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are monsterbuckers still good? (well are they?)
6/10
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Dead Inside is a diluted version of Sign O' The Times
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Perhaps the function of his expression changes with the patch he's using?
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He's a guy called Rob Scallon. The guy is terrifying on guitar, I highly recommend checking out his channel.
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That sounds like something dumbl himself would say
Except for that last part about having to reevaluate everything. He knows tone when he sees it.
If it looks good, it sounds good. You just don't 'get' it.
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I reckon its just the prunes & custard, assuming it is actually a real bass and not a synth on the record
I've just come to the conclusion that every desirable Muse bass tone is a synth.
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FF works a lot better with the harmony settings than the pitch shifting settings in my experience. Haven't tried using the harmonies on oscillation though. I'll try that. Works well for solos anyway.
It works fine for pitch-shifting too. I know the Bass Whammy was designed after the DT and V so maybe they'd fixed the glitch by then.
Innovation is in the Dave™Or something like that. I should design gibson's 2016 website.
Make sure it's wider and pay-to-enter.
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My FF runs perfectly through my Bass Whammy. I can even harmonise the oscillations.
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Behringer pedals with toneprints anyone?
I can't see them changing much. TC's strategy is doing wonders for them, no need to change anything.
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Ah right, I was thinking late may/early June, but I'm fairly sure that's when it kicks off, so I'm probably thinking post lc. How's the revision going? (I did my leaving twice. Missed the points for architecture by 10 the first time, so I'm well familiar with what this time of year is like!)
Oh if you can do it after the leaving then I'd be happy to do it! I'm finished on the 10th of June.
Revision is starting the speed up now. I nearly have all my practicals (engineering in a weeks time) so it's coming to a close.
The course I'm looking at is Music, Media and Performance Technology in UL which isn't crazy points so I'm quite confident going in.
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Ok, in due course, would you be interested in testing two versions of it? One stock, and one with a few cap mods to avoid possibly taking out the low end?
When were you thinking of testing them? I'm doing my leaving so weekdays aren't really an option.
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Ah ok. I think there might be 2 caps in my design that might take out some of the lower end. Dave are you still in Waterfunk?
If it doesn't completely destroy the low end, a clean blend could make it work well with bass.
I am indeed.
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Bass chaps, I have a question about bass effects.
I was looking up about some of Sigur Ros' recording techniques, and how they play live etc. I noticed that a lot of their live gear is from EBS. Lots of valve drives, compressors and distortions from EBS. The valve drive is of interest to my question, because it appears on the pedalboards of both the guitar and bass players in Sigur Ros. Pedals like the valve drive and compressor are pitched as being "universal" in that they work just as well for bass as they do for guitar.
What I'm wondering is how common is this? Or, how well in general do guitar effects work with bass? The reason I'm asking is that I'm considering doing a run of the tube pedal I recently built. Tone wise, I tried to be as transparent with it as possible. Its neither treble nor bass heavy, and when designing the circuit, I made a conscious effort when selecting caps to avoid picking values that would shift its characteristics in the direction of guitar or bass. Ideally, I'd like this pedal to be as friendly to a bass setup as it would be to guitar. So from a bass player's point of view, I'm curious as to how well guitar pedals transition to bass?
Sigur Ros don't really use bass as a low-end instrument. It's more low melody. The reason I imagine they use EBS stuff from bass and guitar to compensate for that lack of a low-end instrument. That and EBS just make great pedals.
I use a Boss BF-2 and a Digitech Digiverb on my board, both of which aren't normally bass effects and there are bass variants of both available. But I use these pedals because they don't effect my low end in any noticeable way. That's the key with using a pedal with bass, it's effect on the low end. Now, with a clean blend it is possible to maintain your low end. But if you have something that completely wipes out your low end (Like a Boss DS-2), a clean blend won't magically make it work on bass.
Generally I find that unless the low end has been purposely removed in order to tighten up the sound, it can be used on bass with/without a clean blend depending on the retained low end of the pedal. If you haven't shifted the caps to either guitar or bass, then I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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Lol. But cant you use the std. Directly into the pa?
You can. But you wouldn't be able to run a cab for stage volume.
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Dave has spoken
You know it
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Kemper question. Powerhead or not? Why?
Want to use a cab/use it live? Powerhead
Solely for studio use? No powerhead.
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i had a go of some of the mooer stuff in xmusic a while back. The thing I've found with those cheaper brands is that they can be hit and miss from one pedal to the next. That being said, Mooer seem to have waaaay more good pedals than bad ones. I've my eye on a few of their things and I wouldn't be disappointed by them. Best bet is to look at the reviews, but as far as cheaper pedals go, they seem to be considerably better than most. my €0.02
Yeah, I think what mooer's weak point is dirt pedals. That said, I've seen people use them effectively, but they've never been great to my ear. I like their modulation stuff. I'll do my research on the EQ tonight.
I still need to find more info about that damn Bass Soul Food. The EHX demo sounds shit but the PGS demo sounds amazing.
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I'm starting to think you need an EQ on either your clean or dirt chain to scoop out frequencies that combine to muddiness.
Yeah, I was beginning to think that too. I need to replace the big Muff anyway since I need that for my covers board. So I still think I'll get the Swollen Pickle. But I might get one of those mooer Bass EQs or a low pass filter for my clean chain. Thoughts?
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I have a gas for a maxon od820. Internally running at 18v for more headroom, opamp filters for warmer lower end, and the drive acts as a blend between clean and dirty tone so turned down its just a good clean boost. Might be worth a look?
For me? It's a bit expensive. The Swollen Pickle would be going on my originals band pedalboard, where I'm willing to invest for good gear. The Soul Food/OD pedal would be for my covers band where having a perfect tone isn't necessary. So spend €170 on one pedal for a board with a €90 fuzz and a €40 delay seems a bit excessive. It's certainly a cool pedal though.
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I'm now looking at the Way Huge Swollen Pickle. It seems to be more aggressive than my big muff and with a clean blend it sounds huge in demos.
So no one has payed a bass soul food yet?
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Have you tried using less gain and more compression?
Yes. My bassdrive doesn't have a lot of gain and my bigmuff is at around 1 o'clock on the gain.
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My current setup allows me to run my big muff, bassdrive and a clean blend together. But it's still not beefy enough. It's just over saturated and messy.
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Perhaps in your blind test, don't ask which one people think is the original (this would require people with the ability to discern the two), but instead ask which one people think sounds better. I know it sounds silly but so often you see blind tests where they ask which one is the original and they fail because musicians claim to hear the 'mistakes' of a real amp. I think a straight quality question would bring up the debate of do people value perfection over genuineness.
Of course, I'm not the one doing the dissertation.
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I have one of those I think it's a good pedal, but it has different controls from most ODs. rather than a standard tone control, there's a high/low cut and boost, and also wet/dry (clean blend I guess) control. I imagine you'd get better results with the LS-2 though, but I haven't tried it with this pedalI have an OBD-3 and I gave up on selling it because I couldn't move it after a few months. It just always sounds "fizzy" which is probably the best description I can give for it. It'll not get close to giving you *that* overdrive sound you're looking for.
Granted, I used it as my main distortion on our last EP. Not horrible by any means but so many better options.
It's a bit noisy, but can be really nice. I prefer a bit more quality to drives. Any sound examples of the kind of tone you want?Thanks for the replies, guys! Right, so it doesn't sound like good news then.
For my originals stuff I have my fulltone bassdrive on 80% of the time, so this pedal isn't for a general tone. It's really for those moments where the bass needs to sound almost unnaturally huge. This band is about dynamics and I want to be able to go to the extreme end of the density spectrum.
I know that paragraph is probably very unhelpful but it's the best way I can discribe it. My Big Muff wasn't big enough and my bassdrive isn't aggressive enough.
I think it's a good pedal, but it has different controls from most ODs. rather than a standard tone control, there's a high/low cut and boost, and also wet/dry (clean blend I guess) control. I imagine you'd get better results with the LS-2 though, but I haven't tried it with this pedal
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Ah yes
Yeah, they did.