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Before you buy the C1 you may want to have a look at the H1. Apart from offering a great range of harmonies (very useful for BVs) the H1 is also 'hard-wired' for pitch. If you set it manually to produce harmonies in the key of E then it will produce exactly that, regardless of whether or not your pitching is accurate. I have even tuned my bass by setting the H1 to E A D G and singing through it. You'll probably want to exercise caution when using these pedals with fretless bass or slide guitar (or similar). I mainly use my H1 when playing DB which means that the 'auto-key' function is a complete no-no. I keep the pedal easily in reach and manually set it to the correct key for each song for this reason. One other thing worth noting about the these pedals is the very high current draw. Running the H1 off batteries (any sort, including large-capacity leisure batteries) can be a nightmare ... it's happiest running off the mains. Best look up whether the same is true of the C1.
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These devices DO work with just bass - I use the VoiceTone H1 all the time, and I assume that the VoiceTone C1 does the same.
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Oh I wish it could be NYE every day ...
Happy Jack replied to Happy Jack's topic in General Discussion
OK, that's obscure. And probably deep. But definitely obscure. -
Oh I wish it could be NYE every day ...
Happy Jack replied to Happy Jack's topic in General Discussion
Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Lead Pipe. -
As of now, I've been asked to play on NYE by eight different venues and with three different bands. This might make sense if I was God's gift to bass playing, but as it happens ...
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Best place for 'em ...
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Band's Youtube channel - a question about followers
Happy Jack replied to Silvia Bluejay's topic in General Discussion
And while we're talking YouTube, I've just re-posted the video shot by @Silvia Bluejay of my talk at the 2014 SouthEast BassBash on another thread and found that the on-screen quality has deteriorated really, really sharply. There were nowt wrong wi' t'video when uploaded in 2014. Now it looks like a piece of film salvaged from a skip after a couple of days in the rain. Even more alarmingly the sound quality (from the camera that we used to use for all our band videos) is also now complete pants. Any ideas WTF has happened here? -
And They Stand There ...
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Different sort of warming-up but yes, the two types work well together. If you just want the finger-stretching bit, go to 8:40.
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Band's Youtube channel - a question about followers
Happy Jack replied to Silvia Bluejay's topic in General Discussion
Excellent! As a person who does NOT have Admin rights to that channel, I can confirm that YouTube currently shows 102 subscribers. -
Band's Youtube channel - a question about followers
Happy Jack replied to Silvia Bluejay's topic in General Discussion
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I'm beginning to wonder if there's any aspect of life that does not have a forum ...
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Link, please?
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Absolutely a +1 from me ... not just a tiny, tiny thing, but also very cool and remarkably effective pedal. Best of all, when your guitarist's pedal board fails or blows up you can rescue him on the spot. 🙄
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Any Basschatters with decent experience of this app? @Silvia Bluejay and I are wondering whether it's worth upgrading from the Behringer XR18 (decent product, utterly lousy control app) to the Mackie DL16S and there's surprisingly little available online to inform the decision.
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Reckon that headstock shape needs work ... 😉
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As an added no-cost bonus, you get a reminder of my Lockdown-special porn-star moustache ...
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How many extra drinks does a pub need to sell to cover a £250 band?
Happy Jack replied to 41Hz's topic in General Discussion
Most profitable item sold in a pub? Your cup of coffee after the meal. Factoid. -
... is starting to look VERY interesting.
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Bass truss rod won't tighten any further
Happy Jack replied to Ricardo Alves's topic in Repairs and Technical
@Ricardo Alves - read this: -
How many extra drinks does a pub need to sell to cover a £250 band?
Happy Jack replied to 41Hz's topic in General Discussion
Oh come on Tim, it was you who introduced the notion of "makes about 80p on a pint". If you don't see how it can be calculated on a per pint basis, perhaps you should have told your Landlord friend to stop talking out of his derriere. So anyway ... is this the 5-minute argument or the full half-hour? -
How many extra drinks does a pub need to sell to cover a £250 band?
Happy Jack replied to 41Hz's topic in General Discussion
Trouble is, it all depends how the pub is operated and how the figures are presented. There are so many different business models for running a pub (owned, managed, tied house, free house, etc.) and so many different ways to remunerate the person in charge (owner, tenant, landlord, employee, etc.) that the results from selling a pint for a fiver can produce pretty much any answer you like. If the guy running a tied house is forced to pay £4 for a pint that will sell for £5, then he's making a gross profit of £1 out of which he has to pay his overheads. Boom! There's your 80p. But then he doesn't need to share his profits with the PubCo and can keep whatever he makes. One thing seems sure ... you're never going to get a straight, honest answer!