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The SBL Podcast

187 - Getting Creative with FX: Q&A

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Have you always been curious about effects, but just don’t know where to start? Clever use of a stompbox can transform even the most ordinary bass tone into classic. In today’s episode, Ian Allison answers your questions about how they work and some of the obscure differences between them - plus, he offers some pointers for finding your own tone. Time to get stomping!

Transcript

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0:00.0

And here we are back at you again.

0:10.9

What's up, everybody?

0:12.2

My name is Ian Martin Allison, coming to you with a special Q&A solo pod episode of the Scott and Ian show. Just the Ian show today. Listen, we did this

0:28.0

crazy event. I've talked about it before, but it bears repeating. We did this thing. I got a nose.

0:33.1

I got an itch. I got an itch. If you're watching the podcast, my apologies. If you're not,

0:37.4

it just spared you. Spared you a ghastly sight. Um, you ever get it just the, like, the gnarliest itch in your nose? I got all kinds of nose issues, guys. I got a, I've got such a gnarly deviated septum. Check it out. If I plug this nostril and I try to pull air in. I can't do it and I could die.

0:55.0

I have to sleep on a pillow that like pushes my face out like this so that I can actually pull air in.

1:02.0

It's not pretty. It's not easy being me.

1:05.0

Is it easy being you?

1:07.0

It's not easy being me.

1:08.0

I make do. I make do, dude, and we move on.

1:11.8

Listen, I also have this door wide open right here.

1:15.0

It might be echoey.

1:15.7

Hear this.

1:16.9

You hear that?

1:17.8

You actually hear that sick, like, plate reverb?

1:21.3

It's actually because I've been in the process of moving.

1:24.0

We moved about 10 miles away to the lovely suburb, western metro, lovely suburb of

1:30.6

Minnetonka, you know, where Prince tells you to jump in the lake to cleanse yourself in the waters

1:35.9

of Lake Minnetonka. I'm not on the lake. Look, I'm not that fancy, all right? But we did buy a house

1:41.3

out in Minnetonka, and it is great. And so we moved most of our stuff, right? Now, I still have some stuff here. I'm seeing like a headstock peekout. I have a, have a couple of bases still here. Havala, English language, Allison. Look at this. I've got this, Lakeland, Joe Osborne. Now, if you're not watching the pod, I have a Lakeland Joe Osborne jazz bass in

2:02.9

white tortoiseshell pickard maple neck with black blocks and binding. Come on. This base was made for me

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