Jamesemt

Mine did this - I THINK mine was down to not pushing the mains lead in far enough. After three attempts with different leads, I went back to the original kettle lead, gave it a big push/waggle and it sprang into life... IMHO when you can afford it ditch the unreliable POS. I struggled for two years with mine before one channel died... Funnily enough, I was using practically exactly the same setup for similar reasons. Had a kidney pod with the superfly, racked pod pro/poweramp for gigs. Now for rehearsals I use one side of the guitarist's power amp/mixer - not quite as good sound wise, makes me appreciate the sound at gigs

Hi guys, I've just fitted a Hipshot ultralite drop D tuner, but when I try and drop the tuning by flicking the lever the peg doesn't go all the way to the lower pitch and to the stop. I still have to give the peg a little pull to fully recline onto the nut stop if that makes sense?? Once fully over, it's fine. I'm not talking about tuning, but in how easily the peg moves when the lever is flicked. As I've never used a drop tuner, is this normal?? I expected that once I pull the lever it would drop to the pitch.

I'm recovering a grotty old peavey 2x12 and was wondering if carpet is any easier than vinyl?? Any other recovering advice? I've bought the textured paint but have had second thoughts...

I find some of this a bit odd - we played our first proper gig on Saturday night, two 45 minute sets and got paid £200...and thought we should have pushed for a bit more?

In a bid to try and get some more pub gigs, the band want to put some recorded song snippets onto our myspace page. Now obviously we are talking about pop/rock covers, so where do we stand with regards to copyright? One of the guys reckons that if the audio clips are short enough then we wont run into problems...is he right?

[quote name='Jobiebass' post='483633' date='May 9 2009, 11:43 AM']I dont like Fenders so yes! Ive played a fair few basses over the years, owned a few med/high end basses too so i know roughly what im after. plus i guess it helps i but a fretless bass together to my spec too.[/quote] I say go for it mate, I'm in exactly the same position and am meeting Jon on Monday. It's all a learnning a curve and if the bass turns out to be different sounding, well then it's a good excuse to get another! I'm having one built as I need something lightweight. Sorry I can't help more than that - Jon can copy neck shapes which is what i'm having done

As the title, are they worth buying or not worth the trouble? Our singer is skint, but always goes on about getting a wireless

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='480190' date='May 5 2009, 05:57 PM']Not sure I can help I terms of identifying the differences between different brands, but I started a thread about the differences between 9V and 18V preamps – might be some help to you? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=35505"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=35505[/url][/quote] That was quite informative cheers!! Anyone else?

I've only recently been converted to active, and am starting to get ideas together for a custom build. Are there many real differences with active pickups/preamps? I've only used EMG pickups - are they 'typical' of most active gear? If this has been asked before then can anyone point me towards the thread?

I don't get this as you don't have to use effects?? Anyways, fwiw I bought an xtpro to go with my xt...

[quote name='sk8' post='474367' date='Apr 28 2009, 05:03 PM']what did you get?[/quote] Just some no name brand off eBay...

As I've just had to replace my amp, I've decided to buy a power amp. The plan was to buy a pod xt pro to replace my kidney bean pod xt. However I've come across a sansamp rpm which looks tasty and easier to use. My question is should I stick to the line 6 or should I look at getting seperate components? Only really use the preamp and compressor on the line 6 currently. Just how good would I find the rpm compared to the line 6, apart from being easier to use!

[quote name='sk8' post='469418' date='Apr 22 2009, 11:16 AM']i just found this [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tamp_e800.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tamp_e800.htm[/url][/quote] Cheers guys - got sorted with a reasonably cheap 400w per side.

Thanks for all the advice - got the Alesis IO26 Firewire...and it's great!!

[quote name='StanRobinson' post='460801' date='Apr 12 2009, 09:30 PM']You have to allocate the input bus on each track to let it see the channel of the sound card / mixer, not obvious in the start up book, better described in the full operation manual. SR[/quote] Chhers for that d'oh!!

Would a cheap disco amp be ok? There's a fair few on eBay for under £200...

[quote name='Buzz' post='464577' date='Apr 16 2009, 11:57 PM']Email Ashdown, they've got brilliant customer service.[/quote] Cheers I've sent them a mail

I'm just weighing up options as my superfly has lost one channel. I've got two 4 ohm Eden Nemesis cabs and was thinking of just replacing the superfly with a poweramp? I've been setting the superfly flat and using the pod anyway. Is there anything to stop me just using a poweramp? Seems a cheap way to get what I want?? If so, could anyone recommend me something? Would like at least 2x400 watts as didn't have enough headroom with the superfly (or maybe I just got a duffer) Db technologies look quite cheap...