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I stopped going to talkbass and I feel better?

i'm HELPING!

" you. are. ADORABLE. it's like every ignorant little 12 year old i've ever met all rolled into one CUTE ball of uninformed indignation and self righteous fury.

i'm the exact OPPOSITE of an EHX fanboy. hate their stuff. want nothing to do with it. but just ignoring the fact that analog octaver's have an inherent limitation to the note range they can affect and loudly proclaiming how "any pedal that doesn't work on all notes is subpar" (or however you mangled the spelling on that) is...... well. cute. i guess. see first paragraph.

y u hate English language so much? butcher butcher butcher BUTCHER.



also, ignoring help from your betters, especially somebody as pure knowledge as BigChiefy..... lol. go beat up a puppy you silly little thing. "

Troll Kibble is GO!

Ha ha. Just took a peek at that thread you guys are talkin' about. The OP's a troll, an idiot or both.

i go with 12 years old.

....maybe I should just avoid it....

I'm def more on the hi-fi fan side than I am on the tube amp side. Ridiculous, I know, with the monstrosity I have.....but for all the Mesa 400's 16 tubes....it's amazingly hi-fi. Never expected to dig it this much.

behndy wrote:i go with 12 years old.

naw.. these days 12 year olds online are smarter and more coherent then that...

Schlatte wrote:Behold the tubey goodness!
Nice score. I think it's funny that while Behndy was all like "Tubes or SS or idk" you just went ahead and scored that shit.

If I'm honest. I've been lusting after a tube amp for well over a year now (thanks Mrak Ollysen,....you may have been silly but you did make me want a tube amp). Any thread that attempts to compare and contrast Tubes VS SS makes me want a tube amp even more. A lot of it is just because I want to hear the difference with my own ears instead of going off of other people's opinions.

Are Tube Amps superior to SS?,....not really. They both have their pros and cons. I'm going to have to get used to regular maintenance on the SVT,...which is why I'm going to hang onto my SS rig to have as a backup. FWIW,...the SVT weighs only about 15lbs more than my solid state rig,....Schlepping is Schlepping. I'll know if I'm a tube amp convert after the novelty wears off and I'm still jazzed on the amp.

That BMS thread,....I didn't really read the whole thing,...but it's definitely full of fail. He seems to back pedaling a bunch. "Oh the octave won't track a low B" (no shit dumbass),...."Oh no it's not the octave,...it's everything." Ok so which is it. Either you got a lemon or you are a retard and don't know how to use it even though every single TBFXer with any kind of credibility is smacking you with the experience stick and telling you how to use it properly. This is why I don't bother anymore. Too many noobs that either don't show appreciation for sharing of experience and knowledge (which is the currency of the universe according to Giorgio Tsoukalous),...or they think they know better than everyone else. These are the Zombies that shall perish on Dec 21, 2012.

Reminds me of when I first got into effects and bought my OC-2. I thought something was wrong with it as it wouldn't track on a low B,....so I went on to TB and got set straight on how analog tracking effects worked and how to use them. The only difference,....I actually paid attention to the undeniable voices of reason from those wiser and more experienced than I. I re-adjusted my playing and now think my OC-2 is an awesome pedal. But yeah,....this "I don't buy subpar gear" attitude is so entitled and stupid (especially when I look at his current setup,...which is serviceable but it's not anything amazing). I guess I lucked out by not getting into effects until my mid 20's after I let my mind open up.

Here is my contribution.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f36/ehx-m ... st12354682

It's all about what style you play.

Some people the SS is right...some people das Tubez is right. For sure about the sound and style you're looking for. There ARE right and wrong answers, but it's based on the situations. Doesn't surprise me at all Behndy likes that hi-fi with all that tapping he does. Totally fits him.

I hear ya. I've always been a make it work kinda guy and have never really seen the importance of amps. Just find something that you can use to get your sound to the audience. This tube amp has changed that attitude. The amp is just as important to your sound as the bass you use and the effects you choose. The SVT has the sound that I have in my head. It's bright and full. It has a lot of punch. It pushes volume really nicely. I feel like the SS amp was almost like a bottleneck on my tone. I'm really jazzed on how open my Warwick sounds through that SVT.

To my ears; that SVT-CL sounds more hifi than my SS rig,...albeit the Preamp in SS setup is straight out of Back to the Future.

Bask in it's 80's glory (this is the old/now backup rig).

MSUsousaphone wrote:It's all about what style you play.

Some people the SS is right...some people das Tubez is right. For sure about the sound and style you're looking for. There ARE right and wrong answers, but it's based on the situations. Doesn't surprise me at all Behndy likes that hi-fi with all that tapping he does. Totally fits him.

For me, I play in two different bands. For my rawk/metal band, I've gone tube head now and love it. The dirt, the compression, it sounds great for the stuff we're playing. For my electronic/IDM/industrial stuff, I pretty much always go direct into the mixer, because the brightness and harshness and such you get from DI is perfect for the sound I'm going for.

re, Synth-boy; ...my brain hurts...

re, James' Ampeg; ...whoa, SCORE!

yer. i didna dig the difference in the clean tone from ss to toobz. so..... honestly.... probably didn't spend as much time as i should hav with fuzz and dirty through the toobz. because i realized i'd want to go two amps, ss for clean, toobz for fuzzes and dirts if it sounded AMAZINGLY different dirt -> toobz. and i'm SO trying not to go down the split signal double head/cab setup. yikes. EXPONENTIAL ISSUES.

...... i just need to figure out how to be doing well enough to justify a tech/roadie.

DIRTY STUFF!!



and just 'cause they make me happy.

Not trying to pick a fight with people who like it, but I am always constantly annoyed that everyone's solution to make something "bass friendly" is just to slap a fucking clean blend on it. It's such a fucking lazy cop-out solution; not everyone likes the stacked parallel signals sound.

^This!
There are sooo many more options to make something more bass friendly: bigger in/out capacitors, adding a high-pass filter in series to the clipping diodes so the really low frequencies don't get clipped that much, etc...
Clean blend is just the trivial solution.... because most people like the blend.