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[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='220728' date='Jun 17 2008, 04:36 PM']I think if I wasn't contributing any ideas beyond a bass riff per tune I would start to feel uncomfortably replacable![/quote] Very good point. I've often thought that.

I am a tight wad and a theif! Any plus point to put it above cubase dood?

[quote name='queenofthedepths' post='220684' date='Jun 17 2008, 03:50 PM']It's probably not worth pointing out that the Latin root of the word "art" is "ars", which means "craft" I do know exactly what you mean, though. I think I'm the artist in my band, since I write nearly all the material, but art doesn't do anyone any good if a craftsman can't interpret it. Otherwise it never leaves the conceptual stage.[/quote] Hmmm, so everyone who can formulate a concept of something original in their heads is an artist, whether they can demonstrate the concept or not? I don't know if I agree with that. I'm sure I could imagine plenty of visual masterpeices, but i'd never have the painting skill to get them down onto some canvas. Maybe to be an artist, you also have to be a craftsman, but you don't need to be an artist to be a craftsman, you can use other people's concepts.

The sounds I make with my band using my bass, pedals, and amps, I would class as a sort of art. When I play drums for the premature ejaculators, that feels like a craft.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='220655' date='Jun 17 2008, 03:23 PM']Different argument, Chris. This one is about losing it!!![/quote] All I know is, I was never impotent before my originals band broke up

no distortion sound you liked? There must be 100s!!! I'll have a play sometime and recommend you some. Basically, I remember that the TS-9 model was sh*t. Can't remember much else. There's a blend and EQ on every distortion model though!

Weird, I have managed a few great OD and distortion sounds on the B2. The fuzzes sound a little cheap to me, but I think that's 'cos I had the ZNR on high.

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.