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I've never seen a good demo on it at all.
It's a sleeper for sure. I think they sold for around a hundred fifty bucks. Worth every penny.
It's not much use for guitar amps that have EQ stacks though.
Jacob, I don't have internet at the house but there are a couple of places that have free Wi-Fi less than a mile from where I live. I'll grab my Bose Bluetooth speaker and drive over there in a few and give a listen. I have to run to the store anyway.
Charlie
Charlie
My Radial Bigshot ABY arrived today. Smaller than I thought it would be but that's a good thing considering I have a fairly small board. Still plenty of room between the foot switches though. The manual is impressive. It not only describes what the ground lift, polarity, and ISO switches do, what goes into a bit of detail of why the issues each one addresses occur in the first place. A good read for someone new to running two amps like myself.
Here it is pictured with pedals of various sizes for reference.
Here it is pictured with pedals of various sizes for reference.
I often use the tremolo/vibrato combination as my basic electric guitar sound when doing home recordings, then copy the same guitar track and run it more clean simultaneously with the effected one, gives an awesomely warm but sick psychedelic effect.
Here's a track where I used that approach for the not programmed bass I played as well (more of a solo bass/melody kind of approach to playing bass than a traditional supporting one, as there's already a programmed bass taking care of filling out that role), this is with the electronic psychedelic down tempo duo Electro Jar I had with a friend at some point (second track Spacefuzz 2016 from the 3 track EP Divinorum, our last, but also, in my opinion, best release):
Wouh!
Quite psychedelic!
Based on the visual representation I definitely like the second one (Fig. 44) the best.
Maybe I should try out some of that much debated phase canceling effect at some point, if it sound just anywhere nearly as interesting as it looks
Gave it a listen. Reminds me of some World Beat stuff I listened to a few years ago. Good stuff.
Thank you very much
I realize me posting that track was a bit random, and I didn't think too much about it in the moment I posted it, since this thread's main topic hasn't really anything to do with it.
I guess I just kind of instinctively responded on you not imagining any practical use for you of temolo on bass which led me to think of this song, so I just posted it.
Thank you giving it a listen anyway.
Yeah, I think we were just getting onto something there, with the three songs on that EP.
He comes from a progressive techno and psytrance background, whereas I come from an alternative/experimental rock/folk background but gradually have found myself more and more compelled towards the more experimental aspects of that.
Somehow we made it work quite well I think actually, and managed to create something fairly unique while still not being too far out, even most of the time preventing creating any serious drama out of the fact that we both had to compromise on our ideas from time to time.
Usually the work process would be that we both took care of the programming chores, usually literally taking turns putting on electronic layers on the base track we were working on at the moment, and then additionally me taking care of the physical instruments as well as most of the vocals, even if we to a wide extend used more or less manipulated synthesized text to speech vocals, something I later continued with and elaborated on with my solo drone/ambient/noise project.
Unfortunately we didn't have quite the same ideas of what direction this project should move forward in, me wanting to get into more experimental electronic stuff and my friend I guess wanting to go a bit more traditional and slightly more commercial direction, and I guess that was what made it impossible to continue the project.
Paradoxically I think maybe that was also what made it work out so well, he sort of prevented me from going all in wacky, and I prevented him to go all too pop with the music, sort of finding a nice middle ground between odd and appealing, interesting and catchy, something I honestly think potentially could have gotten us a fairly broad audience had we continued with the project and eventually having started to actually doing gigs with it.
It was an interesting journey as long as it lasted though, and I learned a great deal from him about programming music on computer and generally using software as a more integrated part and to a much wider extend in the process of music creation, as I never really did any serious attempt to program whole finished songs before we began to work together.
Well, sorry for hijacking your thread again.
But glad you liked the music
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Nice,
the music reminds me something on the German bass player I mentioned above who used to spread cabs.
I can't exactly tell he still did the cab spreading thing in this vid dated to 1997
Another nice song which "sounds" little bit like bass programming however it's real bass playing.
Thank you very much
I realize me posting that track was a bit random, and I didn't think too much about it in the moment I posted it, since this thread's main topic hasn't really anything to do with it.
I guess I just kind of instinctively responded on you not imagining any practical use for you of temolo on bass which led me to think of this song, so I just posted it.
Thank you giving it a listen anyway.
Yeah, I think we were just getting onto something there, with the three songs on that EP.
He comes from a progressive techno and psytrance background, whereas I come from an alternative/experimental rock/folk background but gradually have found myself more and more compelled towards the more experimental aspects of that.
Somehow we made it work quite well I think actually, and managed to create something fairly unique while still not being too far out, even most of the time preventing creating any serious drama out of the fact that we both had to compromise on our ideas from time to time.
Usually the work process would be that we both took care of the programming chores, usually literally taking turns putting on electronic layers on the base track we were working on at the moment, and then additionally me taking care of the physical instruments as well as most of the vocals, even if we to a wide extend used more or less manipulated synthesized text to speech vocals, something I later continued with and elaborated on with my solo drone/ambient/noise project.
Unfortunately we didn't have quite the same ideas of what direction this project should move forward in, me wanting to get into more experimental electronic stuff and my friend I guess wanting to go a bit more traditional and slightly more commercial direction, and I guess that was what made it impossible to continue the project.
Paradoxically I think maybe that was also what made it work out so well, he sort of prevented me from going all in wacky, and I prevented him to go all too pop with the music, sort of finding a nice middle ground between odd and appealing, interesting and catchy, something I honestly think potentially could have gotten us a fairly broad audience had we continued with the project and eventually having started to actually doing gigs with it.
It was an interesting journey as long as it lasted though, and I learned a great deal from him about programming music on computer and generally using software as a more integrated part and to a much wider extend in the process of music creation, as I never really did any serious attempt to program whole finished songs before we began to work together.
Well, sorry for hijacking your thread again.
But glad you liked the music
Oh no you didn't hijack the thread.
Tremolo is actually an effect I can see myself using. But with limited space on my pedalboard, I may or may not add a tremolo pedal. I'm going to experiment a little bit with a volume pedal to get a tremolo effect.
May work okay, may not. We'll see.
I've had both my heads for a couple of weeks now and loving it.
Still exploring all the possibilities and configurations. I'm having a blast !
Thanks again for everyone who replied and offered suggestions and information.
Still exploring all the possibilities and configurations. I'm having a blast !
Thanks again for everyone who replied and offered suggestions and information.
Yes they are cool ! I'll get them at Harbor Freight when they're on sale for 20 bucks. They're better than a step ladder for painting interior. High enough for a 7 or 8 foot ceiling and they're very stable. You can step down off of them and move them over where you want them with your foot.
They do have a locking mechanism for each set of legs that I had to put a pinch of neoprene rubber under the lock keep them from rattling.
Raises the cabs 13 inches. They have a carry handle one one side as well.
That old table you see in between them is pretty cool. I think it was originally intended to be a lamp stand. Enough room for a coaster and your drink as well as picks and such. The old marble top has been cracked and repaired but no biggie. Couple of antique dealers here in town that knew my parents told me they believe they had seen them in old 1890's Sears catalogs.
That photo is in my living room which I've turned into my music room.
I've tried the cabs stacked, side by side next to each other, and separated.
I haven't gigged with them yet but I suppose for a gig I would just stack them.
But for the room they're in right now they sound fine. I've tried them separated as in the photo with stereo effects and it sounds pretty cool.
If I had room for them on a stage to be set up as pictured, I would probably try it.
My eyes thank you.
(Now, if we can just get people to quit using orange colored plastic milk crates as amp stands on stage I'll be even happier.)
Ok, I have something I have to figure out now.
I want to run all my effects except for the compressor post ABY box.
Will the compressor act as a buffer as an always-on pedal ?
Or should I add one of these ?
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I'll be using a 30 ft coil cable if it matters.
I want to run all my effects except for the compressor post ABY box.
Will the compressor act as a buffer as an always-on pedal ?
Or should I add one of these ?
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I'll be using a 30 ft coil cable if it matters.
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