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The SansAmp is superb at tone shaping. You can use it BY ITSELF in a studio for recording or at a gig playing live. No amp needed, hense the name "Sans Amp - Without Amp)"

At a large venue, your onstage cabinets are pretty much just a monitor for you to use. The sound the audience hears will be from the PA system. The SansAmp would allow you to use your speakers for monitoring your playing and use the parallel out to go into the PA. That's if you wanted to lug around speakers though.

I use a Sanamp Bass Driver DI Pedal for recording. This was $200 WELL spent. The quality on it is awesome. The potentiometer knobs are really nice feeling and heavy. This thing feels like it would be very hard to break open with a hammer. It comes in a nice looking Tin box for the product and of course comes with a warranty. There are certain companies that make gear that gather a great following with high marks for customer service. Hartke is one of the best on the planet. The owner has been known to fix problems personally on the rare occasion people have issues with them. Tech21 is becoming another one.

I use a Sansamp RBI Rack (The rack version of the Bass Driver) and run it in series with the Sansamp RPM. This way I can get the best of both worlds out of those tones. I use the LH1000 as a 1000 watt power amp. When you run things the way I had to, to use both sansamps I had to cut access to the Hartke EQ. I liked the Hartke tone by itself as well, but it I like having more control than it allowed me to have. I'm a tone snob and If I want to make a certain tone I don't want to be hindered by my equipment.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/KaiNHooD/20150516_155543.jpg

I learned the hard way. Don't be afraid to pay good money for good gear, especially if it's half off and used. If you take care of it, GOOD gear retains value and can be sold for near what you paid for it. I used to only buy inexpensive items and these days I can't even sell them. I literally can't sell some of my equipment because some of it goes for 90 bucks or less new. No one wants it, and I don't want to just give it away. It's fine to have a cheap bass to do experiments with and such, but don't make your whole arsenal low quality. Every-time I upgrade gear, I realize I cannot go back. When I had a $150 bass, that was the range I looked at. When I had a 400 buck bass, I looked at that price range and didn't want the 200 basses anymore. I am now on a Spector Legend 5 for $800 and I don't want to even look at a bass under 600 now.

It's amazing how a bass you used to play every day for years suddenly feels like junk after playing a higher quality bass. My Spector is so comfortable for me to play now, my last main feels like junk. It's hard for me to put the Spector down now and I will likely go for another spector when I get G.A.S. again.

I misquote and mispell stuff all the time. You can't discredit yourself in my eyes that way ;)

I dig that drop. I love Maqam Hijaz and Phrygian Dominant scales. I accidentally use them when writing a lot and it makes the music I'm playing feel more archaic to me.

In addition to mods accepting the submissions, I think it would keep the board more accurate if there was an add-on to that. For explanation purposes, lets call accurate members "trustees".

I think if it took 3 trustees to vote on accurate gear as an alternate way of submission acceptance, it would cut down on the likelihood of getting the wrong gear on an artists page.

I think it would be nice to have a "Challenge" button somewhere so if we see the wrong gear, it gets flagged and other members can come in and debate or vote whether or not it's accurate pending what evidence is posted to support it.

Will this end all wrong gear from getting posted? No. But It would make it more of a pain in the butt for people intentionally trying to wreck or spam the site.

I really dig the idea for this site. Everyone likes to keep a list of gear they use somewhere and I personally am always spending hours hunting down wikis, forums, band pages, and youtube for different gear. I think as members, our goal should be to first get the easy stuff out of the way. Other sites that list gear for members should be browsed and if the gear is accurate, added here. If we do that with all the others (UberPro, Premier Guitar, etc) and have all the content they do, we can then expand beyond them and quicker. That would make EquipBoard THE gear lookup source on the net. I'm doing this with my favorite bassists for now but when I run out of sources, Ill start going into other genres I'm not familiar with.

I'm going to post a link to over here on TalkBass. There is an amazing list of bass players Ive never heard of in my life, with unusual one of a kind gear that TalkBassers talk about. I'm sure in no time at all they'd have the bass player section overloaded with Jazz musicians with names we cannot pronounce. :)

Oh yeah,

ISP came out with a bass version of that pedal called the BETA that has built in compression too. Both feature the G-String II noise gate circuit.

No green Rhino here, but I have a couple of distortions that I love.

ISP Theta Pedal You can add 2 channels of gain into 1 out. It gets pretty crunchy

Digitech BP-200 It sounds digital to the ears, but the distortion I made on it years ago is stil the best bass distortion Ive used.

If you want something a bit lighter,

Darkglass B3K / B7K SansAmp Bass Driver DI

I use the sansamp for going into my mixer.

My advice would be to go lighter than heavier. Alex Webster uses a light growl to his tone (My favorite tone in the world) so he can cut through the HEAVILY distorted guitars in Cannibal Corpse. The older I get, the cleaner the tone I tend to like anyway.

I don't think there are very many bassists on this site. I've noticed a ton of coffee shop style guitarists with 20 different Fenders or PRS in their profiles and the bass players of those bands either don't exist or are untouched gear wise.

This is pretty much the deepest well of Bass guitar knowledge on the net. http://www.talkbass.com/categories/general-forums-bg.246/

I have the same name over there. If you head that way, give me a shout.

How long does it usually take to have submissions accepted or denied?

Just having fun with you. You always put who your are and of course each post has your name and avatar next to it ;)

THIS is the REAL Viper guys. Don't believe the other one. He lie to you G.I.! He's come here to try and steal my tones! :)

I used to be a severe music snob. I'd crucify any band that wrote simplistic music in basic time signatures and even more so if the vocals were the only redeeming feature of the band. I've matured a lot on the issue but still occasionally get into some snobbery.

I do however feel that lyrics are the least most important part of any song. Those moments when a musical piece gives you goose bumps, when the adrenaline starts flowing, when the heart starts to race, or when the tears start to roll are rarely ever actually caused from the words, but actually HOW they were sang and in what progression and what notes.

My example is always Forrest Gump. There are moments in that film that always made me tear up and I always thought it was because of the situation and circumstances involved with what he was doing. Most of these parts however are actually devoid of all words. It's the music building up, gaining volume and hitting those keys minor notes that cause the levy to break.

Now, compare this to spoken word performances, poetry recitals, and such. It's not impossible to tear up from these but it sure is much more difficult than what a composer with an orchestra would have to do.

To this day there are very few vocalists I really appreciate for their lyrical contributions. Randy Blythe and Taylor Swift (or whatever 60 year old man in Hollywood writes for her) are two that come to mind.

I would suggest my setup.

Behringer XENYX 1204USB

It's only like 150 bucks and works well. I use a Sansamp Bass Driver DI (though I don't NEED to) and have my shotgun mic as well as my xlr from my rack going in.

You might look into getting a little sound mixer or DI (Direct In) box for the yamaha so you can have it run into your computer. You could then get a keyboard program so you can distort and tune your sound.

Look into Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater) and Janna Wirman (Children of Bodom). They both do a lot of cool things with keyboards and can play anyone under the table. Below is a link to a video where rudess explains how he gets his SOLO sound.

http://www.keyboardmag.com/create-sounds/1256/program-the-jordan-rudess-lead-sound-on-your-synth/29451

Can't wait to be able to edit those.

For now,

Alex Webster needs to have 2 bands added - Conquering Dystopia - Blotted Science

Steve Harris needs to have 1 band added - British Lion

Pustulus Maximus of GWAR (Brent Purgason) needs 2 bands added - GWAR - Cannabis Corpse

Sounds pretty simple to replicate. Why kind of equipment are you working with? Moogs or Keyboards?

A decent pair of Studio Monitors is a MUST. No exceptions, no substitutions.

I own a pair of JBL LSR305's and love them. They are the bottom of the line for JBL's production line and still very well worth the cash. I have them going into my studio setup as well as my home theater. They pick up a wide range of frequencies you cant get with headphones and laptop speakers. There are times when noises from a movie or video sound like they happened in the real world. Doorbells for example through these make me check my door quite often.

Everyone can stand out, but not at the same time. A good band will work in times for each member to stand out. THEN there's always those bands that have uninspired players that just stand there and play quarter notes.