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Decent headphones are a wise investment, at the moment i've got some sennheiser hd595's, they're fantastic, but the bass response isn't the best, you can hear the bass frequencies sure, but you can't really feel them as much as i'd like, and they're an open design so they leak a LOT of sound, they were around £100, my dads got some bose's for around £120, you can feel the bass a lot more in them. I've also had 2 pairs of sony mdr v-700's, they were fantastic, the first pair broke inside 6 months, but i liked them so much i got another pair, which broke the exact same way, they're very badly designed and built but sound great (like all sony stuff), but they may have imrpvoed them, this wears a few years ago, or brought a new version out. [url="http://www.headphone.com/"]this[/url] site is quite helpful for buying advice, and lets you compare the technical performance of 4 pairs of headphones if you understand that stuff. [url="http://www.hifiheadphones.co.uk/"]this[/url] site's good too. Sorry for the long post, i'm quite into headphones

Hey, i'm building a true bypass/feedback loop pedal, i'm confident about the actual building, but this is my first pedal type thing, so i'm pretty much just following [url="http://experimentalistsanonymous.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=134"]this[/url] word for word to start off. My current problem is the audio jacks, ive come across more types than i thought even existed, so which of [url="http://www.allparts.uk.com/electronics/jacks-c-277_1_81_86.html"]these[/url] would i need? cheers

i've got a bad monkey and i love it, at low settings its more of a boost than an od, and it can add a lovely tubey warmth, but gets quite dirty aswell. I've got one with bass repsonse mods, done by one of our members, silentfly, but ive never tried the stock model, so i'm not sure what the low end loss is like. Having owned an odb-3, the bad monkey is miles ahead in my opinion

Explosions in the sky - A Song for our fathers, very fun line to play, exactly my style

only really added the limiter since my last post, but i won't be able to post another pic for a while:

I've got a lot of plans for my pedalboard, first im gonna build a board so "pedalboard" is actually the right term, decent cabling etc., i'm also building my own true bypass box/feedback loop pedal in an old russian muff enclosure, anywho i need a little advice on my latest insane idea. Very Long story short (ha!), the idea i arrived at is wanting to blend all the effects in the chain that are on with my clean (not neccesarily clean, but a seperate) signal, and control the blend amount via expression/volume pedal. I'm also looking to include a bypass/loop strip, with size 14 heavy boots it's getting kinda hard to turn on one pedal without stomping another........ Unfortunately "idea" is the right word, i haven't a clue how to acheive this, so any advice one what i need and how i'd need to hook it up, to achieve the expression pedal blending, and putting everything in a bypass/loop pedal? Cheers

some nice stuff there, how do you find the crybaby compared to the synth wah? 'cos i'm considering swapping out my crybay for the synth wah, can it do regular wah sounds? And would you say an expression pedal is a must have?

Not sure they're under rated, or rated at all, but i've got an ernie ball strap, one of the cheap fake leather and plastic toggle ones, which has lasted 5 years of constant use, some heavy gigging, and for the last 3 years my very heavy spector, and still looks new. For £5 i'm throughly impressed

I'd highly reccomend the danelectro cool cat (i've got the old 18v version, not sure how the new ones compare), doesnt have a lot of control though, only 2 knobs, but it can also be turned into a pitch vibrato by connecting a dummy cable to the stereo out. But of those choices i'd reccomend the boss definitley

Bought a behringer limiter off him. Great to deal with, came exactly when he said it would very well packaged

Scott Reeder (Kyuss' third and best bassist) Nick Oliveri (in his kyuss days) Dominic Aitchison (Mogwai) Cliff Burton (Metallica) Chris Wolstenholme (Muse, okay, only a few songs live, but still) Jesse Keeler (Death from above 1979) The guy out of do make say think

+1 To Silent Fly's Modded bad monkey, can't speak to the reliability as i've only had it a week, but it seems sturdy enough. Plenty of range, i got it cause i wanted to balance out my insanely-high-gain-screechy-full-on-angry-synthy fuzz which it certainly does, it can get dirty, but it also does subtle. I havent tried the stock pedal, but i would imagine there is low end loss, so i'd say it's worth getting a modded one, if anything mine ADDS low end in the "deep" mode, love it. If you're looking for something really subtle, you migt want to try devi ever's year of the rat, you'll have a hard time getting one in this country though, they used to be cheap to get from america, but with the economy dying a slow grisly death and all, they wont be as cheap as they used to be edit: forgot grygrx did a review of the YOTR, video and sound samples [url="http://bassfuzz.com/2008/06/28/devi-ever-year-of-the-rat-pedal-review/"]here[/url]

I realise something pretty fundamental is missing from my pedal "board", i'm gonna build one as soon as i get back to uni. Not pictured is my crybaby bass which is back in canters and my newly procured behringer limiter which is yet to arrive. Unfortunately pictured is my cat who wouldn't move out of the way...... I'm pretty happy with this setup for now, once i get a board and some decent cabling (I'm thinking george l's probably) it'll stay like this for a while though i'll probably sell the limiter, i only really bought it out of curiosity to see if its worth me bothering with a limiter/compressor, and at £11 from bassmankev i cant really complain. My next steps after a board and cabling will probably be a decent pedal tuner to replace the korg crap'o'matic, and maybe a feedback loop pedal (mobius or an ls2). This board does what i want it to, which is making very strange noises, but also sensible noises. But always noises.

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A joy to deal with, very patient with my faffing around, great pedal came very quickly and well packaged cheers

[quote name='~tl' post='364891' date='Dec 28 2008, 03:38 PM']It means it takes 3.89nS (that's 0.00000000389 seconds) for a signal to travel down a 1m cable... [/quote] Only in the moving reference frame of the cable (S'), in the reference frame of an inertial observer(S) , by time dilation it would be recorded as 7.63nS, and by the lorentz contraction, the length of another 1m cable at rest would be recorded as 0.51m by an observer moving at 0.86c from the reference frame of the cable (S')........ just thought i'd prove to all you taxpayers that the tutition fee loan from the government for my astrophysics degree is money well spent........

[quote name='Matty' post='366286' date='Dec 30 2008, 02:58 PM']me likes, sounds a bit Justin Chancellor esque.[/quote] Yea, definitley sounds like it, i'm quite intrigued, but my pedalboards pretty much set for now, interesting idea for a pedal though, that may be my next pruchase when i have some money.....

I can get a perfect TIRO sound with my cherry pop (its quite a gated synthy fuzz) and the envelope filter patch on my xp-100 set heel down, that gives it a really bassy subby kick. Can get a a good hysteria sound with the cherry pop, fuzz intensty higher and tone at mids and some mild chorus, occasionaly use one of the other autowah patches on the xp-100 to give it a synthy edge. The cherry pop does an overall good synthy fuzz, and the envelope filter on the xp-100 set at heel down gives a really great bassy tone, fits in a lot of muse songs

Hey people, just took the plunge and bought [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=130275905854"]this[/url], thanks for the advice people!

[quote name='ahpook' post='357939' date='Dec 18 2008, 02:26 PM']plus the one...i got mine a year or so ago. i'm willing to part with it, bobbass - if you're interested[/quote] Thanks for the offer, but im not really after a small stone. If anyones got a coolcat chorus, old metal sky blue one, a new style electric mistress, or a small clone, they're willing to part with drop me a pm

It's christmas time, and i'm getting an extra present this year, £500 completely free from the government because i sit around drinking beer and go to just enough lectures not to get kicked out . As usual, student loan time = new pedal time, i'm gonna add a modded Bad Monkey (SilentFly, if you're reading this, you will have a PM sometime soon) and a chorus to my board.......and actually build a board. Ahem. My initial thought was a CEB-3, but looking around a lot of other things are catching my attention, the small clone, the nano-clone, the cool cat even the phase 90, but mostly the new electric mistress, it looks quite interesting, any advice on any of these? I've heard good things about the cool cat for high end stuff, which is mostly what i'd be using it for. Anybody got any experience with the electric mistress? Is the chorus good on it's own? I'd definitley use its flanger and filter capabilities too, and i dont mind the chorus not being fantastic cheers

i used to have to do this quite a bit, i borrowed my guitarists loop pedal, played the bassline before the song or something, and just kicked it in when i needed it while still playing guitar/keyboard/digeridoo/paint tin (it was a weird band). The only disadvantage is you have to record the loop in perfect time and then everyone has to play along in perfect time. Worked well for me, and you get to keep your bass sound, but if you dont wann go that route, i'd second the pk-5

[quote name='lateralus462' post='327699' date='Nov 12 2008, 03:52 PM']dunlop wah seems to be the way to go then - bit of a bugger cos they're pretty expensive.[/quote] I remember a while back someone mentioned that the only difference between the bass crybaby and a regular crybaby was one or 2 components, and they were gonna try modifiying a regular one, might be wirth looking into seen as the regular ones are about half the price, can't remember who it was though

[quote name='cheddatom' post='327586' date='Nov 12 2008, 01:49 PM']There are some great wahs on the Digitech XP-100 as well[/quote] Have to disagree with you there, they're good for guitar, but i've only ever found the "dark and deep" usable for bass, the wahs were designed for guitar and they cut out the lows completely, i've A/B'ed them all against my crybaby and to me the crybaby sounds better, but that could just be me