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    looper

    Baloney Balderdash replied to NickA's topic in Effects

    The TC Electronic Ditto X4 would be everything I could dream of in a looper if it was not for the fact that it is limited to 5 minutes total looping time, all the right features, but I would likely use more than 5 minutes, so this is a thing to consider, of course if it the size is a deal killer that's it, but otherwise if all you need is 5 minutes total looping time, then it seems like the ideal looper to me. A shame they didn't stuff more memory into it, or even better it having a SD card slot so you could just load it with whatever memory you'd want. Hope they will make a version 2.0 where this will be possible.
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    I love that finish! If I ever should get the money needed to have a custom bass made or the money to throw away on a refinish of my main I would have it painted in a similar way. And I otherwise really don't like basses in a blue finish, in fact my absolute least favorite finish color, to put it mildly, and I normally favor a matte black finish, but the "Dark Night" finish is simply astonishing and has taken my place as my new favorite finish, Fender hit bullseye there!
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    My sound is so big fat and heavy last gig I played your father stormed the stage and beat me up, cause he thought I was slapping your mother. And by the way while I retaliated knocking him out by repeatedly slamming the body of my bass against his face, not like it could get any uglier, he begged for mercy stuttering: "Please don't hit me honey-bunny".
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    My sound is so fat it it reminds me of your mother.
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    The mid scoop of the Tech 21 Bass driver BBDI is well documented, several people have run it through a frequency analyzer and posted the graphics clearly proving it, but obviously you are oblivious to facts, so this will be my last reply to you, as you seem immune to facts. Like since when was being able to replicate JJ Burnel's tone or a pedal being able to do what you claim it to be able to do a criteria for success in the effects pedal business? And where exactly do I claim to write like James Joyce? Not even in that completely different thread where I do, correctly, mention him, but doesn't, quite on the contrary, claim to write like him. Also how about you taking a deep look in the mirror. A lot of those things you try to pin on me seems to fit surprisingly well on your behaviour in this thread (sorry about not having done the same background checkup on your forum history as you seem to have done on mine, so can't tell if it's a general thing and personality trait of yours or not), and ironically especially true for the quoted reply of yours above. Finally one thing is to be opinionated, a completely different thing is insisting on wrong facts being right and trying to dictate what other people should or should not do, but I guess that would be how all British people are, and other people that happens to share some of the personal facts about you, right?
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    Because there is an edit function, and it's not something I insist on, I think it is relevant to edit your post if you think you didn't manage to get your point clearly through the way you actually meant it when you first time posted a given reply (that aside for purely grammar reasons is the whole point of having an edit function in the first place). However I perfectly understand why that can be annoying when replying to such posts, but in my defense the main edit of my reply was done before I saw your reply and was notified about it (the one done after was just a minor grammar edit), you probably posted your reply while I was editing mine, and I admit that I do have a bad habit of posting replies before actually making sure I also actually have formulated it in a way that makes my actual point clear and have included everything I actually wanted to say and the way I wanted to say it, and I won't be shy apologizing for the annoyance this bad habit of mine might course. For whatever it's worth I guess my excuse is that I am diagnosed with ADHD.
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    I don't blame you for asking for clips at all (which is the reason why I didn't quote you there but Nancy Johnson), it's a perfectly relevant request for the topic as far as I am concerned, the comment was aimed at Nancy Johnson, who almost demanded that I'd adhere to that request.
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    Indeed.
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    It's not subjective weather the BDDI has a huge baked in mid scoop or that JJ Burnel's tone being all about mids, that's a fact, and that is what you'll discover if you ran it through a spectrum analyzer, that you can't hear it doesn't make it a fact, that makes you probably suffering from hearing damage, or just basically being largely ignorant about tone which I think you have made perfectly clear here. And while not having quite 30 years of experience with it yet, though not that far from either, I got the similar experience (and seems like I have learned more from it anyway too in that slightly shorter time span, at least when it comes to tone). Regarding sound clips I agree though, it would certainly help, but I haven't got anything recorded as of currently and beside the topic I chose for the thread was "Describe your tone", it's not like you have a licence to dictate which kind of subjects people are allowed to post threads about, as long as it is relevant for the topic of the forum.
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    Haven't tried it out in person, but sounds good on the only 2 demos currently on YouTube featuring this pedal demoed on bass : Personally I settled for the digital Boss CE-1 emulation, the "VintageCE" model, on my Zoom G1Xon with hacked firmware version, as it is not on that unit from stock (it's in the MS-70CDR multi stompbox though), which is actually a really great emulation of this legendary chorus effectm and which I run a fairly subtle tremolo effect, also from the G1Xon in front of in the chorus patch. And if I need a little extra depth and lushness from the chorus I engage the Monarch Flanger (same as the old Arion Flanger) placed before the G1Xon, which I have placed in one of the effects loops in one of my Boss LS-2 pedals, blended in parallel with about an equal amount of clean signal from the other effects loop of the LS-2 (the flanger normally used blended in parallel with a phaser effect in this effects loop), which gives a fairly subtle chorus like effect, which works perfect in tandem with my chorus patch on the G1Xon.
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    Don't think I ever posted a picture of my main Ibanez Mikro Bass here after I transplanted the outstanding neck from my old 2010 production GSRM20 Mikro Bass to the mahogany body of my newer 2017 production GSRM20B in Weathered Black finish, so here it is (also swapped the side mounted barrel type jack output socket to a front mounted regular one, as I got the 1 P pickup I have installed wired directly to the output jack socket, and as such the knobs are only there for strictly cosmetic reasons. Also swapped the Model P pickup on this picture out for an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup since the photo was shot) :
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    I stand corrected then. I am curious to which does then though?
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    Also that is how I express myself when I write, it's part of my personality, I certainly don't do it to throw anyone or show off, it is how I naturally write. I suppose some adaption to make it easier for the average reader if one wants help is fair but don't expect me to change my personality to please you. Personally I find artificially cut up stutter writings tedious to read, I prefer flow, that doesn't mean you'll have to, but it certainly doesn't mean that you are entitled to dictate my personal preferences either.
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    Does this track feature a spoon player? :
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    It won't half the current reversed (well obviously it kind of will since it is then only plugged into 1 single power outlet at half the power, but that would be screaming obvious, and so would any other regular pedal power cord. It won't half the current of that one power outlet though), otherwise daisy chaining would be worthless, but I assume that wasn't what you actually meant? Also no electrical device ever in history has been damaged by receiving lower power than needed, it might just not work as it is supposed to or might not work at all. In fact feeding distortion and fuzz pedals with lower voltage than needed to work as intended is actually an old trick to get the sagging dying battery effect which some people desire for some applications, some dirt pedals even implement a voltage sag control in their design, though it doesn't work equally well for all dirt pedals.
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    A sledgehammer I found will fix most things. As the old wise proverb goes: "If it ain't broke, break it!"
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    Just be sure to use really coarse sandpaper or you might get fatigue in your hands before the job is done. I actually sanded the ends of the Geezer J pickup when I had to fit it in the J cavity of my newer 2017 production Mikro, but using a file or having chipped off some length of the pickup cover with a hobby knife retrospectively would definitely had made the job a great deal easier and less straining. If you are really picky about looks you can always touch up the ends of the pickup cover and remove eventual filing/sanding/chipping marks after the rough job is done with some strokes with fine grained sandpaper.
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    Your welcome You might have missed the most recent edit of my post above that you quote from, there is another piece of information added which you would be best off knowing when planing to swap the stock pickups of the Mikro Bass. As for strings I have never used flatwounds, tried a couple of other brands, but the D'Addario short scale EXL 170S, gauge .100-.045 nickle plated steel core roundwound, set of strings is a good bet for E standard tuning (the shorter scale, contrary to common believes, will actually make strings feel and actually also be much stiffer compared to a 34" scale bass with similar string tension), don't be afraid of cutting long scale strings shorter to fit either, the horror stories of unwrapping dead strings are wildly exaggerated as far as I am concerned, I have never experienced such, just be sure to make an abrupt 90 degree bend on the string bellow the cutting point, the bend part being the one you fit down into the hole of the tuning peg, and you should be good, and with a short scale set the cutting point would be in the thinner tapered area of the strings anyway.
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    I use an Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass as my main and it's about as perfect as any mass produced bass currently on the market gets, my number 1 or 2 favorite out of all the basses I have owned, which admittedly is not that many considering how long I have been playing bass, but 4 of those being 1000$+ basses from new, the one that about equals my current Mikro main in greatness being the Jerry Jones Longhorn, that I still regret being stupid enough to sell at some point, it being a, 1200$ from new, back when they were still made, high end, sort of "boutique", version of the Danelectro bass of the same name. And regarding swapping the stock pickups on the Mikro, the stock pickups on the Mikro actually being fairly decent, though I swapped them for first a P/J set of EMG Geezer Butler pickups, then just a Dimarzio Model P, and now back at the Geezer, though just the P pickup this time, and when I first swapped the stock pickups the improvement in tone was huge, so will absolutely recommend that mod, also I can warmly recommend both the Geezer and the Model P. The Geezer if you want absolutely dead quiet pickups, as they are shielded internally, meaning that no shielding of the bass is required, and if you want a vintage-esque kind of tone, just a bit hotter and slightly more aggressive than you average vintage P, and with a nice upper mids snap and bite. And the Model P if you want a somewhat more modern, quite hot, aggressive, and overall fuller sounding P pickup, with a nice amount of lower mids punch, though not quite as articulate and dynamically responsive as the the Geezer, and definitely much more noisy (unless you shield your bass properly).. The Mikro Basses are generally of high quality compared to their price point, though as with all cheap budget basses every now and then you still get a dud one, which was the case with the stock fretwork on my newer GSRM20B Mikro Bass, absolutely horrible fretwork buzzing all over, even with insanely high string action. The body of that bass then later had the the neck from my older GSRM20 Mikro transplanted to it, that neck on the other hand being the most stable neck I ever had on any bass or guitar, holding tuning exceptionally well, almost never requiring adjustments, and with fretwork close enough to perfect that I can get the action exactly as low as I prefer it without any fret buzz whatsoever, which is a nice bit under the usual standard, by Fender for instance, recommended specs. And my, newer as well, 5 string GSRM25 Mikro Bass even had absolutely dead on perfect fretwork from stock, and I could get string action insanely low without any fret buzz whatsoever if I wanted to, though the stock J pickups are pretty crappy and the stock nut was cut too low as well. One thing to note though, at some point for some strange reason Ibanez decided to change the dimensions of the bridge J pickup cavity on the Mikro Basses, from previously fitting standard J bridge pickup dimensions perfectly (my 2010 production Mikro got this) to an ever so slightly shorter cavity (my 2017 production Mikro got this, and Ibanez still route the cavities slightly too short to this day), though it will only be a matter of filing, sanding or chipping off less than 1mm (<0,039") of each end of the J pickup cover to get it to fit, as the width, depth and placement of the screw ears are where and as they should be for a standard J bridge pickup.
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    Well, at least you tried this time, though clearly still without actually reading the OP, I got to give you credit for your effort on not coming off as a jerk, this time around at least. OP has now been edited to be more friendly towards people who refuse to bother actually reading OP before trying to be helpful. I still dare say that the chances that one might succeed in that effort would increase if they did bother, but guess, since I am the one asking for help here, that I am not really entitled to be picky.
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    I guess James Joyce lived in vain, and that Ulysses becoming a giant classic piece of literature and art must have been due to some loophole in the laws of reality, and yet my post requires almost infinite less of the reader and certainly doesn't require any sort of what could be categorized as even remotely advanced abstract thinking performed (while doubtfully having quite the same value as literature though), in fact it contains precisely all the information needed to answer my question satisfactory and nothing more, but I guess there will always be people who'd rather be a jerk and blame it on the OP than actually even at least doing an attempt at being helpful. Personally I prefer a thoroughly written OP over the one-liner riddles people typically will post as their OP when asking for help, leading to half the thread ending up consisting of inquiries from people with a genuine intent to help on elaboration on OP, and the other half, well, being self-entitled jerks, as per usual.
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    So as the tittle says, from previously being absolutely dead quiet, my EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, that I currently have installed in my main bass, has starting making a, still fairly subtle compared to most other pickups, static noise when my hands are not in contact with any strings or metal parts connected with the bridge ground of the bass, and while all the other pole pieces doesn't produce any noise whatsoever when touched the lower pole piece of the pair on each side of the D string produce a fairly loud continuous crackling sound when I touch it (which though becomes a lot more quiet if I get in contact with any metal connected with the bridge ground), which tells me that somehow something has happened to the pickup at some point so that that pole piece is either not properly grounded anymore or worse possibly have come in contact with the hot signal of the pickup, which if the latter in fact is the case I assume would mean being in direct contact with some coil wire where the thin layer of insulation that the wire normally is coated with for some reason has failed. So my question is, if there is any way one could possibly tell with any real probability and not just by absolute pure guesswork, would I have any reason to believe that this issue is likely to develop for the worse, possibly eventually leading to the final dead of the pickup, or perhaps it just eventually becoming so noisy that it might as well be dead, or are the odds noticeable higher that the issue in all likelihood won't develop for the worse and that I should probably have little reason to worry as long as the above described issue doesn't bother me? Any speculations on how this issue could suddenly occur, apparently out of the blue, are welcome too, cause frankly I have absolutely no idea and find it rather odd, but whatever has coursed it it must have happened in between last time I uninstalled it, in favor of a DiMarzio Model P, almost a year ago, and then when I fairly recently reinstalled it.
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    Personally I go for HarleyBentonian, which is properly a more realistic bet.
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    I get what you are saying, but I don't agree with what you say, not even one bit. I know for a fact that other people care about my tone, I know cause I care about other people's tone, and not just on bass, and I know people who feel the same way. You would think that would be the reason why I made this thread in fact, but obviously you don't. You know (or maybe the problem is that you don't?) people who actually care about music. Also using a Sansamp BDDI to mimic JJ Burnel's tone got to be one of the worst pieces of advice ever given, that sucker sucks the mids right out of your tone, exactly what his tone is all about, mids. Also I don't care for a generic tone I care for the tone the way I envision it to be, it's called being creative. And your bass getting lost in the mix in a bass/vocals and drums duo is kind of really hard, like you would have to do a serious effort for it to get lost, I don't say it is impossible, but it's not something I plan to do, and I would think very few people would either. In other words you don't know what you are talking about, which might explain why my OP looks like mad scribbings to you. Truth hurts, eh?
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    Well the single coil P Quater Pounder got a totally different tonal character than the other Quarter Pound pickup, including the J, for one having a lot more mids frequency content and less bass than mids, if one is to believe Seymour Duncan's own tone charge for the pickup.
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