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I used to use a light blue Boss CE-2 when I had my board. Set pretty fast to give that great DnB bass vibrato. It's now sat in a drawer beside my old dirt pedal.

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1453247120' post='2957904'] I've got one in the works for this month too. I've been playing with my new Komplete Kontrol S61 and Komplete 10. I need to mix it and tweak one of the instruments and it should be ready. [/quote] No pressure, but listening to your track is gonna help me decide if I go for the S61 or go for the Nektar P6. The S61 has the great software, but the P6 has more sliders & pads & has better control of Logic (& I could buy Massive separately).

I'm gonna make sure I vote this month. I just didn't get time to listen to all the songs last month. But what I did hear was rather good.

Cheers I was tempted to add more to it & maybe even vocals, but the Mrs really likes it as it is (in a less is more kinda way), so no further additions planned.

Got mine uploaded. https://soundcloud.com/gxmix/butterflies-in-the-rain-gx Good to be able to get a good recording of my bass & I enjoyed playing the keys too. I'll be playing as much as I can in future.

I often found the VLE at just above 9 o'clock & the VPF turned off. The rest was set flat & then adjusted to the room.

I agree with those above, but if you know what synth you're trying to replicate, then you'll find plenty of VST versions of most hardware synths. Open a simple synth in Logic (maybe the ES2 or the Retrosynth) & have just the one oscillator open. Put the resonance right down & the cutoff right up, put the sustain up full on all parts & play about with the waveforms. You'll find that the waveforms usually go from Sine to Triangle to Saw & then Square (often followed by Pulse). Now reduce the cutoff & increase the resonance & have a play about with the ADSR for the filter. Spend a little time with the one synth & find out how it works. With the more complex ones like Alchemy, it becomes a bit more tricky though.

I think most USB mixers can put out on multiple tracks, but there are some that don't. Same goes for multi in audio interfaces. I went for the KA6 because it has lots of connections compared to most in the same price bracket. Had I went 2nd hand, then I dare say there would have been a good few others to consider. I'll try & get the bass recorded on Sunday. Off to bed shortly & got a day away tomorrow.

Having it in a shop means that people can try it out before they buy. Downside is window lickers going in & playing your bass with no intention of buying it & you not being able to see if they're taking care of it. Most music shops up this way sell gear for individuals.

[quote name='stevebasshead' timestamp='1452802734' post='2953705'] Cheers xgsjx, could be a contender. Do you know if all 4 inputs can be used simultaneously with each being recorded on its own track in the DAW? And if inputs 3&4 which the manual says are balanced (so TRS cable?) would be ok with an instrument plugged in with a mono cable? [/quote] You can record all 4 ins at once as 4 separate tracks in you DAW. I'll check how it sounds with my bass plugged into input 3 & post comparisons for you. From what I read, you can use a mono or stereo jack in each input (just like the front ins).

Good to see a good few entries already. I've got mine almost complete. I had started doing something more rock based, but the more I looked at the pics, the less what I was dong related to it. So I started again, plugged in the keyboard & played some lekky piano, laid some beats down (playing the piano keys) & then plugged in my bass & played. Pretty laid back & the Mrs likes it too. I'll get it finished next week.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1452810383' post='2953807'] Get it delivered to work! [/quote] I often do this & we even have an Amazon locker at work (very handy). The last attempted delivery to my house by parcel farce resulted in the online tracking saying "we attempted delivery", despite me being in all day. I phoned the seller, told them the courier had lost it & to send another via a different courier, which they did. Despite living here for just over 9 years, parcel farce have yet to make a successful delivery!

Have a look at the NI Komplete Audio 6 & see if it'll fit your needs. It's got 4 audio ins, midi in & out & SPDIF in & out. Solid bit of kit & great sound quality. It's £169 (though you might find a better deal if you wait until after NAMM), that would leave you at least £30 to spend on a small headphone splitter (so you can use 4 sets of headphones). I got myself one for Xmas & I'm well impressed.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1452781616' post='2953444'] Seriously? Mesa, Barefaced, Bergs? I'm sorry, in my experience there's so much misinformation, cynical and otherwise on the internet that I'd need it to be proved the cabs [i]didn't [/i]work together rather than the other way around. [/quote] Mr Barefaced is on here & puts a lot of information on his website and he's on here regularly to discuss what does & doesn't work. I've even seen on here many potential & existing customers talking about having email conversations with Alex. As for Mr Boogie & Mr Tino, I don't know if either of them have been on here or not, but I've not seen any advice on here about which cabs are suited together. I don't think it's so much a case of whether it works, but how unpredictable the sound is going to be.

You can get some good sounds mixing speaker cabs, but like Phil said, it's pot luck. That can be from venue to venue as well as sound waves are affected differently by the surroundings.

I'm wanting the extra controls. Just now I'm using an old Yamaha 61 key home keyboard that has no velocity & no other midi controls whatsoever (not even a pitch bend). I've considered if I could use a smaller keyboard & I probably could, but I really like playing with 2 hands on the keys, sometimes with a split. So a 61 key is really ideal (though I'm not ruling out a 49 key) & I do want controls for fiddling with synth sounds. The other thing that's really tempting is to hold off & get a Seaboard Rise. It's only a 2 octave bed, but after having a go on one last month, it's very tempting to save & get one. If I go for the Nektar LX49/61, I could afford an Xbox One as well. Oh the choices. I might just buy a bike.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1452604856' post='2951495'] So if you don't work for a living and did a £150 wedding gig with a Sue Ryder P bass and a Di box you would be a pro! [/quote] If it was their only source of income & had regular bookings, then that's probably a yes. Simple definition of "Pro" is it is your profession. A job that you can do well enough to earn a living from it. Me & my wife can make rather excellent cakes, but we're not pros. The cake shop down the town that churns out poorly finished cakes on the other hand, is a pro. Being a professional doesn't always mean "good"!

The Advanced 61 is a bit out of my price range (so is the 49). I did look at it & it's verrrry nice.

I've got a little money to spend on myself & I'd like to get a midi controller keyboard for use at home with Logic. So I figured I'd ask your advice. There's a few different ones that I've been looking at... First is the Nectar Panorama P6. Apparently it has a great depth of control with Logic, allowing you to control all the different parameters of the instruments that come with LPX without needing any host VST to do so, whereas I believe all others need a wrapper. It has a good amount of controls & is a rather nice looking piece of kit. But... It doesn't come with any bundled software instruments like most other controllers do. Next is the NI S61. This is a lovely looking piece of kit too, but I can't find anything about how well it plays with LPX. I think you have to load a VST wrapper onto every midi track you want to use it on, which slightly puts me off. It's about £50 more than the P6, but it does come with a suite of synths (Complete Select) which includes Massive. So it's very tempting too. There's the Arturia Keylab 61. This is the cheapest of the keyboards that I've been looking at & was originally my first choice as it comes with a nice suite of synths, but I've read that the build quality isn't the best, with some users experiencing keys breaking. Then there's the Novation SL mkII 61. This looks like a beast of a unit too. Lots of controls & looks like it works really well with LPX. It comes with a VST of Bassstation, which might come in handy too. There's the cheaper Impulse 61 too. Any advice for any of these or any suggestions what else to look at would be welcome. Or... Should I just go for one of the cheaper controllers such as the NEKTAR LX61 & spend the £200 odd difference on something else? The Mrs would rather I spend the money on an Xbox One, which is tempting too!

[quote name='Musashimonkey' timestamp='1452430655' post='2949825'] Not looking to derail, hope you don't mind these questions; Is the bass room soft tube plug in worth the money? Are there more bass effects and cab sims available when upgrading from garage band to Logic? Does that make it worth the upgrade? [/quote] No idea about the plug in that you're talking about, but the upgrade from GB to LPX opens up 2 hugely customisable amp sims (one for bass & one for guitar) & also a customisable virtual pedalboard. It also opens up a huge amount of depth & editing to all the effects, instruments & the virtual drummer. The bass rig sim has 3 types of head (4 if you count the DI). A vintage style one, a modern amp & a droptop. It also has multiple styles of cab & driver combinations that can be mic'd with 3 different types of mic. The pedalboard is pretty cool too. If you're comfortable with Garageband, then Logic is worth every penny. It's like moving from painting by numbers with a handful of colours, to having a n artists paintshop at your disposal.

I'm watching this thread with interest. I got LPX a couple of months back & just recently got a Komplete Audio 6 interface which comes with some software which includes a version of Guitar Rig. But for bass, I'm liking Logic's own suite of FX & the bass amp designer is pretty good.

Guitar Toolkit is a brilliant app. I have the polytune app, which is really good, but I find I use the one in GT (they're both equally as good. The advantage of Guitar Toolkit is it has a whole host of helpful things, such as metronome, scales & chord finder & you can choose which instrument you're using (bass, 5 string, banjo, 6,7 or 8 string guitar, uke, etc). Well worth the £6.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1452278424' post='2948514'] Totally agree, I was only pulling your chain I've no doubt that my B15 is in many respects an expensive placebo, but it's one I'm very happy to live with. I love the ritual of taking the cover off, unclipping the lid and flipping it open, plugging it in and checking everything's where it should be, watching the tubes light up and waiting for it to warm. To me it's the same as playing an old LP compared to hitting an icon on your iPhone screen; there's genuine pleasure to be found in the ritual, irrespective of what the objective truth might be. That subjective pleasure adds to the experience, and music, both playing and listening, is all about the experience [/quote] I'm sure you use it for more than just recording. I fully get what you mean about playing an old LP. I've been harking on to the Mrs that we need to get a turntable, amp & speakers to replace the iPad & docking station. We'll appreciate the music a lot more. I'd love something like a B-15, but I couldn't justify it as I play through my mac & into headphones at home & the band I'm in are lucky to have a jam once a month. I sold my MB combo because it wasn't getting used.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1452267410' post='2948297'] Yep, but I bet they're using a B-15 or similar to record [/quote] & they probably have the money to use whatever they fancy. But how much of that B-15 sound is gonna stay unprocessed? On a budget, you can get a decent set of monitors and a good Amp sim & have change left over from what a B-15 (or just about any decent amp/combo) would cost.

If it's solely for recording, I don't see the point of a separate rig when it's going to get some EQ, compression & other treatment. There are some excellent VST amp simulators which cost a fraction of the rig that they emulate & they do more than just the one set up. I'm seriously considering using VSTs on a macbook for playing live. There's pro gigging musicians that already do this (Pino uses an iPad).