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[quote name='bilbo230763' post='221233' date='Jun 18 2008, 11:07 AM']Sorry mate, I'm washing my goatee! [/quote] That's a shame. Too much sperm in it?

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='221224' date='Jun 18 2008, 10:57 AM']Sorry, mate. More likely to be listening to Connolly and Kohli. I only know any of these guys because they occasionally appear on tv. I was trying to make a point.[/quote] I took your point to be a reinforcement of my earlier point and so felt responding to it was unnecessary. Your post, combined with a couple others of yours this morning, filled my head with a horrible image, and I was just having some fun with that. [quote name='bilbo230763' post='221224' date='Jun 18 2008, 10:57 AM']If my reading intelligent writers and then thinking about what they say gets on your t***, then I am sorry. I promise to seek counselling.[/quote] There's no need to promise anything to me! I certainly don't give a t*ss. It was my mental image that got on my tits, not you bilbo! I'm sure you don't need an e-hug, but I can offer violent make-up sex at the weekend if you're up for it?

Bilbo at home, stroking his goatee sipping coffee listening to Gyles Brandreth and Stephen Fry?!?!? ARRRGHGHG so jazzy!! Either i'm hung over or you're trying to give me a nervous breakdown.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='221189' date='Jun 18 2008, 10:20 AM']I quickly learned that, like music, there are many people out there who will continue serving you swill if you are unwilling to educate youself enough to recognise the fact.[/quote] Maybe there are just many people out there who educated themselves enough to choose the swill that they know and love.

[quote name='Clive Thorne' post='221160' date='Jun 18 2008, 09:57 AM'].... if your used to eating in Michelin 5 start restaurants (i.e. high 'fallutin' creative jazz music) ....[/quote] Arrrgh! My blood is boiling over! Must contain rant about arrogant jazz fans!

Well that's a blinding review. I doubt it has more routing capabilities on the mixer than cubase? Dood - the small footprint is cool. If I could actually afford to buy myself some usb memory I might do that instead of carrying my pc to and from the studio.

I think that any drive towards excellence is more a trait of a craftsman/the craftsman within the artist. IMHO an artist wants to create better and better art, but this could be worse and worse in other people's opinions, and they don't necessarily need to improve technical skill to improve art (in whoever's opinion).

Have a look in the manual. If you don't have it, you can (probably) download it. It should tell you which kind of footswitch is required. As far as brands..... they're all the same really, I would recommend you make one yourself and paint it pretty.

There is already a couple of threads about this I think? Regarding the footswitches - Yes, my down switch started f*cking up the other day and I don't think it's going to get reliable. I had this with my old plastic zoom unit. I replaced the crappy footbuttons with proper footswitches and it worked fine, so i'll probably do that with the B2.

[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.