The Definitive Gear Thread

Tip of the iceberg. Sax collection. 

Just acquired my latest bass: Ibanez SR 505 fretless with Bartolini's (stock):

I just received my Boss SY-300 in the mail yesterday. This thing is so damn cool. It has zero latency and only requires 1/4" guitar cable. No divided pickup yet polyphonic (across four notes, not six unfortunately). Worth every penny.

^Yeah, EH makes some great pedals. They still make the Small Stone, I think. 

Ended up buying the Electroharmonix Bass Big Muff and the Soul Food overdrive in preparation to record some stuff. Just tested them out with my Way Huge Green Rhino overdrive in between. The Soul Food makes for both great cleaner and dirtier tones, but it's great if you keep it cleaner and use it to shape your tone under some dirtier pedals. It pretty well revitalizes the Green Rhino and the Big Muff and makes them sound much warmer. I wish there was a drive control on the Big Muff though. Kind of bizarre that there isn't. But it's not really been a problem with the right settings

Edited by Polymorphia - June 23 2015 at 12:59

^Looks to be a bit expensive for my budget. I have a ZVex Fuzz Factory that said friend is using. Doesn't sound that great on bass, though. A couple of bassist friends of mine swear by the Death by Audio Fuzz War. Apparently it's pretty intense. I might try that, although I'm afraid it might blow my two 10" speakers. I also might try a Bass Big Muff.

^No, I'm referring to effects lines, as you first assumed. I have four lines in parallel (photo shown somewhere on this thread). The noise just multiplies with parallel lines. I'll get rid of the noise, but I'll have to buy several noise suppressors, and I have lots of fiddling around to find the optimal place for each noise suppressor. It should be worth it. Each line is like a separate musician. The idea is to allow me control over the composition/orchestration in real time.

Polymorphia wrote: I now have a Fender Rumble 500 bass combo. I've been using my friend's Fuzzface through it, although I've been having trouble with volume drops when I turn on the pedal. Looking to get my own fuzz pretty soon.

So true, the output can really vary among effects. Some of them raise the volume way up too. That's weird for that to happen with a fuzz pedal. It had to have an increase in gain internally to create the fuzz, but then you lose extreme amplitudes when the signal gets clipped. It sounds like they saved on additional op amps in the circuit after the clipping. I have a few pedals that are not working together with the other pedals. This is more frustrating than the noise, because it's a pain in the butt to switch things around once they're there on the pedal board. I haven't figured out if any of this might be due to inadequate signal input or what. Maybe I need to move my preamps around, or maybe it's just the combination of effects. Some like to come before others.

I now have a Fender Rumble 500 bass combo. I've been using my friend's Fuzzface through it, although I've been having trouble with volume drops when I turn on the pedal. Looking to get my own fuzz pretty soon.

^ That was already a requirement for me, the one I have now is a solid state and doesn't sound very good.
A friend of mine has a big Marshall tube amp that has an incredible sound

^ I didn't remember to check for Fender amps, it's probably the safest choice, since it's from the same manufacturer. Thanks Gary, I'll keep that model in mind