Recent content by Yools

I've personally used both. I used to have a board with at least 12 powered units on it, including a preamp pedal, and I ran everything through two 1-Spot daisy chains into a standard power strip. Never had a problem with it. I recently pared down a bit and switched to an ISO-10 from Swamp...

[My apologies if the following is common knowledge. I tried to search for a similar thread but didn't find anything.] I was recently experimenting with my current pedals, etc. trying to solve a routing problem with a new pedalboard signal chain and I came up with what I believe is a novel use...

I've had a CEB-3 on my board for years through numerous pedalboard configurations and with various other effects, signal changes, amps, etc. I generally run my effects with a clean parallel signal, generally using a Boss LS-2 or equivalent (FYI, currently using a Joyo Orthros for the blend). For...

I've tried a few pedals for octave up, including several of the more popular ones (microPOG, Pitch Fork, TRex Quint). In my opinion, the only one I've ever tried that really does a natural-sounding octave up for bass is the Bass Whammy reissue. Even the 10th up interval sounded realistic on...

I am now officially done with Kalium for good. I placed an order in late December and received confirmation the next day that they got the order (and accepted my payment). Then... nothing. After about two weeks I called. Skip answered, I gave him the order number, and he assured me that they...

Yep - Independence Brewery in Austin; February 2022. It was about 30°F (-1°C) when we played, but IIRC the space in front of the stage was covered with some sort of tent and they had heaters out. Sound was fine - we were basically outdoors, so there wasn't much of an issue with acoustics...

Came here to say this. Had an 8 ohm Eden 410XLT back in the 90s. I inadvertently put a 4 ohm amp load on it once and I noticed that, not only was it super loud, but there was a light flashing every time I hit a note. Fortunately I shut it down right away before I did any damage. It probably...

I've done that a few times long ago - replaced a single string rather than the whole set (primarily for economic reasons). I've never been happy with that - the tone of the new string always stands way out and it sounds funny when I'm playing across strings. I don't see how it would cause harm...

No doubt - I really regret selling that. They're really hard to find now. -Y

I had a great rack system setup back in the 90s. BBE 383 preamp, dbx163 compressor, Nady 3D wireless, and a Carvin DMC1000 power amp. Power amp was really light for that amount of power. All in a wood rack case a friend made for me. I had a power strip installed in the back with an extension...

Yet another long-time Kalium/Circle K customer here. Have used their strings exclusively for well over a decade. I have a beautiful custom 5-string that was my primary bass all through the 90s and beyond. Sounded and played great, but I always had a problem with the B string - consistently felt...

I lived in Central TX for 30 years and didn't realize how much I took the wildflowers for granted until I moved to the other side of the world. As a native son of eastern PA, I can understand how those Yankee mooks could be moved by a field of wildflowers in spring. -Y

I know I've told this one before, but it's the only really noteworthy road story that I can think of: Back around '97 my band was opening for Obituary (death metal band, for those of you who aren't familiar) at a club in Houston. After our set we were hanging out by our van drinking beer while...

I have a 5-string tuned to G#0 standard; basically a half-step below what you want to do. I've used this .160 balanced set from Kalium Strings for years with my metal band and I swear by these. Gauges are 160-118-90-67-49. The heavier strings are taper wound, so that low string rings out quite...