Recent content by Fynn

Some older circuits cut quite a lot of low end, which makes them less than ideal for bass. A lot of modern pedals include a blend, or have more low end capability to begin with. It depends massively on the exact circuit and pedal. You can make any guitar pedal work on bass if you blend in clean...

A mesa subway 115 is at -10dB at 38.1Hz. The QSC monitors don't have that. I have no idea how you can just tell me it's not true when it's easily verifiable with a google search. Unless you're trying to tell me that all those bass cab manufacturers are lying, while QSC tells the truth. But my...

I think something important to note is that these PA speakers don't have the same low end as a bass cab. Nowadays a lot of modern bass cabs are pretty full range, but a lot of PA speakers (including the K12 and the CP12 for example) don't get quite as low. The K12 is at something like -10dB at...

This is really messing with my mind. I can't tell if the bass he is playing is a shorter scale length, or if the guy is just super tall. It is either octave up, or piccolo strings, but I'm leaning more towards octave up. But if that is an octave up effect, then the tracking is reaaaally good...

I meant they have different properties. That is what I learned mainly from JHS, but also other pedalbuilders have talked about it. It's mostly the circuit. There are plenty of videos out there where these people do side by side comparisons, and show how and why the difference would exist. Beyond...

To your first point, that's exactly the issue I was referring to. All else being equal, the germanium sounds different, because it has different properties. Silicon and germanium diodes are meant to do a very similar thing, but they do it to a different degree. All else being equal, the...

I think germanium is a very interesting topic, because a lot of people look at diodes like that and just come to the conclusion that they must sound better, because they're oldschool, more expensive, and used in expensive pedals. But honestly, with electronics like that, it matters way more how...

I mean, it's not like boutique pedals mean they're better. They do use essentially the same, or the same type of, parts. The really unique thing about them is that they're rare. But functionally, what's the point? If you find a boutique pedal that does something that no other mass produced pedal...

I've looked at the SA artifakt, and I'm pretty impressed. It's mighty expensive, and I'm not surprised by that, but I'm sure it can do everything in that direction.

I've tested a bit crusher before, I felt like a bit crusher is a bit more than what you hear Claypool using. A bit crusher is quite a unique and extreme effect, even on lower settings

It might be his delay too. Which at that time would've just been the DL4. That thing has a lo res delay setting. But he's using the same type of filter/EQ effect on groundhogs day, excluding the delay part I think. At least that's how it sounds to me. It's important to note that he uses...

I've noticed quite a while ago that Les Claypool has been using some sort of effect on his pedalboard, during specific sections of songs, where his bass signal sounds like it's turned into a lofi version of itself. It sounds like a very heavy EQ curve is being applied, or potentially some other...

I'm sure there was a time where speaker size meant something, as cabs were created somewhat equal even between different manufacturers. But especially nowadays, you can have cabs that look puny, completely outperform the giants of the past. I think it's fun to make an analogy between speaker...

I think most difference in digit length and such can be minimized by just exercising your fangers, and your hands. The issue with making this a physics question is that at such low values, the differences are pretty much negligible. Your boulder analogy works great because you have a very heavy...

You need what YOU need. As a good reference point, I like to always tell people to look at their favorite artists. If you like what Duff does, you can look at how he does it, and why it works, and what it involves. And then you might find he uses a specific type of pedal. And then you can...