BTGAndy

I have an H2 that I use for electro acoustic music, the quality is great. It's also nice and cheap!

The best free (as in comes with Macs) DAW for mucking about in is probably Garageband, which I'm assuming you've got if you have an iMac. You can spend any amount on an interface, ideally though if you're taking a line from the D.I. in your head you'll want something with at least one XLR in socket. As Ray mentioned the Line 6 Toneport interfaces are good, if you wanted to foray into ProTools, the MBox 2 Mini is good value for money, it can also be used as an interface for any other DAW.

Definitely try them out before you buy, take some music you know very well to test on them too. I have the KRK RP5 G2s, as do a lot of my friends and we are all agreed that they're amazing monitors for the price. You have to be careful when buying monitors because it's really easy to buy a lovely expensive pair and see little improvement over a much cheaper pair because of the room that you are mixing in. You might be best off going with something like the KRKs and spending the rest of your budget on improving the monitoring environment.

Odd that, mine rumbles away happily on the low B of my Overwater.

It may well just be the bass, I've had some earthing problems with it recently.

Yes it is, and stop calling me Shirley.

I think you want the for sale section mate, I can highly recommend the H2, great little recorder, you can get them for about £160 new with a 4GB SD card and silicon jacket.

I have just taken delivery of my new Golight 1x15, it really opens up the bottom end of the rig. Here's a picture! I love the Golight cabs, I must admit to liking the sound of them more than the Goliaths because they are punchier and have more detail in the mid range.

The tracking is ace on the deluxe octave pedal, best octaver I've ever used, tracks well down to a low B!

Awesome mate, I've been pining for some decent tech metal since SikTh split!

I'd recommend you check out the MXR pedals, they're well built, quiet and the effects are great. They have a youtube channel, search for MXR that has lots of rundown videos of the effects and audio clips on the dunlop website. +1 on the Morley Dual Bass Wah, it's an ace wah pedal.

There's no way the Bass cube RX will be loud enough for a drummer, great practice and solo amp though.

The Roland Bass Micro Cube RX is good, built in effects, tuner and it can be battery powered.

The SWR Golight cabs may be worth a look, lightweight(ish) and sound just like the full weight Goliaths.

Aural Enhancer 2 O'Clock (Classic Aural enhancer) Bass +6dB @ 60Hz Everything else flat with a tiny bit of onboard compression, and straight out of the onboard D.I. post pre. There is the option on the amp to use the new aural enhancer settings developed with marcus miller, it gives a much darker sound.

You should definitely give it a try, it's an amazing piece of kit. I believe walbassist has also ordered one.