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03-28-2010, 05:51 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | I couldn't help myself...
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There's a reason we all got into using effects. Some of the lucky iconoclasts here may beg to differ, but I'd bet most of us started using pedals because we listened to an album or a single, heard an absolutely killer tone coming from the lower frequencies, and became infatuated with it.
You know it, I know it, we all know it... Getting "that tone." Be it the Hysteria fuzz, the Schism Whammy, the Down With Disease filter, The fuzz/phase of Larry Graham's instructional video...
Eventually, of course, most of us figure out that replicating someone else's tone is at least A) costly, B)ultimately futile, and C) a gateway to endless mocking from our peers.
Still, a few soldier on, and end up with all the fixings for a board like Justin Chancellor's, or (more recently) Chris Wolstenholme's.
Gentlemen, with a final few clicks of a mouse, I have taken that plunge... May I present you, Deluge of Sound's Al Cisneros tribute board:   |
03-28-2010, 06:25 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: London, England | | | lush!
i'm still workin on the ultimate james jamerson board, but until i find a bass whammy i'm always going to be unsatisfied
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Originally Posted by behndy  "big and awkwardly powered". sounds like ALL EHX gear. or my junk. | |
03-28-2010, 06:30 AM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Hmm, I seem to be on the oppisite. I want to find pedals to sound like nobody else. sure maybe a mix of bassist "a" and bassist "b" and dying animal "c", but not like one person in particular. |
03-28-2010, 06:33 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Have you ever tried a Blue Box? |
03-28-2010, 07:30 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Crown Point, IN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Gress Hmm, I seem to be on the oppisite. I want to find pedals to sound like nobody else. sure maybe a mix of bassist "a" and bassist "b" and dying animal "c", but not like one person in particular. | My thoughts exactly!!!
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03-28-2010, 08:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | +1
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Originally Posted by Lowclef (Youtube member) Imagine if Jimi Hendrix could have held on just a couple more years and ended up working with Bootsy. That pairing would have saved the world. | |
03-28-2010, 09:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Gress Hmm, I seem to be on the oppisite. I want to find pedals to sound like nobody else. sure maybe a mix of bassist "a" and bassist "b" and dying animal "c", but not like one person in particular. | Likewise.
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03-28-2010, 09:20 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Another way of looking at it is the ability to "invoke" a certain hero tone at will. That's the beauty of pedals IMO, is not that they can get you to sound like bassists a or b, or animal c, "all the time"; but rather that you can be doing your own thing and then step on a button and suddenly use that hero voice to get people's attention. |
03-28-2010, 09:52 AM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | great pedal. i loved the high mid grind from that thing. you've actually got me thinking i might want to try one again  |
03-28-2010, 10:09 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | Quote:
Originally Posted by markjazzbassist great pedal. i loved the high mid grind from that thing. you've actually got me thinking i might want to try one again | I literally woke up this morning, thought "hey, I feel awful, maybe I should hold off on cigarettes for a while," hopped online and realized I could pick one of these up for about half a carton.
Pedal is inbound, smokes are on the back burner. Om records are playing loudly in the background for "urge suppressant." |
03-28-2010, 10:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: thieveland ohio | | | post clips!
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03-28-2010, 10:37 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Ideally, I'll put up some side-by-side 250/Supercollider clips, Sleep & Om riffs in tow, of course. |
03-28-2010, 10:46 AM
| | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound Have you ever tried a Blue Box? | No, but I want to.
And +1 for the supercollider 250 showdown. Quote:
Originally Posted by bongomania Another way of looking at it is the ability to "invoke" a certain hero tone at will. That's the beauty of pedals IMO, is not that they can get you to sound like bassists a or b, or animal c, "all the time"; but rather that you can be doing your own thing and then step on a button and suddenly use that hero voice to get people's attention. | Absolute truth. I like that. "Hero voice". Makes my next pedal purchase a little more on the "need" side than the "want" side of things. I'm savin the world baby, I need this tool.
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