paul_5

[quote name='merello' post='1070468' date='Dec 27 2010, 08:17 PM']Bought today, getting returned tomorrow. Just would not install on my Mac despite every instruction, driver and support site being used. Really disappointing.[/quote] I know PT 6.x can't run on an intel mac, and 7.x and up won't play with a PPC chip, I know that this is a really noddy suggestion, but I had similar issues a while back. Hope this helps.

Ah yes, this is the fabled "convenience amp". Jimmy Page done a poo on it, SRV used it as a step for painting the ceiling, Eddie Van used it as a cigarette holder on the '1984' tour, Rolf used it as the test bed when developing the stylophone etc... of course I can't prove any of this. Still worth a grand though.

in answer to the OP, then yes. This video is very 'listenable' in my book; the fact that this stuff is [i]musical[/i], and the techniques and chops enhance the music, and not strangle it, help enormously. I very much enjoyed it, thanks for posting it.

EZ drummer has some great sounds and you can literally 'drag and drop' loops to create realistic tracks really easily. Also it follows MIDI commands e.g. dynamics, tempo etc... Winner.

While we're on the subject of 'unsung heroes' of the low end I've recently developed uber-love for John Giblin's fretless playing on Fish's first solo album "Vigil in a wilderness of mirrors". I did some digging around, and it turns out that he's quite the session player.

[quote name='sprocketflup' post='1068735' date='Dec 24 2010, 01:46 PM']I had something fail on me a verse into a song at a gig in Leicester once, to this day I still dont know what it was, the rest of the band played on like pros whilst I and a few members of support bands threw new cables and the likes at my set up. the sound came back in just in time for me to hit teh very last note of the track! pure comedy! half the audience were about wetting themselves lol[/quote] Sounds like "Rock and Roll Creation" by Spinal Tap.

I've got the LH1000 and a Hydrive 410 and have never had any noticeable "loss of low end" from my 5 string.

Nothing major really, an expression pedal for my SYB5, then maybe get my Blade B15 de-fretted. That's all I can think of really (though this shouldn't be taken as legally binding...)

[quote name='Christophano' post='1068506' date='Dec 24 2010, 08:50 AM']Valve war FTW![/quote] Looks like we've got ourselves a good, old-fashioned "Tech-off!". YeeeHaaaaw! Merry Christmas all!.

Hi there, I'm not a lefty, but welcome anyway. Paul.

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Cheers for that.

Captain / Mr 5 is fine...

Hi All, I've got a Boss SYB5 and would like to experiment with the expression pedal function. Besides the £60 Roland one, do any of your readers know which other (equally plastic but cheaper) pedals work with this pedal? Sincerely, Confused of Ramsbottom.

[quote name='Darkstrike' post='1062882' date='Dec 18 2010, 08:15 PM']I like this one too, owned by a Tber. [/quote] I want this one!

"Gloomy Sunday" from Billie Holiday, also "Goodbye porkpie hat" by Charles Mingus - the world's most beautiful melody/

OC 2 all the way. You should be able to get one in mint condition for that budget.

Geddy's Jazz bass punch with some Honk from Jaco was a good starting point for me - I played with a drummer quite a lot last year who had a 24" kick, so I rolled off some lows to let the 'bomb' go off.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1060010' date='Dec 15 2010, 08:39 PM']I'd not seen that site before. That's really cool.[/quote] +1 - cheers Jake.

5 swear by my Blade B15 - £600 and every Jazz Bass tone you'll ever need, also lovely playable neck. Useful 'mid boost' switch for recording DI'd - works every time.

The [i]free[/i[ solution is to bounce the tracks with amplitube on and then use those instead of trying to process all of those in real time. You can then simply 'disable' the tracks that have all of the plugins on (I'd also recommend hiding them from the arrange window and the mixer to avoid confusion), so that if you need to revisit the amp settings later on, simply 'enable' the track again, fix what needs fixing and then bounce the track back out again. Admittedly this is very time consuming, and requires more patience and organisation than simply doing everything through RTAS plugins. Also you could bus the guitars through the same plugin to reduce RAM usage (if all of the guitars are sharing a similar reverb patch for instance). This is a great way to free up your machine's resources at a stroke. Other than that I can't really recommend any specific hardware, 'cos I'm a bit of a troglodite when it comes to recording - I prefer to move microphones than reach for EQ knobs. I have had some good results with the Sansamp PSA plugin (comes free with PT 8+), and I can run multiple instances without overloading the CPU. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I've used the 'bounce workaround' on my old G4 powerbook (single 1GHz processor), and managed to mix a 20 track song for radio just fine.

How about 'Tom Sawyer' or similar. Early Rush can lend itself really well to a female singing range. Also you get to play a great riff in 7!

My current 'project' is a 'Yamato' maple neck and fingerboard (which I defretted) frankenfitted onto a Hondo P bass body (I think it's ash, it's bloody heavy) that I pickey up from thievebay for £25. I've bought all new hardware and pickups (GFS) and have a really playable, smooth sounding bass for a smidge over £100. Really quite pleased with it. Pictures to follow.