clauster

Great idea! 'twould give me some motivation to get my Reason updated for the Intel Mac so I can write some loops to share with others. Much more satisfying for practise loops than my cheap drum machine,

First issue - maudio drivers are resource hungry (mine's got more latency than the built in sound card). Yours more than most because you've got midi and audio in the same device. Get more memory. 1.2gig isn't a lot these days. Secondly reduce, not increase, the buffers to get the latency down. Third, don't know whether the Ozone drivers allow this, but if you can reduce the sampling frequency. If you've got 24bit sampling, reduce to 16. Lastly, as already said, make sure you're using usb2.

Mine's gotta be the easiest - Tubeway army - My Shadow In Vain. Took me years to work up to She's lost control lol. It wasn't until the stone roses came along that I decided I wanted to get better as a player.

I'd look for a Boss BR864 on ebay - much better quality recordings than either the 600 or the Zoom.

Many of the above + Mani & Reni (Stone Roses)

Nice bass But the leather trousers look a bit iffy

Unbalanced line-outs fall into the "useful" rather than "professional" category. I use it for running my preamped signal into mixers without balanced inputs (most inexpensive home studios), running a line to a tuner to keep it out of the signal path and running a signal to a second backline amp. I use it a lot more than DI, which is just for "proper" recording and for our larger gigs. Line out gets used about 90% of the time my amp is on.

I like that O15!

Most talented cool bass player - Mani Simonon - V Cool But for sheer b*lls out cool Gotta be Peter Hook

What Dood said +1 When I was in my sound engineering days, if a bass amp didn't have a DI then we'd use a short cable run from the line out straight into a DI box before plugging that into the snake. If it wasn't from a mic or a DI box, it didn't go into the board.

Aha Bill! It's your cabs I'm thinking of using (O10 at 4ohm and T39 at 8ohm) Good to know it can be done without probs on the power amp side, now I've just to persuade the wife that I need houseroom for a bigger rig.

I'd be happy with Behringer pedals - they are cheap, but not nasty. They are to effects what swatch are to watches. At the price they do what they do pretty well, when they go wrong just throw away and buy another one. Boss are the other way around - don't sound that great for the price (I had a boss comp 20 years ago and all it did was add hiss and remove bass), but are built like tanks. Great thing is they can be modded to sound great. With my used used cs3 and monte allum mod I'll have a great comp that'll sound great and last decades.

Cheers guys. I Think that's the answer I was looking for. If one comes up for less than £50 on the 'bay I'll have it, otherwise its keep daving for the auto Q.

Thanks, that's what I thought. Only problem now is persuading the wife to let a rack + cab + sub have houseroom

Cheers man!

I'm thinking of upgarding from my little combo to a bigger rig. I'm consider biamping. My question is is it okay to run a four ohm load on one channel and an 8ohm on the other? My logic says it should be fine, but I'd just like to get some feedback before making an expensive mistake.

Anyone used the AW3 Dynamic Wah? I'm new to the wah thing, but fancy a go at making some "funky" sounds. Couldn't make my mind up about whether to go for an envelope filter or a rocker-wah. Then I came across the Boss one - which as standrd is an envelope filter, but you can add an expression pedal too if you want more control. And it's got a dedicated bass input too But would I be better off with bass-balls/q-tron/mxr auto-q/crybaby/other?

Interesting. I'm after a new compressor and my next-door neighbour who is a guitarist bought a cs3 on ebay and he hasn't found a use for it yet. He's just offered it to me for £28 (what he paid for it). Gonna go for it and get the opto mod kit Big squeeze for little cash.

Toffee, what basses have you already got? Do you want something that's the same but more? Something different? Is one of them worth spending the money on upgrades? At the top of your price range you MIGHT just find an abused MIA fender (especially as you've got 5 months). If you're looking at new basses don't forget to try the Rockbass range. Great instruments for the cash.

We've got a big guy who does our sound - his number one duty is to leap on stage and punch the guitarists if they look like they're about to reach for the volume knobs on their amps

Makes sense to me dood. My reservation is that you can't apply the fx loop to just one channel. And I wish they'd offer a rackmount version. But there's plenty of preamps that offer those facilities. What your getting with the Microbass is what it was designed to be - a swiss army knife for bassists. It will work as (amongst other things) a preamp, 2 channel mixer, distortion pedal, parametric eq pedal, fx loop switch (mixable from series to parallel and beyond) and DI box from which you can still drive your backline. Plus it will fit in your gigbag. All at a reasonable price. If you want the same eq across both channels you could just put another eq processor somewhere in the siganl chain.

"Meet-ups and offers" - didn't realise it was that sort of site Seriously though, great idea. I'm on a few bike sites and they all do 'grooming cards'

Thanks for the welcome guys - and all from w sussex

Right now I've got "She Bangs the Drums", Stone Roses on itunes, but most of Mani's lines do it for me.

Hi Joe I've been gassing for a 'wick since first playing a Thumb 18 years ago. Took it to a get together of musicians in the midlands last weekends, even some of our 6 string brethren really liked it.