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    I think face value is £16 so obviously I would like as much of that back as possible If you want to PM me an offer. I am afraid due to these new fangled online tickets I don't have a paper copy but can meet outside the venue or if you are going to be late I think I can reallocate tickets to members of the party arriving late online.
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    Got a spare ticket going if anyone is interested? Cheers Chris
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    Perhaps you could buy one a wooden rack case/sleeve and recover it with a tweed material?
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    Played at the 500 capacity Bloomsbury Theatre last night in the UCL Funk band. It was my first time playing anything like that and only had one run through but it went really well. Played Jungle Boogie, Let's get it on & Play that funky music. So nice playing in a proper venue with decent sound & monitors. Anyway playing in a big funk band is what I have always dreamed of doing and it felt good
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    Played through one of these last night using an electric bass - sounded great, nice low end and smooth treble. Have a bump on me
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    [quote name='BassManKev' post='329594' date='Nov 15 2008, 11:12 AM']running a synth before a filter is never a good idea as the filter wont respond to your dynamics. Why not just a clean boost pedal[/quote] The filter won't really do anything in front of the oscillator though? I have good results running various filters after a synth, providing your synth can reproduce dynamics or you can control it with an LFO.
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    NEW Roland Vbass

    dr.funk replied to ped's topic in Effects

    [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='328803' date='Nov 14 2008, 02:26 AM']I have to confess I've never tried a Variax guitar beyond picking one up in a music shop but it always struck me as a particularly stupid idea. Let's do the processing outboard, eh? I mean, the potential with the Variax is to either like the bass but hate the modelling, or like the modelling but hate the guitar - it's never going to satisfy more than a narrow band of players and its remit is to satisfy loads of us. Really, really silly idea IMO.[/quote] The problem with having an outboard unit is that everyone will be using different guitars with it and so there is no reference starting point from which to create a model. I think the idea behind the variax is that the tone is predictable and can then be altered to produce known results by the electronics inside. I can see what you mean though the basses are pretty average and don't feel as good as they should for the price.
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    I have a pair of HD 212s and they do the job pretty well. A bit too much bass though, on some tracks the kick drum sounds really disjointed. But for games and general listening they are brilliant. I am thinking of treating myself to some open back ones at Christmas.
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    Anyone else going to see him at the Astoria 2 on 6th Dec?
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    [quote name='Biggsy' post='319184' date='Oct 31 2008, 04:37 PM']Edit: I just remembered some other potentially helpful info; MOTU reccomend Texas Instruments Firewire chipsets, so it's worth checking what your shiny new PC has. I've never tried it on any other chipsets as all my PC's have come with TI, but that may explain why some people have had troubles.[/quote] I was just going to mention that. According to Sound on Sound you really need a laptop with a texas instruments firewire chipset if you are going to run a firewire interface without hassle. Unfortunately that information is quite hard to find out.
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    NEW Roland Vbass

    dr.funk replied to ped's topic in Effects

    [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec07/articles/rolandvg99.htm"]Sound on Sound VG99 Review[/url] That should provide quite a bit of information. The thread on Talkbass seemed to be getting quite confused about the method of synthesis. It isn't based on conversion to midi but rather works on the original signal. Looks very cool anyway. I like the look of the ribbon controller too
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    [quote name='benwhiteuk' post='314262' date='Oct 24 2008, 11:51 PM']You could do a lot worse than this - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=27910"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=27910[/url] Great price as well for a great bit of kit [/quote] I think if you want to do looping that is probably the only option at that price
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    [quote name='tayste_2000' post='311267' date='Oct 21 2008, 01:05 PM']Basically every pedal looper is flawed in some way and I mean a major way but if you go the software and VST route you need some serious power there if you go as advanced as Steve Lawson goes with his. If you return the DL-4 try and see if the shop has a Electro Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai it's my current looper of choice.[/quote] Whilst I am not too sure how 'advanced' Steve Lawson goes the Mobius looper I mentioned before is a VST clone of a Gibson Echoplex which I believe Steve Lawson uses. It can run 8 stereo loops at once with ease on my 1.5ghz dual core laptop, so I don't think power is that much of an issue. By the way that M13 pedal is a beast!
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    Check out Mobius and Ambiloop. I use Mobius running as a VST in Live (so I have drums to play with) and put it on an effect send. That way I can have different tones on each channel and with record set to auto by pressing the arm button can switch the sound going into the looper whilst having the output on constantly. It can also be used standalone but I haven't, yet, got a midi foot controller which makes it impossible to start and stop the loop in time! Ambiloop is a little more basic but still good fun. I think both can be controlled by midi.
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    On hold.
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    [quote name='jamesf' post='309896' date='Oct 19 2008, 04:40 PM']Not sure about Vista compatibility with any of these, I've only ever used it once. There's an M-Audio FW410 on the sale board for £140, and that's a bit of a bargain, they're good interfaces, particularly with surround work. The preamps are focusrite, and I've got some ok recordings out of one using AKG Se300B's straight in, so that may be a good option to investigate - again, you'll always sell a FW410 on if you don't like it![/quote] As the person selling aforementioned interface I have to agree that it's a good piece of kit. I have done a few recordings using a pair of behringer pencil condensers on acoustic guitar & drums and it sounded good to me. I have checked the website and M Audio do have Vista drivers. If your interested give me a PM, price negotiable
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    [quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='309604' date='Oct 19 2008, 12:16 AM']I'm quite tempted to buy this and do [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=391653"]this[/url] to it.[/quote] That is incredible I wouldn't mind doing that someday..
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    I have had this interface for just over a year, bought it new from Absolute music. I haven't used it out of the house and haven't even used the unit that much to be honest. Selling because I am going to go for Guitar rig to get the benefit of a foot controller and some software too. I can include the original box, driver cd, power supply with lots of adaptors for different countries, and either a 6-6 or 6-4 pin firewire cable. I do have a DEMO cd of Ableton Live 6. I didn't recieve a serial number with the boxed version but a call to M Audio got me a serial number which I have used. You may be able to try this and that would activate it into Live Lite 6 and then there is a free upgrade to Live Lite 7. If anyone would care to make me an [b]offer[/b], preferably collected from either central London (could meet at a tube station etc.) or from Guildford, Surrey. I could arrange posting but it may take a while as I am at uni. Here is the generic information: FireWire 410 is a FireWire-compatible audio/MIDI interface that has it all—power, flexibility, compact size and low price. FireWire 410’s 4-in/10-out configuration complete with preamps is perfect for personal recording, routing discrete outputs to a mixer, or directly driving a surround sound system. The on-board ASIO 2-compliant mixer and software control panel provides total routing flexibility—including monitoring with external effects. You also get ultra-low latency software monitoring and near-zero latency hardware direct monitoring—and two headphone outs with independent level controls let you collaborate with a partner anywhere, anytime. FireWire 410 can even be completely bus-powered for total mobile operation (6-pin FireWire port required) * 2 analog input channels each featuring: o mic/line inputs (balanced XLR and unbalanced 1/4") o preamp with level control, signal/clip LEDs and amazing available gain of 66dB o 48V phantom power (globally switched) o 20 dB pad * 8 line outputs with signal/clip LEDs (unbalanced 1/4" @ -10dBV) * stereo monitor level control * 2-channel S/PDIF digital I/O (coaxial and optical, switched) * 1 x 1 MIDI I/O with bypass for stand-alone operation * 2 headphone outs with individual level controls (1/4" TRS) * 2 FireWire high-speed ports for connection convenience * low-latency software monitoring; zero-latency direct hardware monitoring * AC3 and DTS surround support via digital output * analog outs can directly drive up to 7.1 surround w/o decoder using included software bass management * standalone operation via AC adapter
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    Argh only just saw this now
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    Very easy to do on a computer, based on delay and looping really. Not sure how to achieve. that easily in pedal format.
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    Sorry Jake I could of sworn I had replied but there isn't anything in my messages. PM sent now.
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    Delta V is here: [url="http://www.myspace.com/warprecords"]Warp Myspace[/url] Reminds me of Primus
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    Thanks for the heads up I am looking forward to this. I have been really enjoying listening to the BBC Proms set at Koko (although annoyingly the videos have been removed from youtube) and was going to get Feed Me Weird things but this sounds good
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    What's the role of the behringer foot controller Dan? Just patch changing on the Novation Supernova? I have a Novation KS4 (now trying to sell it but that's another story..) and I know exactly what you mean about being able to destroy buildings, I think I scared the hell out of everyone nearby after plugging that into my bass amp at practice. How do you find the tracking of the axon/roland setup to be? I have been experimenting with some pitch to midi software and can get pretty good results above 12th fret but obviously only monophonic..
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