cheddatom

It potentially makes sense, but that's probably causing the problem IE it's probably all in your head. If you just start playing about at home, play the stuff you enjoy, push yourself etc, then you will be improving again. If you just keep playing the same things over and over again then you can't possibly improve!

but not much point in me making the switch?

I agree it's nothing to do with mac or pc, it's all about the software you're using. I think the mac/pc debates can be relevant when trying to choose an "all-rounder". Either way, how many training days and courses and etc do these teachers get? I couldn't beleive that my music teachers were expected to teach this music tech A level (and they thought they could!) based on a manual from roland. They couldn't even search google for help if they got stuck!

[quote name='dr.funk' post='220520' date='Jun 17 2008, 12:27 PM']I have a soft spot for them. We did a few cds all plugged into that live and it was the best recording we ever made [/quote] It's a great bit of kit! It's just not as easy to work with as a PC.

I know you probably wont find this useful, but.... A whammy XP-100 not only has excellent chorus sounds, with the EXP pedal to change the effect mix in real time, but it also has some very cool wah settings, and the obvious whammy possibilities. You can set up 6 patches and switch between them like a multi-effects unit. If you could find one it might be the same price as a decent chorus pedal.

If it's just the distortions you don't like on the ME-50b, I would take Phaedrus' advice and play more with them, and also try it with a OD pedal boosting the input of the ME-50b.

I think it's just a matter of finding the sweet spot with a PC. Macs will come ready tuned, so that's why your teacher thought that! Heh, not to sound arrogant, but when I was a school doing A levels, they installed a "studio" so I thought I would do music tech for my last year there. They basically just had the studio built, and then the music teachers were either expected, or they thought they knew what they were doing. It was only a Roland VS-2480 thing, but the teachers really couldn't figure it out, and I ended up doing most of the teaching for of the hardware and etc, and I also did most people's practical coursework - and all I had used before was cakewalk guitar on a PC! Well, that does sound arrogant, but it was supposed to be a point about teachers not knowing enough about their subject matter.

I have been using Cubase fine for years. I have no trouble doing anything I want to do, and I can't think of anything I could possibly want to do that i can't in cubase. However, can someone give me some specific details where Cubase falls down when compared to other DAWs? I have used ProTools and thought that was fine as well, but it didn't have the Reason/Rewire link up that I like.

I think boss have some good pedals - LMB-3, MT-2, ODB-3, DS-1, DD-3, DD-6, all of their phasers are fiendish IMHO and also the PW-10, i'd love one of those.

I would use the B2.1U for "Flanger, Overdrive (general destortion not for metal/thrash) and Chorus" If you're going to play gigs, and you're playing heavy stuff, and you get a bit carried away (like me) then heavy duty pedals are a must. That being said, the little danelectro ones seem to stand up to my stomping.

I just wash my hands and have a low-fat diet. You bunch of sweaties!

most gates would just go in line after the effects unit, yeh. The boss one has a send/return loop thing set up, and I assumed that this meant it would also have some advanced noise reduction i.e. it can hear what goes in, and compare it to the sound in the loop, but, I don't think this is what actually happens.

You didn't buy it on a credit card? That might be insured.

Sorry, it's commonly known as a noise gate. It's a device that will silence a it's output after the input of the gate drops below a specified threshold. So if you have 60 dB of background noise, and you set the gate to shut off at anywhere below 61dB, then there will be no noise out of the unit until the input reaches 61dB. I use a BOSS NS-2 but some people think they're crap. I would have thought the Digitech had a gate built in, like the zoom units.

Doesn't it have a built in gate? If it's ok when there's sound coming out of it, get a gate IMO.

So is the rythm guitar going through the PA as well? Couldn't you have the guitar sending an line to the digitech that isn't heard? I.e a send before the guitarist's amp? Maybe that explains the hiss? It sounds very interesting. If I had gigs to play, i'd get one!

[quote name='BassManKev' post='219845' date='Jun 16 2008, 02:00 PM']there is? [/quote] There wasn't when I looked! Damn internet making me look like a fool. That's a very cool board Ant!

Good attitude Sam.

Is there sposed to be a pic there Ant? Kubickiboy - I would make another layer ontop of your PSU and where the foam is, there's no need for another board! I would have bottom feeder, ODB-3, BM. I can't see the point in the DS-1, I remember it being very similar to the ODB-3 but without the EQ control? Maybe not.

The only reason i'm saying this is that a company in our industry wen into administration this year, and we bought all of the stock and the brand name and etc. There was stock there that had been bought by customers, and paid for, and it was legally ours (for 1% of the price to the customer). Similarly, this company was owed quite a lost by some customers, and the (former) owners of the company will never get that back.

I'm not aware of the legalities, but i'm pretty sure you're wrong. I think some lawyer on the board even posted a message to this effect on a different thread concerning the same topic.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='219787' date='Jun 16 2008, 12:38 PM']True.... but let's face it us musicians are a weird bunch. I know guys (myself included to some extent) that are actually better/more comfortable at communicating through the gift of music than they are through real verbal or written communication[/quote] Jhonny, can you read me out that cake recipie please? "widdly widdly wooow wooow" "um chucka um chucka do do dooooo" ..... Yeh I can see how that would make sense. [quote name='Ou7shined' post='219787' date='Jun 16 2008, 12:38 PM']I'm prepared to accept that this Fergie Fulton dude didn't mean to be a cock (although it comes over that way) and probably just used the critique as grounds to set up a rapport.[/quote] Who cares what he meant to do? If someone messaged me with what seems to be a fair critique of my playing, i'll either reply and make it clear that i'm annoyed, or i'll reply and start a discussion, or i'll ignore it. I wouldn't post it on a messageboard along with my assumptions about who the critique was trying to impress and why.

I think until he picked up the amp it remained SC's, and now it's the administrators, and no-one's under any obligation to help him out. If you had gone down to the shop on the day they went into administration you probably could have picked it up, but..... It's just a bit sh*t really.

No-one is stupid enough to try and come on to someone by criticising their playing technique. If someone fancies someone, they will pay compliments, or juat act shy, or try and show off, or whatever, but they're not going to send a critique of their playing by e-mail. You'd send "Hi, I saw you playing last night, that was some hot stuff!" or something.

You could get an mp3 player that has a mono mode, take a "stereo mini jack to two mono jacks" lead, put one in the PA mixer and one in a powered monitor. Or just plug the mp3 player into the mixer, and add another speaker to your set up.