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Thunderbird Club
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Not sure. It came that way. They are red though...
Every one of mine has inlays. Dots look cheap to me. For some reason I don’t mind it on guitar but certain guitars...mostly Gibson’s with dots also look cheap. I guess it’s just fender guitars with dots that don’t bother me.
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Morning! Some random thoughts on pedals...
Hung out with a really nice fella last night at my gig. He was a bass player in one of the other bands on the bill. His band were all original, but it was basically ‘classic’ riff rock, kinda on the hippie side of things. He said he liked my upright playing and Derek Hokes music and half apologized that his gig required that he bring a pedalboard. Fairly small board with two different drives and a modulation pedal. Can’t remember what pedals besides a Green Muff, but all pretty standard stuff bass players use.
I watched his set and either couldn’t hear any changes to his sound at all after watching him press a pedal, or if I did notice a change, it was that his sound got a bit thinner. This is my experience with the vast majority of bass players I see with pedalboards. I either hear no real change in tone, or a change for the worst in tone. This includes players with massive pedalboards sometimes. Once in a blue moon I’ll hear a bass player use a pedal that actually makes a useful difference, but it’s really rare.
Ironically, I love pedals and own some pretty high end ones. I use em for my solo electronic stuff all the time. But live it’s really rare that I notice any change at all, let alone a positive change.
Hung out with a really nice fella last night at my gig. He was a bass player in one of the other bands on the bill. His band were all original, but it was basically ‘classic’ riff rock, kinda on the hippie side of things. He said he liked my upright playing and Derek Hokes music and half apologized that his gig required that he bring a pedalboard. Fairly small board with two different drives and a modulation pedal. Can’t remember what pedals besides a Green Muff, but all pretty standard stuff bass players use.
I watched his set and either couldn’t hear any changes to his sound at all after watching him press a pedal, or if I did notice a change, it was that his sound got a bit thinner. This is my experience with the vast majority of bass players I see with pedalboards. I either hear no real change in tone, or a change for the worst in tone. This includes players with massive pedalboards sometimes. Once in a blue moon I’ll hear a bass player use a pedal that actually makes a useful difference, but it’s really rare.
Ironically, I love pedals and own some pretty high end ones. I use em for my solo electronic stuff all the time. But live it’s really rare that I notice any change at all, let alone a positive change.
Gaolee
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Fenders are a machined industrial product. Gibsons are far more labor intensive looking, even if they probably aren't any more.
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Aside from DI, the Broughton, and the wireless receiver, I currently have two pedals on the board. One's an envelope follower, and it makes a big change in sound. The other is a Moer high and low octave pedal. The envelope follower does what you would expect. The octaver makes the sound really synthetic if you use both high and low in a heavy handed way. Both together sound really nuts, especially with a bow. I don't use 'em very much, but they are fun to kick in sometimes and watch the reaction.
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I have the pretty much the same experience. I love pedals when I am at home, experimenting. Live, they end up taking more from me (attention, time, tone) than they give me. YMMV.
turtle eggs for breakfast?
Nah, I don't like prisons.turtle eggs for breakfast?
last night's Mardi Gras party setup....little overkill but oh well..
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I'm always interested to read what everyone here is doing with pedals, I wish I had more time at home to work on music other than what my band requires - Which is actually a lot, because most of my mates aren't listening to potential new songs for us to learn. Thus it's on me to find appropriate music that will please our clientele, fit into our sets properly, and of course, be able to be played by us, not always easy, and very time consuming.
Anywho, carry on.
Better to have more than you need than not enough
yeah, haven't used 15's in a live setting in a long time...not used to them anymore I guess...
Depending on what kinda music yer playing-and what the cab weighs-they can be fun.
totally agree. it worked fine...just missing the transients....
Aren't they on the corner begging?
I was looking at it from the point of view of reverb. The Green Russian is quite popular for bass and reasonably priced too. Maybe check it out?
Of 12 songs so far, 2 are 'Cat Tail songs', with arrangements sparse enough that anyone who is awake should notice the wall of doom. One of those songs has 8 bars of flanging -- which sounds completely over the top when combined with the Cat Tail. The other 10 songs are standard bass tone. And I take your point.
People (and I'm thinking guitar players here) who have a pedal they use on one song and another very similar pedal on the next song -- is there really a noticable audible difference there, particularly in the context of the arrangement, or are they really just trying to find a use for another 'cool pedal' they couldn't resist buying?
Well said! It’s really easy to lose some frequencies that are going to cause you to drop out of the mix. Or in the case of my mini-Qtron, add too much and get too loud!
