Gunsfreddy2003

Ha ha! Marlborough is full of them! Tell him to stop by The Bear Hotel at 12 noon and The Fire Station at 9pm. Pure 70's jazz/funk the first gig and acid jazz/latin funk fusion the latter one! [quote name='BurritoBass' post='537625' date='Jul 10 2009, 11:55 PM']I grew up there! Not personally as I'm working but I expect my Dad will be wandering around passing his expert comment on whatever acts he stumbles across (ex pro Jazz drummer and current Jazz bore!)[/quote]

I am playing at MJF with two bands this weekend and wondered if anyone from the forum was going to be there? Let me know? Mark

I just use a clean duster and find that it takes most of the marks off the bass quite nicely. [quote name='jcater' post='534396' date='Jul 7 2009, 09:02 AM']Ok 2 gigs done with the rumour & it was a delight. Still got a bit of getting used to it to do but that's half the fun. What do you guys use to clean / polish them up after gigs? It's so stunning i feel i should put more effort in to keeping it looking that way. Any suggestions - within reason - gratefully received. Jeff[/quote]

Love to help out but my wife keeps tumble drying mine so that they only fit a small child afterwards! I have had two and soon to be onto my third. T Shirts that is! [quote name='phsycoandy' post='534056' date='Jul 6 2009, 07:02 PM']I'd still like a GB fat boy T Shirt btw ...........someone?[/quote]

Great idea! Count me in. Live just outside of Cheltenham and gigging quite a lot in Bristol over the next two months. Would be interested to see how the Barefaced compares to my Epifani. Cheers Mark [quote name='alexclaber' post='530410' date='Jul 2 2009, 11:35 AM']Whilst we get some more cabs built I thought I'd let y'all know that from this next batch I'm intending to send a cab off around those basschatters in the UK who want to try one but don't fancy splashing out right now. So like Wayne's 5-string thread the plan is for each person to pay the shipping to the next person, but as stickers won't stick to the textured finish I'd like marks out of ten and a signature on the back from everyone who tries it, a review up on the thread, plus a photo of them using it in anger (preferably at a gig). Shipping alone is about £10 without insurance, packaging will be provided though may need revitalising as it gets more and more battered. Join the list here! Alex[/quote]

The SA guitarist, Martin Kent or Ace as he was more recently known is from my home town of Cheltenham and I remember when he was just a local muso like the rest of us and had a very dodgy band called The Screaming Amoeba's!! However he was then and still is now a very laid back and likeable bloke. Also the only guy from here in a long time who actually managed to "make it" in the music business. Everyday Hurts is my fave track - I love the bass intro and not sure what effect he uses on it but it sounds great. Good luck to him and the rest of SA. [quote name='ednaplate' post='491043' date='May 18 2009, 12:27 AM']This is great news. I first saw SA back in 1997 while on holiday in Arizona where they were supporting Henry Rollins. There must have been no more than 25-30 watching their set. Anyway when they finished me, my girlfriend and our American friends introduced ourselves to the drummer. The ice breaker was that my gf's brother had interviewed Mark Richardson for the Lancashire Evening Telegraph two weeks previously and they got on really well. He invited us for drinks with the rest of the band and stayed with them for the rest of the evening. Skin was lovely, totally the opposite of her manic stage persona and came back from the bar with beers plus free CDs for us. Missed all of the Rollins set. Can't wait for the tour.[/quote]

Very A-Team!! Now is Bernie more Hannibal or Face?? [quote name='EBS_freak' post='532476' date='Jul 4 2009, 03:28 PM']As promised, here's the GB van. Bling. [/quote]

But there is no gain knob on the Brown Dog! [quote name='Higgie' post='512712' date='Jun 13 2009, 11:53 AM']Sorry, I forgot the levels were controlled for Clean and Fuzz. You just have to work with all 3 knobs (clean level/fuzz level/gain) to get the amount of Fuzz and volume you want. Ie Turn the blends up to account for more gain, and keep the gain lower than you would want to keep the volume down - Does that make sense?[/quote]

Sadly not quite that easy! If you look at the sound examples in the following link you can see from the illustrations that the level knobs just affect how much fuzz you hear in the sound and not the overall output volume. [url="http://www.chunksystems.com/a00f2.htm"]http://www.chunksystems.com/a00f2.htm[/url] [quote name='Finbar' post='512474' date='Jun 12 2009, 09:45 PM']Surely if you just lower the dirty level and the clean level both, the overall volume will go down?[/quote]

There is a dirty level and clean level knobs but no output level knob. [quote name='Higgie' post='512359' date='Jun 12 2009, 06:34 PM']There's an output level knob on the Brown Dog...Should be all you need.[/quote]

It certainly is a lot of grief for 2 pedals but the sound out of them is exactly what I want! Does make the EBS offerings and TBF most other pedals seem a lot more straight forward. I have just searched for a volume box on the Bay and it does not bring up anything similar - can you give me some more info? Mark [quote name='EBS_freak' post='511984' date='Jun 12 2009, 11:46 AM']Play with the mids more. I found that that had a huge influence when I had my Chunk pedals. Get a volume box off ebay. They are normally sold as things that you put in the effects loops of specifically Fender Hotrod amps. That's because Matts knows his sh1t and makes pedals that work. Man, this seems a hell of a lot of heartache for two pedals...[/quote]

Guys, Tried the pedals at a rehearsal last night and in line they sound ok but nowhere near as good as they do on the Chunk website where they are hooked up using the Envelope input. When the Y cable gets here from OBBM I can set it up properly and should all work fine! One thing though the Brown Dog seems to be a really "hot" pedal and boosts the signal dramatically which is not so good. Anyone got one of these and can advise how I can reduce the output or alternatively apart from a volume pedal anyone else got any ideas how I can keep the levels at a set volume. I have never had this problem with the EBS pedals they just give you the effect but with no signal boost. [quote name='cheddatom' post='511372' date='Jun 11 2009, 04:24 PM']I really liked my putting my bass balls into my big muff. Also, wah before distortion is the same thing, and that's pretty standard. I really like it the other way round too, but as this guy has the IQ and the Agent 00 he may aswell have both options.[/quote]

The guy at Chunk Systems strongly advised against putting a filter before the fuzz - don't know why though! [quote name='cheddatom' post='510891' date='Jun 11 2009, 09:27 AM']I thought the chain you described before: Bass to EBS Octabass to Brown Dog to Agent 00 Funk to EBS Bass IQ to EBS Multi Comp to EBS Uni Chorus!! Is a good starting point. I would put the IQ before the Brown Dog though.[/quote]

OBBM is a true gent and has offered to send me a Y cable to try and see if it all works. This forum is fantastic - thanks guys! [quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' post='510884' date='Jun 11 2009, 09:15 AM']Dannybuoy - very kind of you to produce a diagram and I particularly like the Bass illustration! I think that I might opt for a custom made Y cable from OBBM as in my mind it will look a bit neater - I am sure that this will work fine. Just need to figure out where to put the Chunk pedals into my existing EBS set up now!![/quote]

Dannybuoy - very kind of you to produce a diagram and I particularly like the Bass illustration! I think that I might opt for a custom made Y cable from OBBM as in my mind it will look a bit neater - I am sure that this will work fine. Just need to figure out where to put the Chunk pedals into my existing EBS set up now!! [quote name='dannybuoy' post='510844' date='Jun 11 2009, 07:01 AM']Like I said, it might look unintuitive at first, but what you want to do is split the signal before the Brown Dog input and send that to the 00Funk envelope. A jack splitter on the Brown Dog input might look wrong, but remember at the end of the day they are just electrical connections and it makes no difference whether you split the signal a few inches before the input or directly at the input. It's not like the jack splitter only allows signal to flow in one direction. Here's a pic! You can use the splitter earlier in the chain if you have other pedals before the Brown Dog, in which case put the splitter on the input of the first pedal in your chain. Also, if you have a tuner with dual outputs (eg Boss TU-2, Ibanez LU-20) you can use that as your signal splitter which looks much neater.[/quote]

That was exactly my logic - having said that I have not tried it but will do later. Hey if it works then I am a happy bunny that is all I want right now! [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='510829' date='Jun 11 2009, 01:31 AM']OK, well, I've never used a splitter like that, but I figured the plug would have to go into an output, not an input, and the sockets provide the split signal. Isn't that right? I don't see how it would work if you plugged it into the input on the Brown Dog.[/quote]

I have not had time to try this tonight but surely the headphone splitter product will not work as it is just putting two inputs into the brown dog and not one as input and the other as an output socket in the Agent 00 Funk or am I missing something? [quote name='dannybuoy' post='510342' date='Jun 10 2009, 04:27 PM']All you need to do is split your signal before the brown dog and pump that clean bass signal into the envelope input of the 00Funk. Job done. This is what the Brown Dog's envelope out is anyway, only difference is this connection is broken when the pedal is bypassed. Get one of these: Plug it into the Brown Dog input. Put your bass in one of the sockets, and a patch cable to in the other going to the 00Funk envelope input. Ta-Da! I did this with a Wooly Mammoth and WMD Fatman filter (which has an envelope input) with great results. Alternatively you can re-wire the Brown Dog envelope output to be always directly connected to the input socket instead of going via the footswitch.[/quote]

Hey Higgie, Yes but when you turn the fuzz off it cuts the signal completely to the Agent 00Funk! Mark [quote name='Higgie' post='510517' date='Jun 10 2009, 07:05 PM']Couldn't you connect them like normal (brown dog output to 00funk input) and then connect them via the envelope jacks? That way when the fuzz is off your clean bass is still going to the input of the pedal, but when you turn the fuzz on it's connected via envelope in?[/quote]

Funnily enough it was the comments on here that put me off the OS - problems with the firmware and usability etc. I thought that two seperate pedals would be easier. Looks like I was wrong! [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='510307' date='Jun 10 2009, 04:02 PM']I think what TaySte meant was to put the Y cable before the Brown Dog, send one split to the Brown Dog input, and the other to the 00Funk envelope in. Same solution I suggested using an LS-2 really, but much cheaper. I'm always a bit sketchy about using Y-cables, but not for any rational reason. The Chunk Systems Octavius Squeezer. It has the 00Funk and Brown Dog circuits in it, and also a dedicated mixer (amongst other neat features) that makes sure the envelope follower always gets the clean input signal. Beginning would be best, so it gets the (best, cleanest) signal from your guitar and sends it to the envelope in on your 00Funk. But I would try it with a Y-cable first like TaySte suggested. If it works well enough then it'll be much cheaper than the LS-2 solution.[/quote]