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[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

Yup

Red LED's are just more common (I think because they're cheaper to make and use less power but don't quote me on that), some have blue, some have green, one of mines yellow, no real mystery to it

Instrument leads aren't designed to carry anywhere near the current an amp head puts out, if it's a powerful head, it could melt the cable and completely bugger up the head. I think.

I'd say a bass terror is a very good way to go, lightweight, puts out a lot of power, and its a hybrid, so you get the awesome tone of a tube amp with none of the downsides (blown power tubes draining your life savings one by one)

Looks a lot like a wal to me, which is nought but a good thing

Wrong forum dude, PM a mod and they'll move it for you

Finally got the rest of the bits for my GGG muff ordered, assuming royal fail cooperate, I'm gonna give it a shot over the weekend, I'll let you know how it goes/how many things I set fire to

[quote name='Currrls' post='761367' date='Mar 1 2010, 11:42 PM']what does a synth count as?[/quote] Dang, knew I forgot something. I consider synths as just a blend of octaver filter and distortion/fuzz (because that's all most of them are, especially the BMS). Your pedals I would put BMS > Blowtorch > Small Stone > BBDDI. But that's because I like to put gated fuzzes last in the dirt order, try blowtorch > BMS, but because the BMS has it's own fuzz you probably won't notice much difference with that.

There's no "right order" you can put them in any order, but the GENERAL rule I use is: Pitch shifting (octavers)> distortion > filters (incl. wahs) > modulation (phaser, chorus etc.) > time based (delay, reverb echo etc.) Compressors are personal taste depending on what you want to use it for, for peak limiting it should go at the end, but some people put it in the middle. Distortion and filters is a preference thing, I like mine distortion into filter as it gives a very synthy vocal type sound, filter then distortion is much subtler. Some people like distortion into pitch shifting, depends how good the tracking is. Obviously if you're using a driver-di as a di it needs to be at the end, also a lot of people put boosts at the end of the chain. If you've only got a few pedals mess around and see which orders you like

I don't think I play without some sort of drive on anymore, my most common sound is the OC-2, Turob Rat and Mastotron in LS-2 for blending, then into the Groove Regulator for pure synthy goodness, occasionally i'll add in the psilocybe on the slowest sweep. My other favourite sound is the xp-100 on the envelope filter patch, set heel down (lowest sensitivity) for a really round thumpy warm basstasic tone.

That guy looks like I probably will in 20 years, I just hope I can play bass like him then too

I've got some sennhesier hd595's at the moment, but I use them for eveything not just practicing, and they're amazing, I can wear them all day and not even notice, the hd595's are quite a ways out of your budget, but I'd definitley reccomend sennhesier. I'd be wary of the mdr-v700's to be honest, I had 2 sets and both broke in exactly the same way after a couple of months, and they were quite uncomfortable to wear for a long time, BUT they sounded absolutely amazing, you can feel the bass rattling your skull, hence why I bought a second set after the first broke. If you hunt around you can probably find them at that pricepoint

wd-40's non-conductive so you should be fine, just use it sparingly

We did a gig once with a band we'd never met before, we got there to set up and I saw a very very nice lakland on a stand, once we'd set up a guy from the other band came in, we all shook hands and so on, and I asked him if it was his bass, he said yea so I asked him if I could have a play and he said yea, and then he said he was going to meet some people and left. So I was sat on the drum riser noodling on this very nice lakland jazz, when 2 other guys come in, all of a sudden I hear: "WHAT THE F*** ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH THAT THING COST?!?!?!" After a little more shouting this guy said he was the bassist and was very annoyed I was playing his expensive lakland, very confused and apologetic I explained that the other guy said it was his. Turned out the other guy was the singer and they'd had a massive falling out over a girl, and the singer was trying to piss him off. The bassist was actually pretty cool about it, he realised I knew what I was doing and apologised for shouting. When the singer came back in grinning they kicked him out of the band and did an instrumental set.