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    Boss pedals and 'snobbery'

    in Effects

    Posted

    For my money, and style of music, Boss can claim the best guitar overdrive pedal ever with the BD-2 Blues Driver. I know plenty of other guitarists who rate it very highly as well.

    For bass, I'm only using overdrive at the mo (plus rack mount compressor), so Boss havn't featured yet, but not through snobbery, I'd try a Boss pedal anyday if it was likely to sound good.

    Overdrive suggestions

    in Effects

    Posted

    [quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1438348220' post='2833785']
    I really like the Xotic Bass BB Preamp for this ... [/quote]

    Hmm, you're not the first person to suggest one of these, I might just have to try one, and there happens to be one for sale on here at the mo... must be fate :) GAS strikes again.

    [quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1438348220' post='2833785']... seems silly to buy something like that to mostly use as a low gain pedal!
    [/quote]

    You might be right, I already made that mistake once with the Knightfall. I like the sound, but I know I can't use it in the band I'm in, and for messing about at home I've got Amplitube anyway. I'm glad you said that.

    Overdrive suggestions

    in Effects

    Posted

    So, I've got a nice clean sound, sort of old fashioned, roundwounds on an Ibanez BTB with a little mid boost, into a Sansamp RBI but with the presence completely off and just a little bit of drive, so you can't hear it but it warms it up a bit.

    We've got some songs that sound better with some overdrive, and some that sound better clean, so I've been trading OD pedals looking for something that works. So far I've kept (for now):

    One Control Hooker's Green Bassmachine - supposed to sound a lot like a BJF Blueberry, it was also designed by BJF. I love this for just a little bit of dirt without changing the sound, I can keep the punch I like but get a slightly bigger dirtier tone without mud. I'm gigging this now and I think for that touch of dirt sound it will be hard for anything to beat it.

    Darkglass Vintage Microtubes - this changes the tone a bit more but does have blend, for me this is better for a slightly more full on overdrive, but I have to be careful or I feel like I've lost the punch. Might be a keeper for a heavier sound.

    Fairfield Barbershop - this has a slightly rougher sound that I like, it's just a touch nastier, again for more of a full on overdrive. It's different to the VM, another sound again to play with for now.

    I've tried and sold a COG Knightfall, that was too much of a distortion rather than an overdrive, which I knew when I bought it really but all I lost was the postage to its new home.

    I've got a Digitech Hardwire CM-2 and I really rate it, but don't use it because the Hooker's Green is just very slightly better, and also a lot smaller.

    So, finally, to the question: what should I try next that will give me something a bit different to those, still in the general area of transparent-ish bass overdrive? I was wondering about an Idiotbox Blower Box, that's supposed to do OD as well as distortion.

    3Leaf Proton Envelope Filter ON HOLD

    in Effects For Sale

    Posted · Edited by adamg67

    [b]Now on hold while a deal is discussed.[/b]

    I'm selling a 3Leaf Proton filter, photos to follow but it is this one as bought on here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/258876-3-leaf-proton-envelope-filter-sold/"]http://basschat.co.u...pe-filter-sold/[/url]

    I tried a few different filters, and liked this one the best, it's got a really nice transparent sound that I thought was genuinely usable. I was all set to add this for a few songs, but sadly my band mates were not keen.

    It's the 2-knob version, but for me the decay is great as it is on this one.

    Boxed with original instructions (and the little bag it comes in), has velcro on the bottom. In good condition and works perfectly.

    £95 + postage of your choice or collect from BD20.

    SOLD EHX POG-2 Polyphonic Octave Generator

    in Effects For Sale

    Posted · Edited by adamg67

    I've reluctantly decided to sell my Electro-Harmonix POG-2 to fund some of my recent pedal purchases. It's a really good pedal, tracks brilliantly and you can get some really good sounds out of it, but I don't really need it for the band I'm in or the sound I've got.

    I'll get some pictures done (hopefully tonight), but it's in very good condition, boxed with original power supply and instructions.

    There's lots more information and demos (including bass) on here: [url="http://www.ehx.com/products/pog2"]http://www.ehx.com/products/pog2[/url]

    There are some very usable bass sounds on it, the octaves down are really nice, the octave up I only ever used a little bit but combined with some of the other effects you can some interesting noises. The LPF, attack and detune really work as well, you have to make sure you understand how to apply those to the dry signal or not to get the right sound but once you get it sussed there are some nice subtle sounds as well as the more obvious stuff.

    £140 plus postage of your choice, or collect from BD20 (Silsden).

    NOW SOLD

    NBD - much headlessness

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I sold a Jack a couple of months ago, it was a nice bass. Nicer than an SR506 which I paid about the same for, but not nearly as nice as the Ibanez BTB 456 which has ended up replacing it, but then that cost nearly double what I sold the Jack for.

    I really liked the normal body but headless thing, but the Jack is double ball end strings and there isn't much choice of strings any more. I've got flatwounds on the BTB and I'm pretty sure you can't get them for a Jack.

    Pickups out of phase?

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted · Edited by adamg67

    I found the wiring diagram for my bass, and looking at that (and having a bit of a think about how this has to work), it looks like a blend pot is basically just two stacked volume pots? So as you turn one pickup down you turn the other up? If that's the case, I can imagine they're not always perfectly balanced. I don't know if they're tweakable though, it might need replacing but that doesn't look like a very hard job.

    Pickups out of phase?

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted · Edited by adamg67

    I've got some odd behaviour with an Ibanez BTB 456 that I bought second hand. It's in really good nick and everything works perfectly apart from the pickup blend knob. I get good volume with the blend all the way to the neck or all the way to the bridge, but a noticeable volume drop when I'm halfway between the two. It's not like it's half volume or anything, but it's enough that I couldn't use it like that live.

    My first thought is phase - if the pickups are out of phase, could that cause an issue like this? Or would it be much worse?

    Anything else obvious it might be?

    Hello from Big Phil

    in Introductions

    Posted

    Hi Phil, and welcome.

    Are you in a band at the mo? If so I'll look out for you, we've just started gigging round West Yorkshire and we're not far from Halifax, I work in Mytholmroyd (you might be the only person on here to have heard of it, if you have) and live the other side of Keighley, guitarist and drummer are Haworth and Oxenhope and the singer's from Hebden Bridge and works in Halifax (so does the drummer, over that way anyway). So far we've just had one gig at the exchange in Keighley and one at the Hop in Leeds, but we're planning some more now. Not many places for originals bands to play these days though.

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