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Dont they want Kai as well? Greedy just greedy.

Those kits are god awful personally speaking.

What amazes me about this rendition is the fact that the guitar is closer to the mic but Ben's voice comes out on the sound engineering just as clear and sometimes louder than the guitar. This is also better than the studio ver imo.

I am curious how it works when it comes to me because I think i'll spend a lot of time just learning to set things up.

That makes sense now. I figured it had to do with a hot pickup config and then I realized when it comes to Metal music at times people will drop a noise-gate in the middle of the chain to clean up the noise and cut the effects before it goes through the rest of the chain. This was the exact reason. My reasoning was that I can remove a lot of pedals - Fuzz, Delay, Reverb, etc and just replace them with the MS3 and gate everything through the pedal. In this case now, I have lots of config options. PEDALS -> MS3 -> PEDALS PEDALS -> MS3 + PEDALS -> PEDALS MS3 MS3 + PEDALS PEDALS You get the drift. And with the MS3 I have loop options too ONBOARD - PEDALS - ONBOARD ONBOARD PEDALS - ONBOARD So now I can shape the tune anyway I want and I also get the compactness of an FX pedal. Plus I can now loop stuff out of the pedal into the AMP And back in or do it in front or behind. And the other reason is that BOSS said they made this for both guitarists and bassists and I said well dang thats just what I was looking for. I also have an FS-7 (dont know if you've ever used one of these but they are superb) and it works with the MS3 or any Boss pedal plug product (RC3 Loop Station as an example) so I can do presets and use the FS7 to run the volume, gain, etc etc. and theres more expression pedal functionality too. I also don't lose the fact that I am essentially a person that tries a lot of pedals so I can always dump any of medals in the 3pt LOOP and then use them anyway I see fit. The Spark Mini is super cheap and it sells out really fast. There is another buffer pedal made by JHS which is so much better but not as cheap as the Spark. I almost considered getting that over the Spark just because it keeps the tone up during the buffer process but in the end I chose the Spark for a boost instead. As for Reverb, you can't go wrong with either of those pedals. I have a HoF and I think its great but that Boss Reverb is just as good. Once I get the MS3 I think I'll retire the HoF just because I'll have reverb on the pedal itself.

I like that pedal board. Its simple and its kind of how my bass only pedal board used to be. The one thing about MXR Power supplies is how bright that LED is. Sometimes you look down when the lights are dim at a show and it creates a nice blue sheen over everything hehe. But the amount of cables and the compactness of it is what I like. You can take it off a board and put it on your table and just use it. I like that Bad Monkey too but I already had an SD-1 and I am thinking of getting my Tube Screamer from home (Ibanez). I only bought it because when I was younger I had just watched the first TMNT movie and I told my dad for my birthday I wanted something green and fun, who knew he would take it so seriously. Also, why is the Sentry before everything else in the chain? Doesn't that cause problems when you want to run the more harsher pedals as it kills the full throttle of the signal? P.S. I placed an order ... for an MS-3 from Boss.

Tina Weymouth is a bass genius imo but what David Byrne brings to the table is incredibly raw energy. The guy makes the whole band dance and play through this.

The cheaper and older ones didn't. For example the JOYO switch which looks like it was born in an aluminium housing. That thing just switched them and then you'd have a router above it but these new ones are fantastic. I think in your search for the ES-8 you'd have seen the MS-3 and that one is a bit more wilder with options on the switch for effects too. I'd be more tempted to get this if it was four slots instead of three and if it had the ability to move the pedals in the chain too. So many simple things like overdrive, delay, reverb, etc are all on there and it would reduce the fact of me having to put the Strymon Delay on the pedal-board (its kind of a heavy pedal)

The replies just kept getting longer and longer haha. I think the Boss is one of the routes I will go. Saw that Mooer has one too but their end buffer can sometimes dilute the output and that in itself is enough for me to say nope and what I am going to do is wait and get the Boss ES-6 solution as I can't see how I'd fit something that big and get the most out of it. Plus it would get rather heavy and I am trying to be conscious of that. As for that manual, it looks daunting at first. I remember getting a G-Pedal from Zoom and seeing such few knobs and thinking meh this is a simple enough pedal and then I started using it and my head started hurting. It had so many button combinations it was like playing a MMO RPG and all it was missing was a mouse and keyboard. Having said that this looks far more straight forward and it has a complex side to it too but I think I'll set it up once and use the pedal switcher and the pedal placement features more than anything else. Plus, since its a boss I can finally use my FS-7 with it which I haven't used in forever to get more out of it.

I was scared at first but not anymore. I think of it as a modeler which I can then replace pedals with on the go. It's not like I'll have all the pedals on there although some will be standard. Sans Amp is good but Darkglass is on a whole different level with circuitry. I run the DG in the following order Bass -> DG -> Sub N Up -> Compressor -> Delay -> Amp Think of it like this Row 1 : Guitar/General Pedals Row 2: Bass / Switcher When either the guitar or the bass is plugged in the pedal switcher does the job of handling the Pedal combinations and the only other thing to worry about is what the leading pedal will be. I am trying to get it to the most minimal point of changes. If I do a set and play bass on five songs and three on guitar then I'd play the five move to the guitar and then do the three without touching the pedals but connecting the other instrument in. I think with a pedal switcher from BOSS you get a tuner so I can ditch the TU3 then its all a matter of figuring out which pedal goes first in line and even that is up for debate too. I do like the FX loop but like you said I have such a hard time conceptualizing how this would work when I wanted to use it for Guitar but then not use it for bass if there are common pedals. Like the Fuzz one because now I have to also worry about an FX loop as well and that can be achieved with a pedal switcher and I can route the FX loop back into the pedal-s and then put my other pedals like delay outside the amp (I like that too, not a big fan of it inside the loop) as I feel the sound has to be created in the amp and then modified by the delay pedal Its a great little pedal to me. 20dB boost is more than sufficient for how I play and I've used it for acoustic sets too and it does a superb job there too. The one thing I wish they'd actually have done a bit better is what Boss has done on some of their pedals where you can daisy chain the 9V out of the pedal into the next pedal over. I figure that would be something TC-Elec could and should do in the future.

No I'd use them at separate times hence the two lines on the pedal board one for bass one for guitar. I am even willing to forgo the tuner for the guitar as I have a polytune on the bass anyways and that does pretty good. None of those are the true Fuzz pedal. The one I am looking at is this one "Electro-Harmonix Sovtek Deluxe Big Muff Pi" - I like that Russian green sound and the other pedal which is in my cart right now is this one "EarthQuaker Devices Hoof Hybrid Fuzz v2". I am so tempted to get the Hoof because I have heard nothing but good things about it but ... EHX is just as good in the reviews as well. The other pedal I have which I am going to retire is my old Big Muff and I figure I have had it a long time its time to put it away. Yep separate uses so I wouldn't run the two at the same time. I think if I wanted to go that route then I'd hit up trying to get a modeller like what you have so that I can then use the two in tandem and run patches but I am trying to stay old school here. That DS-1 is a regular DS-1 with a black cover to commemorate 40th Anniversary of Boss. Otherwise its just the same pedal. TBH with a bass the Fuzz sits almost near the end because you want all the richness of the tone to come from the Ultra block with the compressor after that so that you can then tune the Fuzz in or if you want put the compressor at the end to create sustains but if you're doing fuzz that is irrelevant as you can boost and cut whatever you need. I am thinking if I do what I want to do then I'll get an MS-8/6 from Boss (if you've never seen one go check it out) and then eliminate the TU-3 and run a 6 point pedal system within the pedal switcher and put the booster at the end for the guitar and the preamp before it for the bass. And this is when my head starts to hurt. Edit: That's the ES-8 and ES-6 but Mooer has one that is way more compact and more what I need.

Picture of what I am currently trying to work in might change if I think I need more later. The delay pedal is with a friend.

Figure I'd post this here as the project has already started but I think it might help some people who still have traditional pedal boards or just pedals on a mat. I have been struggling lately to build what I'd like to call an OMNI-BOARD. Now, the reason for this is that I have recently started playing guitar and bass with the band and I didn't want to lug around two blocks of pedals just because its totally unrequired imo. The pedals I chose for this little project are the following. BOSS - TU-3 - Tuning Block - Its not the traditional pedal type and is smaller but I figure its one of the most, if not the most important, pedal in the chain before we get to the more fun stuff. TC Electronics - SPECTRA COMP - Bass Compressor TC Electronics - Spark - Boost Pedal BOSS DS1 - Distortion Pedal - Anniversary Black Ed. BOSS Super OverDrive - SD-1 - Overdrive Pedal Darkglass Electronics - Vintage Deluxe - Bass Distortion / Tube Sim pedal TC Electronics - Sub N Up - Octave Pedal for Bass (Could be technically used for a guitar but I can't see why) BOSS RC-3 - Loop Station - For running loops when I want to Strymon Timeline - Delay Pedal I am also thinking of adding the following two more pedals to the board for completeness TC Electronics - Hall of Fame 2 - Reverb Electro-Harmonix Sovtek Deluxe Big Muff Pi Now, the challenge for me is pretty simple but not so simple too. I want to run the entire block on maybe two small ISO blocks and use them in some kind of fashion where I can actually run the guitar and the bass on the same board. Most of the reverb and distortion/overdrive are mostly guitar pedals but the Fuzz, Spark, Tuning Pedal and Delay would be for both. It's doing my head in on how I achieve this. I know most of us are single instrument players but if you had that at your disposal with a fairly big two-level pedalboard how would you go about it?

I get where someone from the board would see this as managers being changed but nothing translating directly on the pitch but they have to shoulder a lot of the blame for how things have unfolded. Then to go out and make a statement against the players? What did they think was going to happen. This is also a player who has a recent history of making comments to the public as well. Poorly handled by Barcelona in general. I don't think he'll leave but his contract is up in 2021 so anything is possible.

I havent heard of any African quarantine provisions yet on air travel so I am wondering when we'll see it touch there. Although I still think it will be South Africa vs Northern Africa.

If you look at that map and use a bit of inference it seems like the spread of the virus has propagated faster through air travel than a country being the actual neighbor of China. Why do I say this? See that little color marker in the middle of the Arabian Penisula? The only way its getting there is through air-travel. I am also thinking that while the two countries in North America seem to look worse than they are because of the color markers (its a country marker not a city marker) that we're not going to see Africa get severely affected by this in the northern regions but more in the south. I think this also highlights another important point which is how air-travel works during festival season and maybe how WHO and other health organizations can use it to back-track and find out possibilities of outbreaks before they happen. Do we know if Mexico has seen any cases yet? https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21120643/uber-coronavirus-mexico-accounts-suspension Seems like its possible but this is a tech website so I am not putting too much stock in what they say.

Agreed its a cascading effect. Pep has no one to fill that CB position so now Fernandinho plays there but really he should be playing at the top of the defense doing all the 'tactical' fouling he can to disrupt play. Instead, hes now forced to be the one who has to do the same thing in front of the goalkeeper and its not really half as effective. Plus, if we did win the CL I think i'd go out and get drunk again and oh by winning the CL you mean Liverpool right

City's problems aren't in their attack but in what sits at the base of that midfield for me. Rodrigo is not a better DM than Fernandinho and that little change has caused so much havoc with their ability to stop attacks before they even reach the defense. Having said that, they are already in a cup final, the knockout stages of the Champions League and are sitting second in the league (albeit its a very very distant second). IMO they can and should beat Real Madrid because they are the better team and they have the home game in the second leg as well. But, this is the Champions League and anything is possible because we've seen time and time again how teams just find an extra bit of motivation once you get to the knockout stages.

I think we're going to see these numbers decrease drastically in two weeks from now. It's shocking how fast this thing has spread and I am even wondering if some of these countries are reporting the right numbers. China is going to take some time to recover from this.

Yeah have to agree with everything you've said. He doesn't just add solidity in the center of the defense but is commanding, gets on your back when you're slacking and doesn't look like hes phased when someone tries to get the better of him (quite the opposite ends up happening most times haha). I love the guy to bits and I think his partnership with Joe is the better one that his with Matip. You've got speed coupled with confidence in that pairing and it absolutely shuts down a lot of attacks very fast.

Ah zonal marking and its wondrous perils. I remember TV pundits always bringing it up as a weakness we had when defending corners.