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[quote name='sk8' timestamp='1393313456' post='2378475'] Yes I would. I've experimented with a compressor in various positions in my chain and the place I like it best is first in line. Your Milage may vary [/quote] do you use an Envelope Filter as well? I like Compressor up front but if you do that then the compressor levels out your playing dynamics which really screws up your EF.

[quote name='jon_kemo' timestamp='1393281045' post='2378336'] Was this in Lincoln by any chance? If so the manager had slashed the guitar prices the day before. I managed to bag myself an Ibanez SR705 that they already priced wrong for £115! It was marked at £175 but didn't produce any sound plugged in so was sold to me as faulty without a warranty. I got it home and found that it was just the battery clip was a bit dodgy, so got myself a massive bargain! [/quote] Jammy git!! :-D

Bizarre. Clicking on "use full version" and then "use mobile version" has reverted everything back to normal. How strange. I definitely didn't change my theme settings myself!

Thats nice. Everytime I think I'm cured of GAS something like this comes along to tempt me

Bought a GLX Bass Limiter from Paul. Friendly emails, posted it when he said he would and packed it up safely. Many thanks

[quote name='sk8' timestamp='1393268800' post='2378075'] Compressor Envelope Octave Fuzz Chorus Pre amp [/quote] Would you really put the compressor before the filter?

Hey Yesterday I noticed that the mobile site theme has changed (at least I assume it has---mine is now a different colour and I don't think I asked it to!). It looks pretty, but now quoted posts don't format correctly. Has anyone else noticed this?

If it were me I'd go Octave Fuzz Envelope Filter Chorus Compressor Preamp However, thats by no means a "must do". That selection of pedals could easily be configured another way. Some fuzzes want to be first in the chain, for example. Fuzz into Octave gives a very different sound to Fuzz after octave,and so on. You could argue for any one of the filter / fuzz / octave being first! The only thing I'd say was definite is that the compressor should be after the envelope filter---having a compressed signal going into an envelope filter is a bit pointless, given the way EFs work.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1393194175' post='2377303'] . The effects themselves are good, but in my view all those I`ve tried are set much too full-on on the manufacturers settings. Back off on them - usually to 50% and they are very nice, otherwise they just seem to take over. [/quote] Thanks! When you say back off the effects to 50%, what do you mean? Is there a mix control for each effect?

Hey guys I'm really tempted by a B3, but I have a few questions. 1. Is tweaking the effects and amps as simple as it looks? In the past I have not enjoyed multifx because tweaking the sounds was too complex and I find just having the simplicity of single effects much better (I don't have hours and hours to be sitting delving through menus to alter sounds). 2. Has anyone tried theirs with a guitar (not a bass)? I play guitar a bit too so if I can get some decent sounds for that too that would be a very attractive prospect. 3. I would be using it as a practice tool and plugging it straight into a mixer (I play with headphones at home) but I'd also want to use it live sometimes and probably go straight to desk. Has anyone else done this and did it work OK? 4. Do the effects actually sound like the real pedals? What are the distortions like? 5. Is it possible to split the signal and have a clean blend on some of the effects? Cheers

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1393008601' post='2375286'] Victorian buildings have a tendency to look better and to last longer than modern buildings. Same goes for mediaeval cathedrals.[/quote] ..and modern people tend to last longer than Victorian people did. Buildings and people are not basses though, and so both are almost irrelevant to the discussion [quote]Anyway, do you really think that luthery skills have changed very much in a mere fifty or so years? But I do hope the poor things aren't too insulted.[/quote] I think that the skills involved in designing and making bass guitars have moved on a lot in fifty years. Instruments would have to be a very, very unique subset of manufacturing in order for the earliest models to be superior to the most modern versions. Nobody buys cars from the fifties because they are technologically better than modern cars---they buy them because they're interesting pieces of history that have some kind of coolness about them.

Big Muffs are far from light drive! I like them, but they're not a subtle effect.

[quote name='cclowend' timestamp='1392982735' post='2374874'] I have never used fx but have just bought a used zoom b1 to use as a tuner/vol/delay. Can I get some guidance as to which (send or return) the pedals output goes into. Obviously the input goes in t'other hole. Ta. [/quote] I don't really understand your question. "Send" is typically always an output "Return" is typically always an input. If you want to put the pedal in the effects loop of your amp then connect the amp's send to the pedal's input and the pedal's output to the amp's return. If you want to put the pedal in front of your amp connect your bass to the pedal input and the pedal output to the instrument input on the amp.

I am a much better flute player than I am bass player! I don't play all that much anymore but I was grade 8 standard for a long time and If you have specific questions I can try to answer them. I can't recommend enough that she get a few lessons. Getting the embouchure (shape of your mouth and lips) right is difficult and it will be significantly easier with a teacher to help out. The easiest note to start with is C5 (the C right in the middle of the treble clef). She should work on trying to produce clear notes that are consistent in tone. Each note should be articulated with the tongue, if you imagine saying "taw" at the start of each note that gets you pretty close. Posture is important, you need to support each note with the diaphragm and so you need to be upright and not horribly slouched. Warning: she will get dizzy at first. You waste something like 65% of the air you blow out whilst playing. Have a chair nearby!! Good luck, its a wonderful instrument.

The thing that I always think about in these threads is "does anyone actually think we've got [i]worse[/i] at building stuff in the last 50 years?" Thats just an insult to the skills of the modern luthier.

I wrote this on another forum recently. if you do properly controlled double blind testing, it appears that professional violinists prefer modern violins to old ones. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/01/02/1114999109 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/in-play-off-between-old-and-new-violins-stradivarius-lags.html?_r=0 I've got a PhD in musical acoustics and know a fair bit about musicians and their perceptions of their instruments and it turns out that a lot of musicians are very fond of making definitive blanket statements like "trumpets made from white gold sound completely different to trumpets made from brass". However, subject these ideas to double blind testing and the results are never conclusive. Musicians are very perceptive, but a lot of the time they are just victims of psychoacoustics and confirmation bias. Old guitars are just inherently cool. We guitarists love "mojo". Some old guitars are absolutely fantastic, but that doesn't mean that modern guitars aren't capable of being equally good. Same goes for violins---you may need to play an old instrument to be taken seriously as a solo violinist, but thats got just as much to do with societal pressure and expectation from within the musical community as it does the quality of the instrument. Even classical musicians love a bit of "mojo". We should also bear in mind that the guitars that have survived from the fifties and sixties in playable condition are almost certainly the good ones. The ones that weren't as good haven't been taken care of, been cannabalised for parts, or just plain forgotten about and lost. The good examples are far more likely to have survived the years than the rubbish ones. Don't get me wrong, I'd love an old guitar. But more for the inherent coolness of owning a piece of history, rather than because it was better than a modern equivalent.

You'll find that as a beginner you do that on all basses! Keep practicing, you'll get there before you know it. Different basses offer different string spacings, yes, but I wouldn't buy a new bass instead of just practicing your technique! (of course if you have other reasons for a new one then go right ahead )

I didn't see it but Nile Rodgers was on so it can't have been all bad.

Over the last few years I have managed to wean myself off endlessly eyeing up new instruments, new gadgets, and new toys. I'm a player, not a collector, and if it won't get used then I don't need it sitting around gathering dust. Two basses is my limit now. One main one and a backup that does things slightly differently. However, everyone is different. Some people just need one bass. Some people like collecting things. Some people need lots of slightly different sounds. There's probably even some people out there that have convinced themselves they really [i]need[/i] 5 different Precisions. Just do whatever works for you. Its all cool.

Was going to say, for the price it'll cost you for a courier with that much insurance you can get a train pretty much anywhere in the UK and deliver it yourself

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1392198064' post='2365750'] edit, I really don't see why this thread should be locked as long as we keep it adult, stick to the facts and avoid juvenile name calling [/quote] It'll be locked in about 3 posts time then