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heh, I did a guitar take the other day with one of those flat AKG mics right up against the cab grille, facing the wrong way!! It's got FRONT written on it!!

I was watching a 6 string on here for ages. The BCer put it on ebay eventually and I was there last night, credit card in hand, sweating my tits off trying not to bid. I managed it, but this morning I felt so sh*t I decided "I must need a treat, let's check out the pedals for sale on BC" - WTF?!? I didn't buy the bass to save money FFS. So yeh, it's hard, good luck!

Cheers. Just to try and clear it up a bit - I get the radio through guitar amps and PAs etc anyway. I can normally get around this when recording. However, now it seems it's been coming through my mixer all along, which is no good when I want to record acoustic stuff.

We've always got the radio coming through guitar amps in my music room. I've been recording here for a while, but it's normally pretty loud stuff. Anyway, the other day I did some acoustic stuff and you can really hear the radio coming through. It's only on mics i've run through my desk. I use a seperate rack of pres for my condensor mics, and there's no radio interference on these. Any ideas on what to do?

[quote name='matski' post='1026818' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:55 PM']What mod?[/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=108450"]this mod[/url]

[quote name='matski' post='1026815' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:53 PM']I'm surprised to see that the Digitech Whammy is fairly popular - are people actually using them in a live situation or just pissing about with at rehearsals?[/quote] Well mine is an XP-100. I use it for chorus, wahs, octave down, octave up, and the very occasional whammying.

Sorry, I really wouldn't know - I try to not look at gear I can't afford. TL Audio do nice valve compressors, and i've seen them in lots of studios, but they could be sh*t for all I know

It depends, are you trying to master your mixes? Or do you mean for using all the time when listening? Some sort of mastering outboard wouldn't be a bad idea. I've had real trouble trying to get plug-ins to give me the master compression i'm after. If I could afford i'd have a nice stereo multi band compressor and a proper standalone CD burner for mastering.

I quite often forget to double check the gain at every stage and end up with clipping drums that I have to re-do! Also drummers tend to knock mics - don't forget to move them back! Turning headphones on with the volume set insanely loud. Forgetting to tune everything to a digital tuner. Forgetting to tune the drum kit! One I do quite often which might be specific to me, is come back to my studio where everything's still set up, and plug my PC in. I plug in the soundcards the wrong way round, and record snare onto the vocal channel, kick on to the bass, no vocals etc... just because I get two plugs the wrong way round and don't double check before hitting record. Another mistake we make quite often is getting drunk during mixing.

If you got a cheap mp3 player and opened it up, you could wire the play, pause, skip track controls up to footswitches. It'd be cheaper!!

turn the gain down on your ODB-3 to like 7 or 8 o'clock, turn the hi control right down, set the mix to 50%, turn the low control up until you're not losing low end anymore, then turn the high end up to taste. It's not a great pedal, but it does low gain sounds quite well IMO.

I need one to replace the one I just sold to my guitarist, and one for that mod!

the OC-2 is roaring ahead!

use it to run a guitar cab and create a bi-amp rig with a guitar dirt pedal on the hi end!

I reckon ashdown would do the replacement parts if you ask them

Hi Paul, This is Tom from (no logo) - we (briefly) chatted at that Rugby club gig after I hadn't seen you in ages. Glad to see you made it on here!

I just back up at the end of every session. I suppose it'd be best practise to have your audio drive RAIDed with another in the box, and then back up to an external disc at the end of every session.

That's ace! It's going to weigh a tonne though. What about a lid?

You have to set the EQ for each patch, surely? I know some people like to have all their dials pointing at 12 o'clock, but it doesn't make much sense to me. What if an amp shipped with the mid dial on 0 and the others on 12. If it sounded good, would you leave it set? Or would you set the mid control to 12 o'clock, then decide you don't like the sound of the amp set "flat" and return it? The zoom isn't that great I suppose, but if you take your time you can get some really good sounds out of it.

If size is all you're interested in

the same thing happened with a mate of mine. I recommended the zoom and he bought it to record with. He made a few patches that sound amazing on his home demos. Then he started jamming with a band and the levels were as you say, all over the place. I don't actually understand the science behind this. I think the louder you have something, the more low end you hear.

the important thing to remember is do it at gigging volume. I set all mine with headphones and had to re-do it, so I did it through the amp but not loud enough and had to re-do it again!!! ARRRGH

I have seen it but never bothered to try any. To be honest, I don't use my B2 for much, just 6 patches or so, so it wasn't hard to level them out. In the amp model section you can set the volume*, and if you do it at gigging volume through your amp (crucial) you should be able to match them up. *I think, I haven't actually changed any patches on there in a while.

There's a volume setting for each patch though, just set it right and save it!