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[quote name='bassfunk' timestamp='1401451798' post='2463775'] Hey Tom This is possible. Our Keyboard player's calendar is synced up with the band one, I also have a personal one for managing all my other gigs and personal life. All are linked to the same calendar on my phone, it's the only wat I know what I'm doing day to day. On my phone it's in the calendar settings > add an account and continue form there. You can also do this in your browser on the google calendar. [/quote] Nice one, thanks!

Go with whatever works, but... if you prefer the sound bypassing your pre-amp you might look into replacing your amp with a poweramp

it's not just down to you, your drummer needs to be addressing it to. It's all about contrast, so if it sounds like it drops out from one section to another, he should play a smaller sounding cymbal in the previous section, and a bigger sounding cymbal in the empty section. IE if currently he switches from a crash in the chorus to a ride in the solo, he should instead swap the two around, or maybe go from crash to open hats. I've always played in 3 peices. I've used a variety of different ways to fill space. Distortion is probably the most popular. Octave down or up can work. Playing chords works really well for me but can be difficult to get them to sound good (normlly sounds muddy). I use a dirty sound with loads of high mids when playing chords.

don't think so but it's pretty recent

I use google calendar for all my personal commitments. I wouldn't necessarily want everyone in every band to be able to see all these, but I like that I have all my gigs listen on my phone. Is there a way for me to combine my personal google calendar with a group google calendar?

lots of people saying no-one plays them but I'm pretty sure Juan Aldarete played one with The Mars Volta, and they were pretty big weren't they?

It depends what sort of sound you've got. If it's a standard low end rumble masked by a bunch of guitars, no-one will care. If you're doing something creative where you take up much more sonic-space than that, then it really matters.

...or maybe it'd be better to save up for a behringer X32? This way I could get rid of my desk and interface all together

Can't check out your music so I'm not certain these would be right, but near us the best venues are The Sugarmill, The Underground, The Exchange, Bunker 13 - all in Hanley. The Rigger in Newcastle-under-Lyme is also great. [quote name='KevB' timestamp='1401128186' post='2460384'] Get in touch with Rock City in Nottingham, they frequently put multi band sets together downstairs in the basement so if you booked that for a night they could probably supply local supports which would bring in some locals who might not be familiar with your band. [/quote] good call!

cheers Dunc What awful weather! I turned up hung over from a gig the previous night. I tried to beat the hangover with an ale from the bar. Can't remember what it was called but it was clearly the house ale. Tasted like cold coffee that'd been filtered through some dirty old sports socks... I enjoyed playing but made a rather hasty exit

couple more questions - are there any ADAT units with analogue inputs but no pre-amps? I guess that would make it cheaper? This bundle seems ideal: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111363268715?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:VRI&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2661 24 analogue inputs and the ability to expand later, but, it's £850!

[quote name='Bottle' timestamp='1400935430' post='2458314'] First post in this thread! Here's my humble offering - still a work-in-progress [attachment=163437:Pedalboard 002.jpg] Board A (on right) is my 'Utility/Drive' board - Signal chain is Bass > TU-2 > (split/bypass) SansAmp Para-Driver > Rack Crossover Ch A, bypass on SansAmp goes to the Bad Monkey OD then on to Rack Crossover Ch B. Rack Crossover low pass > PA amp > 2x 112 stack Board B (on left) is my 'FX' board - signal chain is Crossover high pass > Palmer D'accapo reamper > Bass Big Muff Pi > CEB-3 Chorus > 110 Combo amp. Big Muff is set to 'Dry' so it passes some clean signal through. Have got room for a couple more pedals, thinking of the JOYO Vintage Drive to go in between the Palmer and the Big Muff to add some drive to the clean blend signal there. Cheers Ian [/quote] This rig is getting me excited. Can you photograph the whole thing? Are you gigging it?

My current set-up gives me 16 inputs. It seems to me I'll need more than one unit. The MOTU stuff is cool, I've been watching a load of them on Ebay, always seem to miss the good deals. I was thinking, there are lot of 8 or 16 channel interfaces which run on USB. Surely there are some which will work with more than one at a time? [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1400845404' post='2457450'] I take it you don't need pre-amps because you're going to be using the interface in conjunction with a desk that already has them? Which desk? [/quote] Yeh, I'm using a Mackie - 16:8 at the moment but hoping to get my 24 channel one serviced soon. Not sure on the model of them. I like the pre-amps though and have a bunch of other pre-amps I use when I need something more "delicate" The reason I like to use a desk is that it allows me to do 4 different headphone mixes off the auxilliaries with EQ and definitely no latency or interference from the computer side

I was hoping to get my 16 inputs for my £500, I think the 828 mk3 plus an ADAT unit would take me out of that range?

Sorry, all obvious questions I should have answered in the OP USB, FW, PCI would all be fine. I'd not heard of Thunderbolt before, I guess I could get a PCI Thunderbolt card so that'd be fine too Yes, 16 analogue inputs, I don't mind what connector they're on. It might be that you recommend I get X interface with ADAT and Y ADAT unit which would be fine too. I just need a total rig to give at least 16 analogue inputs and to be expandable Yeh I need 24bit

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1399246709' post='2442491'] not sure about the motu 8, but i have a tascam us1800 which i use pretty much daily. found it to be very useable and does exactly what it is supposed to, ive used it for home use, drum tracking and tracked a full band through it and it works great. would highly recommend it [/quote] yep, same here!

I find that most interfaces these days seem to come with built in pre-amps. I don't really need pre-amps. What I do need is as many inputs as possible, minimum 16, with the possibility to expand further. I have a Tascam US1800 at the moment and you can't have more than one plugged in at the same time, which is sh*te. Can you recommend me an interface under £500 to fit the bill? I would prefer to buy second hand if it can save me money

hah, OK, I've been to quite a few gigs where I'm expected to share my kit without any prior agreements and it gets quite annoying. I will be optimistic

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1400677874' post='2456005'] ...its a good job our drummer had his kit and I'd taken my bass gear!... [/quote] Oh dear, I was told I'd just need breakables. Sometimes being the drummer really sucks!!

We're on the main stage Saturday 1pm - Headsticks Not been before but I'm looking forward to it!

if you're running a bunch of digital pedals, check that your power supply can supply enough power for all of them! Add up the amps needed for each pedal, the supply should be able to do more than this

she's already taken the bass and flogged it. You've been duped!

sounds like the main problem is programming drums? I wouldn't worry too much about the actual samples, you can change them after, just get used to drawing in the patterns. On Cubase you get a big grid with a keyboard down the left. When you press a key, it activates a drum sample. You figure out which key is which drum, and draw in one measure of the beat. Then just copy paste that until it's long enough I normally come up with a beat, repeat it for 5 minutes, record bass along to it, then when I have a bassline I like, I'll cut it up using the snap tool so that it's always in time with the beat, and move it so that it repeats just 4 or 8 times for a verse. Then I would hopefully come up with another part to go with it. This will have the same tempo so I'll record it to the same beat, but then go back after and change the beat for this section of the song etc etc No idea if this is any help, I guess everyone does things differently

they're all the same aren't they? The best one I had was only a month ago. UPS promised to deliver from Brussels to Stoke by the Thursday. I tracked it on Thursday, it said it was at East Midlands depot. I called them, they said they didn't know when I'd have it, they'd get the depot to call. The Stoke depot called to say it was at East Midlands. No-one at UPS would put me through to East Midlands. I called their landline and held on for 20 minutes with it just ringing and ringing. On the Friday it still hadn't moved so I sent a guy to get it. The guy at the depot refused to release the package. One week later it had found its way to the Stoke depot. Then another week later it was back in Brussels. They sent me an invoice saying the address was wrong and I'd have to pay them for moving it to stoke and back. I wasn't even the sender!!

brilliant!