tayste_2000

Apparently you can still use your ears with the Visual Volume pedal.

It will be wider than the EB

[quote name='dood' post='46397' date='Aug 16 2007, 01:06 PM']OMG! Wooh! I got a name check! COOOEL! ;o) - You are quite correct though... I personally really couldnt be dealing with piles of pedals and controllers all over the floor. I much prefer my POD xt rack and the TC GForce. Everything gets done in a rack and controlled by a single MIDI footboard with CC outboard if necessary.
Just my preference though. Not saying it is right.. just uber-tidy for me.[/quote]

You have to bare in mind you sound rubbish though

Get a Visual Volume pedal instead and it will do either

[quote name='G-bitch' post='46343' date='Aug 16 2007, 12:08 PM']Only worth the investment for a pro or extreme - like far, far worse than Tayste or Dood - gear whore who needs to combine different amps, pre's, rackmount fx, stomp boxes etc. in any configuration imaginable.[/quote]

Actually I'm getting close to this as I'm switching basses, amps, pedals and levels of blend from my board

But I'm considering the T-rex Mac1 as it has 2 blendable effect loops

Check out the Subdecay Quasar

Vibrator works much better check the guess the effect thread

Yeah go for it, as much I'd like it I just can't justify it this week

Yeah I don't think I can afford it right now unfortunately so go for it muse_cubed

Beautiful, I shall check my finances over the weekend.

I presume paypal would be ok?

That sounds fair I shall see what I can do and get back to you.

Do you still have the Axess Buffer and the Dano PB&J?

Cheers

Its not really sniping when your bid sits there for near 24 hours

You get a better synth tone using Octave, Fuzz and Filter

Also good is the Subdecay Noise box its like an input section from a 70's analog synth but its a bit hard to control.

These go for about £130 ish new apart from you can't find them in any shops.

I'll have a dig around fro my clip for you.

Yeah fair enough I'm just trying to justify this as a 2nd one as I bought one earlier this week

Would you consider shipping it?

Also could I tempt you in a trade for this [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3476"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3476[/url] and £15

Let me know

Don't listen to him it's rubbish it's a zoom run away.



I have just messaged someone over this

Can the board be removed from the case?

[quote name='tredders' post='43277' date='Aug 9 2007, 02:10 PM']Actually, they have a point.... what the hell *do* you need 7 basses for?

Mark.[/quote]

1 per woman to beat them to death with for moaning at me about this(2)
1's a Ric so doesn't count
2 in standard tuning for studio work
2 dropped a tone for live work.

[quote name='tredders' post='43267' date='Aug 9 2007, 01:54 PM']I get less ear ache from the wife for having too many basses lying around. All together now "Why have you got so many? You can only play one at a time....."[/quote]

Only I get said ear ache in stereo from my Mum and my G/F ................... what could you possibly need 7 basses for.

I'll give you a shout when I get in from work I may be able to collect this or have a family member do it as I believe you are pretty close to Redditch?

Cheers

So where do I send the money?

[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='42962' date='Aug 8 2007, 04:50 PM']I strongly disagree on 2 things:

I'd never put the Fuzz before the 105q. That gives it a synthy effect that loses all the distortion when the wah is engaged and that's not what I want. I want the Timmy C effect, not the Cliff Burton one. Might be what some people want, but swaping those 2 around gives such different results that it's not a matter of what sounds better but what result suits you best. It's also so easy to spot the difference it's really worth to try and pick by yourself, you'd have to be deaf not to have a favourite...

And I'd never use the compressor after all those effects either. I used to prefer it after the wah, then I decided I preferred it before. Not a big difference. But to me it definitely makes it all sound worse after chorus or fuzz. Not to mention that it maximizes any noise that goes into it, so a fuzz before it's pretty much the worse you could do regarding noise in the signal...

Ultimately, try it all and chose with your own ears! Most of it is pretty easy to decide once you hear it.[/quote]

Apart from your minimising the signal going into your fuzz and you lose a lot of touch response from a fuzz, it is all personaly preference at the end of the day I love dirt pedals and just have transparent limting from a decent rack compressor.

Personally on the wah if it was me I'd have dist before and after it or stick it in a wobo loop so youi can reverse it and do both, then you get best of both worlds.

Bass - OC-2 - Digitech BSW - Big Muff - Bass Wah - CE-2 - Small Stone - TR-2 - Delay - CS-3 - DT-10(Though this could also go first but I like them last so I can mute any hum or setup some effects in silent mode before a song a starts)

Reason for this is CS-3 last will give you all the limiting you need make sure you don't get any nasty peaks.

Fuzz into Wah sounds best

Chorus into Phaser will give you huge swooshy noises and isn't that great the other way around

Octaver needs to be first to track as well as possibly

BSW needs to be as close to beginning as possible as well also synth and octave in Fuzz, Phaser, Wah and Trem will give you the synthy sound where as other orders aren't that great.

Delay last is the most useful but you can get some great sounds earlier but it is limiting.

Now this is an odd and rare little beasty, now I have serial 73 which is cool because I didn't realise so many had been made since Catalinbread only sell them via Ebay when he can make them.

To get an idea of the size I took a picture of a box that Tone Factor generally use to send 1-4 pedals next to the Hyperpak box



Info from Catalinbread

This pedal is an incredibly small "tube like" overdrive/boost named Hyper Pak.
The first 30 Hyper Paks were single knob units. This is the updated TWO knob version.

Q: Is the Hyper Pak True Bypass?
A: Of course it is with a LED too.

Q: What is it?
A: The Hyper Pak was inspired by an early 60's MOPAR aluminum block Slant Six engine that weighed a whopping 80 lbs combined with a very-long-ram intake manifold for a 4 bbl carb. Giant power to weight ratio...

Q: What is it REALLY?
A: The Hyper Pak is a boost/drive pedal that utilizes cascaded MOS gain stages instead of the clipping diodes common of most other overdrives. This is the main contributing factor to the Hyper Pak's tone and feel. It's feel is open and uncompressed. It's tone is balanced and organic. The gain ranges from clean and boosted to overdriven and TOO LOUD.

Q: That thing can't be big enough to fit a battery inside!?
A: Right-o the Hyper Pak's footprint is tiny therefore no batteries will fit inside. It is powered by standard DC jack.

Q: What if the pedal breaks?
A: All Catalinbread pedals big or small have a lifetime warrantee on workmanship and parts.

Q: What if I bust the pedal cause I am a reckless individual?
A: YOU ARE TOO!? If the story is good enough I may waive the cost of parts & labor for the repair.

I had him stick a blue led in mine so it sounds better. But the whole point of getting it was I had to make a choice between my Tone Factor Mule and my Tone Factor 442 so I went on the lookout for something similar to the Mule but smaller if that was possible I knew about the Hyperpak and was told that they might be similar, but WOW oh WOW I did not realise how similar.

You can see the size of it here



Here are the sound clips

Hyperpak

[url="http://www.grygrx.net/Pedal%20Reviews/Catalinbread/Hyperpak/Catalinbread%20Hyperpak.mp3"]http://www.grygrx.net/Pedal%20Reviews/Cata...%20Hyperpak.mp3[/url]

Hyperpak and Mule being switched between, it starts clean then Hyperpak then Mule see if you can hear the difference. The pops you can hear is the switching between the 2 pedals.

[url="http://www.grygrx.net/Pedal%20Reviews/Tone%20Factor/Combined/Hyperpak%20vs%20Mule.mp3"]http://www.grygrx.net/Pedal%20Reviews/Tone...20vs%20Mule.mp3[/url]

OK so I've had this a few weeks now and have used it quite a bit and had a great gig with it as well.

Firstly let me explain my preference for gain I like my fuzz's old school and smooth sounding and my distortions quite hi-fi and modern and I have both on the board for the following uses. The fuzz tends to stay on for most of my set but I will change to using the distortion if I have a song where I'm using my fingers and have the distortion volume slightly higher to make up for the volume loss between me going from a pick to fingers and the added clarity also evens out the sound so I tend to use this on our power ballad type songs and things where I need some reall punch and clarity yet still a dirty sound if that makes sense.

This was also my first gig where I bi-amped running a clean and dirty rig and my god the sound was amazing I used this pedal for intro stabs and as it gets that extra punch a vintage fuzz doesn't and it was like being hit in the chest. There is no bass lost at all on this pedal so the previous clip the mule must be slightly louder but man oh man using this I didn't miss the mule at all, true they are very very similar in sound but it's so small even the most crowded of pedalboards can take it. Does it show I like this pedal

Other things I've noticed with my time with it is the Hyperpak can get cleaner than the mule almost verging on a nice tubey overdrive sound but it doesn't have quite as much gain as the Mule but my perferred sound is available on both so no big deal. In terms of volume both have way more than you'll ever have to use with the Hyperpak being slightly louder I think.

Enjoy