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[quote name='mark_random' post='676842' date='Dec 7 2009, 04:22 PM']Hi guys. I thought I should chip in... Firstly, I'm sorry to here that you have had a bad experience with GAK.CO.UK. I can only apologise on behalf of our internet team. As you probably know, we have only just started to advertise stock availability on the site and, in the majority of cases, it is working astonishingly well. However, as with any stock system, mistakes can occur and we are trying to minimise these errors where possible. My recommendation to you is give me a call or drop me an email when you want to order. I will happily deal with your order and physically check stock before taking any payment. Our policy is to match web prices whenever possible and on 99% of products, that won't be a problem. Mark Packham GAK Basses [email protected] 01273 665427[/quote] Just incase you haven't done so, it's always good to have more in stock than it lists on your site. I don't mean LOADS more, just whatever cash flow will allow.

From the ammount of complaints i've seen on this board about GAKs online stock system I would bet on them having already started work on a new/improved system.

To be fair it's quite difficult to get a "live stock feed" system going and working well.

or the effects send into the zoom, then use the headphone out from the zoom. You might have to plug a patch cable into the return to mute the amp.

Thanks very much! That's a big help. I've started a new machine just for these two songs and so far it's working OK, it's just this new PC has DDR2 and I only have half a gig!! I have about 5 Gb spare DDR lying around the house too. What a downer. I'll back up the dll and replace it tonight, see if that works on the original machine.

[quote name='OldGit' post='674025' date='Dec 4 2009, 11:17 AM']Shall I go on about pay to play gigs again, you know, about choosing, managing and making the most of them, about non pecuniary benefits and about not moaning when you know the score? eh? Shall I?[/quote] no! it makes me cry.

So after going on about how stable my XP Cubase Reason system has been for the last 2 or 3 years it's finally failed me just before finishing an album. Everything's working fine apart from Rewire and I have 2 songs on this album which i've used Reason for, and I need to get them finished!! Reason (version 2.5) works on it's own. Cubase is fine. There's been no change to my system since I last used reason successfully. I did a system restore to a month ago just incase. I've installed Reason 4 in the hope it would help but it's the same. I really don't want to reinstall Cubase 'cos i'm not sure if I have all the installation files for all the plug-ins i've used, and i'm very worried about inadvertently changing one of the other songs.

some cheapo pedals can be really good. I've got an arion auto wah that's really funky, and not noisy at all.

try one of the behringer flangers in a shop, they're cheap enough!

I thought you might be thinking of using a sequence/backing track.

You can get a free DAW for recording - Reaper, or if you want something more expensive, PM me. All i'm saying is, if budget is a primary concern, then crezs USB interface will be all you need if used with your mixer and it's only £40. You could spend your change on another MIDI controller to help with your live performance. Otherwise, yeh the Fast Track is fine. When you get an interface you'll be able to get a lead that goes direct from an output to the input on an A/B box. I bought phono to jack leads off Ebay. Wouldn't you want to run your bass and your mac sometimes though? If so you'll need some sort of mixer. One of the blender pedals might work better, putting the mac into the FX return.

If you get a limiter and set it to UBER SQUASH then level changes from your pedals won't matter. Not many people like that sound though!

[quote name='bassjamm' post='670905' date='Dec 1 2009, 11:43 AM']Thanks for that. Would I just need to send the mixer signal via 1/4" jack to the interface then?[/quote] yeh as long as your interface has a couple of analogue inputs (which could be jacks or phono or RCA or whatever) then you just attach these to the outputs of your mixer. If you get a multi channel interface your mixer will need direct outs or insert points on each channel you want to record. Just to make that clear, I have an interface with 10 inputs but at home my mixer only has stereo outputs. I can record 2 mics from my mixer panned left and right and record this. However, at my studio the mixer has insert points so I can take leads from these to the inputs on my interface and record 10 channels at a time.

Just to say, you can use your mixer as a pre-amp for mics, so you don't need an interface with any XLR inputs or built in pre-amps.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='642520' date='Nov 1 2009, 02:36 PM'](oh and the whole studio is run by Windows )[/quote] HAHAHAHAA yes! I'll have a listen tonight.

If you're EQing on the little mark, and IF this EQ needs to be replicated FOH, then you should DI from the amp.

Is that my mate Henry? Glad it's still progressing

[quote name='danny-79' post='669505' date='Nov 29 2009, 09:23 PM']Totaly agree, there reasonably cheep to pic up , bomb proof construction, an can use it as a booster al the way through the spectrum to heavy gain. recomend[/quote] I would not use an ODB3 for high gain settings, it gets very "fizzy".

Interesting!! I'd like to try it.

It sounds like you just need to drive the head harder. Can you increase the output from your EQ?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='665521' date='Nov 25 2009, 07:55 PM']Might wanna rig a little 1x12 for highs.[/quote] I lolled.

Get a whammy (XP 100 if you can find one) then you get chorus and fun pitch shifting.

Are you using the "enhance" feature on the pedal? AFAIK this is quite different sounding to the boss LMB-3. The general limiting in both pedals is near identical. If you are using the enhance function it might be work re-housing the behringer, or better yet just get a little true bypass loop for it so you don't have to bother using the behringer switch.

I heard the album the other day. I really loved "songs for the deaf" and was hoping some of that was down to Grohl influencing Homme, but apparently not as this just sounds like QOTSA to me, and not proper hard rocking QOTSA, the more recent sort of sound like lullabies to paralyse (sp?). Also, IMO his voice sounds quite a lot different. You can tell it's Homme but it seems really different to before. It's well produced and some riffs are good but it's a little boring. I'll give it another few goes.

yeh there is a master volume setting for each patch. I'm not sure what it's called, but it's very easy to level out the patches on this pedal.