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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!

Perhaps Red Onion could do it, or Silent Fly on here. A feedback loop takes a bit of the return signal and sends it to the send. How much is normally determined by a pot. It can make crazy oscillations out of standard OD pedals. It gets very weird with digital pedals - try it with a couple of octaves up and some digital delay and a wah!

I was thinking about doing it before by adding another jack socket to my bass and winding two jack lead around each other - one for output, one for power. It was easier to keep buying batteries!

swapping drum kits over for every band on a 4 band originals night? You might be quick to change over, but not THAT quick.

I was going to suggest getting someone to make a looper with built in booster on one loop. Then get a feedback control on there and your existing pedals will make weird noises!

I would have thought it'd be better to adapt your bass to use an XLR cable, but I see no reason why using a PSU and battery clip wouldn't work.

[quote name='bumnote' post='625816' date='Oct 14 2009, 11:04 AM']Some years ago i was playing in a band and we were trying to learn I think it was a doobie brothers tune although I cant for the life of me remember which one. There was a stop and a drum fill where the drummer went round the toms. we couldnt get the re start right and we said to the drummer, John you are putting in 1 fill too many round the toms, the drummer on the record does 1 less than you do. His response Perhaps Ive got more tom toms than he has[/quote] LOL! Mine is generally when the guitarist says "there are this many beats for one of this riff" and then counts it out, then I write a beat to that count, then we realise that he counted wrong and I have to add in or take out beats.

I find it weird you're having no trouble playing the same stuff at home. This is weird but you might consider that you're not the one messing up. Maybe it's the other two? I've had that before, especially on drums where i'm playing the exact right thing but the other two guys keep stopping in the same place. I've always had to change what i'm playing to fit them. Just a thought!

It sounds like you only have the one minor tone issue. When I play over the bridge I don't get enough "bark attack bite punch" etc I just turn on an EQ pedal which cuts the low end a bit. Perhaps you could do the same with your X3 Live?

[quote name='peety' post='624951' date='Oct 13 2009, 01:40 PM']Is it unreasonable of us to expect him to honour these committments including rehearsal until we find a replacement[/quote] It's not unreasonable, but I would personally be uncomfortable. He's obviously not the bloke you thought he was, why do you want to play with him again? Obviously it's not just for the money else you'd have more gigs.

yeh you and the rest of the band really need to be able to play through mistakes. There's always the chance of one of you making a mistake and if you have to stop and go back to the start you will all look tw*ts.

Well on the graphic EQ I have the bottom fader (can't remember the frequency) right down, otherwise yeh, I don't see why not.

I've had it before when i've lent my bass amp to other bands and they run it too loud, the yellow warning light keeps flicking, and then at some point it dies with a big pop and the yellow light stays on permanently. You just turn it off and on and it works fine again. Well, last night I was playing for the first time in ages and it kept happening every few minutes, even though I wasn't loud enough to make the yellow light come on (until it popped). It only seems to happen when i've got my pedalboard on, but I do have a gate which totally gets rid of all noise between notes and all feedback etc (I have a lot of distortion and compression) so I can't figure it out! Is there a way my board could be sending a weird spike? Why can I not hear the spike? Can the amp be overloading from something other than input volume?

I have high and low on my peavey combo. My 18v schecter sounds good through high but better through low!

Well I went to audition with a nottingham band who got back to me the day after to say they'd let me know in a month or two, then a month later they asked me to do it. I decided it was too far to travel, but it was an organised decent polite band in nottingham.

Surely you could acheive infinite sustain with distortion and volume, and then EQ out the top end so it doesn't sound like distortion, just seriously compressed bass? I once had quite a nice synthy type sound using a french toast and a Black Liquorice with a hard limiter and a gate, and all the top EQd out. Perhaps I have the wrong end of the stick.