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Hook tape/velcro can be bought from loads of places, but its usually best to get the INDUSTRIAL strength type, the adhesive used forms a really strong, solid bond, standard hook tape can have the tendency to come off the board/pedal quite easily, however Industrial strength hook tape is quite a bit more expensive, but once its on, its bloody hard to get off. I've bought pre-cut strips from ebay a few times. With the industrial velcro i dont need to worry about the rubber bottoms on boss pedals, its thick and strong enough to just put over the top and it'll hold. I velcro everything down on my board: both power supplies and the 4-plug extension lead as well as the pedals, so that in transit i dont have to worry about things becoming disconnected, I also power my amp from the 4-plug on my board, because you can never know how much power is gonna be available at the gig.

Great guy to deal with, very pleasant, very trustworthy, would happily do business with again, Cheers for the pedal Theo

well if price is no object, then the Chunk Systems Octavius Squeezer will probably do everything you want and more, and you can create and store presets. The EHX bass micro synth is also wonderful, but a different beast. great filter section too. the Qtron+ is pretty cool as well and is probably more flexible than the Micro Synth (as you can add other pedals in the fx loop such as distortion, octave, another filter, delay as well as having tonnes of options for the qtron's filter settings) but personally i preferred the Micro Synth - its still funky, but not as stereotypically funky ie bootsy collins, and it works out cheaper/neater than buying a qtron+ AND the subsequent pedals you want for that synth sound. only problem i had with the BMS is that i found that i probably could do with about 3, its got alot of awesome sounds in it, hell Juan from the Mars Volta uses it as his main distortion (according to an article in Bass Player)

i've got an eye on it already, but realistic I dont have the cash or board space for another fuzz (I have 4 Fuzzes already)

yes, it should just be the VTbass, however it does sound alot better comming out of an amp/speaker, and im not entirely trusting of the TonePort for recording clean - its designed to be used with the models provided, but i tried to get a flat response and thats the best i could get. heres a few (better) clips i found that show more of what the VTbass is about: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8kdWpB3U4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8kdWpB3U4[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6jQTYdSCY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6jQTYdSCY[/url]

[quote name='Jake_M' post='303482' date='Oct 10 2008, 12:58 AM']That would be great. Thanks for the help, much appreciated. :-) The sound i (try to) get thru a real amp would be JJ Burnel circa Black & White, John Entwistle, Lemmy. Clear, clean overdive rather that actual distortion. I play either a Fender Precision or a Rickenbacker. Hope that's enough to go on. Cheers, Jake M[/quote] well heres a clip: [url="http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6961826"]http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6961826[/url] didnt come out quite how i expected, im not really sure if its what you're looking for, the clip was like 20mins, but i edited it down to 5, got rid of most of the 'too-distorted' tones, im playing with my Yamaha Attitude Special with just the p-bass pickup (which is a DiMarzio that i got off ebay), also i switch between playing with a Pick and playing with fingers (I prefer fingers, but i wasnt sure about you and thought you might like a pick, so theres more pick-style stuff) I was recording through my Line6 TonePort GX on the 'no-amp' model, but i dont actually know how realistic it is for me to use the line6 stuff at all, however you can be the judge, the first second or two of the clip is just clean p-bass pickup, the tone is all the way up (its always up, theres no tone control). Hope this helps ps - if you've got a spare £20-£30 pick up the behringer GTI21 (i think thats what its called) apparently the Bass one is very similar sonically to the Sansamp Bassdriver, so i assume the guitar one is similar to the GT2 oh yeah sorry for the sloppy playing, it was like 2.30 in the morning and i was tired

[quote name='Jake_M' post='301759' date='Oct 7 2008, 09:56 PM']I reckon i might be better off with the british guitar amp modeler though, because i use Hiwatt/Marshall lead amps to get my sound.[/quote] Well, Tech 21 also make the Sansamp GT2, the guitar version of the Bass Driver, which seems to have a bass setting, it doesnt hold that much low end in my experience, but its used by alot of bass players for overdrive, it has popular models of guitar amps. (behringer also do a cheap version of this if it grabs your attention, then once you've tried it and if you like it, you can grab the real thing) [url="http://www.tech21nyc.com/gt2.html"]http://www.tech21nyc.com/gt2.html[/url] Tech 21 also sort of split that pedal into 5 separate pedals (kinda) and have the Character Series pedals: Liverpool (VOX), California(mesa-boogie), Blonde (Fender), British(Marshall) and VTBass (Ampeg) [url="http://www.tech21nyc.com/character_series.html#"]http://www.tech21nyc.com/character_series.html#[/url] if the same is true of the other Character series pedals as the VTBass, they dont just emulate one amp, you can actually go through a range of tones with the VTbass. I know you said you go through Marshall and HiWatt heads usually, but if you can give me an example of your ideal tone, i dont mind mocking up a VTbass clip, just so you can make a better decision if its not for you, the VTbass will do so much its almost unfair to call it just an Ampeg modeller. I reckon you can get a good hi-gain guitar amp tone, but with enough lowend to make any bass player happy. otherwise id suggest using one of the other Character series pedals (the British possibly) and using a clean blend for some low end. the Line6 stuff is a good call too [url="http://www.tech21nyc.com/character_series.html"]http://www.tech21nyc.com/character_series.html[/url]

Great Guy! My Cream Pie is mighty tasty. Highly recommended! Theo

[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='287563' date='Sep 19 2008, 06:36 PM']Man, I wish my gf could afford a £180 presie for me *sigh* Anyways if you missed it, you can check some samples I recorded of the EHX Bass Microsynth here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=26015"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=26015[/url][/quote] EHX Micro Synth all the way!! I had the older one and had to sell it to my drummer for cash, but i miss it every day. It kinda works in the same way as if you had a non-polyphonic Micro Pog, a bass Fuzz, a Boss Slow Gear and an awesome envelope filter all in one box, rather than some digital 'magic' like the Akai Deep Impact, so there are some sounds you can do, and some you cant. But its pretty unique. Hell i wanted 4 of them just to get some of my favourite settings at my feet without having to change settings on the pedal. I also have or have owned the Ibanez Synth Bass pedal (another glorified envelope filter) and the Boss Syb3 and Syb5, both the boss pedals can make some cool sounds, but kinda suck when it comes to tracking. I've had GAS for a XO BMS for a while, and in fact its my anniversary in a week and I was in the same situation as you, but I opted for my girl to get me MicroPOG coz I had to sell my old one to my Guitarist coz he fell in love with it.