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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?

[quote name='jakesbass' post='631219' date='Oct 20 2009, 11:35 AM']I'm sure there are people here who have used pc and cubase with no issues but there'll be more mac users with a 'no woes' story.[/quote] There's no factual basis for this statement. Only some anecdotal evidence. I can give you anecdotal evidence to the contrary, none of it matters. Both systems are software running on hardware. They're both capable of exactly the same thing. EDIT: It's pretty shocking that a pro studio wuold have an unstable system no matter what system it is given it's perfectly possible to make any system stable.

That's a tall stack!! What about turning the marshall by 90 degrees?

[quote name='ryan_waf' post='630484' date='Oct 19 2009, 04:24 PM']I might be old fashioned, but even if previously agreed with bands / promoters that backline is okay to borrow, I'll still ask the bassist and make sure I say thanks to them, same with each of our members depending on whats borrowed, simple manners.[/quote] I agree. It seems the answer to the thread title is yes!

Fair enough - it does look cool!

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='630589' date='Oct 19 2009, 06:09 PM']Before people ask here is a close up of the DiscumBOBulator and its little partner pedal. This is a custom build from Max @ [sfx] and is basically an external switch for the UP/DOWN filter sweep toggle that the pedal has... allowing me to switch between both styles during one song for example.[/quote] Why would you not just add an extra footswitch to the pedal? Just wondering.

Me too!! I think it's just generally accepted that the best recording set up is a Mac with Pro Tools. Personally I think this is based on the fact that all the famous pro studios have loads of money, and a sense of style, and so they buy macs. Also I think initially pro tools was only available on a mac system? There are plenty of studios out there making money with PCs and Cubase. There's no difference in "quality".

yeh that looks like it can record up to 8 tracks simultaneously which would be enough for demos.

Why?

to do decent recording you will need an audio interface, and depending on how many channels you want to record at the same time, it could eat up half your budget. For the money you might be better sticking with a PC and adding some recording gear to it.

The zoom B2.1U is an excellent starter effects pedal.

I don't see why it would make any difference at all. I used to run a pedal board into my peavey combo which had a built in crossover for bi-amping, which I did using a guitar amp. A bi-amp system is just like another type of amp, there's no reason you should damage anything.

[quote name='Doddy' post='627042' date='Oct 15 2009, 04:11 PM']If everyone knows how to set up their own stuff it doesn't take long. I've done gigs where the band has loaded in,set up-PA aswell- and started playing in around half an hour. I don't see any reason why you couldn't set up your own backline in around 10 mins. It's all about efficiency.[/quote] I hope i'm not getting the wrong end of the stick here, it seems to me you think that your 10 minutes change over time should apply as a maximum for every band no matter what the venue is like or how much gear there is. In the band I was in (no logo) I had 2 pedal boards to carry onto stage and plug in, as well as two amps. The guitarist had an amp and a pedalboard, and the drummer used around 10 cymbals. For all of our gigs, the drums were the only thing we would borrow, and the only thing we'd share. Our drummer would take his own stands and set up all his cymbals if the venue had room for them to be left on the side. This means all we had to do was wait for the other band to get their gear off, put the cymbals (already on stands) pedals, amps, on stage, wired up, and then tune up guitars. We got this down to around 5 minutes at the very quickest. If the stage is difficult to get to or a difficult shape, if the store room is untidy or up or down stairs, if the drum kit had a rack instead of stands, or worse still, if we had to get a drum kit off the stage and then set up a new one from scratch!! Then add on the time it takes for the previous band to shift off. I think timing is a perfectly legitimate reason for sharing a drum kit. I don't really understand why the convention extends to bass amps, but it does.

[quote name='Doddy' post='626027' date='Oct 14 2009, 02:17 PM']If you've got your act together,you can change the entire band over,gear and all,in under 10 mins-I've done it. And when most original nights that I've done usually have about a 15 min or so change over time,there is plenty of time to change over.[/quote] It depends how much gear there is, surely? You couldn't do that with my old band.

Distortion pedals are exactly the same as an overdriven preamp, surely.

lol, you b*stard!