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No he says he just installed it and it worked for him, which is fair enough!

Is this in the right section? I really hope someone can help me with this!

I've just bought a Steiberg Huston from a fellow basschatter, and I can't get it working. I'm using USB as I don't have MIDI cables. When I install it in windows it says that the device may not work correctly as it cannot start. It's lit up and was detected as new hardware etc. In cubase I can add a Huston device, but can't see the Huston as a MIDI in and out. Any help would be appreciated!

Yeh your bass goes into the input, your speakers go into the output, and a usb cable goes to your computer. Then you install the asio drivers for the zoom interface. Then install cubase, and select the zoom soundcard and away you go! I've never tried it with a mic so i'm not sure how well that would work, but I used to use it to practice with Ampeg SVX with no latency on my media PC (IE one with a crap soundcard) and it worked great.

The cubase that comes with the pedal is good, and as soon as you get it, you'vve basically got yourself a latency free high quality audio interface. You do have to monitor your sound through the pedal though, which could be annoying depending on what sort of speaker set up you have at your PC.

Nice!! Yeh that's good. I was going to buy one a couple of years ago off here for £200.

just use the pedal as a pedal infront of the amp, surely?

[quote name='OldGit' post='632398' date='Oct 21 2009, 02:33 PM']Tom's right[/quote] YES! I knew it would happen one day. Now where's my medal?

We sell a product which is metal with a film on it for packaging. One time a guy called me up to say that it was bent. I told him to bin it and I sent a replacement. I didn't even bother asking about the film. If the initial letter had been "Hi, I bought this scratchplate and it's warped, look at the attached pictures" I reckon it would have turned out differently.

yeh, with the controller i'm on about above, you plug your controller into the KP with a MIDI cable.

There's no lag on any of the new Zoom units AFAIK. The tuner is good, the compressor is good (but that's subjective). I've never been able to get the XLR output on mine going, but I only tried after i'd dropped it quite hard which also made the switches quite unreliable. I love the sounds, the interface, the switching, the tuner, but I will have to put some heavy duty off-board switches on it to gig it again (which I will do). Perhaps someone else can help RE the XLR.

well I always have one EQ pedal to boost mids and overdrive dirt pedals, then I have another to boost the low end. Neither of these functions would work on my amps EQ, and I would switch both several times during each song.

To be honest i've not got enough experience with the different pre-amps. It's what sounds best to your ears. I would imagine that the firestudio has pretty good pre-amps in, and that any extention to your interface would also include it's own pre-amps, so your stand-alone octopre is rendered redundant. Sell it to me for £10!!

It looks fun. You'd probably need to blend some clean tone back in, and you need a DI or something to get your bass to line level before you plug it in. crez - if you're serious there is a guy on the muse messageboard who's username is "gazlang" who sells a MIDI controller and touch screen to build into your guitar/bass. Apparently creating the MIDI controller circuit is pretty difficult.

Do you want to record many mics at the same time, or just a stereo mix? If you're putting everything through the PA and you like the sound of it, you could record the DI out of the mixer straight into the on board sound on your mac book. If you want to record lots of channcels at the same time, you need an interface with that many inputs AND one pre-amp per mic channel. Most external interfaces come with only 2 pre-amps built in. How much change will you have from the mac book?

[quote name='jakesbass' post='631219' date='Oct 20 2009, 11:35 AM']I'm sure there are people here who have used pc and cubase with no issues but there'll be more mac users with a 'no woes' story.[/quote] There's no factual basis for this statement. Only some anecdotal evidence. I can give you anecdotal evidence to the contrary, none of it matters. Both systems are software running on hardware. They're both capable of exactly the same thing. EDIT: It's pretty shocking that a pro studio wuold have an unstable system no matter what system it is given it's perfectly possible to make any system stable.

That's a tall stack!! What about turning the marshall by 90 degrees?

[quote name='ryan_waf' post='630484' date='Oct 19 2009, 04:24 PM']I might be old fashioned, but even if previously agreed with bands / promoters that backline is okay to borrow, I'll still ask the bassist and make sure I say thanks to them, same with each of our members depending on whats borrowed, simple manners.[/quote] I agree. It seems the answer to the thread title is yes!

Fair enough - it does look cool!

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='630589' date='Oct 19 2009, 06:09 PM']Before people ask here is a close up of the DiscumBOBulator and its little partner pedal. This is a custom build from Max @ [sfx] and is basically an external switch for the UP/DOWN filter sweep toggle that the pedal has... allowing me to switch between both styles during one song for example.[/quote] Why would you not just add an extra footswitch to the pedal? Just wondering.

Me too!! I think it's just generally accepted that the best recording set up is a Mac with Pro Tools. Personally I think this is based on the fact that all the famous pro studios have loads of money, and a sense of style, and so they buy macs. Also I think initially pro tools was only available on a mac system? There are plenty of studios out there making money with PCs and Cubase. There's no difference in "quality".

yeh that looks like it can record up to 8 tracks simultaneously which would be enough for demos.

Why?

to do decent recording you will need an audio interface, and depending on how many channels you want to record at the same time, it could eat up half your budget. For the money you might be better sticking with a PC and adding some recording gear to it.

The zoom B2.1U is an excellent starter effects pedal.