Johnny Wishbone

Thanks guys, keep those opinions coming. I know I'll have to experiment a bit but your experience and expertise will help me to make a more informed choice! Just remembered my amp has a limiter built in - would that change your opinion on where the compressor would go?

OK, so apart for the position of the wah and compressor in the chain it's pretty much as tayste_2000 said then? I realise that most of this comes down to personal preference but obviously there are some pedals that for logical reasons work better either at the front or the end of the chain (for instance tayste's reason for the octaver & synth wah to go first makes sense to me). I can see what both of you are saying about the compressor - I've found that putting it after fuzz does tame the sound a bit too much for me, but then I can see why you'd have it after the octaver/synth/phaser to even out any nasty peaks, perhaps affording the amp some protection if things get a bit silly. I'm pretty happy with the order of my current pedals (although I may switch the phaser and chorus around as tayste suggests for a more extreme effect) so I guess I'm just looking at where the new pedals would fit into my existing chain. I'm not really about subtlety, effects-wise, as I'm usually holding down the low end beneath two heavy guitars so any effect I use has to cut through the mix (think along the lines of Tim Commerford & Chris Wolstenholme).

Right guys, I've recently gone "pedal mad" and picked up a few used pedals to widen my range of sounds. Only trouble is I'm not sure which order to put them in. At present (in order) my signal goes: Bass > Korg DT-10 Tuner > Modded Boss CS-3 Compressor > EHX Big Muff > EHX Small Stone > Boss CE-2 Chorus > Amp New ones to be included are: Dunlop 105Q Bass Wah, Digitech Bass Synth Wah, Boss TR-2 Tremelo, Boss OC-2 Octaver and an as-yet-unacquired delay. I'm pretty sure the wah needs to go near the front of the chain, but I prefer it after the Big Muff, so I guess that would go between that and the Small Stone? I assume the delay would need to go right at the end, but what about the others? Cheers, Matt

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[quote name='amj' post='33232' date='Jul 17 2007, 07:36 PM']Another reccomendation for the ER20's! Band practice is so much more bearable now, loud noises make irritable let alone the already well known effect on hearing. If you haven't got any earplugs yet then for god sake shell out a tenner and grab some of these![/quote] What he said. I find rehearsal much more enjoyable since purchasing some ER20's, plus I find where I've had trouble hearing myself at gigs I can now hear everything much more clearly. Probably the best tenner I've spent in a long time.

[quote name='stacedabass' post='8176' date='May 28 2007, 05:10 PM']rocktron, dc on tap is a very good single psu that can power up to 20 pedals, and has a variety of cables for different types of pedals[/quote] OK, so I've just bought one of these and I'm pretty happy with it, except for I have two EHX pedals and the cable set that comes with it only has one EHX adaptor. According to Rocktron's website you can buy extra cable sets seperately but does anyone know where I could get one in the UK?

2 basses amp head 4x10 for small venues, 1x15 and 4x10 for larger venues pedalboard 4 guitar leads & 2 spares 2 speaker leads & 1 spare spare power brick spare mains leads picks screwdriver pliers pen knife allen keys towel guitar stand paracetamol sweat band & spare 9v battery spare patch leads spare set of old strings gaffa tape marker pens paper demo CDs spare t-shirt

Erm.... RATM/Audioslave - Tim Commerford Soundgarden - Ben Shepherd/Hiro Yamamoto Black Sabbath - Geezer Butler Hundred Reasons - Andy Gilmour Stone Temple Pilots - Rob DeLeo Led Zeppelin - JPJ Metallica - Jason Newsted/Rob Trujillo/Cliff Burton (all brilliant bassists in their own way) Faith No More - Billy Gould RHCP - Flea Alice In Chains - Mike Starr/Mike Inez Queens of the Stone Age - Nick Oliveiri/Josh Homme Pearl Jam - Jeff Ament Not necessarily my favourite bassists, but a good number of them in there.

[quote name='BassBomber414' post='24440' date='Jun 28 2007, 02:21 PM']I bought a bass and effects etc from GAK - no problem.If you check out Thomann in Eastern Europe they can often be much cheaper - for eg ,£100 cheaper for a Warwick Bass Combo Ibought recently. Delivery times are a few days more but free delivery over £134- which for a 30kg amp from the East German /Polish border is very good. Also they assisgn an English speaking contact for each U.K. order - You get the photo /tel no/ and a name- very user friendly.[/quote] Any idea which couriers Thomann use? I'm about to order something from them but as they'll inevitably try to deliver it whilst I'm at work I could do with knowing where I'm going to have to pick it up from.

Yep, tried the quick fix but no joy, so I've got a tech to have a look at it whilst I've got a couple of weeks until the next gig. Had to DI direct into the PA at last night's gig. Slightly odd experience not having my rig behind me. Thanks though guys. I appreciate your advice.

Robert DeLeo - Stone Temple Pilots Andy Gilmour - Hundred Reasons

Anything by Oasis's old bassist.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='25235' date='Jun 30 2007, 10:52 AM']Matt, Wasn't Johnny Wishbone the psuedonym used by Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop I? Welcome aboard oh kindred spirit [/quote] Spotter's Badge for you there, as Ron Atkinson would say. It was Beverly Hills Cop 2, though.

Been reading the forums for a while, and a couple of members have been kind enough to help me out with a recent tech problem, so I thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Matt, I'm 29, from Sheffield and I've been playing about 12 years. I play in a hard rock/grunge band called Subnova ([url="http://www.myspace.com/subnovaband"]myspace[/url]). We start recording our debut album in August and we've recently secured an endorsement deal with Ernie Ball Musicman. I play a '99 Warwick Fortress One through a Crate BX-220H head (via several FX) with custom-made 4x10 and 1x15 cabinets. I also have a '94 Mexican Fender Jazz, which rarely gets touched these days but is handy as a backup. It's nice to be in touch with so many other bassists, where I can live without fear of being ostracized for only having four strings

Top stuff - I'll be off to Maplin's shortly then. Again, many thanks.

It's definitely more of a hum than a hiss, and I've fixed the clicking, which was an unrelated fault (dodgy XLR cable). I suspected it might be a ground loop so I'll give this a try at the weekend. Many thanks for your help. Incidentally I guess this doesn't really solve the problem outright unless I take my own XLR cable to gigs, right? Or am I correct in thinking that most DI boxes have a ground lift anway, so I should be OK?

Sadly no, plus I've tried all the suggestions on the common faults page (changing power leads, unplugging FX, changing basses etc) and it still hums even with nothing plugged into it at all. Looks like I'll need to get it looked at

Bugger - this should probably be in the "Repairs & Technical Issues" section

Hi all, newbie with a problem for you to hopefully solve: The problem concerns my bass head (Crate BX220H) which I've been running for about 8 years with no worries. Lately I've been having problems at gigs with the XLR Line Out feeding a lot of noise to the PA (depending on the PA it's either a constant kind of low hissing/humming sound or occasionally an intermittent sort of random clicking, both of which can be quite loud). I suspect it's an earthing problem. Up until recently it happened once in a blue moon, but now the humming's started happening at rehearsal (I line out into an old PA to spread the bass around the room so our guitarists can hear it better) so I'm pretty keen to sort it as I've got a shedload of gigs through the summer. Is there a simple solution, or should I get the head looked at by a tech? Hope you can help