moley6knipe

I’m way late… NYE was a private party at our mate Malc’s place, Langtoft Fen, way out in the flatlands. Great: a captive / friendly audience and we had them dancing all night. Good sound too, even if I do say so myself. Even with plugs I was ringing after 9-12:15 with a couple of breaks. A little three piece gig this coming Saturday, just back line and a vocal mon. Looking forward to it, haven’t played without a second guitar and keyboard for ages!

Lol. Our drummer is loud but not enough to justify a screen, though I’d be up for that. Everyone always drowned out by two badly EQ’d guitar combos. Just how it is with the boys in my band!

They are great. The neck alone is worth the money, it’s so playable. I haven’t got one strung with flats yet… hmmm.

Is the P&C (one of) the pedals Chris W uses on Muse’s Plug In Baby? If so, wicked sound. I will get one someday…

17 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

I dropped mine face down on asphalt in a parking lot. Couple of dings but know other issues. I gig mine allot.

 

Blue

Lots to like in this photo. GK rules. And a sunburst strat with a bridge humbucker into a Mesa? Shut up and take my money already!!

Well, this is the prettiest bass I’ve seen in a long while. If I had the cash I’d be in the car now, and then putting flats on it, stuffing some foam under the strings and playing it with a pick until my hands fall off!! GLWTS

Does it need a full refret? I’ve only played one bass long enough to refret, and that only needed the bottom 7 doing. My local guy (Jon Haire, Peterborough, genius) charges by the fret, suspect others probably do as well.

15 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Worked an absolute treat on Sat nights gig. I forgot to switch it on for first 2 songs in 2nd set and i could hear the difference thru the songs before i realised what was different from 1st set.

Its so subtle at the settings i have which is exxactly what i was looking for.

No change in tone which is why it took me a while to figure out what was different.

All on all i'm very happy with this wee pedal.

Need to get myself a decent power supply now

 

Any thoughts on 9VDC power supplies.

Dave

You’ve made me spend some time with my settings again this evening. I think I’ve been squashing too much… backed off the ratio and raised the threshold a little, see how that sounds on Saturday!

That’ll do you fine, good choice! They also sell DC cables with many plugs on them if you need to power more 

It is a great pedal. Noiseless and tone neutral, love mine. It only needs 15mA so pretty much anything will power it! Obvs the standard boss style centre negative dc Jack.

Ha ha! That’s SO true. I lost no end of shirt buttons inside my 410 back in the day!! 😃

@FettsmanAndy! Hope you’re well?! Won’t help the sale but: this is the bargain of the century!! My dream cab line up when I started out, and never fulfilled. I just can’t because I’ve got a Barefaced and I’m old but man alive, what a great setup this would be.

Wait now: there’s a proper bass line for Slade’s Merry Xmas?!?! 😝

That one, WhamLastXmas, Run Run Rudolph and Mud Lonely This Xmas are on the list for me. One band’s rehearsed them, the other one hasn’t because we can do anything after enough beer. 

16 hours ago, BassAdder60 said:

Well .. last night I tried the pick below and I like it a lot 👍

Yes yes yes. Big dumb downstrokes and maybe a touch of dirt/grit and THAT’S what yer need from a pick. 

I’ve only tried the rounds once… no rust for me but think well before putting them on anything with a maple board… turned quite black!

They sounded utterly phenomenal - just too aggressive for the context of the five piece band somehow. If my little three piece starts up again I’ll likely throw them on a bass with a rosewood board and live with a bit of staining, coz like @HazBeensays the sound really is worth it!

Oh that’s so nice. Maple, Olympic white and tort is spot on. GLWTS!

Tonight! Private party with the 5 piece covers band. Without the singer/rhythm guitarist… covid! This’ll be interesting. Drinking much honey and lemon. Many vocalzone tablets. But death or glory, he who dares wins Rodney etc

Nice board! C4 is great but… without midi control you’re limited to 6 sounds (with a press of the Alt button). Adding midi control requires a controller (guess the stomp can do that) AND something to provide the C4 with Host (which I don’t think the Stomp can do). SA are supposed to be (soon-ish) releasing a 5 pin DIN to TRRS cable which is supposed to allow Host connection.

Just worth bearing in mind!

Dunlop Tortex Triangle for me. Not a pick player: but when I do 1mm for heavy downstroke, 0.60mm for fast stuff/it’s the end of the night and my finger tips are killing me 😝

Don’t know on that score… that’s wasn’t a thing when I ordered. I get the in and out easy enough without!

Very much what @chris_bsaid! I got mine too late for my left ear, sadly. I think the 17 filters will be fine for the OP’s application. Suspect that’s what I’ve got!

I use ACS moulded. Years old, don’t know the filter rating but will see if I can find it. I know they’re even attenuation across the spectrum.

I love them. Moulded are night and day compared to off the shelf. All plugs take time get used to. Stick with them, sing and play with them in a lot.

Couple of tips before fitting: get your ears syringed and cleaned out a couple of weeks beforehand. Seriously. And whilst you’re getting a fitting, get a hearing test to baseline you and allow the fitter to advise on filters.

The extras are a pain with the C4 for sure, if you want to take it beyond six stored presets.

I went Morningstar and neuro hub. Endlessly flexible, but expensive.

The Mobile app plus usb cable is a good option for quick edits on the fly eg during rehearsal. And mapping functions you might need to tweak (bass; master vol etc) to control knobs per preset helps (I have a standard eg bass is always bottom left or whatever).

It’s a great pedal but it does need the tech overlay to make it viable really.

I don’t know how you’d ever make a proper synth pedal work without some sort of editor, really

On 12/10/2022 at 14:08, Vin Venal said:

Pedalboard update.

 

Signal splitting shenanigans - into the EQ and back for clean low end, mixed with the RAT to taste for my main overdrive/distortion tone.

 

Into the 850 fuzz for DOOM.

 

Then the chorus and delay in the FX loop.

 

The behringer will be replaced with a boss GEB7 when I can afford/find a cheap used one.

 

The 850 fuzz is in danger of being replaced with a different mini big muff type thing at some point - can be hard to dial in a tone for bass on the ibanez.

 

I play my Precision through this into a Darkglass head which provides my "clean" tone, which also has some hair on it using the built in VMT circuit.

 

It sounds frankly insane for not very much money.

Cannot go wrong with a proper Rat. Lovely things. Gotta be in the top 20 pedals of all time IMHO

On 11/10/2022 at 22:50, LukeFRC said:

So less filters and chorus…

…or a bigger board! 

Love posts like these. The answer is always “buy a bigger board and just add the new pedal(s)”… but we all make a half-hearted attempt at being sensible 😇