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I always tune to the harmonics on the 12th fret which seem to give a more stable reading, especially for the lowest strings.

I always wanted one. Do you have to put it in a blender? Does it lose any low end?

I have flats on one of my 6 strings. Using EQ and dirt I have no problem creating a horrible trebly distortion tone.

You shouldn't have to go custom though? Diago, Godlyke, Burkey etc should cover all bases

It's probably not that safe. If you get a decent one you won't get noise and it'll power all your pedals. I use a Godlyke Powerall, but that only goes to 3Amps (I think). There are others which can go further. I think someone was selling a burkey flatliner on here recently, it was a good deal!

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1123750' date='Feb 11 2011, 12:32 PM']It's a decent shot of you though. Huuuuge stage. Looks proper rock an roll.[/quote] That's LRV in Stoke. I bet you'd get a gig there with your 2 peice act, I think you have to contact the student union. It's an ace venue if it fills up.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='1123749' date='Feb 11 2011, 12:31 PM']I'd always imagined you'd be older, Tom. Dan[/quote] Heh, that's from about 4 years ago!

That looks ace shep! This is the only live shot I have of my board. It's not very good

Well, I have practised at industrial type places for the last 5 years. We try to come to agreements with everyone in earshot, stipulating what times we can play, and how they can get in touch if it's too loud. To be fair, if I ever [i]had[/i] to practise on a Sunday morning, i'd have to try and soundproof a bit.

[quote name='garethfriend' post='1122230' date='Feb 10 2011, 02:31 AM']It's not a residential building, it's a warehouse, there's no other houses anywhere near.[/quote] I'm just going to quote this as no-one has read it.

cheers! I'll check that out.

I'm not really into mastering in a big way. I know that I don't know what i'm doing so I try not to mess up my mixes too much. I thought T-Racks would be an easy way to a "polished" master, but, yeh, it just destroyed my mixes. It sounds like I should give it another go trying to be much more subtle. At the moment, i'm using the Stillwell Audio Major Tom compressor. If you set it to forward feedback, and set the ratio to limit you can get a lot of "transparent" compression before it starts to mush up.

beedster - are you not happy with reverb plug-ins? There are some fantastic plug-ins available. mythste - I like the multi-band limiter, but the rest was just way too over the top for me. That and it takes up a huge amount of cpu power.

yeh, with my setup as described, there is some serious low end. I also have a LOT more headroom so can turn up way beyond bollock-tickling level. This is with a sh*tty Peavey combo, so your markbass would do much better i'm sure.

you need something to cut out the very low end after the DI but before your amp. An EQ pedal? On my amp, I have the low shelf boosted quite high, but I also have a graphic EQ which I use to cut everything below 50Hz (or 60 or 80, I can't remember what the value is on the lowest slider).

I opened a WH4 before, I thought it was a mightmare to get the board out! If you can't see any dry joints or broken contacts, well, that's as far as my knowledge goes. SFX repairs pedals, and there are a couple of other guys on here. Hopefully they'll see your post!

I wouldn't put any of those in the amp's effects loop. Also, two LS-2s seems excessive. Why not put all the pedals you want a clean blend with in the same LS-2 loop?

I think most onboard soundcards are crap, so if you want decent quality you need an external interface anyway. I assume that applies to Macs too.

oh, downer, I was going to get one

cool, well i'm just an hour or so up the road, just send me a PM some time.

I'm working on my band's new album Friday night which is why I can't make it. I'll look forward to the recordings then! I'd quite like to try recording some of this stuff myself actually. Let me know if you ever fancy some free demos, I have a fairly nice recording set-up coming on (although my mixing's coming on slower!!).

I wish I was free on Friday! I'm very interested in the sounds you're getting

Well, i've been doing it wrong for years, even though I know full well it's a fire risk. I suppose I should buy a couple of proper cables Has anyone actually had an instrument lead melt? I've always made a point of feeling the cables (i'm using patch leads atm) after practise, and they never get warm after an hour of loud volume jamming. Obviously I wouldn't want to encourage anyone to be as stupid as me, it's just i've never heard of anyone actually suffering this fate.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='1112146' date='Feb 2 2011, 11:15 AM']Isn't a wah a band-pass, rather than a low-pass? The reason you're getting no high mids is (If I understand correctly) because the wah's frequency range goes lower than what you're feeding it. And personally, I'm MIDI sync'd with most of my set-up but I do use tap-tempo where I've not got round to MIDI-sync'ing.[/quote] yeh, good point. So it's the fact there's a hi pass on the line with the wah that makes it sound like that. Some of the wahs on the XP-100 are also really "subby" which can be used for these sorts of sounds.