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haha, i don't know the noises i want. some with a good range i guess. we're not using anything like it in any songs at the moment but have a habit of changing stuff so anything interesting would be good. TimR i'll have a think and pm you, thanks.

so i'm possibly to part with my boss distortion pedal soon due to building something similar/better and so want to replace it with some sexy synth. i've not tried out the boss, behringer or any of that stuff and i'm aware of the awesomeness of the ehx however, as ehx stuff always is it's a bit pricey for me. can anyone suggest one that's good or circuit bendable to become sounding good, but isn't going to destroy my money?

i'm currently building a mr grassi by ciat lombarde and a wooly mammoth clone. the grassi works but it is possible i've used too many sub-bub capacitors cos i'm just getting a low pulse, i'm going to hook it up and get some pictures up soon though. apart from circuit bending a dd6 drum machine this is my first electronics project, pretty happy so far.

we filmed an acoustic version of one of our songs for this website - [url="http://www.manchesterscenewipe.co.uk/"]http://www.manchesterscenewipe.co.uk/[/url] there's some other band's stuff up there too - they filmed why? t'other week and loads of other bits and bobs.

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a band needed a drummer and a bass player so i said i could play drums, they didn't need a drummer anymore so asked if i could play bass. so i learnt. i'd have to say i don't have any vigour for any specific bass lines or players. i listened to a program about jaco pastorius t'other day, that guy was some serious business.

poppy catchy stuff with odd time signatures. i am incredibly aware of how the description makes me sound like pretentious nonsense.

I am a young woman from Manchester. I play in a math-pop band called Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear and work as a classroom assistant for a special needs school in the art and music department. I have a fender precision bass and my pedal board set-up is a boss tuner to boss distortion to 4ms phaser phleur to ehx metaphors. I have recently bought some nice blue demon lava cables. My amp set-up used to be a Marshall 4x10 and some wierd 80's head but i'm currently in the hopeful midst of changing that and getting something I am excited about. I also play trumpet, keyboard (korg micro-synth), am learning the trombone and ofcourse some guitar. I found that not a lot of equipment geeks I know, know much about bass stuff, it tends to side toward guitar knowledge so I joined this forum for more help in such matters and can I say, so far I have found this a very pleasant and helpful forum.

i've tried using a big muff - the guitar one, and a rat. got given a boss distortion and it's like i've been blessed with a bottom end that i've never had before.

My band Deaf to Van Gogh's Ear are going on tour in easter. We are after dates in between 29th march and 9th april, generally anywhere south of manchester. We sound like this - [url="http://www.myspace.com/deaftovangoghsear"]follow me to myspace[/url] - instrument swapping, mathy stuff. we can also be heard hear.....[url="http://www.deaftovangoghsear.co.uk"]website[/url] Also, if anyone can help by giving me venues or other bands that might be interested in putting us on/playing with then that would also be awesome. Ta.

not too worried about that, i'm currently sewing pedal board cases for 2 friends and i made my own wooden pedal board with lid so i'm careful in terms of that, it'd be more so the unit as a whole would take up less space and would depend on what i got, for example i'd make small runners for the amp to fit in inside the cab if there was room. still lots to figure out.

yeah, after much thinking and hours of looking at diabolically large amps i reckon i'm going to go for a mini amp and cab seperates and sort out storing the head inside the cab for touring etc. so now i'm looking at valve heads possibly. hmmm. thank you very much for the help though. i saw a previous thread on here about small amps so i'm going to scope that one out and do further research. god damn, i am so sick of looking at ebay.

[quote name='bassbloke' post='734691' date='Feb 4 2010, 03:13 AM']Any reason why you want to go the combo route? If you are getting bigger gigs, a head/cab set up would be far more flexible as you'll find yourself being encouraged to share backline on numerous occasions. Of the 6 or so gigs I've played over the last few months I've used my cab once and on the occasion I did use mine, it wasn't necessary as there was a pretty decent house rig. Others may disagree, but 2 x 10 combos aren't that common. A quick scout of this forum shows many complete rigs available well within your price bracket, but 2 x10 combos are a lot rarer, mainly because it's a speaker configuration that's not that popular in combo form. That still wouldn't put me off the SWR Super Redhead as it's a cracking piece of kit. I used to own a Bass 350 head and they sound wonderful. There's no way you could be disappointed with the sound - but you'd probably want to try first.[/quote] i've currently got seperates and the only way i'd go that route again is if i could mod it so the head could be transported in the space under the speakers. we have a lot of instrument swapping in our band and so the less we have to carry the better. i did look at general cab plus head option however, i have absolutely no idea about amps so it feels easier to be looking for combo's due to knowing what i want etc from them. if you can suggest an amp for around £300 thats small, and not the ashdown stuff then i'm open to assistance, it's just an area i haven't looked at yet.