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Sorry, all obvious questions I should have answered in the OP USB, FW, PCI would all be fine. I'd not heard of Thunderbolt before, I guess I could get a PCI Thunderbolt card so that'd be fine too Yes, 16 analogue inputs, I don't mind what connector they're on. It might be that you recommend I get X interface with ADAT and Y ADAT unit which would be fine too. I just need a total rig to give at least 16 analogue inputs and to be expandable Yeh I need 24bit

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1399246709' post='2442491'] not sure about the motu 8, but i have a tascam us1800 which i use pretty much daily. found it to be very useable and does exactly what it is supposed to, ive used it for home use, drum tracking and tracked a full band through it and it works great. would highly recommend it [/quote] yep, same here!

I find that most interfaces these days seem to come with built in pre-amps. I don't really need pre-amps. What I do need is as many inputs as possible, minimum 16, with the possibility to expand further. I have a Tascam US1800 at the moment and you can't have more than one plugged in at the same time, which is sh*te. Can you recommend me an interface under £500 to fit the bill? I would prefer to buy second hand if it can save me money

hah, OK, I've been to quite a few gigs where I'm expected to share my kit without any prior agreements and it gets quite annoying. I will be optimistic

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1400677874' post='2456005'] ...its a good job our drummer had his kit and I'd taken my bass gear!... [/quote] Oh dear, I was told I'd just need breakables. Sometimes being the drummer really sucks!!

We're on the main stage Saturday 1pm - Headsticks Not been before but I'm looking forward to it!

if you're running a bunch of digital pedals, check that your power supply can supply enough power for all of them! Add up the amps needed for each pedal, the supply should be able to do more than this

she's already taken the bass and flogged it. You've been duped!

sounds like the main problem is programming drums? I wouldn't worry too much about the actual samples, you can change them after, just get used to drawing in the patterns. On Cubase you get a big grid with a keyboard down the left. When you press a key, it activates a drum sample. You figure out which key is which drum, and draw in one measure of the beat. Then just copy paste that until it's long enough I normally come up with a beat, repeat it for 5 minutes, record bass along to it, then when I have a bassline I like, I'll cut it up using the snap tool so that it's always in time with the beat, and move it so that it repeats just 4 or 8 times for a verse. Then I would hopefully come up with another part to go with it. This will have the same tempo so I'll record it to the same beat, but then go back after and change the beat for this section of the song etc etc No idea if this is any help, I guess everyone does things differently

they're all the same aren't they? The best one I had was only a month ago. UPS promised to deliver from Brussels to Stoke by the Thursday. I tracked it on Thursday, it said it was at East Midlands depot. I called them, they said they didn't know when I'd have it, they'd get the depot to call. The Stoke depot called to say it was at East Midlands. No-one at UPS would put me through to East Midlands. I called their landline and held on for 20 minutes with it just ringing and ringing. On the Friday it still hadn't moved so I sent a guy to get it. The guy at the depot refused to release the package. One week later it had found its way to the Stoke depot. Then another week later it was back in Brussels. They sent me an invoice saying the address was wrong and I'd have to pay them for moving it to stoke and back. I wasn't even the sender!!

brilliant!

what does that do?!

[quote name='Ant' timestamp='1399375248' post='2443516'] ibanez session man! love those little guys! [/quote] with a clean blend there is nothing better! So responsive to my playing. Also going in to the red llama is just filthy I would love another couple of SS10s because it really is my favorite pedal, but I never see them for sale

oh right, didn't realise that Reverb Nation is pretty good. My folk band are on that but it seems there are some regional charts etc which should really be ignored

has everyone gone off bandcamp? I always thought bandcamp looked pretty good

My quickly bodged together set-up for a jam the other day. First time on bass in ages and I sounded incredible!

I thought the consensus was that our instrument lead can make quite a difference, your speaker lead might make some difference, and your power lead definitely doesn't. It made sense to me the last few times this came up? [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1399327908' post='2443246'] According to the laws of physics a bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly [/quote]

I'd just put your logo on a page, then a link to all the social media sites. Embed a feed from twitter or facebook, stick your email address on there and you're done! Obviously it'd be nice to have a full site with "bio" and "gallery" and whatever you want to put on Not sure if this is a good example or not but this is the most recent site I did www.headsticks.co.uk and I think it works well enough although it's not well linked in to social media. It's just very, very simple

any old graphic EQ should do the job. I have the boss one and it's fine. I'd just get the cheapest you can find My bass has active EQ so I can roll off the low end with that

I understand the need to mic if you're using dirt pedals, because without the colouration of amp/cab there will be lots of nasty high end

I would never rely on a mic for the low end, DI is always going to be better IMO I like to take a low passed DI and a high passed mic, a SM57 is fine

A compressor will help, beware of your noise floor as above I'm surprised no-one's mentioned volume. If you turn up loud and stand by your amp you should be able to get more than enough sustain

I've seen original bands who really should have been covers bands!

Bought a pedal from Graeme, it couldn't have gone better!

never heard of the hum debugger before! If you're not sure about sheilding it might be worth taking it in to a guitar shop to get them to check the electrics. It's probably something simple and they'll fix it for 10-20 quid, then you won't need any pedals!