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Most people work with the drummer wearing headphones with a click track. A lot of the free midi files are hit and miss so I would consider paying for them. Stay away from only using GM as the are generally not that good. unless thing have changed in the last 6 years. Are you using a large PA with engineer or do you have a simple set up? if the latter keep the set up simple also, do the tracks at home then bounce them to a stereo file one side click and the other side music. use a mini disk or until player until you get to grips with working with them. A lot depends on what type of band you want to be. as for "musical integrity"... here is a quote from danOwens "I only seem to come into contact with the haters on the amateur circuit. Throughout my professional work, most people seem to be either interested in or involved with midi sequencing to some degree: good luck

[quote name='iamapirate' post='544374' date='Jul 18 2009, 10:13 PM']Bah, I dont think any [b]real[/b] bassist plays for the sole purpose of money.[/quote] not met many pros then. If someone makes a living from playing bass then surly they are a real bassist more than if it is someone’s hobby or aspiration of a career.

Tax avoidance is a criminal offence. MP get slagged off for fiddling expenses, benefit cheats are slagged off, but tax avoidance is ok so long as it’s to do with music. It is unfair on Pro musicians who have to pay tax if you have regular income from music. I am no accountant but I believe spending your money on gear does not mean you don’t pay tax, all that you are allowed is the depreciation in value. Also consider If you are the one who signs for the money how do you prove that you have split the money with the rest of the with the band, you could be liable for the lot Waiting for abuse now

Most of The Jam Songs + Stranglers, Tubeway Army first album,also Warhead by The UK Subs Thats how I learnt to play copying them

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='522591' date='Jun 24 2009, 01:56 PM']Am I right in thinking that there is no soldering involved with this... just place the pickup wire in the pink housing and tighten the screws?[/quote] Yes no soldering involved.

Maybe like you I am no spring chicken and have grown up around bands and musicians Some Pro others just happy to gig play a few tunes and enjoy themselves. but on a personal note I have done the duo thing for a short while both with double bass and electric, We where ok but I hated it was not for me

It depends on what type of music you want to play, I can see what you are saying in a folk, blues or jazz type venues and I will agree with but in your average pub or club where people just want to be entertained and have a dance then I stand by what I say. what happens if you just want to play rock and pop covers like a lot of duos. Most people would love to play with a great full band but it is not always possible. It is all down to the music you want to play and where you want to play it nothing to do with skill

There are many reasons why people use backing tracks, the most common is that after spending years in a band people are fed up with the politics and unreliability of other musicians also remember that some people are not lucky enough to have well paid jobs so they use their skill to supplement their wages. Baking tracks mean a better sound which means more work and better venues, so why not.

Both the black wires on the pu's should be ground, on top of the pots

Richard Thompson - A Bone Through Her Nose.

I may be able to help you out. If you PM with what you want I can give you a price and send you some examples of my work.

My Advice would be to slow down, learn simpler stuff but really learn it so you can play it well and in time, play along with a drum machine or you dad if he is a drummer. Don’t concentrate on slap stick to fingers for a while learn how to use great note choices and effective moderate tempo grooves. With slap you can go a long way with a few simple techniques, great for showing off in the music shop on Saturday afternoon but not much use when playing with other musicians. Learn how to play walking bass it never looks flash but can take a life time to master. Good Luck with what you do and remember one great note is worth a thousand bad ones.

I have one on a jap Jazz A good service with nice people who answered all my questions. Will not improve the sound like a active but will give more variations

Maybe it is clean slate time let, Skillbass start again.

Have a home built PC and a Mac book Pro, I make backing tracks so I use a lot of large sample library's including BFD into 14 separate tracks each with EQ compression and some with saturation plugins + Guitars bass maybe vocals I have also done live bands with up to 30 tracks both have been fine with plenty more in reserve. Why pay for power that I will never need as I have said both are up to a pro job I agree with one thing Pro tools runs better on Mac but Cubase runs better on PC A good article on [url="http://www.tweakheadz.com/Mac_vs_Pc_DAWS.htm"]http://www.tweakheadz.com/Mac_vs_Pc_DAWS.htm[/url] As wintermute says Software and computers come and go, mics and good signal paths are eternal...

[quote name='51m0n' post='520572' date='Jun 22 2009, 10:33 AM']If you are just getting into the idea you really do not need to invest in a mac. Later on if you want serious pro quality recording facility (think 40 odd channels with VSTs and VSTis all over them, then you need a big f off mac. Simple home recording is possible on an up to date PC running very cheap software (I recommend you try Reaper). A very good friend of mine ran his studio on PC for years, he seriously knows his stuff with PC building, and his networking skills are far greater than anyone on this forum (in all probability) since that is his profession and he is at the top of it. Getting a PC to run close to 40 tracks of audio with plentiful VSTs and no glitches on output proved beyond an absolutely money no object top of the range current PC hand built for that specific task. It could not reliably bounce to stereo, it just ran out of horsepower. A top spec G5 mac cruises through the same test without any issues at all, every single time. He now bores everyone evangelising macs You dont need that horsepower for simple home recording, I manage on an old HP business laptop running Reason. It ain't ideal, I have limits technically, but it does do the job, just. Get a good book on recording, get on a couple of recording forums, get a decent couple of mics (an SM57 and an AKG C1000s for instance) and get on with it [/quote] PC are getting faster all the time, A few years ago you had a point about Mac vs PC but now with the latest processes the argument is e relevant. It is not a case of Mac for Pros and PC for amatures it is a personal preference, Laptops have a slower hard drive so less tracks. Spend the extra money on items that will improve the actual recording quality if you have a limited budget, why spend all that money on a mac and use the internal sound card (not the best) when a decent Audio interface, Pre amp, condenser microphone and studio monitors will make more of a difference to the recordings. Try to stay clear of battery operated microphones the are not as good quality as phantom power only.

A lot of the problems with PC’S is that most people use them as a multi function system, games and programs like MS office and Internet security doesn’t help and can make them a little unstable. I use a duel boot system one side for office and internet the other for studio only. On a limited budget I would go for PC + Audio Interface then monitors before paying extra for a Mac.

A lot of people will say go down the Mac rout but it is quite an investment to make. For what you want a reasonably up to date PC will be more than adequate for the time being plus you do not have the learning curve of a Mac. The most important thing is the soundcard or audio interface anything by M Audio, Emu or similar would be fine, maybe consider the protools mini for all in one package. Logic , Cubase Protools they are all capable of great results, one is no better than the other. My advice is go for some second hand bargains on EBay to see how you get on, If you find that recording is for you then consider a Mac but a dedicated PC Daw is just as stable as a Mac unless you fill it with cracked software or crap. I use both

Some good advice thank you. maybe I need to put limits on myself. Like a said when I played the bass before I could busk no problem , whatever a drummer did I just lock in, play round cord changes and come out with suitable lines that added to the music. I think I am having a mental block, If I play along to a drum machine or some cords I just go blank and what I play sounds like a beginner where as before instinct just took over.

I have played bass for a long time but have had quite a few years gap. I have lost the ability to busk I was ok before the gap but not any longer. My playing is just bad when I busk I have no idea what to play and don’t like most of what I do play, I don’t try to bet too clever or overcomplicate things, I and have no problem when I have worked something out or playing covers. it may be because I am no longer in a band, I just record. My technique is up to a reasonable standard I have no problem with the bass standards that most of us play (Jaco’s Come on come over Teen Town, Rhythm stick, Bach 2 part and cello suite) I know my way around the freeboard and have a decent grasp of theory. Am I the only one

I had that once, it turned out that the new drummers best friend was a bass player who wanted to the gig so a campaign of crawling and bitching went off behind my back. They didn’t last much longer after was pushed the new bass player was unreliable and the rot started to set in.

[quote name='JohnR' post='492585' date='May 19 2009, 06:26 PM']Devices | VST Instruments and load the VST you want. In the VST instruments windows click the icon that looks like an arrow pointing right out of a square to the left of the VST name. This will give you a list of the available outputs to activate.[/quote] Thank you just what i wanted to know, I am now sorted

In SX when a instrument was inserted a channel was automatically created for each output, in Cubase 5 only the first stereo pair is created and work.

How do I get multi output VST instruments to use separate channels?

IMHE blanket comments like ****** is crap tends to come from younger and inexperienced players it is all a matter of taste. some amps compliment some instruments more then others