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While I was gigging in a band I built up my collection (which included ibe zoom multi for guitar) and I enjoyed messing with the order and settings and just generally stamping on them. A year or so after the drummer left and i'd only been playing drums, but I bought a GT-6B because I thought it was a bargain. I'd heard a friend using one before and it was great. I played with it (having quite a bit of fun!) for around an hour but couldn't get any usable sounds out of it. I found the menus very frustrating. For example, I have no idea how to assign the EXP pedal to anything other than volume. I'm not think, and I did have the manual with me. Anyway, an hour was enough, I loaned it indefinitely to our bass player. Now i'm back on the bass in a band, I love my old pedal board, but part of me thinks I should really sit down and work out how to work the GT-6B 'cos it's a hell of a lot smaller and lighter and could leave me ££££s better off if I sold my single pedals.

Is it as big as it looks? How's the studio coming along?

[quote name='PauBass' post='647907' date='Nov 7 2009, 10:21 AM'] I've lost the manual for the Boss LS-2 and I need a bit of help here. I want to try two things with the two amp rig: 1- Run the two amps on all the time, one clean and add the effects just on the second one when needed. 2- Have one amp clean at all times and only kick in the second amp with the effects as required. Can I do it with the LS-2? If so, what are the right pedal settings for each option?[/quote] 1 - I'm not sure if you wan do this. You might need 2 inputs on your effects amp. Then you could have send A going straight to the amp, and send B going through some pedals and then to the amp. If they're hi/lo gain just use the knobs on the LS-2 to level them out. 2 - If you plug the output of the LS2 into your main clean amp and send A into your effects chain, and have it on A+B/Bypass, then hopefully it would work. If it mutes the clean amp when you switch on the pedal you'd have to add a patch lead to the send and return B. Then use the knobs to level it out.

what about presonus? There are lots of options.

^That's worrying. My soundcards are all M-Audio!

They both give you the ability to immediately record 8 simultaneous tracks into your computer. The Alesis has 4 Mic pre-amps which means you can record 4 mics simultaneously straight away. The M-Audio only has 2 mic pre-amps but features ADAT which I beleive means you could add extra channels later....? For that reason i'd go with the m-audio but it might not be right.

oh, i've already read it and forgotten about it :-/

I think live he's still using the DBS stuff. A scan of that article would be great!

that multi track recorded is quite expensive considering you already have a computer which can handle half the job. What you need is an audio interface with a couple of mic inputs built in. Then when you want to record more than a couple, you will have to invest in some pre-amps to get the mic signals to line level for the other inputs on your interface. There are loads of usb and firewire interfaces around. I have PCI cards but I don't know what's available for macs. All you need from the interface is enough inputs to record as many DIs as you need, plus as many pre-amps and you need for now. Depending on how much cash you want to spend there are some interfaces with 8 built in mic pre-amps.

I'd already done that. what I hadn't done was select MIDI inputs and then change them to active. God know why they'd be set as inactive, but they were. It's working now!!! GREAT

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.