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Cheers mate, just reciprocated... Tha Valenti is fantastic by the way, loving the tones this thing can get....

Just bought Rich's old Valenti, fantastic bass exactly as described. Rich is a pleasure to deal with, all went swimmingly. For anyone looking to deal with this geezer you can do so with total confidence. Cheers mate...

I picked up a Rebelhead for £699 from Sounds Live last week, seems the price is dropping a little which can't be a bad thing...

[quote name='Randy_Marsh' post='456847' date='Apr 7 2009, 08:46 PM']im not using amplitude for the bass now, just guitar cause it sounds awesome so by doing that i will get the sound thats played in amplitube recorded? this must be like pulling teeth....[/quote] Sounds like your using Amplitube as a standalone piece of software rather than running it as a VST plug-in right? If so, rather than running a seperate instance of Amplitube you just need to select it as an insert plug-in on the track that you want to record guitar on in reaper.

[quote]But what's the one piece of advice I keep seeing on BC regarding beginner purchases? - Try a few and see what takes your fancy.[/quote] Good advice, unfortunately the ability to do this is becoming less common as the manufacturers are battling against software piracy and are reluctant to allow trial versions to be available for download. None of the manufacturers I mentioned in my post have demo versions available, Cakewalk and Ableton do I believe but unfortunately pirate copies of their software are all over the net. The phrase stuck between a rock and a hard place springs to mind...

Hi Al, Don't know if you're going to stick with Cubase or not but there is a great resource with video tutorials [url="http://www.steinbergusers.com/vids/XML_players/cubase/cubase_videos_content.html"]here[/url]. Cubase is pretty much at the top of the tree when it comes to DAWs along with Pro Tools, Pyramix, Logic et al. They're all good and each have their pros and cons, I would suggest that those telling you to avoid it simply don't like the GUI or maybe have never put the time in to learn how to use it (something you're going to have to do with any DAW incidentally). I use Cubase (Nuendo), Pyramix and Pro Tools at work and once you know them they all do the same thing. For more help with learning the software you could do worse than browse through the many Cubase Notes articles available on the sound on sound website. [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/search?url=%2Fsearch&section=%2F&Keyword=cubase&Keyword=cubase&Year=+&Month=+&Words=All&Summary=Yes&Section=8&Subject=14&ShowResults=yes"]Here[/url] are 112 of them to get you started! Good luck and enjoy.. Cheers, Sean.

Hi Tim, I'm assuming that the Boss pedal was bypassed right? If you use the HiZ input on your FA-101, you won't need a DI box (or the Boss pedal). As for the tone change (whether it's an improvement or not is personal opinion) it's down to cost cutting on behalf of Boss by not using a true bypass design. See [url="http://www.muzique.com/lab/truebypass.htm"]here[/url] for more info. All the best, Sean.

[quote name='Randy_Marsh' post='433066' date='Mar 13 2009, 12:00 AM']yeh got a Lightsnake USB cable And yeh, this is all fairly complicated :S[/quote] If you want to monitor Amplitube while you record I would recommend trying Reaper (because it's very cheap and has a relatively high spec), you may still run into latency problems however. To reiterate what Eight said I imagine you will have to use the ASIO4ALL driver with this to get the best results. If this doesn't give you any joy you're going to need a 'proper' audio interface... Good luck and let us know how you get on

Hi Randy, Just to add, you're going to need an audio interface of some description to get the signal into the 'puter in the first place (apologies if this is teaching yer granny...!) or do you have one already?