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    New cab advice

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    There are quite a few Schroeder 2x12 cabs on the for sale section... They are around the £400 mark (used) but you'd be hard pressed to get a more audible cab in a band situation for the size/weight.
    (Look for the 1212L as the "L" means the speakers are Neodymium, and the cab is an easy 1 handed lift)

    I love the schroeders...

    Darkglass Microtubes Vintage

    in Effects

    Posted

    I *LOVE* mine.
    I've always used a pretty clean sound for everything I've done because I never liked what most pedals were doing to my tone. However, this pedal is just on all the time.
    It's sits there doing exactly what it should... It makes me sound better! No fizz no appreciable loss of my preferred tone...

    Just the ticket (for me)

    Reverb pedal recommendation?

    in Effects

    Posted

    +1 for the "Earthquaker Devices - Dispatch Master" It's a brilliant sounding pedal and does it all! It even sounds good enough to run it subtly all the time for a massive chubby sound. (Depending on what you're doing I guess.)
    I wouldn't recommend the "TCH Hall of Fame" personally. It's sounds ok, But even though they say it's 'True Bypass', your signal chain will be completely dead if the battery runs out. I dunno if it's something to do with relays or whatever, but battery death is a pretty serious thing to not be able to bypass. -1 for the "H.O.F."

    I had to take the first one back too... It would just stop producing a reverb sound intermittently. I lost my confidence in the TC after these problems, even though the replacement one seems to work ok.

    Feedback For Lozbass

    in Feedback

    Posted

    Bought an Epifani 502 from Loz. Great guy to deal with. Super efficient with the communications too! Gave me perfect directions right to the door of the pick up...
    I can wholeheartedly recommend him as a seller!

    My thanks Loz!

    Andy

    Long lasting strings

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    [quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1370356334' post='2099625']
    I have to agree with @iceonaboy. I like to have bright-sounding strings for playing harmonics or a bit of slap. I also like to sound like a whooly rhinoceros from the '60's with a nice bottom!
    I might try picking a bespoke bass to string with flats and see how it goes while the others get their ration of roundwounds when I can afford it.
    I dont have overly-greasy paws but some strings do just die super-quick. I have noticed the Warwick strings on my Warwick Thumb are doing ok and its been a long while but the rotosounds on my Jazz were dull in two weeks.
    [/quote]
    Rotosounds only last weeks before they sound dead and lifeless to me too.
    And as I said above, the Warwicks last ok, but the 'wick EMPs are astounding value (even if they cost more). They will easily outlast 3 sets of just about any other string I've tried by quite a magnitude, ...and there's the value.
    For me anyway. Others may just not like the way they sound ;P

    Long lasting strings

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    [quote name='Moos3h' timestamp='1369859514' post='2093720']
    I bought a set of elixirs and apart from the feel which is very nice, I could not be more unhappy with them - the sound is just dire! Straight back to Legacy rounds for me.
    [/quote]

    Is it the Elixirs that have the silk style wrapping?
    Never tried them myself... Sounds like I was wise not to...

    Long lasting strings

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    The Warwick EMPs are great.
    From the off they are not *quite* as bright as (for example) Elites, but they dont change. For months. Even with regular playing they stay bright.
    They dont loose any coating either, which some of the others do.
    Give em a whirl one time, I did ...and I stuck with em.

    Punchy Tone?!?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by GremlinAndy

    [quote name='EMG456' timestamp='1366627917' post='2054959']
    Some of us don't find that compression in the signal chain gives a more "punchy" sound. It will certainly give you a more even sound in terns of levels and do things like simulate longer sustain from your bass but I prefer to have the original dynamics in my playing preserved as much as possible. With strong consistent technique, you can eliminate the use of compression from your live playing altogether and reduce it's use in the recording environment to a bare minimum - after all, the less gubbins between you and the speaker which will finally reproduce what you're playing, the better, no? The use of compression as an effect is of course something different. (Runs for cover)

    I see he plays mostly fingerstyle but throws in a bit of slap for effect - some basses (yes even high end ones) do not produce consistent volumes between fingerstyle and slap techniques so he may have used the compression to help mitigate this.

    Anyway, at least part of what makes this a nice punchy sound is the cleanness of the playing and in particular regard to note lengths and dampening. Not only is the start of each note nicely judged and executed but also the end of each note - gives that nice contrast between note and space and helps give great definition to the rhythm and groove.

    My tuppence worth!

    Ed
    [/quote]


    I'm with you... compressors arent always desireable...
    However you cant make it sound like you squashed the crap outta a non compressed bass with any amount of technique...
    Whether it's *everyones* description of punchy or not is debatable, but it's definitely got compression on there...
    My penneth... ;)

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