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I forgot about this and just caught up. It looks great! and your sound insulation is pretty damn impressive.

[quote name='longtimefred' post='1374212' date='Sep 15 2011, 11:22 AM']Ladies and gentlemen....Miss Kittie Rachea[/quote] Where did you find a front woman 'round here? I've been looking for ages (although not very hard).

why not give yourself an extra option?

I do this fairly often. Lately i've been working on "lets get it on" - playing the bassline and the vocal line at the same time. It's really cool and one day i'll use it to seduce my girlfriend.

If I go in to buy, it's for thumb picks or 6 string sets or big fat drum sticks - basically whatever weird little thing you haven't got in stock that day I don't go out shopping really, but if I am in a town and there's a music shop i'll look at the used gear, anything weird, especially pedals. Sometimes I buy stuff, sometimes not.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1362719' date='Sep 5 2011, 11:33 AM']You been busy with the grey paint, or just the saturation control? [/quote] haha, yeh, I f***ed about with it in photoshop trying to make it look nice as my phone's camera isn't great. Anyway, when I realised i'd made a mess of it I also realised i'd written over the original file

yeh I use the LS-2 and have one chain which goes: comp, ODB3, EQ - and this is like my low end. Then the other chain has more dirt, some modulation and the wah probe.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1362230' date='Sep 4 2011, 09:09 PM']Think a clearout is coming along.[/quote] Please, I don't think my wallet can take it!!!

This is what I was using on Friday. I messed about trying to get some of these synthy sounds. I love using the OC-2 with loads of dirt and a wah. Also, the low pass filter on the XP-100 is ace!!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1357347' date='Aug 31 2011, 11:54 AM']In white as in unfinished.[/quote] I always thought white meant painted white?!? Anyway it sounds like a cool bass. I've never seen basses with a bit of bark left on the wood, i'd love to see some pics of that if anyone can link me?

I've always liked wish basses but never played one. I'm confused though, are you going for the "gnarliest whorley wood you can find, looking like it has been found in a swamp. Bark inclusions welcome" which sounds ace, or are you getting it in white?

cheers!

oh, that's a downer!

I'm trying it at the moment on my laptop. It's frustrating to be so slow again, but i'm sure i'll learn this faster than cubase. One thing i'm missing is a list of keyboard shortcuts - anyone got one?

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1355816' date='Aug 29 2011, 11:16 PM']My only issue with the Echo Park was that it was noisy when daisy-chained with other effects. I thought it was a good delay though.[/quote] That happens with digital pedals if you don't supply enough current for the whole chain - do you think it might be that?

the marshall jackhammer is very good, very cheap, but you need an external pedal for tap tempo - they are quite cheap too, but the two together probably add up to the cost of some of these other recommendations.

Not seen you in a while Cantdosleepy!!! Thanks for the vid

It sounds like you have one of those jack to USB leads for recording your guitars, and that's working fine. This is a kind of interface isn't it? If you have a pedal just to raise up the level a bit and then add some EQ in your DAW it should be fine. I used to record everything through my 4 track as a pre straight into the on-board line-in on my PC. It was a little noisey but perfect for demos.

It looks like the LEDs are blinding - can you still see your pedal settings? Nice board anyway!

I'd hav your octave at the start. Also, your envelope follower might sound better before any compression and/or dirt. It's a personal thing, but i'd have it at the start just after the octaver

Thanks for all the info Garry, i'll check it out. We used to use Kontakt at uni which was loads of fun.

[quote name='lowdown' post='1351111' date='Aug 25 2011, 11:02 AM']Any VST'i Synth strings sound pretty awful. If you do not want to go down the sampler route, Sound fonts are your next good bet. They are Audio files and sound pretty decent, certainly better than Synth Strings. Just google free sound fonts, hundreds of them around. Try the link below for a start - you can download a free sound font player and a full bunch of Orchestral sounds, with a few articulations , Its dead easy to use. A free Convolution IR Reverb will help as well. [url="http://freesf2.com/"]Free SF & Sound fonts[/url] Garry[/quote] I'd never actually heard of Sound Fonts. If I find I can write string parts then i'll start messing about with the sounds. My CPU usage is already at 80% on this particular song, so something "light" is what I need at the moment. Are Sound Fonts just as light as VSTis? I have used Reason in the past with ReWire but that dominates my CPU too.

Cheers 5imon, you just keep on giving!

[quote name='dood' post='1349707' date='Aug 23 2011, 11:27 PM']Not necessarily for the pro market, but check out the YouTube videos for the handheld Zoom Q3HD. I bought one secondhand from a fine fellow here on BC and it is brilliant. It records in stereo and does not distort, even when right up against a drum kit - I see you'd rather take a feed from the PA instead for sound, but for a way of recording a gig quickly, it is rather good! ;o)[/quote] I just bought one off here too! I've only tried it at practise so far. The audio quality is amazing, and the auto-gain levelling was very quick. I wasn't too impressed with the picture, but I bought it for the sound quality as this is what's often lacking in live videos.

I'm looking for a VSTi for strings. I don't need the world's best sounds, just something better than the microsoft MIDI voices. Is there anything free?