bigevilman

Hey guys Last couple of gigs I've had excess crackles and noise from my amp, so its time for a replacement pre-amp tube me thinks. As I've never replaced a tube, or have any idea of the sound differences, have you guys got any recommendations? The manual says to use either a 7025 or a 12ax7, but again, whats the differences? Cheers Joe

Hey guys I'm looking to get a replacement cab for my two nemesis cabs. They're nice sounding cabs, but I'm having to compete with my guitarist and heavy-handed drummer to cut through the mix. I can pump my WT800 up with it, but it doesn't leave me with a lot of headroom. It came to a head last night when I played in Leeds. Managed to play both sets with no trouble, but by the time it came to the encore, the amp just cut out. I'm presuming (from what I've read), the amp kicked into safety mode to stop itself from frying, and cut out (to be fair, I did have the amp gain on about 7, and the volume about 8 for about nearly 2 1/2 hours of constant beating!). After trying to locate the problem, I ended up watching my band mates finish playing our rendition of Santana's Black Magic Woman with a nice pint of ale in my hand! I've now decided, although the rest of the band like the lightweight-ness of my new cabs, I decided to say b******s to that, and go back to a nice big cab . Luckily, I've made that decision just before a mate of mine goes and picks up his GT200 head next week from the matamp factory (what a bit of luck!). I've decided I'll tag along, and hopefully will end up trying out as many cabs as possible, and asking for some well needed knowledge! But I though I'd ask the lovely folk at basschat their opinions on what I should get. Basically, I don't wanna go back to a 810, as it was a massive cab for what we did, and TBF....was overkill! I want to have a cab that at least matches the guitarists 412 in size, but cuts through. Do any of you have experience with 4x12's? And how do they compare to 6x10's? Also, does running it in stereo make any difference to running it in mono? I've read about 6x12's running in stereo (3x12 a side) Joe

Got cables from Dave a couple of weeks ago, only managed to test them last weekend at our farewell gig for our drummer. What can I say? Bloody amazing is what I can say The difference in audio quality is immense, I didn't realise cables made that much difference! Dave was extremely helpful, and postage was very quick. Will more than likely order more cables from him within the future...

[quote name='51m0n' post='792353' date='Mar 31 2010, 07:48 PM']I'd try and avoid putting any effects on to what is going to tape. Its far too far away from the controlled environment you need to be in to work out of you are putting the right amount on for a start. Secondly once the afterglow of the gig has worn off you may discover you need to do a couple of overdubs to sort out some howlers. All made way harder if tere are effects all over the shop....[/quote] Aye, thats why u'd use pre-fader, so the DI-out would be untouched by the fx loop

A mate of mine uses a Soundcraft Spirit FX16 desk when he records. It has 16 input channels all with nice pre-amps which have direct out ports at the back. You can select pre/post fader so it would be perfect for recording as it would be a untouched source file. All you need then is an audio interface to record it on (with 16 inputs if you're using all of them) and you're good to go. Obviously with this, you'd have to mic everything up, regardless of whether its going to FOH, but was to be expected anyways? P.S The Spirit FX16 has built in lexicon effects, so you know that reverbs gonna sound gorgeous

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='767365' date='Mar 7 2010, 09:42 PM']Precisions are definitely growing on me again at the moment. I'm definitely moving towards a thicker sound with my wooden basses since the Stingray arrived - I don't listen to a lot of popular music at all, but I love the Precision sound on this... I bought the "Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears" album on iTunes and it's fantastic. Bill Stevenson's sound is amazing! [/quote] Is it just me...or does Joe Lewis look like he could be Chris Rock's brother? I've gotta give it up for the P-bass. I used to have a re-issue when I was younger, can't remember what year it was, it was one of my first basses, and it was gorgeous. I wish now I hadn't got rid of it, but I found myself yesterday sitting in the uni studio, and saw a squier precision sat in the corner. I thought I'd kill a bit of time while my work bounced down. God, did I fall in love again! The neck just felt so right in my hand, it was so comfortable to play it was unnatural! I ended up sitting there for about a hour just jamming. I found myself today on my lunch break scouring these forums and ebay, GAS'ing extremely bad for a precision. It's kind of a good thing my bank account isn't looking brilliant, or I'd more than likely be the proud owner of precision right about now! Will hopefully get me a CIJ when some money comes my way though

[quote name='The Funk' post='787217' date='Mar 26 2010, 05:17 PM']Pro Tools doesn't care what preamps you use via ADAT. I have a Digi 002 with a Focusrite Octopre giving me 8 preamps via ADAT optical. I also have a pair of Samson S-Valve preamps hooked up via SPDIF coaxial. As long as you can connect your Alesis io26 in standalone mode without hooking it up to the computer using firewire or something, you should be just fine. My cousin has a similar set-up but with a Mackie 8 x preamp unit instead. Does that help? EDIT: If you decide you don't like Pro Tools, you can always use the Digi 002/ADAT 8x preamp set-up in Logic.[/quote] Thats great cheers Funk That's all I wanted to know. I didn't want to invest a a couple of hundred quid into a piece of equipment that I couldn't use in conjunction with my other gear. I used to have a 002 rack but at the time, I needed something more portable so I got shot of it. Now that I'm about to finish uni, i'll end up investing back into one! I love using Logic, but for actual recording, Pro-tools seems more intuitive to me. I've got a new Macbook Pro on order, so a copy of Pro-tools 8 and some Digidesign hardware shall be my next purchase me thinks

Hey guys I'm about to finish my uni degree at Lincoln and over the summer am wanting to build up my recording experience. I've recorded a few different bands, but I want to start building my equipment setup and get used to it. I've got a Alesis io26 which is 8ins/8outs. I currently mix and do most my music creation in Logic 9, but am quite fond of Pro-tools for recording and mixing down bands. It's something about the interface that just does it for me . Anyways, back to the problem! When recording drums, obviously 8 mic inputs should be sufficient, but that leaves me with no inputs for say a guitarist to DI for the drummer to play along with. Obviously, i understand that people connect channel strips of pre-amps for extra inputs through the ADAT connection. But for using pro-tools, pro-tools hardware has to be used. So heres my question....Could I theoretically purchase say, a 002 rack, which would allow me to use pro-tools, and then use the alesis io26 through ADAT as a set of pre-amps? Would Pro-tools allow me to use the Alesis, or does all my hardware have to be Digidesign? If this was to work, this would then give me the extra inputs that I need for a guitarist, as well as providing extra pre-amps for other mics if need be. I know its a bit of a bigger question, but hopefully some of you home recording engineers with pro-tool LE systems will be able to help me. Cheers Joe

[quote name='bubinga5' post='772101' date='Mar 11 2010, 09:01 PM']Joe i take it it semi stops when you touch the strings...Grounding/earthing issue me thinks...[/quote] You're spot on bubinga....i think the ol' soldering iron will be out tomorrow morning!