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Maybe the soundguy needs to roll off the top end. Your bass rig wont be putting out the same high frequencies as the on-stage monitors, which are probably creating the feedback. You could always turn the gain on the pedal down!

Thanks for the replies, i'll take some pics after work, it still wont move!

I use a lot of VST plug-ins, including amp sims. I can't really recommend a product, because, i've never paid for any, and so wouldn't know about value for money (sorry for being a theif, lets not fight). There are some legal free vsts, including a very nice JCM800, which I could find at home. The Ampeg suite/modelling thing is pretty amazing, but, you'd better have a good processor, and I guess it's expensive. Cubase comes with a couple of amp modelling things, which are under the distortions menu, but have speaker emulation options. I've tried others but I can't remember their names, or if they were any good! If you want to track the guitars, monitoring through the amp sim, you will need a decent soundcard to create very low latency. I guess the Lexicon is good enough though?

[quote name='Rich' post='85871' date='Nov 9 2007, 12:38 PM']This is my Shuker... tobacco burst over burr maple. Very orange in sunlight. Sorry about the small & crappy pic. [attachment=3399:shuke.jpg][/quote] Do you have a bigger picture of this beauty?

Hah, you'd stop whinging if you tried to lift my pedal board!

I don't want to be a pest, I know this hasn't been up for long, but, I was hoping for some suggestions as i'm going to be working on it tomorrow!

I bought a Barge Concept VBF-2 blender thing off Higgie. Great price, great packing, great turnaround time etc etc, obviously a great guy!

I don't have a mute switch. I just turn down my amp to tune. It's quite easy!

Did you remember to set your psu to AC not DC? My guitarist has a WH4 on a non-standard supply.

Are you sure it says 9v? 'Cos I thought they were all 12v.

You wouldn't have to keep swapping between the guitar and bass pod, you can just DI the one you want to use into the one that you're using as your interface. I really can't see the need for you to buy anything until you want to start recording more than one channel at once.

I find it very strange that it would work as a volume pedal and not as an exp pedal. Surely the volume function is just another type of expression to the processor? A nice wah would probably be better, but, you might have different patches on your ME-50 where the wah is before or after distortion, and you wouldn't be able to do both. Are you playing bass? Do you get a satisfactory tone with just your ME-50? Is it the bass version? If you're looking for a wah and have some cash, I recommend a zvex wah probe.

Dear me! I've heard some puns in my time, but that was a bit hard to swallow!

Some companies pay their assessors more, based on more failed claims. As in, performance-related pay so that our claims fail. I know this is a bit off topic, but, does anyone know what the deal is with a shared house? We had a contents policy at my old house, but they wont cover my house-mate's gear, only mine (we had a break-in). At the time, my dad organised the policy, and they said we'd both be covered, but, it looks like in the small print that they're right.

Why don't you set up one of your pods as a usb interface, and then record everything through that? You can have it all clean for when you're using the other pod, or the drum machine etc etc. If you don't need to record more than one thing at once, then you have enough to do what you want.

It has to be Erocktion, I can't beleive it's not winning.

If anyone's interested, we got drunk a week or so ago and made this demo using reason instead of my drumming skills, and beer instead of talent, and cotton wool instead of monitors, just to aid the mix a bit. [url="http://www.myspace.com/theprematureejaculatorscomingsoon"]www.myspace.com/theprematureejaculatorscomingsoon[/url]

About a month ago in the recording studio, I started playing through my rig, and noticed it had lost it's usual "mammoth b*ll*cks". This was really dissapointing, but i've managed to add in some extra low end in the mixing stage. Anyway, the loss of low end was because my TE extension cab is broken! It has 1 x horn, 1 x 10", and 1 x 18". It's only the 18" which isn't working. I unscrewed everything the other day, hoping that it would just be a dry joint on the back of the speaker. However, I can't get the speaker out of the cab!! Any ideas?

I suppose it depends on the band you're recording. A lot of bands sound the same these days, and I wonder if it's the bands trying to sound like eachother, or the engineers getting lazy, or just me being bitter. The first ever time I went into the studio, we were 16 and paying for it all ourselves. It cost a lot of money, and when I got to put down the bass, he told me to put away the 6 string and distortion pedal (I only had 1 at the time) and just trust him to get a great bass sound, as he does it all the time. Well, it did end up sounding good, but, it sounded like every other indie band around at the time, and it really annoyed me and stuck with me, and I guess that's where I was comming from. If I was a session player doing less original stuff, I guess I would like a 5 string precision, and (judging from your posts) it could save the engineer some time. I've never really thought of it from that point of view. If a band sounds great live, using a certain set up, should they sound great in the studio using the same set-up? I think the answer is yes, but, more often than not, when you chuck an extra 20 guitar tracks on there and start compressing drums etc, you loose that great live sound you had.

I just don't think that this idea of a precision=time saved is a fact. Maybe a precision+an engineer who always works with them/loves them will save time, and maybe most engineers love precisions, but that doesn't make it a fact. I've never been under pressure for time during a mix though, so I really should shut up!