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07-07-2010, 01:15 PM
|  | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Fun With Pedals!!
I've had a few goals that I've wanted to achieve lately:
1) Do a good recording project using the new Peluso mics
2) Get back to my Real Book/reading efforts
3) Compare some pedals
So I did it all in one project!  
Here's Coltrane's "Mr. P.C." with and without drums. Mr. P.C. Mr. P.C. (Bass Only)
The signal chain was this:
1) My Roscoe Century Sig V ->
2) Alembic F-1X ->
3) Crest CA6 ->
4) Bergantino AE-210 ->
5) Peluso CEMC6 mic ->
6) M-Audio FastTrack Ultra 8R ->
7) PC running Sonar Producer 8.5
Each pass, I used a different pedal in front of the F1X:
Pass 1: No FX
Pass 2: EBS Valve Drive
Pass 3: T-Rex BassJuice
Pass 4: Crowther Audio Prunes & Custard
Pass 5: MXR M288 Bass Octave Deluxe
Pass 6: Fulltone Bass Drive
I also tried overdriving the F1X, but that didn't do much. It's too clean, baby! Which is a good thing.
Last edited by RocketMusic : 07-07-2010 at 03:20 PM.
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07-07-2010, 01:26 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Heh, dunno do I want the F1X, the Valve Drive, or your talent more....
Then again, the Fulltone sounded just fantastic too....
EDIT: heh, not to mention how much awesome and cutting the P&C sounded in the full mix.
Last edited by Darkstrike : 07-07-2010 at 01:30 PM.
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07-07-2010, 01:30 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Oh, I forgot to include a link to my talent, didn't I? Oh, well, it's ridiculously overpriced, anyway. |
07-07-2010, 02:24 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | I'll admit, I looked for that link..... |
07-07-2010, 02:24 PM
|  | I'm here, now what? | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Boise, ID | | | Man, I just love that MXR. The tracking on that thing rocks. Very cool samples!
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07-07-2010, 04:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: so california | | I love the MXR 288 I like using it when my drummer isnt looking lol since he sits next to my rig
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07-07-2010, 04:49 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bobunit  Man, I just love that MXR. The tracking on that thing rocks. Very cool samples! | Thanks! Yeah, this was a lot of fun!
My only complaint is that we are woefully out of space to do this kind of thing. I basically have to setup a rig, mic it, and then tear it all back down before like 1PM when lessons start happening. Of course I have to do the same thing when I take pictures of new arrivals. Yep, I need some studio space here at the store!!
Think this clip will convert Jerry to becoming a pedal guy?  Nah... |
07-07-2010, 04:53 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Just show him what happens when you combine a fretless Roscoe, a chorus and that lovely MXR octaver...
Join the darkside, he will.... |
07-07-2010, 05:00 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike Join the darkside, he will.... | The ValveDrive is strong with this one... |
07-07-2010, 05:04 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | I sense a disturbance in the tone... |
07-07-2010, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: so california | | Speaking of fun we just had a nice 5.4 shaker thought I left my MXR 288 pluged in lol http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...i10736069.html
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07-07-2010, 06:27 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | You totally need to review the Malekko Barker Assmaster. |
07-07-2010, 06:51 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by metalbob | Yikes! I hope everyone and everything is alright, Bobby! |
07-07-2010, 07:10 PM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
Real cool sounding tones Greg!
My favorite are:
1 - nothing wrong with the natural sound of that bass and rig!
5 - that is a cool sounding octave pedal
6 - nice slightly over driven tone. Not too farty; just the right touch of grit
....and the drum sound is real slick! ...perhaps I can obtain that soon!  |
07-07-2010, 07:23 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Gress You totally need to review the Malekko Barker Assmaster. | Based on the name alone, I want one.
I'll have to look into who distributes them and check one out. Thanks for the tip!
Last edited by RocketMusic : 07-07-2010 at 07:25 PM.
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07-07-2010, 07:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC | | Your playing and the bass sound great!
Thanks for posting.
(Very small nit-picking about this tune- In bar 6 there's no Ab, but rather a G natural. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2PzXuxwts
I hope I'm not being too big a stinker! : ) |
07-07-2010, 07:36 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Real cool sounding tones Greg!
My favorite are:
1 - nothing wrong with the natural sound of that bass and rig!
5 - that is a cool sounding octave pedal
6 - nice slightly over driven tone. Not too farty; just the right touch of grit
....and the drum sound is real slick! ...perhaps I can obtain that soon! | #1 is definitely up there for me, too. You ever get tired of your bass tone? Think maybe you want to change something just to hear something different? I've been considering a pickup swap, but then I hear this recording and I slap myself. Why would I want to go changing that tone?!? |
07-07-2010, 08:23 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by LM Bass Your playing and the bass sound great!
Thanks for posting.
(Very small nit-picking about this tune- In bar 6 there's no Ab, but rather a G natural. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2PzXuxwts
I hope I'm not being too big a stinker! : ) | Right you are! So says the Real Book, too, upon a second reading...
Clearly, Coltrane was an idiot. Right?
OK, it's me... |
07-07-2010, 08:39 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by LM Bass Your playing and the bass sound great!
Thanks for posting.
(Very small nit-picking about this tune- In bar 6 there's no Ab, but rather a G natural. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2PzXuxwts
I hope I'm not being too big a stinker! : ) | OK, so now my engineer's brain is trying to figure out the why... Bars 5 and 6 are over an F- chord, and then Bar 7 returns to the C-. Is the G in Bar 6 basically an attempt to lead the change that is coming in Bar 7? I guess the G makes it sound more like you're descending C- pentatonic in bar 6, thus melodically setting up the C- chord that comes in Bar 7?
Sadly, I am a musical newb, and this is the kind of gold I'm hoping to mine by forcing myself to read the Real Book. Once I understand the "why", then I (hopefully) can apply it elsewhere in my own playing... so thanks for any input!
Last edited by RocketMusic : 07-07-2010 at 08:54 PM.
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07-08-2010, 12:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | Hey Greg,
Sorry if I came across as a jerk -just have a pet peeve with this particular tune. The Real Book can be great, but lots of stuff gets transcribed wrong in it and everyone plays it that way. Herbie's tune "Dolphin Dance" and Monk's "Round Midnight" got weird in the book too. I played Mr. PC wrong for a long time and was surprised that when I listened closer, it didn't match the book version.
Anyway, I'm derailing your thread -the bass and playing sounds great!
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