itsmedunc

Nice one chaps. I couldn't see why it wouldn't work. After looking through numerous FRFR threads on different sites, nobody has really mentioned using it. It may have been mentioned in the FRFR thread here but it's enormous! It seems a good (and costless) way around DI's and mic's which i have seen mentioned quite a lot. 😀

Aye, I've got the software and only have it set on 10. They just seem to come on with a bump unless everything else is turned on with levels down first.

Sorry I was a bit vague. Bass to Ampeg SCR. 2 lines out of SCR, one straight to small mixer, one to effects then to small mixer. It then goes from the small mixer to an Rcf or BF that I use as a monitor. Now, for both signals to go to front of house I've been using the DI out of the SCR for straight bass and a line from the effects. It works perfectly well but was wondering if, the signal that comes from the RCF link output is at line level? If it was suitable, this would have both signals combined and so only one FOH channel would be used. Or, I could effectively use the link as a sort of DI? No need for a conventional DI or to mic an FRFR setup perhaps? Thanks for the replies chaps 😁

Just wondering if the cab link out on a BF800 or RCF 745 etc could be used as a DI? I've been using the DI out from an Ampeg SCR-DI to the PA for a straight bass sound but also use a mixer to blend a separate signal for effects, which when combined uses 2 channels on the desk. Is there any reason I couldn't use the RCF etc, link facility as a line level signal to the PA? Hence, only using one channel to the FOH desk? Hope this makes sense!

I've been using an Ampeg scr-di through a Barefaced FR800 to great effect. All I've found that is necessary, is to make sure the Ampeg is switched on with the level down before powering up the BF. The BF has no volume control and so is on full whack all the time. Same applies when using the Behringer BD or any preamp really, Phenomenal with an RCF 745 too!

Maybe we are all getting older and so becoming miserable bastards 😂 Speak for yourselves but I know I am!

Don't stress too much about it, that will only hinder your learning. Learn what you can in the time you have got, what you can't improvise! Many originals bands do just that live onstage. I've found that listening to a track (whilst not playing along) is good for me, I actually listen to it and get a feel, rather than wonder where my fingers etc are going next. Takes some effort 'not' to pick the bass up though! Good Luck.

Quite right in what you say. My Macbook is a similar spec (need the 16gb upgrade soon though) and it's great. I often wonder how long an older Mac without support would last most of us for Logic, if we used it to it's full potential? I'm no pro and using Logic 10.4. I couldn't operate Logic 8 to it's potential before I moved to 9 etc etc. If I thought of my Macbook as a tool to use Logic for a specific task, mostly, I think I could probably get away with a 2009 unibody, core 2 duo with 4 gig ram. Most recording I do is basic and lets face it, many a good old tune was knocked up on an old Atari! I suppose it all depends on how intensive the machine is to be used.

Bear in mind that newer Mac's aren't hardware upgradeable (not sure if that is 100% true for the whole range but suspect it is). You would need to be sure that what you can afford will do exactly what you want it to do as, there's little scope to add later. I'm not really one for buying Mac's new and so I'd look for the last model in your chosen format that is still upgradeable. I've had an iMac and a mini and now running a Macbook Pro. All are great machines but moved to Macbook for the portability. The more ram the merrier really. Logic is a great piece of kit as is Mainstage. 2 screens is a good idea too.

Don't go buying anything tonight then! 😂

I wonder how much he pays to hire?

How many cymbals does a drummer need? Hats, crash and a ride, that's the job done. Use basic tools until you feel you can afford, justify or even need more. Decent cymbals can be bought quite cheaply now and even economy brands are certainly better than they were in the past or at least better than no cymbals at all. He has to hire cymbals in? What's all that about? I've never heard of such goings on. This would not happen in any Northern town. Sounds like a load of old bollox to me. He may have delusions of grandeur! They usually have. 🥁 Maybe the singer is delusional about being a singer too if he can't remember his own lyrics after that length of time. That would be about 8 months since you started the project? If he can't remember them by now, he is either not cut out to be a singer, the songs could be too long and/or full of pretentious philosophical nonsense that no-one but he can understand anyway or, he is a goldfish. Seriously though, it sounds like they are scared to me. Well, maybe the drummers doing a drummer thing and trying not to let the girlfriend know that he needs to actually buy something for a change! 😂 Good advice in above posts though. Book a gig, get a target and you will hopefully find that the rest will get themselves together. If they don't, you have the answer to your OP.

From what I've heard of myself recorded, it sounds like me playing. I can recognise it but not everyone can. Basses do sound different but lots and lots of folk cannot tell the difference. Even if they did, they probably wouldn't care. Playing a decent bass and gear is always going to put you 1-0 up at kick-off in terms of how well you can play on the night but I don't really think that those who don't play (and some who do play) bass in the audience can tell the difference at all. 3 of my ex girlfriends would not have known what a bass sounded like had they not met me. To this day one of them still isn't sure! I still meet folk and when they hear that I play bass they say, "which one is that?". Then comes all the inevitable having to explain to someone (who is usually a tedious idiot) what a bass sounds like. "It's the one with 4 strings that sounds low and deep mate" (I've got it down to a fine art now). "Oh right, deep? ummm" is the usual reply 😂 And that's a great cue to scarper! Sound is subjective and if it wasn't there would be very little choice in anything! I'm sure we buy gear that we personally like, unless we are playing in an established originals band that needs a particular "sound" or in a covers band etc that tries to be sonically accurate. I've tried Behringer to Boogie and anyone can get a decent sound out of just about anything (within reason) these says. I once opted for a Behringer combo over a Boogie valve stack in a rehearsal studio as the Behringer literally p*ssed all over the Mesa. Yes I was surprised too! If I reflect on how many basses, amps, cabs and comb's I've owned over the years, then the only sensible conclusion I can make is - all bass gear is adequate and I'm looking for something that does not exist!

"Built by a guy in his shed"? Should say, "Sold by a guy without a shred of guilt". Tis horrendous methinks...