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[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!

There must be a guide on the net somewhere - maybe even youtube? My advice is to wind down the tuning head for the thinnest string, and take it off, then put the equivalent back on by threading it through the bridge. Copy the winding on the other tuning heads so you know which way to bend it around the tuning head. Pop it through the hole, and bend a right angle the other side of the hole. Wind the string up until it's in tune. Do the same for the rest. This is my technique, I don't know if it's crap or not.

I suppose this "small ball end" thing will become apparent when I actually get to buy some? They don't have any links to UK dealers on the fender website! How crap.

The yamaha says my guitar is 26.25" scale, and the fender site says "Fits most 27" to 29" scale length baritone guitars". Do you think that'd be allright? I can't find anything about small ball ended strings.

£90 off ebay! It's got a few scratches, that's a stock pic up there. If no-one reckons I should drill them, I will try the fender brand strings, but I would have thought the tuners on a fender VI would have been special?

I have a Yamaha AES820-D6 that I want to tune very low. The strings that were on it when I got it were too thin for my liking, but when I tried to put thicker baritone guitar strings on, they wouldn't fit through the hole in the tuning head! I had to get a bass string 'cos they're thin at the end, and tie it behin the body because it was too long! This is working for now, but i'd like to have flexibility. Can I just drill the holes to make them bigger? The back of the headstock showing the weird tuning heads: The beautiful looking guitar: