, but its a massive laugh with my best mates on our favourite course.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Secret Chiefs Three Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - same of you will know those but all of you should.

Ah man, what the f*** this sucks guys. Kinda hoping that you'd know someone who was spare but this just reads depressing. I hate playing in my house, I'm like, whats the point. I've been looking for drummers more recently but gonna change tact and try find some guitarists.

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1487104576' post='3237207'] I went through a crap separation with my first daughters mum. During that time I bought a Custom Shop 64 jazz, Olympic White, Matching headstock - the best neck I've ever played, 8lbs, just a stupidly resonant bass - sounds silly but notes 'spoke'. Recorded and gigged it, some of the best times of my musical 'career' - sold out some big venues on that last tour. Anyhow, things took a turn and I met Mrs Travis. To get married I sold said white jazz bass. Broke one part of my heart while another was healed forever. That was 5 years ago. Then, a twist of fate... https://instagram.com/p/BP-i_3Tgl3U/ https://instagram.com/p/BP8li26AKRL/ It's home. Such a special bass. [/quote] ^ Awesome story! nice one.

Yeah, I'm out talking to people a lot but maybe I shouldn't be so desperate. I go jam nights and can play different styles , but then you get some upstart give you chapter and verse about what he needs and then he struggles to even describe what genre the music is, that happens a fair deal. The 'song writer' almost always ends up being a procrastinating dreamer with no handle on things. I just like noisy bands and think they are a laugh. Coming home from work with nothing to do except TV is crushing! I'm literally waiting for summer to play some twilight rounds.

Spacebass is a bit nutty for me, so is the white blob. However I really love the look of the millimetric bass, even the headstock has grown on me. Anyone played it before?

Writing about this feels a bit awkward because finding a band to me is a bit like finding new friends, its definitely a social thing for me, so I'm basically recapping on how you've all made friends and how I should go about making new friends differently - even thought I don't feel I struggle at all socially. I know a fair few musicians who are signed to indie labels but they don't have the time to join new projects ( they may just suspect that I'm not a serious musician because I don't have their status, fair enough ). There are some people I have jammed with but this falls down after a month or two because its either a case that I can't get a whole band set up together or the individuals end up being really flaky and I loose patience. The keen musicians I speak to at gigs and around are always enthusiastic, mainly because they've just seen a good show, but they fall into the above type of person. Its also annoying that whilst rock (and the sub genres) are supposedly inclusive, the people at these gigs seem soo clique and socially 'astute' that I kinda feel rejected in some way even though I know being in a band with faces who want to be seen more than heard would be awful. I just cant get anything off the ground. I've not been playing in a band for about 8 months (haven't gigged in a band set up for well over 18 months) and I'm getting really fed up, really really fed up. GF says its not that I'm getting old, but the social circle that I used to know has thinned out and playing loud sh*t for fun has become a bit more obscure for people. Its making me feel crap thinking that being in a band just isn't really accessible to me. I live near London FFS, it should be easy! I'm not good enough to play in a function band, I hate playing someone else's bass line and my dream isn't really to play for a living, its to play for fun. Thing is, that doesn't sound unreasonable in my head... it might sound like I've alienated myself but I just know what I want and its never really been difficult to find before. I'm not bringing loads of preconceptions to the table, I like the groovier gain heavy rocky stuff like all the original bands are playing. Is this normal? I don't think I can just wait this out so what gives?

Cool, I have one of those FX65 units. It turned up from Ebay broke and I never resolved it in time with seller.

[quote name='Wooks79' timestamp='1485366329' post='3223448'] Re: the avalanche run, someone on a Facebook pedal group has got rid of theirs saying something along the lines of that it doesn't do anything particularly impressive beyond what their existing eqd pedals did, which is enough to put me off a £300 pedal [/quote] I think their Transport Delay SR is still their best by miles of echoey reverbbbbbbbbbbb but thats just from looking at it online.

New gas!

Like al EQD it puts a lot into your tone and sound. Thinking about it, I may have sold it over a year ago and not noticed... ace pedal , but not for bass imho

I used it for two songs, one with the speed going like the clappers so the tremolo aspect was like an extreme flutter, the other was the other extreme of slow ( roughly 3 sec cycle) of the tremolo effect with dimension fully open but the attack right off. Not much else you can do with it TBH. Great for mucking about on Casio's but really hard to implement musically as the sound is soo unique. It's never just a chorus BTW, it would be lush if it could be.