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I don't want to be a pest, I know this hasn't been up for long, but, I was hoping for some suggestions as i'm going to be working on it tomorrow!

I bought a Barge Concept VBF-2 blender thing off Higgie. Great price, great packing, great turnaround time etc etc, obviously a great guy!

I don't have a mute switch. I just turn down my amp to tune. It's quite easy!

Did you remember to set your psu to AC not DC? My guitarist has a WH4 on a non-standard supply.

Are you sure it says 9v? 'Cos I thought they were all 12v.

You wouldn't have to keep swapping between the guitar and bass pod, you can just DI the one you want to use into the one that you're using as your interface. I really can't see the need for you to buy anything until you want to start recording more than one channel at once.

I find it very strange that it would work as a volume pedal and not as an exp pedal. Surely the volume function is just another type of expression to the processor? A nice wah would probably be better, but, you might have different patches on your ME-50 where the wah is before or after distortion, and you wouldn't be able to do both. Are you playing bass? Do you get a satisfactory tone with just your ME-50? Is it the bass version? If you're looking for a wah and have some cash, I recommend a zvex wah probe.

Dear me! I've heard some puns in my time, but that was a bit hard to swallow!

Some companies pay their assessors more, based on more failed claims. As in, performance-related pay so that our claims fail. I know this is a bit off topic, but, does anyone know what the deal is with a shared house? We had a contents policy at my old house, but they wont cover my house-mate's gear, only mine (we had a break-in). At the time, my dad organised the policy, and they said we'd both be covered, but, it looks like in the small print that they're right.

Why don't you set up one of your pods as a usb interface, and then record everything through that? You can have it all clean for when you're using the other pod, or the drum machine etc etc. If you don't need to record more than one thing at once, then you have enough to do what you want.

It has to be Erocktion, I can't beleive it's not winning.

If anyone's interested, we got drunk a week or so ago and made this demo using reason instead of my drumming skills, and beer instead of talent, and cotton wool instead of monitors, just to aid the mix a bit. [url="http://www.myspace.com/theprematureejaculatorscomingsoon"]www.myspace.com/theprematureejaculatorscomingsoon[/url]

About a month ago in the recording studio, I started playing through my rig, and noticed it had lost it's usual "mammoth b*ll*cks". This was really dissapointing, but i've managed to add in some extra low end in the mixing stage. Anyway, the loss of low end was because my TE extension cab is broken! It has 1 x horn, 1 x 10", and 1 x 18". It's only the 18" which isn't working. I unscrewed everything the other day, hoping that it would just be a dry joint on the back of the speaker. However, I can't get the speaker out of the cab!! Any ideas?

I suppose it depends on the band you're recording. A lot of bands sound the same these days, and I wonder if it's the bands trying to sound like eachother, or the engineers getting lazy, or just me being bitter. The first ever time I went into the studio, we were 16 and paying for it all ourselves. It cost a lot of money, and when I got to put down the bass, he told me to put away the 6 string and distortion pedal (I only had 1 at the time) and just trust him to get a great bass sound, as he does it all the time. Well, it did end up sounding good, but, it sounded like every other indie band around at the time, and it really annoyed me and stuck with me, and I guess that's where I was comming from. If I was a session player doing less original stuff, I guess I would like a 5 string precision, and (judging from your posts) it could save the engineer some time. I've never really thought of it from that point of view. If a band sounds great live, using a certain set up, should they sound great in the studio using the same set-up? I think the answer is yes, but, more often than not, when you chuck an extra 20 guitar tracks on there and start compressing drums etc, you loose that great live sound you had.

I just don't think that this idea of a precision=time saved is a fact. Maybe a precision+an engineer who always works with them/loves them will save time, and maybe most engineers love precisions, but that doesn't make it a fact. I've never been under pressure for time during a mix though, so I really should shut up!

ARGH - I'm obviously not going to pursuade you on this one, as you have your opinions strongly set, and some would say rightly so from your experience. I personally think that studio time should be a time for experimentation and creativity, but, I suppose some of us don't have the luxury of making our own cds at home! I was in "magic garden" recording studios with Gavin Monaghan last year, and he was very sceptcial of my effects and stupid rig and active 6 string etc. He just got me to play through the songs, and went round listening to each speaker (with a facial expression like Yoda) micing them up with weird vintage mics. He loves his tubes and his ribbon mics, vintage guitars, and Precision basses! However, he claimed to love my sound, and did a good job of recording it. It was cutting through just fine on his rough mixes, shame we never got to finish them! It took 3 hours to set up, record the bass for 2 songs, and get a rough mix. I'm not sure of normal people's time restraints, but I thought that was pretty good? Edit: Whether it's passive or active or a Fender P or an crappy Ibanez, it will generally take me a similar amount of time to mix. I listen to the mix, I listen to what's not there in the bass sound that I want, I adjust that, i'm done. P.P.S I know i'm comming accross as an arrogrant young student type, sorry! I do genuinley have a lot of respect for people who know a lot more in the way of recording than me, and i'm sure that you're one of them.

[quote name='ARGH' post='82419' date='Nov 1 2007, 06:08 PM']Fine man,but Im just going on the comments Ive got and been given.......including "Oh thank god,a Fender..."[/quote] If an engineer is thanking god because you've brought him a familiar instrument he knows how to work with, then I think there's something wrong with the way the engineer is looking at his job. He should be interested to hear new instruments and relish the challenge of getting them to sound great, not getting them to sound like a fender. I like precisions, I just don't buy into all this "definitive bass sound hype", if you know what I mean.

[quote name='The Funk' post='82294' date='Nov 1 2007, 02:37 PM']MIDI Switching[/quote] Good point, well put.