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My Dirt Bender - Another Jounal
- Thread starter el murdoque
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Whichever it is, I’m sure it will be a delight to read. And you’ll do the other one later anyway
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Which is now a hundred pages long. Phew.
@el murdoque - call me boring but I'd love your take on the Bass Soul Food. I'd love to find a pedal that does a truly transparent drive that only really affect the attack of each note with what I call "grunt". I realize it's well documented the Barbershop and 5th Gear achieve this. I don't a way (or available budget!) to try before buying so I tend to steer clear.
@Parzival - I have that pedal on my board. It's unique and well thought out. I feel its strength is with the phase inversion switch in the original spot (the NORM position) which definitely impacts a flavour\tone of its own. I really do think it does the Pearce drive very well. And factor in you can add EQ\Comp\effects to either channel it really makes this a versatile tool.
My main settings for a P Bass is Drive - 10 o'clock, Tone - 12 o'clock, Level - 8 o'clock and Clean - 2 o'clock.
@Parzival - I have that pedal on my board. It's unique and well thought out. I feel its strength is with the phase inversion switch in the original spot (the NORM position) which definitely impacts a flavour\tone of its own. I really do think it does the Pearce drive very well. And factor in you can add EQ\Comp\effects to either channel it really makes this a versatile tool.
My main settings for a P Bass is Drive - 10 o'clock, Tone - 12 o'clock, Level - 8 o'clock and Clean - 2 o'clock.
Your vote has been, to translate a German proverb, the little tongue on the scales.
Apart from that, I figured it makes sense to have the EHX Klone on the test bench while the Aluminum Falcon that I have on loan is still in the house.
Interesting! I never figured what the loop feature is used for, but I always liked Mr. Sheehan's tone.
In English, it’s typically a finger. I hope your scales are clean …
If you're interested, the German Proverb is "Das Zünglein an der Waage" Where "Zünglein" is a diminutive form of "Zunge", which means tongue, but it's an old word and not really in current circulation. On the scales used by pharmacists in yonder days, there was the beam, the pans and you would put your weights in one pan and whatever you need to weigh on the other, but in terms of weights, you could only go so small. There's a needle fixed to the top of the beam which can be used to read by how much the equilibrium is off, and that needle used to be referred to as "Zünglein" in the German language. So it's actually not referring to putting your finger on the scale to overcharge the customer, but it describes the most delicate process of weight measurement known to man (at that time).
I am interested, and thanks for the tidbit of linguistic history
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I doubt you would want my tongue on your scales. Certainly not without wiping down afterwards
The pedal has 2 channels (clean and dirty). Each channel has it's own loop that you can insert different pedals in. Lots of possibilities. In the past I've used pedals in both.
I had a time that I was using the "flanger" effect of the MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe in the drive channel only and an Octave in the clean loop. I would use the pedal always on with a light drive setting and kick in either the chorus or Octave whenever I needed that tone. Worked perfectly for the sounds I wanted.
The chorus in the drive channel provided a flanger tone that retained all the bottom end.
The Octave in the clean channel meant that the Octave only effected the clean channel, but allowed a bit of drive without the Octave affecting that side of things.
I doubt you would want my tongue on your scales. Certainly not without wiping down afterwards
lol, see my post about tongues on scales . . .
Explain it to me like I was five.
I see there are two foot switches, but it seems they only activate the pedal and a boost. When do the loops come in play? The dry and wet loops are mixed with a dry/wet blend?
We got the same saying in Denmark: "Tungen på vægstskålen", directly translated: "The tongue on the scale", but I suppose a more correct translation would actually be: "The tongue that tips the scale".
I guess that saying has the same roots as the German one. Maybe your Danish pharmacists of old called the needle on the scales the "Tungen".
I just built the "least eye candy" pedalboard of my recent career.
...basically I've taken my Nano and put the pedals on a PT Junior, to have a gap large enough for the Meatsmoke.
A little test run revealed that the output of the XLR and the 1/4" of the Bassrig are quite different due to the cab sim.
You can adjust the post-treble knob and have a hi cut switch that works at 2k or 4k, but none of these have the same top end response as the XLR out, and the XLR out is quite good in that regard. Luckily, I have a Broughton LPF from back in the day where people could just order a pedal with Broughton and he'd make and send it. Those of you with a keen eye will spot that it's facing the wrong way and not passing signal. I figured that out a few minutes after taking the pic and corrected it.
However, this pedalboard looks a bit like @moon-bass built it. I will try it out first, before I commit to finding a solution that is more pleasing to the eye, but I'm taking suggestions already. The Meatsmoke is roughly 10" x 8" big.
...basically I've taken my Nano and put the pedals on a PT Junior, to have a gap large enough for the Meatsmoke.
A little test run revealed that the output of the XLR and the 1/4" of the Bassrig are quite different due to the cab sim.
You can adjust the post-treble knob and have a hi cut switch that works at 2k or 4k, but none of these have the same top end response as the XLR out, and the XLR out is quite good in that regard. Luckily, I have a Broughton LPF from back in the day where people could just order a pedal with Broughton and he'd make and send it. Those of you with a keen eye will spot that it's facing the wrong way and not passing signal. I figured that out a few minutes after taking the pic and corrected it.
However, this pedalboard looks a bit like @moon-bass built it. I will try it out first, before I commit to finding a solution that is more pleasing to the eye, but I'm taking suggestions already. The Meatsmoke is roughly 10" x 8" big.
This is not something you would want to post in the "Show me your tidy pedalboard" thread, though.
