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The iphones, and 2nd gen iphone touches have a 4 connector mini jack (TRRS), which will allow you to plug in a microphone/line in jack. If you've got the headphones/headset that came with the iphone the ones with the volume buttons and microphone, you should see that the mini jack has 4 connectors, TRRS, rather than just the TRS of a stereo mini jack.

i'm sure you can get a specific mini jack to jack adaptor for the iphone. Peterson do one i'm sure you can get cheaper ones though: [url="http://www.petersontuners.com/index.cfm?category=135&action=itemView&itemID=39"]http://www.petersontuners.com/index.cfm?ca...w&itemID=39[/url] This lets you plug the bass or something else in like a mixer output.

digitech jamman is great, similar to the RC-20XL, but stores the loops in a removable flash card and lets you use a drum track or any other audio file in your loops.

Garageband is great for what you want to do. Audacity is also a great free program that'll work on your PC. The cheapest way to do it would be to take a 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch jack from your sansamp (to give you some tone control and increase the level if you need to). into the mic input jack of your computer or imac. You just need to watch the levels, and it might not sound the best, but might be ok just to give an idea about playing style. I'm sure there are simple audio interfaces jack input to usb which may provide better matched levels for an instrument input.

A recording of a drill should have quite a specific note which should be quite easy to loop while you pitch shift to the right note, the I guess you just want to mix it in at the end of the other power tool recordings. Can be done in any DAW. As for playback, simplest way is to put it on CD get the sound man to play it as you go on and make sure you can hear it in the monitors. If you want control playback just ask for another D.I on stage and plug in an iPod.

In the £400 price range for pretty decent quality you can easily get 8 channels of mic inputs. I really like the Presonus, and MOTU range. the Presonus D8 as G said is pretty darn good for £270 [url="http://www.dv247.com/studio-equipment/presonus-digimax-d8-8-channel-mic-preamp--48499"]http://www.dv247.com/studio-equipment/pres...c-preamp--48499[/url] Heard good things about the MOTU 8Pre [url="http://www.dv247.com/computer-hardware/motu-8pre-firewire-audio-interface-with-8-mic-preamps--36152"]http://www.dv247.com/computer-hardware/mot...-preamps--36152[/url] If you want to got with a mixer option like that Alesis you found, i've not tried it but am always impressed with Allen & Heath mixers, and this would work as a recording interface in your budget. [url="http://www.dv247.com/studio-equipment/allen-and-heath-zed-14-live-recording-mixer--48358"]http://www.dv247.com/studio-equipment/alle...ng-mixer--48358[/url]

There are so many options now with multi track recorders, you really need to come up with a list of needs, e.g: What you want to do with it? How many inputs will you be happy with? Do you want the ability to expand and add more inputs (eg via ADAT) or go cheaper and buy bigger later to just replace? Do you want portability? Are your electric drums just stereo output, or will you want direct outs for each drum pad? Do you have a desk to use the mic preamps for the bass, and guitars? if not you'll need an interface with enough mic preamps for each instrument, if you do and have direct outs or enough aux outputs on the desk you just need line inputs on the interface. Will you ever be in a place where you want to record without the computer? In which case something like the zoom you looked at first would be what you want. What sort of quality do you want from it, just for getting down ideas or good enough to record tracks for demos or will you be wanting to put together your own eps for a while? Are you happy to buy second hand or does is have to be new? Then more importantly, what's your budget? Whats the maximum you can afford to spend? What price would you be more happy to pay? If you answer a few of those questions you start narrowing down the search.

[quote name='sgh' post='645568' date='Nov 4 2009, 06:46 PM']Thanks for the pointers. Would be recording Bass, Electronic Drums & guitars to start with but wouldn't mind some mic inputs to 'future proof' (for want of a better phrase) in case we use them in the future. I have my iMAC in the recording space so no worries there. Cheers Steve[/quote] Just to let you know that actually looks like it does have mic inputs so would work ok, never used it so couldn't comment on how good it is.

A couple of questions for those of you that already have this. What are the dimensions of it, how would it fit on a pedaltrain jnr? A long shot but, I know that the diago power supply can power the DL4 and FM4 etc, but can it supply the M9 or is the power supply for it similar to the PODXT. Also, from the line6 website it looks like you can have three effects active at one time so if i had the effects put into slots: ____1_______2__________3 B Octave--Whammy--Envelope Filter A Phaser-----Wha---------Delay am i right in thinking that I can only have a combination of 1 2 and 3 so if i had octave->wha->Delay if i wanted to add the phaser i would have to switch off the the octave? But i guess to get around this if i wanted to have the octave and phaser on at the same time i would use the scenes selection to have a scene with the octave and phaser in different numbered banks right? Edit: one more thing, how do you connect up an ernie ball volume pedal to the expression input, it looks like the official EX1 pedal is just a simple 1 TS jack input where as the volume pedals have a jack in and jack out.

Lots of talk about the MB2-500 on talkbass but i don't think thats even come out in the UK, the only place that sell them currently is Thomann, i think GK are saying the Fusion will ship to UK September time. Sorry to hijack, but does anyone have the MB2-500 that they could post some comments about? Looking at getting a small 1U amp that i can fit in my gig bag, this and the markbass F1 are the only ones i've found so far and the GK is much cheaper, + smaller and lighter.

does anyone know of any 2 chain daisy chains for just powering 2 pedals? i find that with my 5-6 pedal chain when i only want to power 2 pedals it's a pain to keep the unused links apart so they don't touch each other and short out.

been following this for a while now, looks awesome, just one thing surely hanging the guitars above a fireplace/heater isn't a good idea? unless its just there to look like a fireplace and not generate any heat.

Using the 2nd layout this is a similar control layout to the yammy trb5, so you have vol, pan, piezo along the top, with the piezo on/off just above the piezo volume so you'll always tend to brush the switch on when reaching for the piezo vol. Then the eq under the vol and pan and the midi vol and switches out to the back. Gives the impression that there aren't many more controls than with the trb, and is relatively logical.