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Post Your Pedalboard 26: Duotriskaidekaphobia

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I need a band to play bass in again. Though I started building a crazy ambient board last night for kicks. (PS: Not a board I own, it was just a sad empty photo)
 
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bassman1185 said:
I'm totally with you, Warwick. My band plays loud too, mainly for our drummer's sake. It's pretty hard to play a heavy breakdown quietly, and it looses a lot of force, as well, not just volume.

My old band had a motto: Practice how you play. We would throw down during practice the same as if we were on stage. That way, once we WERE on stage, we were used to throwing our guitars, jumping, yelling along with gang vocals, etc., and everything was just a whole lot more natural.

Also, just for the sake of going back to the topic at hand, I added a Roland EV-5 expression pedal to my setup to manipulate the pitch shifting stuff on my Ring Thing. I'm not sure when I would really be able to use it with my band, but it's fun to mess around with.
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One, the ring mod would sound sweet in some breakdowns, and two all my bands have the same rule on practicing how we play.
 
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warwick.hoy said:
FWIW. I use the DB reducing Hearos which I find a lot clear than the orange spongey earplugs and my ears aren't ringing.
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are you aware of these bad boys?
http://www.westone.com/hearing-protection-products/custom-fit-hearing-protection-products-4

I understand the need to play at performance levels....however more than 15 minutes of listening to anything over 100db can cause permanent hearing damage. what i did was get the custom made westones and they're a lot better than hearos IMO. they have a lot better audio quality and attenuate the music enough to preserve your hearing. More expensive than hearos but better audio quality.
 
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grygrx said:
55212M1_done_done-7028dcdb9a8b2930c2c5243933c94c1d.jpg


I need a band to play bass in again. Though I started building a crazy ambient board last night for kicks. (PS: Not a board I own, it was just a sad empty photo)
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the HELL??!? i thought you had fuzz pedals permanently melded to your body? turning you into a horrible part human part pedal monstrosity.

sorta like someone who had taken Merge too many times. or Transmet's Tek. i think that's what they called it. can't be arsed to look it up.

point is - I THOUGHT YOU WERE MADE OF SIGNAL-CRUNCHING PEDALS??!??!
 
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and, GryggittyGryggityGrygch, your avatar, it SCARES me.

looks like you're sitting on the couch trying to placate the ferret that is escaping from under the covers with a piece of candy corn.

*shudders*

woof.
 
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magneezius said:
are you aware of these bad boys?
http://www.westone.com/hearing-protection-products/custom-fit-hearing-protection-products-4

I understand the need to play at performance levels....however more than 15 minutes of listening to anything over 100db can cause permanent hearing damage. what i did was get the custom made westones and they're a lot better than hearos IMO. they have a lot better audio quality and attenuate the music enough to preserve your hearing. More expensive than hearos but better audio quality.
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I'd definitely be into those but at 20 bucks a pop the Hearos are doing just fine. I've lost a few pair of Hearos so until I can get responsible enough to not loose them,...about 20 bucks is the max I'm willing to spend on earplugs.

The bottom line is I'm doing something to protect my hearing.
 
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warwick.hoy said:
No worries



We actually prefer it that way. I realize there is a school of thought that you don't have to rehearse at high volumes and If this were a funk outfit,...or just a straight up rock'n'roll band then I would be shooting for lower rehearsal volumes. BUT: We are a noise band with little structure and lots of experimentation. It is almost our mission to assault people with feedback, heavy distortion, fuzz (my pedalboard sounded so sick last night!!!!) thick bass, layered delays,.....atonal guitar work. The fact that we have to wear earplugs is almost like a badge of honor.

Too much of what's around here is boring, non passionate,..too quiet (I attribute a lot of that to weak sounding; clean bass rigs) straight up R'n'R. I mean that's fine but I wanna pour emotion and power into our live performances (still gotta play our first one) and we believe that improv bassed groove noise will attract some dedicated attention. I'm prepared for people to not get it,...or not like it,...but I want the people that do get to hear it and hear something different each time.

I think the volume translates better on the recordings as well (we record every "rehearsal" no matter how bad we may be off). I'll post some of the choicer tracks when they become available in the "I wanna hear your basslines with FX" thread.

FWIW. I use the DB reducing Hearos which I find a lot clear than the orange spongey earplugs and my ears aren't ringing.
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behndy said:
love to hear some clips.

yeah... if you're doing certain noisy things, it doesn't really work at quieter volumes.

.... 'course, i do kinda wanna throttle my singer when we play WAY too loud because he "can't hear himself well enough to sing".

i worry about his hearing actually. we were trouble shooting this weird Mac/Motu interface problem, and my tiny bass amp i use as a portable pa/line check thing was making a reall high pitched squeal. that he honestly couldn't hear.

yikes.
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I posted in the hear you basslines with FX thread but here it is here.

http://soundcloud.com/sephyratigre/2010-08-23-rdrljh-09-bear-cock

http://soundcloud.com/sephyratigre/2010-08-23-rdrljh-10
 
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My name is Mudd said:
Up until now, I'd always kinda glanced at it and subconsciously thought it was a way-shrunken-down watercolor landscape thingy or something, but now thanks to behndy....just what the hell IS that?
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It's a very close up shot of a bulldog coming in for the kill.

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oh and here is the beginning stages of my fooling around board of noise and horror.
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oof. and what is that beautiful monstrosity on the far right of the tier there?

...... i've been playing through Wolfenstein (love playing games 6-12 months after they're out. so... much... cheaper...) and reading a lot of Neil Stephenson lately so that looks like some steam-punk world domination dimensional vortex creating..... thing.

... or something.
 
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