IndianRockStar

i see where your coming from,but just cause you don't like a certain brand doesn't mean you have to make it so public.i don't really like spectors,but i don't put that as a headline along with my avatar.epiphones are just intermediate ROCK basses that are good for the price,you get what you pay for pretty much.they might not be that versitle,but IMO they are way better quality than the low end squiers and rouges,etc.(you can get alot worse if you ask me) i'm not trying to cause any trouble,and appreciate your respect..it seems like alot of people actually don't have that around here.

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Epiphone isn't fail. Just not very versatile.

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so why do epiphone basses=fail?

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Yeah, it's a pretty good starter bass, but not anything more than that.

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Hey, I have an Ibanez GSR190 too! I'm assuming you got it as your starter; I haven't upgrade to a better one yet. What finish do you have on it?

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Yeah - it has all the ratty, nasty belchiness of the normal humbucker but does it a thousand times worse. Sounds great under distortion though, but that's about it. Typically, I favour the neck pickup with a slight blend of the bridge pickup, but this bass' neck pickup is close enough to the bridge that the full-on neck pickup is the tone I'm going to use. The TJ reminds me of Brian Bromberg's tone.

Oh, and the TJ is just one pickup - no coil taps set up or anything like that. Just a pickup pan with a centre detent. I crank it to 100% neck pickup and only move it to 100% bridge when I'm pretending to be a guitar player or want space-age effects. Clean, it's useless. Both pickups full-on is a really agressive tone that's not my bag.

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That Twin Jazz pickup is plainly and simply the WORST pickup I've ever heard when played clean. It's snotty, ratty, and has all the characteristics I hate about humbuckers times a million.

However, my theory is right - they distort fantastically. They're a wee bit too guitary for me to comfortably use it as my distorted tone for all songs, but if I were to do a Cliff/Geezer-esque solo spot, I'd DEFINITELY use the TJ behind my Fulltone.

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A Guitar Center in Hallandale, Florida, apparently.

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Much better than any other $200 bass I've ever played.

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So, I didn't get the Carvin BR410 for Christmas. Instead, my dad got me a Peavey Tour 700 with Tour 115 cab. Unfortunately, it hasn't shipped yet

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IndianRockStar wrote on Dec 1st, 2008 at 8:41pm : How do you enjoy your Digidelay? I'm thinking of picking one up used cause the price is right, I've been wanting one, and to piss off my guitar players :P

I love...love..love...my delay...delay...delay.

Actually Fitz was the one that recommend the pedal. My only complaint is that it very very rarely ( and I mean, rarely) clips--which is more due to my messing with the settings than the pedal I fear.

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So now that you've had your Carvin for a little while, how do you like it? I'm thinking about getting the SBR410 half stack, hopefully for Christmas.

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Nope, and I run my 300W Peavey at 350W all the time.

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Well put the Ampeg on it's side then! I put my Nemesis cab on it's side - that way I can leave the castors on.

And when I talk about the effects loop I'm not talking about effects - I'm talking about preamp out/power amp in. The effects loop send is just after the preamp - so connecting the Carvin's effects loop send to the Ampeg's return, you're actually connecting the Carvin's preamp to the Ampeg's power amp. If there's any loss of bottom there, you're EQing wrong. If you set it up like that, you tweak the tone on the Carvin, control the 210 volume on the Carvin, and control the 115 volume on the Ampeg. Kinda like a less elegant version of my setup!

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LOL WUT

Dude, dude, dude... DUDE!

ECXHHH!!

Get a patch cord RIGHT NOW.

Plug the effects loop send of the Carvin into the effects loop return of the Ampeg (or input jack if you're a LOSER).

Put the Carvin on top of the Ampeg like a stack.

It's a stack.

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Oh, and I DEMAND you check my band's UG profile and listen to the studio versions of The Ragna Rock and Love Makes You Feel Like a Punk. Hell, listen to the live ones, even if they are pre-EQ DI.

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I'll try to be brief myself - you played the pedal on a very, very muddy amp. I used to have my Fulltone with the tone at about 1:00, boost full, OD off. Since I got my SWR, that's way too harsh and impossibly bright (can provide details if you wish). I just finished tweaking my Fulltone today - tone at 9:00 (that's how bright it is!), OD full, Boost at 9:00. The tone at 12:00 has a flat response. Below 12:00 is a cut and above is a boost. Like... this pedal theoretically can't be muddy. If anything, I think it's way too harsh in my current setup (until I fixed it). My guess is you fooled around with the boost control too much and not with the OD.

And did you listen to The Bluze? That's the Fulltone, Boost off, OD set to just a hair above off, tone at 1:00. How the hell is that muddy?

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No, I'm always for going in and trying the product. Never ever listen to my praises. Once you go in and try it you'll realize I'm 100% right and always am. But it's still good to try out products - but not to see if they're good, but to see if I still got it.

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Well, see, that's super relative. I think a 'slight growl' is completely useless and kills the tone of new strings. I'd rather have a totally clean tone than one that breaks up when I dig in. I use my Fulltone to get Hell. My Hell, but Hell nonetheless. Whether or not it breaks up when I dig in is immaterial to me - I dig in 100% of the time, and when I'm playing softly, I don't want OD - I want chorus.

That said, I tell you - this pedal is your clean tone pissed off in the entire spectrum of intensity. I guarantee the sound I'm describing will react the way you're describing, but if the tone I'm describing is the tone of that Peavey is up to you.

And analog circuitry is totally different than passive. More gain = more mud, even if the treble is cranked. You don't have the fine tuning luxury you do with digital stuff, and it changes the timbre of your tone considerably.

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Keep in mind I traded in my Bass Driver for the Fulltone. It was fine on my MIM Jazz, but when I got my deluxe, the pedal just made my instrument sound like it was half the price, if not a quarter. Cool, but not fair to a hi-fi tone. I still think the Fulltone is the only bass distortion of it's kind - it's your bass tone, distorted. No blending, no filters, no notch sweeps or midrange spikes. It's your clean tone not clean. Listen to The Bluze - that's my Warwick, favouring the neck pickup, picking at the bridge, with the Fulltone on with a SLIGHT OD. Listen to The Ragna Rock. That's it full-bore.

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