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It has some different outputs... if you look at the site, the XT Pro has SP/dif (or something) ins and outs and a couple of other things. In terms of the sound and software they are identical.

Yeah it is expensive - initially I was just using the headphone output with the foam tips on my headphones so I could hear myself perfectly but the sound of the band filtered through, too. It was very cheap and worked really well in some venues.

[quote name='BOD2' post='559996' date='Aug 4 2009, 10:33 AM']A) If you are plugging direct into the PA you don't need a power amp at all - just plug the Pod into to the PA directly for the front of house sound. What you might need, though, is some type of "monitor" system so that you can hear yourself playing - either a feed back from the PA mixer to a monitor or a separate feed from the Pod into a small amp/cab or monitor.[/quote] I gigged a few times like this and for my personal monitoring just used my Shure in ears from the headphone jack. Sounded great and worked a treat. Still do it now and again, and always in the studio.

Think there is still that green 4 string at the gallery

The 400+ is really a cut above the more recent additions to the Mesa stable (except one or two models) IMO. It has been used by all kinds - Mark King, Les Claypool, Flea to name a few popular folks who have moved on to other amplifiers partly to bolster sales of new models for their endorsers (possibly!) Lovely amplifier, bit heavy for me now though.

[quote name='OldGit' post='559789' date='Aug 3 2009, 11:06 PM']Cheapskate PA system that vocalist has there [/quote] Naah it's the landlady calling last orders!

01. Silverfoxnik: Roscoe Beck V, Wal Pro2e, BC Rich Eagle, Fender Jazz V Deluxe, plus my recently acquired Eden Metro Rig 02. Merton: Status Retroactive, Mikey's Singlecut Fanned-Fret Prototype, LH500 and Barefaced Vintage 03. OBBM: StRay5, MB F1, UL212, something else. 04. Hamster: BFM Omni15 tallboy, Barefaced Compact, Fender P with Thumper & Villex PTB 05. Alex Claber: '87 Warwick Streamer, RIM Custom 5 with 36" scale and Q-Tuners, Avalon U5/QSC PLX3002, GB Shuttle 6.0, Barefaced Compact, Big One, Midget, Midget T, maybe Big Baby. 06. Johnnylager: Spector Euro 4LX, KSD Jazz, LH-1000, Barefaced Big Juan, DHA Custom Shop VT2-Twin-EQ-Bass with Tech Tube valves & whatever other effects I have at the time. 07. Happy Jack: Lightwave Sabre VL, Hofner 500/1 (1964), Hofner 500/5 (1959), PJB Bass Buddy + headphones. 08. MacDaddy. Custom Shuker (hopefully!) and possibly Hamer Blitz or Iceni Zoot. 09. Stingrayfan: G&L Tribute L2000, Yamaha BB614, Hartke LH500, Warwick 4x10 10. Chris B 11. Cetera: Pre-Kramer Spector NS-2, Wal Mk1 Fretless, Fender/AllParts 70's Jazz, Tech21 Landmark600, GenzBenzNEOX212T 12. Andyonbass. ACG Recurve, ACG J-Type, Pair of BFM Omni 10.5's 13. Waynepunkdude Fender Jazz, SX P Bass, DHA-DI-EQ & Ampeg SVT 5 Pro 14. Jakesbass Alembic MK5 Deluxe, German Blockless Wonder 1880 Double Bass (and the '78 Jazz if anyone wanted a go) 15. 51m0n (& Plux if he's not gigging): Bergantino AE410, MarkBass sa450, Focusrite Compounder, Roscoe Century Std V, (If Plux isnt gigging) Berg HT210, HT115, Hartke LH500 16. Floyd Pepper - Markbass LMK, Bergantino HT112 & EX112, Stingray '91 2eq, Lakland DJ4, Stagg EDB, Epiphone Jack Casady and a Fender '54 RI Precision 17. davidmpires - Markbass F1, Barefaced Compact, Spector Euro LX 5, T-Bass by Status 18. molan - MTD 535, Spector NS5XL, Zon VB4, Alembic Rogue, Traben Bootsy Signature (!!!), Epifani UL502 & some Berg AE1x12's + who knows what else I may have by then 19. Platypus - Alleva Coppolo Jazz 5, Celinder Jazz 4 fretless, Tecamp Puma 1000 + a cab of some sort. 20. Prosebass - Current Builds at the time, Hofner S7B, Laptop , sequencing software , + amp and cab 21. Monz - Stingray 5 (la bella flats) Matamp GT200, Simms-Watt PA 100, Matamp 8x10 + Whatever else I have bought buy then 22. Alien - Schecter Stiletto 4, Peavey Grind 6, Hartke HA7000, Alien Audio 2x10 + other toys. 23. EssentialTension: Lakland Skyline Decade, Fender Tony Franklin Fretless Precision (and who knows what else) 24. silddx - Warwick Corvette $$ 4, Warwick Corvette Standard Ash active fretless 4, POD X3 Live, (I am praying I won't have it by then, but I will bring the Kopo Lina fretless 4 if I do!) 25. Phil_the_bassist: MMSR5 w/JE preamp, Sandberg Cali JM, Steinberger synapse5 w/ extra pup, various fuzz pedals and envelope filters, whatever amp I happen to own by then. 26. Stingray5 - My StingRay5, StingRay fretless and Tune TWB-6 plus any other basses in my signature pic if people let me know. I also have an Aria AMB-50B acoustic bass if anyone fancies a go? Could also bring my GT6-B. Plus ('cos it's small) a BLX-80 combo. And some cans...? 27. Urb - 1 x Sei 5 String Single Cut - 1 x Sei 4 string Jazz bass - EBS and Boss pedals 28. dave.c - Spector Rebop 4DLX EX, Spector NS2000-4, Gibson SGZ,Hartke LH500, Hartke Hydrive 410 29. WalMan - Wal Pro1/Custom conversion, G&L L2500 US, MarkBass CMD121H, Epifani 1x12 (not the neo one but I can't remember the initials just at the mo), Bass Pod xT Pro, Marshall SuperBass 100 head 30. Bottle - Ibanez ATK-305NT, Gallien-Krueger MB2-500, EBS Pro-line 4x10 31. Nancy Johnson (Paul) - Waterstone TP-12 Tom Petersson 12-String bass. Tech 21 Landmark 300/Ashdown MAG 4x10/Ashdown MAG 1x15 32. Beedster: Fender, Fender, Fender, Fender, Fender, Fender..and Markbass! 33. Moos3h 34. pete.young: Burman Pro 4000 and a Dean Bromberg B2, which has an unusual Piezo bridge pickup 35. coasterbass: Mesa 1x15 RR, Mesa 4x10, Ampeg SVP and Eden WP100 preamps 36. sixshooter: 55P bass Sonic Blue Relic, 59P bass original Sunburst, 59P bass Custom Shop relic Mary Kaye, 79P bass original but upgraded Black, Modulus 6 Oteil Burbridger 37. Jean Luc Pickguard: couple of Ashborys, an NS-design CR5M & danelectro longhorn 38. Deaver: El Maya or the Prosebass Humbucker Fretless 39. Jack London: GK1001RBII and Simnett 40. ped - Vigier S2 fretted/S3 fretless, Roland Vbass, SWR 4x8/1x15, noname 1u poweramp if it doesn't explode beforehand, phone, keys, wallet

Interesting, thanks - another graphite pioneer in the mix!

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I found that each bass ended up sounding best with very different settings (as it looks like you are, too) On the whole, I didn't use the cab modelling other than for special sounds. My main setup was: Vigier 4 fretted - 'adam and eve' head with a touch of EQ, reverb, compression (loved the compressor in the XT) Vigier 4 fretless - 'SM500 head and EA 1x12 cab, reverb, chorus (switchable) and eq, comp Vigier 5 fretted - 'Eighties' head, reverb, compression ...And a couple of 'specials' - stink synth being a fave which had all sorts going on. Through my amplifier at the time (Trace V4) I bypasses all modelling but used a touch of compression and reverb. I really loved my XT pro and even though the route to finding the right tones was long and fiddly, when i had then dialled, it was a great plug and play unit, it worked in the studio, live and at home, and my basses sounded like themselves without any messing about. Now I use the Roland Vbass which is arguably harder to use but I still have the same sound through everything as I did with the pod. I guess I wanted the most 'honest' sound for each bass and mainly used it as an audio interface and compressor. Here are my settings if you want to mess about with them: [url="http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/line6%20patches/Stink%20synth.l6t"]http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/li...ink%20synth.l6t[/url] [url="http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/line6%20patches/Stink%20wop.l6t"]http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/li...Stink%20wop.l6t[/url] [url="http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/line6%20patches/SVT%20grit.l6t"]http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/li.../SVT%20grit.l6t[/url] [url="http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/line6%20patches/Vigier%20Studio%204.l6t"]http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/li...0Studio%204.l6t[/url] [url="http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/line6%20patches/Vigier%20Studio%20FL.l6t"]http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/li...Studio%20FL.l6t[/url] Cheers ped P.s some samples of the sounds being used (just to show how bass specific they are - they will probably sound totally different on your bass) [url="http://www.freewebs.com/mrped/facethemusic.htm"]http://www.freewebs.com/mrped/facethemusic.htm[/url] (Torrential - fretless setting) (2001 - stink synth) [url="http://www.freewebs.com/mrped/apps/videos/videos/view/939477-vigier-guitars-demo"]http://www.freewebs.com/mrped/apps/videos/...er-guitars-demo[/url] (Vigier fretted 4 setting, fretless setting and 5 string setting)

Dudes Just tried to use my audio interface and do on all at once to make a video. Couple of issues - the sound spikes a couple of times and the drums are really loud and the loop is rubbish as you will hear. I THINK I have the problems worked out now - my brother is going to record some actual drum grooves so I can demonstrate my Vbass a bit and I now know how to adjust the levels of everything in Cubase (worked it out as soon as I had packed everything away, of course) Here is the shabby attempt - guess the quality etc is OK.. had the sound and the visuals synced up perfectly but after uploading to youtube I think it is very slightly out. Cheers ped

[quote name='karlbbb' post='555171' date='Jul 29 2009, 03:01 PM']Looking through the Vintage range, I have infact decided that my next bass will be the Vintage AV4+1: [/quote] That looks gorgeous... rarely do I see a take on the Jazz shape which 'works'. Tasty.

Welcome back mate. One word of caution - sometimes you get REALLY used to the sound of your bass, and playing something else instantly sounds better (though may not feel as nice) because it sounds new and interesting. Give it a month or so and go back to the Warwick with fresh ears, and it will sound new again, and take you by surprise. I have made the mistake of selling basses which I have listened back to on recordings and thought ''aww that sounds lovely!'' Cheers ped

Cheers Mark - please pop back and let us know what you are up to, bas or otherwise ;0) All the best ped

FWIW lots of audio interfaces come with a decent recording programme. I recently got a Tascam one and it came with Cubase 4.

Good tune - it feels a bit 'rushed' in terms of tempo, would like to hear it kicked back a tad. Nicely sums up my feelings about my ex though, so well done. Great effort, keep it coming. ped

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='555122' date='Jul 29 2009, 02:32 PM']I'm almost 100% certain that used to be mine before it was stolen from me in 1987! For nothing more than sentimentalty's sake, I'm going to contact Paul at Wal to see if he can check in the book for me.. I bought in 1983 from a long-since defunct music shop in Barnet, London and it was my first ever Wal.. Did a few tours with it and then it was stolen from a rehearsal studio called Prime Time in London Bridge where we were based.. Turned out the guy who did the break in was Dexy's Midnight Runner's drummer and though he was nicked, we never got any of our gear back!![/quote] I think we should have a whip around and buy it back for you :0)

Just say +3 Crook

Crook

I'm on the chatroom now!! They are a lovely bunch :0)

Just followed the link on the vid to [url="http://www.vinylmorpher.co.uk/"]http://www.vinylmorpher.co.uk/[/url] - looks like a cool digital jazz funk/disco station, check it out... ped

Quite a boxy sound isn't it - wonder what was used to record it.