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yeh, I meant more would it be so cheap and easy to replace the PSU? I wouldn't know.

I didn't see this yesterday. Don't rush into anything. Portable multi track recorders can be good, but as far as I know they tend to lack mic inputs. the one you linked says "8 input jacks" well if they're all just jack sockets I doubt they will make good mic inputs. So, are you going to be recording microphones? How many at the same time? Are any of them mics which need phantom power? Do you have a decent computer? Could you transport your computer to your recording space? If you can answer those i'm sure I/others could give some decent advice tomorrow.

I bought some MIDI cables yesterday and set it up to use MIDI instead of USB. It follows cubase perfectly, beautiful moving faders etc. However, it won't control cubase at all, nothing works. I've found a page online which describes how to run a fader calibration. I tried this and it moves the master fader about a bit, and then says "F1 could not reach the top" (or bottom depending on where I place the master fader to begin with. It does actually reach the top though. Any other help would be most appreciated!

I do get the impression that most of the acts are straining themselves - trying to sing louder than they should be, and I would normally put this down to poor monitoring but it could just be poor singers. [quote name='jonthebass' post='643509' date='Nov 2 2009, 03:58 PM']Who knows? I know as much on you that point. My opinion is that it isn't true though.[/quote] Well I thought it sounded dubious but y'know it apparently came from someone who works on the show....... I'll assume it's b*ll*cks for now.

[quote name='Moos3h' post='643500' date='Nov 2 2009, 03:50 PM']I've seen that too, and it's certainly not the point I'm trying to get over here....I'm more interested in why the decision to assemble overseas is taken when the end price is still so high...is it BECAUSE they actually make a fantastic guitar in Indonesia, or would the same guitar being wholly USA-made be upwards of £2k? I couldn't care less where the stuff I buy comes from, but I'm interested in the economic and practical choices for any offshoring and the implications it has. I've grown up in a country that actually makes very little, and it makes me curious of the factors involved.[/quote] Yes I didn't mean that you'd held or stated that view. I would imagine that the finishing in the USA adds to the cost of the bass. If these are one third of the price of an "all american" bass that seems to be a sensible price to me...?

[quote name='Toasted' post='643481' date='Nov 2 2009, 03:33 PM']I don't see that because anything is made in one place that it carries a maximum price that would be different were it made in another country. That's just armchair jingoism.[/quote] I often think the way people go on about quality and quality control in china and taiwan etc is pretty racist - as though "they" aren't capable of creating something that's just as good or better than a UK or US factory or something. I'm not saying that's happened in this thread, but I see it a lot on this board.

Well the only time my recording set up has been down was 2 weeks ago when the PSU blew. I was absolutely sh*tting myself as I hadn't backed up in a couple of days and I literally saw a flash and some smoke coming out of my PC. Luckily it was just the PSU and I fixed it with £20 and 20 minutes. Would it have been that simple with a mac? Or would their magical indestructable PSUs never blow?

[quote name='jonthebass' post='642816' date='Nov 1 2009, 08:51 PM']Chaps, I have to be careful here, but I work at the studios. No bull.[/quote] I heard that every year the production team pick someone who they think will win, and then put loads of effort into making them win and this year it's Olly. They've been right every year so far. Is that total boll*cks?

Are there more people in that forum? I didn't think it had anything to do with bass. When you need to contact a mod, how do you choose? There are so many to pick from, I don't know where to start!

I use distortion for 90% of the time, but for 80% of that it's probably fairly subtle. I just get bored with a clean tone all the time. It doesn't bite!

No he says he just installed it and it worked for him, which is fair enough!

Is this in the right section? I really hope someone can help me with this!

I've just bought a Steiberg Huston from a fellow basschatter, and I can't get it working. I'm using USB as I don't have MIDI cables. When I install it in windows it says that the device may not work correctly as it cannot start. It's lit up and was detected as new hardware etc. In cubase I can add a Huston device, but can't see the Huston as a MIDI in and out. Any help would be appreciated!

Yeh your bass goes into the input, your speakers go into the output, and a usb cable goes to your computer. Then you install the asio drivers for the zoom interface. Then install cubase, and select the zoom soundcard and away you go! I've never tried it with a mic so i'm not sure how well that would work, but I used to use it to practice with Ampeg SVX with no latency on my media PC (IE one with a crap soundcard) and it worked great.

The cubase that comes with the pedal is good, and as soon as you get it, you'vve basically got yourself a latency free high quality audio interface. You do have to monitor your sound through the pedal though, which could be annoying depending on what sort of speaker set up you have at your PC.

Nice!! Yeh that's good. I was going to buy one a couple of years ago off here for £200.

just use the pedal as a pedal infront of the amp, surely?

[quote name='OldGit' post='632398' date='Oct 21 2009, 02:33 PM']Tom's right[/quote] YES! I knew it would happen one day. Now where's my medal?

We sell a product which is metal with a film on it for packaging. One time a guy called me up to say that it was bent. I told him to bin it and I sent a replacement. I didn't even bother asking about the film. If the initial letter had been "Hi, I bought this scratchplate and it's warped, look at the attached pictures" I reckon it would have turned out differently.

yeh, with the controller i'm on about above, you plug your controller into the KP with a MIDI cable.

There's no lag on any of the new Zoom units AFAIK. The tuner is good, the compressor is good (but that's subjective). I've never been able to get the XLR output on mine going, but I only tried after i'd dropped it quite hard which also made the switches quite unreliable. I love the sounds, the interface, the switching, the tuner, but I will have to put some heavy duty off-board switches on it to gig it again (which I will do). Perhaps someone else can help RE the XLR.

well I always have one EQ pedal to boost mids and overdrive dirt pedals, then I have another to boost the low end. Neither of these functions would work on my amps EQ, and I would switch both several times during each song.

To be honest i've not got enough experience with the different pre-amps. It's what sounds best to your ears. I would imagine that the firestudio has pretty good pre-amps in, and that any extention to your interface would also include it's own pre-amps, so your stand-alone octopre is rendered redundant. Sell it to me for £10!!

It looks fun. You'd probably need to blend some clean tone back in, and you need a DI or something to get your bass to line level before you plug it in. crez - if you're serious there is a guy on the muse messageboard who's username is "gazlang" who sells a MIDI controller and touch screen to build into your guitar/bass. Apparently creating the MIDI controller circuit is pretty difficult.

Do you want to record many mics at the same time, or just a stereo mix? If you're putting everything through the PA and you like the sound of it, you could record the DI out of the mixer straight into the on board sound on your mac book. If you want to record lots of channcels at the same time, you need an interface with that many inputs AND one pre-amp per mic channel. Most external interfaces come with only 2 pre-amps built in. How much change will you have from the mac book?