Al Krow

@Chienmortbb Filling Out the Sound of a BGD Trio - Gigs - Basschat Here you go - maybe a few useful pointers in this thread for you. Tbf it had dropped to page 9 so was pretty buried!

@MrDinsdale Newbie Q: if I put a pedal in the send / return loop of the Core am I correct that it can be set to run in parallel and won't be impacted by any of the fx in the Core? I'm thinking that would be the ideal set up for little drum pedal for home use.

If your website generates a single paid gig per annum then my guess is it will likely more than cover its running costs for a year. We've just this past week secured a 40th birthday party booking via ours. It is just one channel of getting bookings for us, but once it's been properly set up, it shouldn't take too much maintenance. I know some of BCers's bands get a very significant portion of their bookings via their website, far more than my crew do.

@Quatschmacher you mentioned "neural net" refinements would be happening to some of the patches, and which will also lead to further improvements to tracking. What's the story there and what sort of timeframe?

Colour me interested! Speaking of colour...will there be any other colour options available down the line?

Love the fact that you still have a trusty Zoom B3 alongside an HX Stomp! Out of interest what sort of fx do you find yourself using the Zoom in preference over the Stomp for?

Just came across this post on Talkbass - really nice plug for the FI Mk4: "I’m either crazy or stupid, but I absolutely love bass synth pedals! Like a guitarist with OD and distortion pedals, I’m nuts for the synth. I have a C4 (which was actually my very first pedal) an FI v.4, 2 Enzos, a DigiTech Bass Synth Wah, a Boss SY-300, and now an Enzo X. I’m selling one of my original Enzos to a friend. I got the SY-300 for a crazy price last year, but I’m not crazy about it and plan to sell soon. If you want my advice (feel free to disregard), hang on to that FI if you have the ability. It’s a fantastic pedal that you don’t have to worry about settings during gigs. The real UI is done in a DAW, but there’s enough you can do with the factory patches using the basic pedal UI to keep things fresh and interesting. There are certain sounds on the FI that I’ve never been able to replicate using other synths. For me, the FI is all about having fun. It’s not about creating patches from scratch. The Enzo X is a different beast. It’s better for deep editing and experimentation. It’s about creating patches. The UI is part of the pedal itself, as I’m sure you know. I didn’t have the money to get it, ended up using credit, as I’d been waiting for it since I tried an LVX!"

Can they add PWM just via a software update? I think a couple of folk have mentioned that omission too, including the Music Radar article, which was otherwise raving about the pedal! PWM useful mostly for string pad type sounds, or does it have wider use?

That's great thanks Peter! They seem to have included quite a bit of stuff since the original Enzo, a lot of it not specifically synth though. Have they improved the synth aspects too? The Arm chipset sounds like it's a premier piece of kit, though, and likely to give it DSP capability significantly ahead of any of the competition. Look forward to your further thoughts as/when you get a chance to get your hands on one.

Well, that's Music Radar's view of it!

@Quatschmacher other than polyphonic capability, do you have an initial sense of the overall capability of this unit vs the FI Mk4? Is it a step up and, if so, how significantly? Be very interested to get your thoughts as our resident synth expert!

APRIETA - VINCEN GARCÍA - Great to see one of the world's top current bass players using a Yamaha BB!

Don't think you need to beat yourself up/feel bad about it Phil? Paid gigs are the lifeblood of any covers outfit, and if you're managing to get them for your duo as well as for your band then more power to your elbow mate!

@mike257 - with regard to our specific line up, we have a male low bass vox with a C2 to C4 vocal range i.e. 65Hz to 260Hz, but he mostly sings in the C2 to C3 range i.e. up to 130Hz. He's not got a particularly strong vox and the bass vox is harder to hear in the mix anyway. Setting the HPF across the board at 150Hz has left his vocals sounding thin. So I was thinking of making an exception for his vox, and lowering the HPF to 60Hz in line with what we have for the bass guitar, and as with the bass guitar giving him a 3dB boost in at around 120Hz (2nd harmonic of C2). But, unlike bass guitar, keeping that 3dB boost up across the full 120 to 240Hz range i.e. up to the 2nd harmonic of C3. In isolation his vox does sound a lot richer with the updated EQ settings, but we've not had chance to try it in a band mix and I guess the proof of the pudding will be then! However, I wanted to run it passed you (and others more expert than me on here) before I cause chaos at a gig when I'm unlikely to have the bandwidth to figure out / remember / correct for what's causing us to sound awful!

Hi Pete, it's not configured in the same way as the OC5/OC3 i.e. the basic octave patch is full range. I tend to think of the OC5/OC3 (optional) range setting as being more aimed at guitarists, as us bass players will more often want the octave thickening on the upper range rather than purely on the lower strings i.e. if anything we would want it reversed? If however you did want something similar to the OC5/OC3 then I think you can insert an fx block so that only the lower frequencies are impacted by the octaver - not tried this yet, but I suspect @MrDinsdale has made good use of frequency selectors already! Fyi - I've also offboarded my EBS filter pedal too now, so currently down to just the Core + SY200

Definitely! I think the money for most BC bands these days is going to be more in live performance, and material releases almost become promo material to get a following/fan base to come along to hear us play live? Btw loved your band's track 'We're connected' - great lyrics (and bass line wasn't too shabby either!)

Just came across this, which might be of interest: The Best Compact Analog Mixers for your Studio Flattering to discover two of the desks I've had over the years on the list (Allen & Heath and Soundcraft)!

So in answer to your question with regard to filters... I've now been using the GT Core for a week and getting my head around it's various features and possibilities. The EBS IQ filter pedal I've currently got on my board (pictured above) is one of the very best analogue filters I've come across - almost on a par with 3Leaf filters I've had the privelege of owning, and considerably less expensive. I've set up a filter patch on the Core, [using the Touch Wah fx in band-pass filter mode - in case of wider interest] which gives me the choice of up or down filter. I've also included an octaver, but just with the up-filter, to thicken up the sound. Really like what I'm hearing on both up-sweep and down-sweep. And the excellent EBS... well that's just been taken off my board and will likely be appearing in the for-sale section in due course 😊

The BB P35 is a superb passive bass! Great tone and playability. Loved mine - wished it had been a touch lighter for my aging frame and it would have been a keeper!

Fishman Powerchord FX Patch One of the things we've been figuring out in my covers band is how to fill out the sound when the rhythm guitarist switches to doing a solo and we lose both vox and rhythm guitar and just have bass and drums underneath. It can feel a little empty! I've been thinking along the lines of a Fishman Powerchord sim on bass. I actually briefly owned the original pedal a few yeas back but found it a little too glitchy for my liking. Pitch shift seems to be a significant challenge for most multifx to do well and my Zoom B1-4 could only produce a mushy mess! I guess this is where the serious DSP firepower in the GT 1000 / Core comes into its own. I've created a little patch with a parallel signal path for: Basic setting: Pitchshift sim +7 (i.e. adding a fifth) Ctrl1 1 --> adds in Overtone sim with a modest lashing of octave up On the common path, additional options to kick in: Ctrl2 --> Chorus Ctrl3 --> Cry Wah which tightens up the EQ making it more punchy / less bassy (but also less warm) Loving the lack of latency and tightness of tracking on this patch and IMO this actually improves on the old Fishman pedal quite a bit.

@SumOne now you've had had a play with the GX10 for a while, was it the right decision to "trade down" (the colour touch screen is definitely an upgrade!)? Just wondering whether a combination of Core + Expression Pedal might have been potentially as good / possibly better? Having said that, I'm obviously delighted you decided to drop muggins here a DM,wondering if I might be willing to take your mint Core off you for a good price 😂

Wish you all the best Dave - I've really enjoyed your "How was your gig last night posts" over the years, and you were always very generous in your comments to the rest of us on there. If you can manage to part company on good terms and avoid burning bridges, so much the better. Who knows where things may end? If, as you say, you're a perfectionist, you're likely to be delivering to a high standard and have been doing for many years. Goodness knows if they will find someone as good as you to fill your boots!

Old pedal board: Current iteration: The GT 1000 Core is a considerable step up over my long term love-affair with the Zoom B1-4, which has been an amazingly good value workhorse budget mulitfx, and has been at the core of my board for several years. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that, unlike the B1-4, the Core does a great job at providing a very usable drive/fuzz which I'm liking a lot and also an octave up/down capability that is easily as good as the excellent Boss OC-5, and which I can access different settings as presets e.g. starting with just octave down and adding in an octave up to further fill out the sound, rather than needing to manually adjust during/between set list numbers. Had its first gig outing on Saturday with just a few basic patches set up and performed just fine, so I'm looking forward to getting to grips with it via the easy to use Boss Tone Studio PC Editor over the coming months and refining my current patches and creating some additional gigable ones as well as some fun ones for home use. For some reason I never really bonded with either the HX Stomp or Effects, which I know a great many BC'ers love, despite several attempts! So it's great to find an alternative and equivalently capable mid-range multifx (but with a much more recent and more powerful chipset) that has been so quick and easy to take a shine to. I suspect it's going to mean a clear-out of a bunch of my pedals e.g. I have managed to accumulate half a dozen drive/fuzz pedals in my quest for that elusive drive tone...only to find one I really liked within a day or so of auditioning the factory presets on the Core!