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This [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=133385"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=133385[/url] looks OK for the money! You shouldn't really get popping and clicking with the behringer card, but I don't actually have experience with them. My cards are PCI so I will refrain from posting more - I just noticed the one for sale and thought you may have missed it.

My girlfriend uses it loads. She refuses to choose from my music collection (ripped to the HD) saying that spotify exposes her to new artists etc. It's a nice idea but those god damn f***ing adverts drive me nuts!! Forcing people to pay and avoid those ads is going to save me hours of ear ache!

You know if you have the money for a mac, there are companies that make PCs specifically for audio recording/production. They use totally compatible hardware, the best components etc.

I have the digitech. It's OK but you don't get much control. Someone bought it me thinking it was what I wanted, but I ended up using it to give me a very clicky sound for certain sections.

I used to do that - try to kick my pedals off during muted sections. It got to where I was turning them off for every little half second break in a riff, which was a bit much. Especially when people laughed refering to my "tap dancing" :-/

You might be more of a tone connoisseur than me. I use a lot of compression and dirt, and I do get quite a bit of hiss, but the NS-2 is great for cutting everything out when I mute the strings.

Maybe try the compressor in the loop of the NS-2? That's how I have mine. But yeh, if you're used to working with studio gear, I guess a rack gate is what you need.

I've never noticed a cut in the low mids from my NS-2. Is sounds like you have your compressor set up to be pretty harsh!! Maybe a subtler setting would be more suitable. No wonder it was raising the noise floor when it was at the start of the chain!

yeh I think the NS-2 is "full band". It does work for me though, on a very noisey very fuzzy board.

perhaps a small blender just for the two pedals you have issues with would solve your problems. I have seen blenders in a very small enclosure but I can't remember what brand they were.

There's no compressor aspect to the NS2 is there? I have an NS2 but I have all (well, most) pedals in it's loop, rather than just having it at the end of the chain. If you have a compressor before it, it might be that there's not enough variation in gain for the gate to react properly.

so you have all your pedals in a bypass loop, and even when they're all individually bypassed, there is a drop in signal when you switch in your loop? Does it do this if you have your basses output turned down? Try about half way on the volume knob. but yeh, you should probably solve the problem at the source, so go through each pedal and figure out which one(s) is cutting out your signal and maybe replace that with something better.

can't you set your pedal's volume controls so that you get no decrease in volume when you engage them? If not that's pretty crap. A boost at the end of loop 2, or using an LS-2 as your loop switcher (it has volume controls) would work.

yeh it comes with LE which is not much use for anything beyond a basic demo.

You have to set the Zoom as your main soundcard, and then monitor through the zoom's output. In audacity there's probably a "devices" control panel or something where you choose your soundcard. You probably just wanted to play along to itunes though, which means you have to set the main soundcard for your OS to the zoom. But all that means plugging your speakers into the Zoom. I only ever used it as a soundcard once. I was happy to run it into the normal line input of my computer for the purposes of "noodling".

Is it a bad difference in the sound? In what way?

I'd check that you have amp modelling and speaker modelling turned off. Or, maybe you bought it for the amp modelling, in which case it might sound better going straigh to your amp's FX return. Either way a clean blend would be nice, but I did think some PODs could do a clean blend internally.

[quote name='Truckstop' post='1190385' date='Apr 6 2011, 12:27 PM']That's nice of her to let you innit? Truckstop[/quote] she's one hell of a lady

yeh i'd guess you have the amp modelling turned on, and you're putting it through an amp, so two stages of "amp sound". Try it with no amp modelling!

When it comes to fuzz, I wouldn't want to use it without a clean blend. It's nothing to do with low end loss for me, it's loss of "punch".

How are you listening to the signal? Amp/headphones/hi-fi?

it's save so much room if you could fit a clean blend into the actual pedals. anyway, that's an amasing board, i'd love to hear it. Is it you who was playing with Rose Kemp? My girlfriend's been getting me into her recently, it's ace.

[quote name='robocorpse' post='1189018' date='Apr 5 2011, 02:05 PM']Chedda: 200 would be insulting and lowball on the above example, and you'd feel the same if it was your gear.[/quote] I really wouldn't. I'm not going to get offended by someone offerring me less than I think something's worth. I'll simply say "no thanks". I don't understand why anyone would consider a low offer offensive.

[quote name='Jakester' post='1188987' date='Apr 5 2011, 01:41 PM']...As a buyer (and someone who's bought and sold tens of thousands of poundsworth of drum gear over the years) if someone doesn't put "no offers" or "price is firm" then they're inviting offers. It's not meant to be insulting, but frankly if I can get something for less that the original price, all well and good. I always expect offers, respond positively, and hope to reach an accomodation between both parties...[/quote] I always find it odd when sellers complain about "low ball offers" and the like. Some people seem to get really pissed off with it. In business I negotiate all the time and no-one gets offended. It's actually put me off making offers when i'm buying stuff on here.

[quote name='Rick05' post='1184496' date='Apr 1 2011, 11:44 AM']Thanks guys this is great advice, With multi effects I do have a zoom (really old) but it has no true bypass, are there any cheap ones with true bypass so at loeast I can have a neutral sound if I dont like the effects?[/quote] I used to play my bass through a zoom guitar multi effects thing. It was crap, and noisey, no true bypass etc, but it taught me what each effect did and how I could control them. I slowly bought up individual pedals to create the same effects, but better sounds.