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[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).

VST & a good set of monitors.

[quote name='kevvo66' timestamp='1452128479' post='2946896'] Just plugged in my big muff earlier and dug out my multi fx pedal that going up for sale its OK just not for me , just pedal to go with the muff now and I agree with blue no time when I'm in live setting for messing around with fx pedal board [/quote] Any 1/2 decent multi unit will let you program presets. If you have a set list of 12 songs, you can make 12 presets & it's a click of one button (that's a lot of messing about between songs ). What sort of sound do you want?

I'd practice more with finger style & just use fingers in the song. Or you could slap the bassline

Like is said above, The Zoom, Line 6 & Roland pedals are sturdy enough for on the road.

Do you know what sort of sound you're wanting to achieve? I could recommend some brilliant pedals, but if you're not playing electronica inspired bass & don't want to spend a good few £000, then they won't suit you. If you're not sure on what sound you're after or what effects you want, get a multi fx pedal (or two). That way you can get to know which fx do what & find out what effects you're actually going to use. Then if you want, you can get standalone pedals.

I was looking at getting an audio interface that I could use on my iPad & was really tempted by the Presonus iTwo (they do an iOne as well). Both recently came down in price considerably. These are audio interfaces that can be used straight to your iPad. If you have the camera kit for your iPad, there's a few decent audio interfaces that can utilise that as well from Roland & Steinberg. I ended up going for the NI Komplete Audio 6, which can't be used with the iPad, but it was the extra inputs that won me over.

Sounds like you need to get 3 TRS cables. One to come from the "Env Out" on the LPF & one each to come from the Freqbox's "Env Out" & "Osc Out". Then start experimenting. One of the Freqbox outs to the LPF's cutoff would be a good place to start. To enlighten you, read up on CV (Control Voltage). MF's are 5v +/-, so if you plan on using something 3rd party, make sure you don't put too many volts through your moogs.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1451749939' post='2943094'] Ampeg fridge and a new weightlifting hobby? [/quote] X2.

My method for learning is to break a song down into it's parts (intro, verse, chorus, etc) & learn each part. I take note of anything that indicates when a change may be (a good example being Use Me by Bill Withers, the vocal goes "Ayeyaiyaa" & that's my cue to stop playing). At church I used an A4 sheet of paper for each song with just the chords written on it. This would be written in a format like it is in a home use music book, so I didn't write multiple choruses & verses, just "coda" etc. It would have a couple of lyrics written on sections just for my reference.

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I'd go & try out all the cabs. The difference in DB between a 4x10 & a 2x12 is very little. The 2x12 has 3 advantages though: slightly smaller cab (though slightly taller), slightly lighter & far better dispersion. But then it's down to which one you like the sound of best. If the cab of choice has 4 & 8 ohm versions, have a listen to both. Just because you want a one cab solution doesn't mean that you need 4 ohm to get all the power, there's little in the way of extra DB.