Ian Savage

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1265626' date='Jun 12 2011, 12:52 AM']I have a 3 one, I think it's a Warwick one.[/quote] Thread necro; looking for one of these again, if it's not a total ballache wayne could you measure yours up for me? I'm FAIRLY sure one'll fit in my cab flightcase down the side of the cab but want to be sure before I buy and I can't find the dimensions online anywhere!

Been having a Springsteen/Gaslight Anthem/Hold Steady kinda evening, so this sums it up nicely:

...sorry if it's been posted before...

[quote name='tonyf' post='1296016' date='Jul 7 2011, 02:31 PM']I think mine is the oldest bit of kit I've got. Basses, amps, effects have come and gone but the tank like TU-2 has always been with me. Essential kit. T[/quote] Abso-bastid-lutely; my TU2 won't leave me until it breaks irrepairably or I do, and I think I might go first...

[quote name='lanark' post='1296303' date='Jul 7 2011, 07:09 PM']Interesting. I always thought that I'd need something more than just a mixer.[/quote] The OLDER Alesis Multimixes were little more than a mixer with an analogue/digital converter built-in, not much better than plugging a mixer into the stereo line input of your soundcard; IIRC the newer ones allow you to record multiple tracks separately as well as feeding previously-recorded tracks back into the desk via USB for monitoring.

[quote name='lanark' post='1296246' date='Jul 7 2011, 06:21 PM']$pple or windoze? Well, if I had to buy a new machine anyway it could be either. I know everyone suggests macs, but windows laptops always seem better value[/quote] I think the reason Macs tend to be more popular for audio/video work is the fact that the FireWire is properly integrated on Macs, whereas the IEE 1394 (Windows' name for FireWire) is often something of an afterthought on PCs and is notorious for causing dropouts and compatability problems. That said, using a machine with your spec properly set-up you should have no problem doing fairly in-depth recording/editing work using a USB interface, and as redstriper says the advantage of a proper graphical editing display rather than a piddly LCD as you get on 'portastudio'-type units is invaluable. I'd say you either want to get your PC laptop properly 'cleaned up' (professionally, if needs be) to get it running at its optimum, or if you can afford to have a computer solely for recording purposes, maybe track down a secondhand Mac Mini or similar. Also, I'd personally never try to record high-bitrate audio to anything slower than a 7200RPM hard drive, as slower drives are what's caused me the bulk of my recording problems in the past - external fast hard drives go for peanuts these days, particularly secondhand, and if you DO find yourself struggling with dropouts/recording stalls etc it'd be worth picking one up. Then maybe look at something like the Alesis mentioned earlier (which would provide pretty much everything you need to get started, as it comes bundled with Cubase LE, and would also be a handy thing to have kicking around for live work as well IMO), or if you go the Mac route PreSonus make so excellent, smaller FW interfaces (and the now-discontinued Mackie Satellite was a good bit of kit too, worth looking at secondhand). There's tons of USB and FireWire interfaces out there, obviously, but those are the ones I've the most positive direct experience of.

[quote name='lanark' post='1296089' date='Jul 7 2011, 03:48 PM']I have a laptop, but I wouldn't want to rely on it for recording - I'd doubt that it was powerful enough.[/quote] Then that's got to be the decision you make first, whether to go for an 'all-in-one' setup like the one Hobbayne linked above (generally pretty intuitive and easy-to-use, but can be limiting after a while) or put together a computer-based setup (more daunting, particularly if you're not too tech-savvy or haven't done much recording before, but SO much more versatile and pretty much limitless in potential once you know what you're doing). Be you an Apple or a Windows person?

Have you got a decent computer setup already, or are you properly starting from scratch?

Since we're on a positive experiences tip, I'd like to flag Eminence (okay, not a retailer, but still) - had bought a couple of their Beta 12" speakers to fit to some monitor cabs and emailed them regarding good tweeters to match, crossover frequencies etc - nothing was too much trouble, and the guy flagged a couple of potential issues with how I was thinking about doing things which actually made me realise that just buying a couple of Eminence's own pre-built crossover boards would be easier, cheaper and more effective. Okay, so they've also sold a couple of extra X-over boards into the bargain, but I suspect I'd still be faffing around with capacitors, inductors and resistors on veroboard if I hadn't asked them

[quote name='hairyhaw' post='1285345' date='Jun 28 2011, 03:15 PM']They've had a hard paper round if they are in their mid-twenties.[/quote] Two on the left maybe, at a push; they guy on the right I think is one of their dads

[quote name='JTUK' post='1285129' date='Jun 28 2011, 11:52 AM']Haven't read through all this but to the OP.. Consider a blues song as literally a template that you can take anywhere and give the playes a chance to stretch out...but not to silly proportions.and only if they have anything to say musically...but then I'd apply this to most covers..but that is another 50 threads on here..!! [/quote] I've run jam nights where I genuinely had to have a stopwatch and set time limits on blues numbers.

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America. Perfect rejection music, sadly.

Um, yeah.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1280420' date='Jun 24 2011, 01:08 AM']Or write some songs about something that happened yesterday rather than fifty years ago. [/quote] Ian Siegal - Bloodshot Well I woke up, I was fully clothed, I got bloodstains all around my nose. And somebody stole my telephone, And I don't know how in the world I got home...

It's actually called 'House Rent Blues' (or based on a song called House Rent Boogie, anyway) to the best of my knowledge, but if the style suits your singer's voice it's great fun to do.