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vidret wrote:what a day, what a day.

anyone have a recommendation on St Vitus "best" album (let's say i'm looking for the greatest hits one), they're coming into town and i'd love to listen to the songs they'd PROBABLY be playing, haven't seen them live before.

AND - would anyone be willing to build me a zero point SDX from madbean (for compensation of course) - throw me a PM or just tell me here - totally interested!

I normally try to keep up with madbean's boards but I missed when they released those new boards. So the SDX is sold out and I really want to put one together. Once they come back in stock I am going to get one and I would be willing to put one together for you too. I haven't ever made the boxes pretty with print on them though, so it will probably just be a blank box.

moose23 wrote:Once I get my bass overdrive/pre/tone shaper finished up it'll have the active DI out too. Should give it some nice extra selling points. While I'm here what would you guys be looking for in a bass/down tuned overdrive/pre/tone shaper in an ideal world?

At the moment I'm thinking dirt/boost/3 band eq/balanced out and enough volume/voltage on tap to run a power amp. Maybe an optional effects loop too which could maybe be blendable.

a wide, well-tuned EQ range.

clean blend.

voltage control for starved settings.

a gain circuit that could go from slightly dirty tone to full-on assault while sounding great all throughout the gain range.

Truthfully I don't know much about it. I haven't checked out the madbean stuff in a while because I was concentrating on building some fuzzes and then some studio gear. I just got the pcbs for the 1176 compressor which I will be putting together once I get some funds. But when I saw the sdx and read the description I thought it sounded awesome. If you can work out getting some boxes etched and drilled then I can put together the guts for them.

Yeah something like that alright. The main volume will work as the boost and the dirt will be a fuzzy drive so there will still be plenty room for another separate dirt before or after. Gonna try have it modular at my end so the dirt can be swapped out for a foot switchable boost. DI will be pre/post eq and dirt too.

EQ is gonna be tuned so it works for stuff I play as well as guy I do work for who plays bass for the Corrs and Ronan Keating. Looking at starting off with a fet 300T with sweepable mids.

moose23 wrote:Yeah something like that alright. The main volume will work as the boost and the dirt will be a fuzzy drive so there will still be plenty room for another separate dirt before or after. Gonna try have it modular at my end so the dirt can be swapped out for a foot switchable boost. DI will be pre/post eq and dirt too.

EQ is gonna be tuned so it works for stuff I play as well as guy I do work for who plays bass for the Corrs and Ronan Keating. Looking at starting off with a fet 300T with sweepable mids.

Nice! Sounds like its gonna have a ton of viable tonal options! I loved my 300T's preamp while it worked ( ), the pedal I posted is basically an SVT in a box w/ footswitchable FX loop, internal trimmer for gain, unaffected through out, and 1/4 + XLR effected out. Works great for what I'm doing which is basically using it as a preamp and my Ampeg B2RE as a power amp, or I split it and send the Balanced out to FOH and unbalanced to the power amp in on the B2RE depending on the size of the gig and what our sound guy would like me to do at any particular venue. Last friday he told me that he pretty much always prefers to mic my cab instead though because it sounds so much better then straight DI.

I use some charge pumps to get a negative rail in that guy so you can run it from 18V and get 36V total swing. Lots of fun. Passive Bass and Treble with active mid range ala the SVT approach sort of.

So replacement drummer wasn't really cutting it and then quit. Nice guy and all just not really great chops. and current drummer is looking at being here for about two weeks, so gig prospects are extremely unlikely. fucking sucks. we just got to the point where we have enough material and its tight enough, and OOPS times up. Got a few prospects and am working craigslist, but its hard to get that chemistry going. We started out tonight with about 30 minutes of just riffing and it felt good man, ya know? Hope we can find someone that can do that. might take a bit.

I was supposed to jam with a new guy today but the weather ruined the prospects of that honestly. I'm practicing 2 more times this week once with a metalish band and another with my main experimental jazz thing. Hopefully by next week I will have my RD guitar. I really want the beauty now I got to figure out which tuning I want it for. Vintage orange, vintage gibson. Gonna be rad.

Would anyone happen to know what are the stock pick up on guitars of that time frame.

Picked this up from Sonny tonight after work. Goddamn so good

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in an unrelated note, having another great response to my CL ad for a drummer. If anyone else is pursuing this route and being unsuccessful, use this pic in your ad.

I've had much success with these pic on Craigslist...

Anyone have experience with the beringer reverb pedals? I want me some reverb and I am fairly sure they are just clones of the line 6 verbzilla, but I'm not positive

sergiomunoz74 wrote:I was supposed to jam with a new guy today but the weather ruined the prospects of that honestly. I'm practicing 2 more times this week once with a metalish band and another with my main experimental jazz thing. Hopefully by next week I will have my RD guitar. I really want the beauty now I got to figure out which tuning I want it for. Vintage orange, vintage gibson. Gonna be rad.

Would anyone happen to know what are the stock pick up on guitars of that time frame.

Here's some info on these vintage gibby's...

http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/gibson/RD.php

Lots of people like to change pickups in these, some have active Moog electronics which are less than desirable. My '77 RD Artist bass has the "expansion and compression" efx, which are not all that useful--but you can just leave them off

And when it comes WE WANT PICS!

Uh oh, that Tele gas is back.

Hopefully I'm selling my strat to my housemate, and then converting that into sweet Tele-bux.

aeonrevolution wrote:Anyone have experience with the beringer reverb pedals? I want me some reverb and I am fairly sure they are just clones of the line 6 verbzilla, but I'm not positive

Yes and tone wise they aren't amazing but they are usable. We use them for both our string players and our keyboardist uses one or two. The only issue is the casings are shit, complete and utter shit. It's really difficult to access the battery and then the footswitch wont want to go back on, and if the 9v cable actually stays in your lucky as shit.