It's great for my use case running a dual mono clean / dirty guitar signal chain and loading a new preset from the footswitches for every song using the setlist fuction.
The downsides for me were a large boost in volume and noisefloor causing issues further down the signal chain and a sudden tendency to freeze on loading, likely due to not getting enough current from my board power supply.
I had to ditch it mid set and put my zoia in its place. Zoia is still there.
TBH he came back and did it again, then they quit.
Not mine, but a guy I worked with at a gig. One of the acts was a group of women who dressed in ironic 80's dance studio gear and hair metal t-shirts. They would do synchronised dances to Aerosmith, Poison and Iron Maiden etc. They were rude AF to the guy who was going to be in charge of the music playback. When their showtime came round, he played their first hair metal track, then put on a compilation CD of high tempo German Techno he'd borrowed from the DJ who was closing the show and walked away.
Bass cabs are usually cleaner than guitar cabs, you might miss some of the edgy breakup and mid boost you'd get from a guitar cab. But as long as you understand the ohms you won't damage anything.
Only users lose drugs.
Dishcloths and scrubbers, under the sink.
Try a Roland Jazz Chorus. Available in a few output levels and I bought one for gigs where I can't use my AC30 and Plexi. Great cleans and good with pedals.
I have both. The Slo is a nice ordinary reverb, the Cloudburst is pristine and has the orchestral ensemble stuff. I use the Slo into fuzz for my dirty channel and the Cloudburst for my parallel clean channel. If I had to use one for dreamy soundscapes it would def be the Cloudburst.
Some of the tones are lacking mids in the 1k - 2k range which are pretty key for fuzz guitars. The tone that has that frequency range pushed up has a lot of pick attack. Try keeping the 1 - 2k but mixing your reverb much wetter.
Shoegaze from New Zealand. Column of Sand - Bleeding Sky.
New Shoegaze demo from New Zealand. Column of Sand - Bleeding Sky.
Thank you for giving this a listen and letting me know what you think if this sort of thing is your jam.
Melodic, dense guitar shoegaze from New Zealand. Column of Sand - Bleeding Sky.
IKR. I just don't trust that world and started buying hardware. More expensive, more hassle, but no chance of it refusing to work for no reason or suddenly turning into a subscription.
John Paul Satre Experience - Bleeding Star. Melodic shoegaze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPGOeJr3kk
Bailterspace - Shadow. Heavier drone shoegaze, but still has a hell of a chorus.
I agree the Loomer is pretty redundant in that context. They are cool, I use one for guitar but it's extras wouldn't make it into my bass sound. I'd use that space for something to add movement, esp if you're blazing and working feedback. My favourite at the moment is the Empress Nebulous. Does all the major modulation types and can go to extremes. Even a basic phaser or vibrato would make a big difference by adding churning unpredictability to feedback and tone content. Just leaning your bass against the amp with gain and a slow modulation effect is instant low effort genius.
My 'concert' rig is two 4x12's powered by a handwired AC30 head and a handwired plexi head. I recently gave up even trying to use both heads through a single stereo 4x12 at gigs due to other bands leaving their gear onstage at gigs and ruining the logistics.
I picked up a roland JC40 because it can run the two channel clean and dirty set up I used with the two tube heads, but actually fits on the tiny messy stages the post-streaming music world has left, for Indy bands anyway.
I expect to keep the big rig just in case I play a decent sized well organised gig, but already sold my third 4x12 which was an at home practice / recording box to save me moving the others back from rehearsal.
4x12 appreciators; Are you still using them?
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