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Phase 90

#4
Clipping is caused when the input volume (or as some engineers refer to it, input gain) is louder than the output volume (gain). This causes the sound wave to "clip" or distort. Usually this sounds like a slight overdrive in many Phase 90's. I think you can open it up and turn some screw to fix it, though.

Maybe you do have to have it modded. I'm not sure.
 
#6
SpankyPants said:
Clipping is caused when the input volume (or as some engineers refer to it, input gain) is louder than the output volume (gain)....
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Hi SpankyPants- I think what you described would just be the gain across the device. Clipping occurs when the input level is greater than the device can handle, resulting in the "clipped" waveform.

On another note. Your avatar is disturbing. Is that your every day look, or just for a special occasion.

jeff
 
#8
swingmaster said:
Hi SpankyPants- I think what you described would just be the gain across the device. Clipping occurs when the input level is greater than the device can handle, resulting in the "clipped" waveform.

On another note. Your avatar is disturbing. Is that your every day look, or just for a special occasion.

jeff
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I know. I'm not an engineer, and I pretty much explain everything wrong. Seriously.

And the avatar is from when I was addicted to meth. Thanks for being an insensitive prick. (Kidding ;-D)
 
#9
swingmaster said:
Clipping occurs when the input level is greater than the device can handle, resulting in the "clipped" waveform.
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that's what i'm talking about.

swingmaster said:
On another note. Your avatar is disturbing. Is that your every day look, or just for a special occasion.
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we just discussed this somewhere else. :D can't remember where, exactly.
 
#11
I used to use one of these in a band years ago. Probably the only effect I used on my bass. But I did notice that over time, using a pedal cut some of the input from my bass, so I ended up not using it anymore.

I'm a bass player, I don't need FX.

Just my fingers and the bass.
 
#12
Gubna said:
I'm a bass player, I don't need FX.
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with all due respect (and please don't react all crazy like some TBers are prone to), this is a little ignorant. some bass players use effects, others don't. it has nothing to do with being a bass player.

example:
James Jamerson - session great, never used effects
Justin Meldal-Johnson - session great, uses effects all the time

two great bass players, two different approaches. it's relative. it's music.
 
#13
Gubna said:
I used to use one of these in a band years ago. Probably the only effect I used on my bass. But I did notice that over time, using a pedal cut some of the input from my bass, so I ended up not using it anymore.

I'm a bass player, I don't need FX.

Just my fingers and the bass.
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I'm an effect player. Oh, and I use a bass once in a while too....


;) kiddin'

But yeah, big muff-> phase 90 sounds killer:)
 
#14
swingmaster said:
I know I should be more sensitive to alternative lifestyles. :smug:

As for not being an engineer, that can be fixed with about 4 years of college.
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Yeah... I'm already in LSU's honors college for pre-med, psychology, spanish, and independent studies in music media. I mean, I guess I could add audio or electric engineering too. Anyway, I'm taking this semester off due to an injury. Yes the injury was meth-related. ;-D

jetpackbassist said:
with all due respect (and please don't react all crazy like some TBers are prone to), this is a little ignorant. some bass players use effects, others don't. it has nothing to do with being a bass player.

example:
James Jamerson - session great, never used effects
Justin Meldal-Johnson - session great, uses effects all the time

two great bass players, two different approaches. it's relative. it's music.
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+1 I agree 100% If you don't like effects, that's fine. You don't have to play with effects. If you love effects, that's cool too. You can use them all you want. I do agree that effects should never take the place of holding down a solid groove, but I play my effects just as much as my bass.

Hell, that's why there's an Effects forum on talkbass.com ;-D
 
#17
bongomania said:
I will never understand why some blockheads come into the Effects forum just to post "I never use effects, a bassist doesn't need effects, blah blah." :hmm:
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I whole-heartedy agree, Sir Bongo. There is obviouly enough of an interest in playing bass with effects that there in an entire forum dedicated to it.

But, hey, if the guy thinks bass is limited to one sound, who are we to ruin his ignorant bliss? I say we take him into the alley and beat him with sticks. ;)
 
#18
EricF said:
I whole-heartedy agree, Sir Bongo. There is obviouly enough of an interest in playing bass with effects that there in an entire forum dedicated to it.

But, hey, if the guy thinks bass is limited to one sound, who are we to ruin his ignorant bliss? I say we take him into the alley and beat him with sticks. ;)
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Can I use wet noodles instead? It's just something I like to do. :ninja:
 
#19
any more info about this mod? does the phase 100 have this same problem? i just bought a boss ph-3, and though i liked the sound of the phase 90 better, but the lack of tweakablility scared me away. now i am seeing the light and not really liking the ph-3 that much at all and want to return it in favor of the phase 90 or 100.

do you phase 90 users ever feel limited by just having one knob? can you really get that lush phase 90 sound out of the the 100? since i would be getting over a hundred back in returning the ph-3, i figure that i might as well get the phase 100 if it's basically a 90 with more settings.
 

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