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The zoom is noisy. I would set the ZNR (zoom noise reduction) to max on every patch, and put it in a true bypass loop for when you're not using it.

My comments on wah vs dirt were probably a little stupid. I used to gig with 3 wahs, plus some wahs on my B2.1U, and 4 or 5 distortions, plus some on my B2.1U. It sounds like total overkill but at the time seemed perfectly logical.

Too much wah, not enough dirt!!! I don't really know what the blowtorch is like else i'd recommend a complimentary OD. I love the momentaty loop idea, i've thought of doing this before but never got round to it.

Rich, have you heard Anti-Pop? I think it's generally more commercial/easy to listen to. I love my Primus live DVD, I wish I had seen them live.

If you have everything going through the desk, you can just record the line-out. If not, you'd have to use a stereo pair of mics, which will not necessarily give a great result, but may be good enough for what you're looking for. Which method will you go for? And what do you want to do with it after? IE just a bit of comp and EQ, or a full edit and mix? Then we'd have a better idea of what to recommend. Also, I think you're looking for a quick, easy, effective, cheap recording solution, rather than an "epic" one, which would probably prove rather inconvinient.

yeh just get something amusing that lights up and looks cool. When you've got all your gear plugged in we'll need a night shot.

[quote name='funnyfreddie' post='417687' date='Feb 23 2009, 06:49 PM']We have had to do this 5 times to non payers and have never lost a case.........message gets out not to f*** you about and people do pay.[/quote] If the message got out, would you have had to do it 5 times?

I would stick a couple of monitors and your keyboard and mouse on that desk to the left.

I've bought my other cable now. I've tried eveyr way of connecting the SPDIF ports on both PCs and I still can't get the VST Link page to recognise anything. I tried the Self Test, by plugging SPDIF 0 into SPDIF 1 on one PC. I set the ports to SPDIF out L and SPDIF in L. Arrrrgh!!?!? What am I doing wrong!? Vstack looks interesting, but looks like it's for MIDI/VSTis rather than the audio processing I want to acheive.

I play fairly heavy alternative rock music. I would die if I could only gig with 4 pedals!!! Having said that.... Barge Concepts blender/feedback loop thingy Zvex Wah Probe (or one of my other wahs, but this is my favorite) EQ Pedal Ibanez SS10 or whatever my weird distortion/chorus box is called. I need to be able to have two different levels of overdrive, so the EQ would give me that. A gig without digital delay would be frustrating though.

Voxengo do some good free ones too.

Ta!

A DI is a Direct Injection box used to bring instrument level signal up to line level. This is used to supplying a signal to mixing desks at gigs, and can be used for the same reason when recording. Some bass amps have DI outputs built into them. Some pedals are called "bass DI"s but often incorporate other functions, such as EQ and distortion. The Boss LMB3 is a Limiter, which is a type of compressor. You can find out all about compressors in the Wiki.

I (when I was gigging) use 20-25 pedals per gig. I used them to create lots of different sounds. Each of our songs would have up to 50 pedal "stomps" in it. It helps create dynamics in the sound with relation to the arrangement of the song. It helps keep things interesting and fresh. It means that as a band, we sound as good (if not better) live as we do in the studio.

Lol joe, your board's worse than mine used to be!! Very cool though, i'd love to hear it.

You'll have to take the guitars down when recording. It's looking really good though. I wish I could do this to my studio. I have no security on the building so can't really spend money doing it up.

Hamster - Fair enough, it's all about what it sounds like to your own ears, obviously. It's just that this pitch FX tracking issue comes up all the time, and it's treated as fact that pitch FX should come before any distortion. I've personally had goodd results both ways round. [quote name='Al Heeley' post='412194' date='Feb 17 2009, 04:52 PM']My understanding is the effects send takes the signal from the pre-amp. the effects return feeds back into the power amp.[/quote] It depends on the amp I think.

Thanks very much, I shall have a good read. It does sound like I should buy another digital cable though!

[quote name='Hamster' post='412032' date='Feb 17 2009, 02:54 PM']All things being equal logic dictates you put an octaver first so it has a clean signal to track, however all pedals are not made equal I suppose - that's why there's no definitive order? A case of 100 people = 100 different answers I suppose. Now if we all had the exact same fingers/style/bass/leads/pedals/patches/amps/cabs/hairdos etc it might be a closer call! [/quote] Yeh, but these look like the same people giving contradictory answers? I'm not looking for any answers on the subject for myself, just interested in why someone would think an octave pedal should go first in the chain if before the amp, but after distortion if in the amp's loop.

I find it weird that two people have suggested putting pitch/octave effects in the loop with distortion before the input. This compared to the effect order threads where people say "always put your pitch fx first".

[quote name='bremen' post='411871' date='Feb 17 2009, 12:23 PM']Post #69 [/quote] Lol, I've been blind ever since I MET NUNO AND TOUCHED HIS HAND!!

Pasting this from another forum where i've asked for help. Hopefuly someone here will know?.... So, I set it all up and started a big mix on PC1, started cubase on PC2 and loaded ampeg SVX. I routed the bass track through PC2 and back into PC1. This works fine, and the bass sounds amazing, and my cpu load is tiny. So, I tried VST link. I can't get this f***er to work. At first I thought i'd be able to use one SPDIF cable, but after trying for a while it seemed more logical to need two SPDIF cables, one for each way of communication between the PCs. Is this correct? I only have one proper SPDIF cable, so I used a standard phono lead for the other side, and this still didn't work. Is this just because of the cable? Or should it have worked "a bit"? ...... First, I set the input and output on the vst link page to SPDIF 0 on both PCs. Then I plugged the cable in. Then I activated VST link. It didn't work, so then I tried connecting both SPDIF 1s with a phono cable, and I set the input on PC1 to SPDIF 0, the output on PC2 to SPDIF 0, the input on PC2 to SPDIF 1, the output on PC 1 to SPDIF 1. EDIT: And it still didn't work.

I've just been through this entire thread and not one person has mentioned Nuno Bettencourt!! He's clearly the best guitarist alive by a mile.

[quote name='Finbar' post='409049' date='Feb 13 2009, 09:07 PM']That's my plan, haha. I'll be running my effects into one cab (mic'd), and a clean(ish) tone into a second cab (DI). They will hate me.[/quote] I've done loads of gigs with a DI and mic. I would basically tell the soundman to treat my guitar combo as a 2nd guitar, and the DI as the bass. They never had a problem. IMHO you won't be able to get a mic far enough away from the cab to capture real lows. I think practically you will have to use your DI for the low end, and a mic for your effects cab. In this situation, the house guitar mic will suffice. So, my advice is, don't get a nice mic and carry it around to every dive pissing off half the soundmen. Just give them a DI and ask them to treat your effects cab like an extra guitar.

You generally get a headphone output on on-board soundcards, as well as on USB interfaces, so you should be OK to put that into the CD input. Kenny - not that clever, but it might help. God knows why I didn't think of it before (or no-one else in this surprisingly large thread).