bobbass4k

The effects loops are generally meant for line level effects (i.e rackmount stuff) stompboxes should generally go in between the bass and amp

All my name are named after my special lady friend at the time (which I thought was a musicians standard, but apparently not), my main spector is called Elli, my first bass (now my fretless) is Kerry, and my guitar is Anna. Only trouble with that convention is I need to have a girlfriend to get a new guitar, oh the humanity........

Go directly to BOSS OC-2, do not pass go, do not collect £200

It annoys me when people consider effects as only existing to cover up bad playing. For me, I don't consider effects as hiding or messing with the bass sound, I create basslines with effects, I never think "oh, that bassline sounds kind of weak, I'll play it with a phaser, that'll make it sound better". I think "I want this part to of the song to have phaser on it" Or I'll hum a part in my head as "doo-do-dah-doo-do-dah" with the dah bits 2 octaves up from the doo-do bits. I can't do that on my bass so I go to my whammy pedal. Basically I use my pedals to make sounds that I want to make but my bass can't, I consider them as extensions of the instrument I'll stop ranting now

yea, my soundblox phaser was plastic with a metal base, seemed sturdy enough though

In my covers band we used to do You Got Another Thing Comin, possibly the most bored I have ever been on a stage

Oceansize - Savant, the strings at the end always surprise me, even after the 100'th time i've listened to it

godDAMN it, full valve trace about 20 miles from my doorstep for a damn good price. I'm gonna go drink some scotch to make myself feel better

depends what you're using it for, if you want to add low end to a distortion, out it after the distortion, if you want to affect the overall sound going to your amp, put it at the end, if you want to isolate one frequency (useful for electronic sort of basslines) put it at the start, or just find where sounds best.

That actually looks really cool, and very well built, probably sounds like an overweight pigeon dropping out of the sky and landing in angry hornets nest and it'll probably break the first time you try and play it hard (how dense can a broom handle be?), but it's a cool idea

[quote name='cheddatom' post='783619' date='Mar 23 2010, 04:13 PM']I would have thought the FF would destroy your low end. Can you do sound clips?[/quote] Doesn't mean it's not fun, I played with one and it reminded me of the first time i used a whammy ( i spent about 10 minutes just making woo-woo noises), I might buy one if i've got some cash to throw around

Embrace instrumentalism, just like a guitarist can be replaced by a distortion and an octave pedal, a singer can be replace be some nice melodies and expressive playing

[quote name='Protium' post='782572' date='Mar 22 2010, 04:54 PM']I thought the sale of it was banned in the EU?[/quote] Shush

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='782249' date='Mar 21 2010, 11:17 PM']I think next time I will be putting them one effect per box! Way way too many different leads. I don't really mind too much about the mess. The volume drop in the chorus confuses me, I had stuck a different larger resistor on the out op amp to compensate, stuck it in and its very quiet. Upped it again (destroyed the contacts on the PCB in the process ) and its still too quiet. Im loosing signal somewhere, I may check it over to try find the problem. My guess would be a loose connection. Soldering is a funny one. I was using maplins Lead free silver solder for most of this. I ran out and the local electronics shop sold me some 60/40 tin lead alloy stuff- totally different melting point, so therefore tottaly different technique. Going from the trumpet to the french horn maybe[/quote] People are worried about dying early so lead based solder has become quite a taboo. Personally i don't mind losing 5 years off my life if it gives me better solder joints. I can't stand lead free stuff, doesn't melt consistently and goes grainy for no reason. I have far too many opinions on solder

Oceansize - Effloresce, hope the new album is a return to this kind of form

my friends always say I'm stupid taking my bass back home over the holidays, but i leave all my stuff down here so there's nothing to do at home, if I didn't have my bass I would go insane

[quote name='Higgie' post='781327' date='Mar 21 2010, 02:07 AM']I don't think an Auto-Wah can pull off Cochise to be honest. I have the Subdecay Prometheus AND an MSD Earthquake Wah on my board for this very reason. The Cochise riff isn't just a straight forward Auto-Wah on a cycle, IMO you need the Manual to get the expression and phrasing of the Wah just right. Cheers[/quote] Thats why I use both, I mostly use the GR (auto-wah) with fuzz and oc-2 for synthmania, I use the auto-wah when I want an auto-wah, i.e. when I want a filter sounds but it doesn't need to be controlled, I use the wha when I need to control it. Cochise is a good example, as the timing of the filter is a key aspect of the song (calm like a bomb is the best example methinks). I can pull of a decent calm like a bomb with the wha and groove regulator, both to give it an extra thick OTT sound (Tim Commerford uses 2 105q's at the same time), and the wha so I can time the filter sound properly.

I'd be interested to hear it played without a craptonne of reverb