nano bassballs: your key to a hit.

took me literally two weeks to put together ‘bassballs’ and ‘baseballs.’

1968(?) blackface bassman, converted into a 2×10 combo by some incredibly talented gentleman i will likely never meet.

you could record a metronome, shift it down an octave, then turn the repeats knob all the way down and play your loop. the click track will disappear and boom! minute-ish long loop with precision.

thats what i used to do when i was playing guitar and drums in my drone band (most of our riffs are longer than thirty seconds). then we got really proggy and carefully structured so we had to find a fulltime drummer so the hazarai is just a delay to me again…

i would say that the qtron+ is for experimentalists… fwiw, i traded my qtron for the qtron+ and haven’t been blown away. it certainly opens up new possibilities, but i generally dislike the sound of running your distortion into a filter so the fx loop isn’t necessary to me. i have, however, had fun putting a looper into the effects loop.

it wasn’t ‘useful’ fun, but it was fun.

lastly: sim tut’s right, they sound practically identical until you put something into that fx loop. the ‘slow’ setting on the qtron+ is only a TINY bit slower than the fast setting, i dont understand it.

the small clone is really quite a wonderful device, i recently gave mine to the other guitarist in my band because i hadnt much use for it since i got my polychorus. i immediately regretted it, the little guy pumps out some of the most incredible chorusing you will ever hear and it’s cheap and it’s tiny.

the soul preacher is actually my favorite compressor. i had a black finger and i currently have a white finger, they are great for that subtle studio compression but IMO if you are going to get a compressor go with either the white finger (the sensitivity control allows you to get more ‘dynacomp-esque’ tones() or the soul preacher (smaller, cheaper, and you can turn the sensitivity control down for tones fundamentally similar to the white finger). all three have their own personalities and one will probably stand out for you, for me it’s the soul preacher. the black finger sounds divine but it’s incredibly subtle on even the most extreme settings. i would go so far as to call it a ‘non-effect,’ it just helps you sound better.

the others boil down to whether or not you have a use for them… my experience with the micro pog was underwhelming, i missed the added features of the fullsize pog. however, if all you’re after is simple octaves that track perfectly then you can’t do much better. my favorite was running the flanger hoax into the micro pog – no matter how crazy the hoax got, the pog was there adding it’s octaves. super cool, but not quite cool enough for my $200+.

the little big muff was fun but i got rid of it in favor of a NYC full-size; now im thinking on ditching the NYC muff for a tone wicker because that looks like the only big muff a person would ever really need. i found the little big muff to be a bit trebly for my tastes, but back when i had it i was using a twin reverb set for ‘surfy cleans’ (that’s code for crazy treble) and the lbm is a fair bit fuzzier/brighter than the NYC big muff. SO: it’s gone, i don’t miss it much but my friend uses one before a vox 847 wah and it is the best fuzz/wah pairing i have ever heard in my life. jimi and eric can eat their heart out.

the lpb-1 is what it is and you know what’s up with the muff’n so i dont have much to say about them.

anyways, i hope that’s what you were after… one man’s opinion on some boxes you are looking into. hope it helps!

i cant speak for ehx as im not an employee, but i will say this: try playing it with a fresh battery to see if you roasted the whole thing or just the AC adaptor section.

when you play it now, are you still using the positive center adaptor? see if you can get it to work just by using a negative center.

using the wrong adaptor is potentially fatal to pedals and if youve been doing it for two months i would imagine its probably too late, the manual explicitly warns against doing that.

yeah i beat it last week! a good mix of songs, although there are some definite omissions (im not hooked up to xbox live so i cant download the album packs).

its a decent challenge, but its not too hard for people like me who suck at rock band. ive only unlocked a little over half of the bonus features though so i need to go back and play some more, once school slows down again.

right now i am reorganizing itunes instead of writing a poetry explication and procrastinating on a poetry explication instead of writing a canadian literature analysis paper.

there’s a slight slight delay when you mix the dry signal completely out, but you only notice it immediately as you sing. it’s not a long enough delay to be audible in the recordings or to the audience, and it will never ever make you sound like you’re coming in behind the beat. it tracks whatever comes into it regardless of tuning, so there’s no ‘autotune jumping’ – you can hit any vocal frequency you feel like and the voice box can do something with it.

now: if you go into to unison+whistle mode, turn the high/low blend all the way low and play with the gender bender, you wind up with ‘tape-manipulated’ chipmunk/monster vocals ala early ween or big dumb face. if you need to sing a third, a fifth or an octave above or below where your voice normally sits you can play with the high, low and octave modes using the same settings (in the first two harmony modes, the high/low knob blends the third and the fifth relative to your input pitch. in octave mode it’s the same idea).

however, im not sure that this pedal is what you’re looking for as the gender bender knob doesn’t change your pitch whatsoever; it only changes the tone of your voice. it’s meant to simulate different lengths of vocal cords, so if you shift it up, your middle c comes out like a child singing middle c. it’s the same note but from a different source, a ‘pound of feathers’ type situation dig? you can isolate a third, a fifth or an octave above or below your input pitch but you can’t shift everything up a semitone or a wholetone. im not sure that’s what youre after, i just want to make sure you understand what it is the gender bender does because it can sound deceiving.

its late and i didnt sleep much last night so i hope you can decipher what im trying to say; if you need clarification on anything just ask and ill try to explain it better in the morning!