cheddatom

All I know is, If I plug my bass straight into my amp, the sound is a bit crap. If I plug it into my pedal board (about 20 buffered pedals) then it sounds great.

[quote name='BassBalls' post='236449' date='Jul 10 2008, 12:53 PM']It has two separate headphone mixes and the pre amps are superior to the M-Audio delta 1010lt. The Saffire also takes some of the processing out of the computer so it is less likely to crash or overload. However i still dont think i can persuade you. They cost a little bit more but the quality of the pre amps and the Saffire control make it a bit more versatile and give you a few more signal options.[/quote] I suppose it depends on how you weight your decision making. I like to record lots of simultaneous tracks, so the 1010lt and a half decent mixer/rack of pres/whatever would give me 8 mic inputs on some good, and some average pres. The saffire would give me 2 decent pres and take a bit of the load off my CPU. If I was a drum machine kind of guy, and was recording in my bedroom, then the saffire would be the best bet.

What pedals are you talking about? They don't sound like true bypass pedals to me.

no idea about the hyperpak but I would try the LS-2 blending the multicomp and clean, the output going into the LMB-3. The enhance is sh*t yeh. If you get it set right, you should hardly be able to tell it's on except for the fact that you'll be louder on average and there will be no "spikes".

[quote name='BassBalls' post='236395' date='Jul 10 2008, 11:54 AM']I would simply just get a focusrite saffire which has a lot of goodies and control included in the box.[/quote] Heh [quote name='dv247']Focusrite Saffire Firewire Audio Interface With DSP[/quote] What's this, and audio interface with built in DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING?!?!? Now that's a cut above the rest! To be fair, I don't think i would spend that much money on an interface with a max of 4 inputs. There's no lightpipe input or anything like that. Like I was saying before the M-Audio delta 1010lt has two mic inputs (same as the saffire) as well as another 6 analogue inputs and you can get it for half the price of the saffire. I know the pre-amps will be nicer, but when you are limited like that...... Maybe there's something I missed that would pursuade me?

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='236371' date='Jul 10 2008, 11:24 AM']Hey man, When starting out simplicity is gonna be best. Having external mixers and sound cards (two expenses) plus the cost of cabling it all up (ts not cheap) is a lot. I would go for something like: [url="http://www.dv247.com/invt/22278/product.htm?gdftrk=gdfV2356_a_7c416_a_7c1181_a_7cMAudio_p_Firewire_p_1814_p_Mobile_p_18_p_In_a_2f14_p_Out_p_Firewire_p_Recording_p_Interface_a_7cyo78iyc8FFsDSXJ6kvxIcg_a_3d_a_3d"]http://www.dv247.com/invt/22278/product.ht...vxIcg_a_3d_a_3d[/url] Which is compatable with pro tools and is upgradable to 16 microphone inputs at once! It also just so happens that I have one for sale for £170 which is very good money for the amount of i/o you will get. Garry[/quote] Good suggestion Garry! I suppose it depends on your budget.

higher threshold and a higher ratio should be more subtle, like a limiter. I suppose it depends how high you mean by "high threshold" but if you set it to 1:infinity with the threshold so high that it only compresses the peaks, you can get a great sound. I like compression blended with clean, running into a limiter.

PM me your address and i'll see what I can find at the weekend.

The firewire macki dealy looks great to me! If you get adventurous with your mixing and etc on cubase, then you'll need a decent audio interface to be able to cope with it. You could get an M-Audio PCI card quite cheap used. If you get a Delta 44 you could DI your amp straight in, but you would need to buy pre-amps for when you want to record mics. These could be in a little cheap mixer though. The Delta 1010 has 2 mic inputs in XLR but is about twice the price (around £120). If you fancy some nice outboard hardware though, one of those firewire/usb mixer/interface thingies will do the job. I wouldn't get the peavey, the USB port is just a gimmick IMHO.

Hah! It was a joke, 'aint no shame in it. Some of the stuff on the album is a bit stonery actually, and live we're much heavier! No gigs at the moment 'cos our singer's gone on holiday

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='235893' date='Jul 9 2008, 05:09 PM']you've got real problems.[/quote] I know, my baritone strings won't fit!

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' post='236269' date='Jul 10 2008, 06:41 AM']trouble is i only use one pedal and 2 good quality short cables so its not like ive got a massive pedal board! lol i just couldn't believe the difference in tone![/quote] Did you try bass straight into amp with both cables? How long are they? It happened with every different pedal you tried, and they're all "true bypass"?

Other than that I had to change the sensitivity a bit, swapping between my passive and active didn't effect my Bass Balls.

Oh yeh, that's the sh*t.

real tits become cyber tits once you take a pic and post it on a message board.

[quote name='mr.sibs' post='235836' date='Jul 9 2008, 04:16 PM']great that looks like the badger, many thanks cheddatom[/quote] No problem, now show us your tits!

The diago site doesn't mention a 12V adaptor. Godlyke seem to do what you need: [url="http://www.godlyke.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=135&thiscat=50&frompage=Online_Store&page_num=1&=SID"]godlyke adaptor[/url]

I can't see any screws going into the tuning heads! To be fair, it's at home, and i'm at work so.... Strings have got to be a cheaper gamble than tuning heads. Ta for the advice!

Get a pedal board with a 4 gang strip on it. That way you only have to carry your board, not a load of pedals and power connectors - however many PSUs you end up with.

Yeh Tanuki - what your customer switcher/level thingy whatsit?

[quote name='chris_b' post='235745' date='Jul 9 2008, 02:41 PM']Don't knock the 80's revivals. In 20 years time what will they be able to revive from today?[/quote] In 20 years time I hope music will have moved on from crappy attempts at making old sounds new. I have nothing against takng an old song and applying a different/modern twist. What I absolutely abhor is the way bands have taken the "style" (read fashion sense, music production style/sound etc) of the 80s and shamelessly recreated it. Everyone agreed, at least by 1995 that the 80s was the worse ever decade for style. Only 10 years after that blissfulll consensus and I start to see and hear it creep back! Why does everyone have to be so self loathing? We can make progress if we want to!!!

I don't give a toss about MK but one thing I do know is that I am absolutely sick of hearing about how great the 80s were. All this 80s revival sh*t going on at the moment is making me ill with stress.

Bump for the pics. Is this just really shameless?

Replace the tuning heads?!? I'm beginning to panic now! I'll have to try those fender strings. I don't mind f*cking about with electronics, but there's something a bit scary about taking apart such a nice guitar.

The have a tube with a hole in, and a pole with a hole in inside. When you turn the screw knobs on the back, either the pole moves up or the tube moves down to clamp onto the strings. The holes are the same size, so I could drill them both at the same time. Would it be safer to take them off before drilling? I've never done that much work on a guitar!