Woodinblack

Its 48 hours - the button shows the countdown timer before you can press it

Well mine turned up today, and it is certainly the best pitch shift pedal I have used but obviously not perfect. It is really good from just above low E, but my use case is doing Drop D and lowering it down to either drop B or drop C. The D has a slight delay, where it starts a little higher and comes down - its really subtle but you can tell the difference between playing a real B and a D dropped to a B, because of this initial drop. Maybe it is the bass I am using, I will try another one later, that one has a little knackered string.

Actually i have a practice tomorrow with the group that I do the drop B/C songs with, so I will see how it goes then

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

It's also not a standard scratchplate and the routing on the OLP bodies is just massive trenches (shame, a clear scratchplate would be nice otherwise) so the previous owner might just have decided to relocate the controls. Although I would associate a diamond layout more with a two-pickup bass.

I think the OLPs are great for experimenting on, cheap and loads of space to work with.

2 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

I think a culture change is also needed. My kids generation are happy to spend eye watering sums of money to see the bigger artists on their mega tours but have really minimal interest in watching unknown artists. 

Well, when I was young we saw the bigger groups at the Portsmouth Guildhall, but they were very cheap and affordable compared to how much we had, so it was actualy the same price as going to the pub, which obviously we did quite often, because that was cheap. There would often be a band in the pub, or one of the smaller venues. None of those things are that cheap any more.

But then, it was the status of those groups, you see iron maiden /  scorpions / Dio etc, they weren't mega legacy groups at hte time, they were just the normal groups 

1 minute ago, Rosie C said:

Amazingly that was my last job. We had a subsidised works canteen, everyone ate there and it had a really good atmosphere. Sadly I lost that job when covid struck and I doubt many companies still have a canteen.

When I was first out of school there was a works canteen, but since that job I have never worked anywhere big enough to have a works canteen. Since 1983 I haven't worked at anywhere with over 20 employees - oh hang on, not true, I worked at westlands but that was mostly from home too, and when we were in contractors didn;t go to the canteen (in fact I am not sure where it was)

1 hour ago, tegs07 said:

Indeed. I work from home most days. My days in the office are my least productive as I can’t concentrate over the inane conversations. Ironically my last two jobs were focused around increasing productivity through technology investments and innovation. 

Well, yes, when I said I WFH all the time, we actually go in every other tuesday, where we have a couple of meetings, then go down the pub at lunchtime (when we were full time there we never went down the pub), then chat - so it is more a sociable time. It is nominally a work day but we go home earlier and nothing really gets done, even indivual sessions where you need to help someone discuss something don't tend to be as productive as on teams as its generally just too noisy with too much going on.

15 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

Yeah, Paul told me the previous owner to him had used the things as a bit of a test bed for stuff. 

Yes, the knob location isn't standard for the OLP so I assumed there was something else in there.

I have an OLP and use it quite a lot, they are really good for cheap things. Mine isn't any hotter than any other bass I have, but it has a stinger preamp on it so maybe the original wasn't good.

46 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

And we should be progressing, not trying to get back to the bad old days.

Agreed - speaking as a full time working from home guy, when I was working from work I took my lunch with me, and work was about 15 minutes, so expenses wise, apart from burning more fossil fuel it wasnt adding anything. Maybe 'normal' depends on the area. and I get more done, isn't that the idea of productivity, rather than everyone going out and buying sandwhiches and making things dirty?

4 hours ago, Terry M. said:

There was. Wasn't great though unfortunately for basses. No sorry that was Portsmouth I'm thinking of.

Portsmouth PMT I would have a long history with, as it was originally Telecoms, then Nevada. I bought all my first musical equipment there, my first new guitar (a westone concorde), electric piano, pretty well every effect boss did in the 80s, used to practically live there in the early 80s!

4 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Not sure I'd ever find a use for anything above +1 oct anyway with our material!

Absolutely wouldn't be something I used (3 up or down), I guess they just put it there as they could

16 minutes ago, Cornwall Steve said:

I thought Dawsons closed in Dec 2022 after going into administration. Have they re-opened again ?

they did - thats what i mean, they used to have that (and wasn't there a PMT in plymouth?), but no longer.

The gigs are still good, I think the rehearsals with my main group that might end up pushing me out of the game!

Good clips, if nothing else, it does tell you to avoid the 3 octave up mode!

12 minutes ago, Cornwall Steve said:

Doesn't surprise to hear you say that. Not when you see so many big names that have disappeared since Covid. 

Yeh, PMT used to be quite good for bass stuff until they moved, only went in a few times after they moved and they weren't as good. But there were others down your way, such as dawsons, in exeter, but they didn't have that much. 

1 hour ago, Cornwall Steve said:

Living in rural Cornwall, it's a 240 mile round trip to Bristol before you get to any half decent outlets with any choice.

Point of order, there aren't any half decent outlets with any choice in Bristol!

Well, some good scavenging there then! Will keep facebook fullerton marketplace busy for a while!

What was skipped? (for those of us that can't get more than 2 seconds through a Sapko youtube!)

3 hours ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

*lets just say I had a colonoscopy the day before and the results are not what I had hoped for. Still yet to have more scans before knowing conclusively and what impact it will have.

Hope it goes better than it appears and all is well soon Greg.

Trade offers by PM only please

Ah, sorry, didn't know that, I just use the file or a polishing block to do that.

Yeh, I wouldn't have put up with that, I would join the ranks of the bassplayers that had left (or probably more likely been sacked for turning the top and bottom knob of the bongo flat out, the middle two off and slapping the whole set - trebbly enough for you?)

Slipknot - Duality, which was a lot trickier than I was expecting, and Muse, Unravelling.

I mean I am also learning Staying out for the summer by tricky for the other group, but as we haven't had a practice for a while, which means that when we get back together the guitarist will a have forgotten it again and take the practice to relearn it, I am not putting too much effort into it!

35 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

the plan is to see if I can pick up the XS-100 used too

Well, there is one on eBay but not sure how much I trust that advert!

I think for me, now I see I can have a couple of presets, the XS-1 is probably going to be the right one, no room for a XS-100 and no use for the expression pedal on a pitch shifter.