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[quote name='Kurt' post='7795' date='May 27 2007, 08:27 PM']Hmmm, nothing like somebody stating the blatantly obvious to make you realise that the premise behind the thread you started was nowhere near as well thought out as you thought, eh! Thanks [/quote] Happens to the best of us, and the worst

I'd avoid the hartke bass attack pedal. YMMV. How did the valve swap work out?

The reverbs in this are ment to be amazing - if you're into that.

=) lol

Cheap indeed.

[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='5659' date='May 24 2007, 12:38 PM']1 tuner 1 compressor FX: 1 filter/wah 1 distortion + boost 1 modulation Choose them very carefully, develop your own way of applying them and you have a signature sound. Much more than this and you have an identity problem (sound-wise at least) [/quote] Look at the bassists that we all like. They all do what you said - so it must be true, right? Although, I disagree with "too many".

Personally, I'd go DHA.

Try chorus - much fun

Yup, probably just lifts the level of the signal a bit too - so it feels like it's giving that extra clarity

OK, I'm sending the PMs this afternoon for addresses. Thanks.

They're pretty useful. Most people use something like the gigFX Gound Control MIDI switcher to rack their pedals.

Oh, lol.

[quote name='guitarnbass' post='7207' date='May 26 2007, 05:05 PM']Why loosen the strings when sending instruments?[/quote] Hocus pocus from morons who don't understand instrument construction

If it were only as simple as having the right value parts, eh?

[quote name='Waldo' post='7084' date='May 26 2007, 12:15 PM']Maybe if you were polite about it he might do [/quote] +1

X2

In short: yes.

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='6917' date='May 25 2007, 11:47 PM']MI Audio have the Neo and GI fuzz with variable input bias I believe (Toasted?) which works in a similar manor,[/quote] Steve, you know [b]ALOT[/b] more about this than me. The MI audio has a "load" knob where you can alter the input impedance to match with your instrument impedance to get the transistors to bias correctly. Examples of standalone buffers would be the Lovepedal minibuffer, and the Radial Dragster. Do they not do the same job on the impedance tho?

That's actually two different processes: Impedance Change -and- Buffer. If you don't know what Impedance is in musical instrument terms, then I strongly suggest that you don't buy an impedance altering device.

[quote name='dr.funk' post='6714' date='May 25 2007, 06:34 PM']Can you not control the whammy by midi. If so you might be able to use a simple midi drum machine (assuming you could set the note values) to create an arrpregio which would sync to the tempo by using the tap button. I have been considering trying this with a rack fx unit and ableton live.[/quote] Now THAT would be a thing of beauty.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='6357' date='May 25 2007, 11:11 AM']as i said, thats what he does, along with hysteria[/quote] I'm going to be the bigger man here and take the moral high ground: Think what you want, it's not important to me.

Whilst I think on, because I'm helpful and nice like that: You're playing a stingray/stringray clone in your avatar. If it's that that you're using to trigger your Deep Impact you're probably not triggering it to it's full effect. The Deep Impact tracks best on a neck pickup. Both the Deep Impacts that I've had have needed a firmware upgrade. This cost me £80 each time from the UK Akai repair centre. They needed this because the effect started becoming more subtle - because the onboard DSP was degrading through over-editing the patches. On another the capacitor associated with the paramater select knob needed replacing because it broke. I'm not as stupid as I look, and strangely do know [i]just a little bit[/i] about effects

[quote name='BassManKev' post='6207' date='May 25 2007, 01:12 AM']or maybe you'll realise that hysteria is not played by a bass its played by a synthesizer, not a pedal [/quote] [quote name='BassManKev' post='6217' date='May 25 2007, 01:24 AM']the actuall song was recorded by a roland synthesizer, cant think of the model right now. there may well be clean bass over the top too, not in the intro but certainly in the verse live, the synth is also playing, and chris plays clean bass over the top the akai deep impact certainly isnt involved anyways, you wiki believers [/quote] Kev - it is you who is getting a little confused between Hysteria and Time Is Running Out. Time Is Running Out is multi tracked. The main track is a Roland JP-8000 synthesiser triggered by one of Chris' Bass Collection bases. Over-layered over that are bass riffs with different blends of amp and pedal distortion. The pedal distortion is blends of Sovtek Muff and Human Gear Animato. Hysteria [b]IS[/b] one of Chris’ Pedulla Rapture SB’s into one of his Deep Impacts into a Human Gear Animato. The album version is the same effected riff layered twice, with a final layer of clean bass. I know this from personal conversations with MUSE, and Hugh Manson. BTW: Kudos to you for being member 123. The only better number is 69. Or *maybe* 696

[quote name='BassManKev' post='6168' date='May 24 2007, 11:49 PM']could you post that hysteria setting? i wont use it as i use a fuzz probe, but im just curious as i cant get a sound like it[/quote] Maybe as you previosuly thought: your Deep Impact is broken?

[quote name='Sugden' post='5080' date='May 23 2007, 12:07 PM']Sorry didnt mean to come across as a confrontational.[/quote] Suggy, Suggy - I didn't mean to either. Sorry if I did The Radial JDI is fantastic value for money under £100. IMO the next step-up is *probably* the Avalon U5 at about £200 second hand.