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With my bass, a bit of compression and EQ and a stack of amp and cab modelling, all from my Bass Pod XT. That covers most of my playing, in and out of church.

If bass is more of the featured instrument (eg. doing a jazz gig where I'm taking solos or playing at church when the guitarist is away) I find a bit of reverb or delay works well to give a richer sound.

I've also got a number of more effected patches set up for particular tunes, ranging from lush and mellow chorus to frankly over the top synth-bass sounds (fantastic for Matt Redman's "Dancing Generation", since we don't have a synth player to add that kind of vibe).

Wulf

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Bassist for The Elusive Teeth, The Pico Brown Five and Hither Green Baptist Church

Hey Andy, I'm a big fan of less being more with effects. Depending on the PA, if it has a reverb running from the main desk, I tend to let the sound guy use that at his discretion. I use a Kelley Compressor pretty much all the time - the only compressor I've used which doesn't squash the tone of the guitar. On acoustic, that would be it. On electric, at a basic level, I still run the compressor, I add a delay, usually running quietly with that dotted crochet setting, and a decent overdrive. But the best thing of all is running a tuner on the end of the chain that cuts live sound when you go to tune. The best thing any of us can do for our sound.

I use a Korg AX3000G multi-effect pedal when i'm playing my electric. After being to the big events and seeing how the guitarists there were using effects i wanted to be able to imitate it but i quickly learnt that its not always best. The most useful thing about it is the inbuilt tuner/mute function and also the ability to switch between varying amounts of gain. As my amp is functional but not the greatest-no valves in sight :( - Its nice to get some decent tone from a pedal.
Does anyone know how Brain Doerkinson's guitarist was getting his high gain violining effect? because that was great...

I think it may have been Ebow I know the HTB guy was using one at the end of the morning service. They are fantastic little things but some older people and Ministers hate them. I have been using one for 5 years mostly because of Obsession by Delirious and what Stu G does with one in that. But when I first played using it the Pastor we had at the time said it was not Western enough and I should stop using it. Five years on and the new Pastor loves it.

Effects wise for me I run from electric guitar into a Jim Dunlop Cry Baby wah, then into a Boss Blues Driver, Sound Vision Jekyll and Hyde then an Ernie Ball Volume pedal which has a jack to add a tune on it's own which is the big floor planet wave one, but also from volume pedal I then go into a Boss Flanger, into a Boss Super Chorus and finally a DD3 Boss Delay pedal then DIed using a red Behringer DI into sound system. Ideally I'd like to use my fantastic Marshall JCM DSL401 but hey.

Be Blessed
Marc

didnt see an ebow but could tell he was riding the volume control all the time. I'm seriously considering buying an ebow- Student loans are great :)

Hi All
I was to the guitarist side of the stage on saturday (amazing day!!!) - I didn't see an ebow but did hear a nicely overdriven amp and a lot of very nice control on the part of the guitarist (anyone know his name?) - Really felt for him during the worship time as he seemed to have an equipment failure.

Ebows are a great tool to have - very expressive. FX wise, I have a old battered Boss GT-5 multifx and it works well - we dont have much monitoring or amps on the church stage so having fx with amp modelling built in really helps when running direct to the sound desk.

God is Good!

My electric rig:

Dunlop Cry Baby, Boss Tu-2, DD-5, DD-6, OD-3, Behringer DR100, Fulltone Fulldrive 2, Barber Electronics Direct Drive, Proco Rat2, extra tap-tempo pedal, Homebrew Electronic Three Hound Chorus, linked together with a looper from Loopmaster.

Main pedal is probably the DD-5. Gotta have a bit of delay, hehe.

When I play my acoustic I take my TU-2 and my chorus with me.

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I've got a zoom G9 going into a Laney VC30. The zoom doesn't sound amazing on its own but through the Laney it sounds amazing. The twin expression pedals are a big plus as well (especially the z-pedal) and the twin channel function cuts down on the number of patches you need by half.

Hi andy,

My personal preference is to lead worship with an acoustic guitar- this seems to be a general practice! So when I use my acounstic through the PA, I tend to rely on the tone of the guitar and not to add effects at all. I like the natural sound of the acoustic and have been scarred by other acoustics (sometimes lovely guitars with great natural tone) going through effects processors and coming out the other end sounding like poor quality electric guitars.

That said, the sky is the limit for the solo guitarist accomanying to add colour to the sound. Yes- the soloist on sat was very good at adding feel and atmosphere wasn't he. I just think he was violining with his volume control, but he had a wonderful tone on his strat and vox.

He did really well to keep his composure! Isn't it difficult when you are trying your best to deal with unexplainable equipment failures when you have practised and prepared, prayed and gotten all motivated- then nothing! Or worse a buzz or crackle.

For Worship you cant go wrong with simplicity, compression and a bit of modulated delay (best setting dotted eight notes), and then for the bigger stuff bit of drive and kill the delay and you'll be laughing.

"If loving the lord is wrong i dont wanna be right!!"