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OK.. so my home PC is pretty ancient, choc full of crap and slower than a slow thing... Now I'm not loaded but have recently been looking at going the refurbished Mac route - for my limited budget I can get either an older iMac or a G5 with 2Gb ram and loads of hard drive space. Now I need to get into some home recording..I've got so many bits n pieces knocking around on my hard drive and now i really am going to get motivated and finish some tracks off (honestly...no..but really.. i am!!) - I'm used to using Cubase SX on the PC.. I'm guessing that will run OK on these older Macs (my current PC only has 256 meg of DDR ram..) So.. questions... I'm take it any audio files I've recorded on PC will transfer across to Cubase on the Mac ok.. but I'm guessing the .cpr project files won't.....? Will I need some sort of USB/firewire interface? (My PC currently records OK with very, very minimal latency direct into the soundcard thanks to some decent ASIO drivers) VST instruments.. readily available for Mac? Battery/B4 etc.... Soundcards... I occasionally use some basic sounds off my PC soundcard (ancient Soundblaster) will I be able to do similar with Mac? I take it with the celebrated Mac efficiency it should be fairly painless to get up and running as one of the stumbling blocks I always seem to have is computer issues at the moment!! Drives me mad! Every time I feel creative I have to spend half the night getting things working properly first!! I have got an old iBook which admittedly I only use for a bit of text writing and web stuff but am reasonably familiar with my way round a Mac. I work from home at the moment too doing graphics etc so would imagine Mac being much better for that also.. (Will prob get one with 2 hard drives so can keep music and work stuff seperated.) Anyways..just rambling now!! Any thoughts, comments etc gratefully recieved!! peace c

new one on me.. [url="http://line6.com/lowdownhd750"]http://line6.com/lowdownhd750[/url] Line 6 bass amp modelling in a dedicated bass head (+ they do cabs etc) anyone tried one out? c

I got the bass secondhand from Bass NW in Seattle. It used to belong to Evan the owner of the shop but he's now endorsed by Mike Lull basses apparently. The colour is 'Inca Blue' and yeah it was a special order. (Its actually a bit darker blue in the flesh) cheers C

[quote name='silddx' post='759098' date='Feb 27 2010, 01:55 PM']I spend too much time talking about bass, buying and selling basses, reading about basses, looking at pictures of basses, watching bassists, etc., etc., and I need to scale that sh*t down and actually PLAY my basses. I think I have ability and musicality, but I'm not taking advantage of it,[/quote] Yeah I'm very guilty of the above too.... something I intend to change and getting my new bass this week has certainly helped insert a bit more enthusiasm! Regarding the bum notes etc at least you're aware that you did them and from the sound of it not likely to do them again so thats all good... maybe say as much to your band mates if you think it might be an issue so they know you're gonna pull your socks up for next time. Then rather than beat yourself up over it just get down to some practice! I agree also about putting on a bit of a show/performance too but for me thats never at the expense of the music. peace c

whole thing looks like quite an interesting DVD too... c

My new arrival..... bit of an expensive impulse buy and completely different to what I normally play.. but woah! what a truly excellent bass. peace C

yeah i'm a 'gearstalker' too.. and also I tend to judge a band on the quality/brand/level of gear they have before I've heard them play a note.... any one else guilty of this?! c'mon.. own up!! (my assumptions on said bands are normally correct though it must be said!!) peace c

[quote name='OldGit' post='755814' date='Feb 24 2010, 09:14 AM']Myspace is still the default as far as I can see. Generally "interested people" will know what Myspace is and how to use it (a task in itself!) as so many bands and musicians are already there. As well as the image, tune and video capabilities it also has plenty of link up potential. It's a case of customising it well and using it's full potential. Then use all the other social media "Facebook" and "musicians available" sites to direct people there. I'd also add Gumtree to that list.[/quote] Yeah I think I'll just have to persevere with myspace.. as you say it has all the facilities for audio,video, photos etc its just trying to find good, clean layouts is a pain (especially with my limited knowledge of coding!) Then once I've got enough reasonable examples of my playing etc on there i'll hit all the usual muso wanted sites. peace c

OK so I'm looking to get into some new projects and really want to get a reasonable 'online presence' / CV to point interested people to. Usual kinda thing.. some kind of audio player, couple of embedded videos of me playing, some photos, 'about me' page, links etc etc - I started knocking up a website but then thought, well hang on, I can do all that on MySpace but I don't know... looking at MySpace afresh it seems to be even more of a jumbled up mess of adverts and glittery graphics than ever and I just want something nice and simple. So... any suggestions? Don't really want to do a Facebook or Twitter thing (although I will prob link to them.) I thought maybe ReverbNation or something might do the job? they don't seem to be accepting new profiles at the moment though so any other similar kinda sites where you can put up a good 'musician profile'...? (ideally free BTW!) cheers c

remember this happening at the time... the video is pretty scary - does make you wonder about some of the dives/clubs/venues we have to play in sometimes peace c

nice one.. will check them out properly later c

yeah it is amusing how the ones who do all the slagging off never have any videos of their own. another thing that amused me recently was a load of people slagging of Nine Inch Nails for ruining 'the Johnny Cash song' - and being completely in denial when told that actually Nine Inch Nails wrote 'Hurt' it in the first place... and a similar one about Snow Patrol ruining that Leona Lewis song 'Run'!!! er...two seconds on google will tell you that it was a Snow Patrol song originally!! aaaargh!! idiots!! everywhere!! peace c

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='738683' date='Feb 8 2010, 08:18 AM']where's the book Pete?[/quote] haha just watched it on youtube (well some of it..got bored halfway through!!)... looked like they were playing on a spaceship!! admittedly never a big fan anyway but have to say that IMHO the best thing about that clip was the cymbals!! peace c

akai unibass pedal could be handy... plays distorted/harmonized line over the top of what you're playing and can be outputted to seperate guitar amp too for extra(better) eg etc clip of one in action: peace c

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='730826' date='Jan 31 2010, 05:31 PM']Those wear patterns look really odd.[/quote] agreed... the bit that stood out to me was how worn the neck joint/heel is... the bottom of the heel is seriously chipped worn and thats not a place that naturally would pick up alot of dings. aside from that (and the new frets) it does look pretty tasty though! incidently, my reliced jazz has uber rusty pickups and they work fine and dandy!! peace c

[quote name='Sue' post='730185' date='Jan 30 2010, 11:27 PM']....I try to change the state of feeling nervous, to one of feeling excited - the two emotions actually feel quite similar, but one is empowering, the other not.[/quote] yeah good call - thats something i need to apply to many things not just gigging!! peace c

go for it! I've been gigging for over 25 years and still get nervous (in fact more so now,than in the past!!) - the best thing is to try to relax as much as you can and if you get a memory blank during a song and think you can't remember the next part, then just switch your brain off and let your fingers do the work . 9 times out of 10 they'll find the right notes!! the other thing (especially as you're only playing a few songs) is that it will be over almost before its begun - the time will fly and then it'll be the end and you won't want to get off! good luck! c

i've got one (Mexican).... Mines passive though. Bought from new a few years back. pretty much does what it says on the tin! As well as the Jazz pickup it also has a jazz width neck. Routing round the Jazz pickup is terrible it has to be said (though only below the pickup so you can't really see it - guess thats just coz its mexican) and for some reason with both pickups on full power it loses some volume so you have to back the jazz pickup off a little to increase the volume again! slightly odd! I put a Gotoh bridge on mine and the p-pickup has now been replaced with a Dimarzio Will Power . [attachment=41236:precisionspecial.jpg] peace c

+1 for rush!! how about something by The Police? a three piece and good pub rock fodder. or... you could get one of those Akai Unibass pedals or similar that can double up/harmonize a guitar part along with your bass..handy for when guitarist goes for solos etc..... peace c

thought this was pretty good ... peace c

no, not seen those before either..... me likee! peace c