Woodinblack

I love my DX (didn't see this thread before now), it is the perfect machine for carrying around, and the keyboard is fantastic, considering it is minikeys. I really wanted the Reface YC organ, as we were doing a lot of organ things, so I wandered into PMT to check it out*, and there was the whole reface range, the organ was great, but then when I got to the DX, wow. Also it was going through decent speakers and it was such a big sound, like a better DX - none of that hissy 14 bit DAC on the original DXs, this is crystal clear. Amazingly flexible. Not so bad to program, but you can also go to the yamaha website and just preview the patches and save what you want. I now use live to play several songs live. I now have a tray as the tape wasn't really working well! * due to PMTs idea of not putting prices on anything, I assumed they would be expensive there, so checked teh internet when I got home, and found out they were one of the cheapest. Shame really, had I known that I would have bought it there and then, but as it was I scored a nearly new sh one cheap.

I have done the first of those quite a bit, but not sure me playing it would tell you a lot except maybe I should practice more!

In black that would be great

Yes, mostly have to. Its a long journey to go to any place where they have anything other than a couple of fenders. Also depends on what I am getting, some brands are pretty consistent so you know what it is going to be like, like my ibanezes, all bar one of which I have bought online. In fact, now I look around, all the basses I have here, apart from the 5005 and the 8 string were bought online (and they were actually bought online but picked up in person), and all the basses I saw in a shop and tried before I bought have been long sold.

Mine arent daft colours. My bass cables are dark purple, my keyboard cables are red, my PA long xlrs are blue, and my general PA wiring cables are dark red (apart from the drum ones that are yellow) and my microphone cable is florescent orange. Everyone elses leads are black. Makes breaking down a lot faster, and probably setting up.

That is fine, you just have to make sure your output isn't going back to your input, so either route your output to a different destination (like speakers) or ensure that none of your output is getting to your input, which has to be possible on the mixer (I assume, it is on the behringer).

If you have feedback it means what feedback always means - your output is being routed back to your input. Get rid of the 'listen when playing' if your output is the same as your input and the device routes it back - obviously, I can't say, I don't know how your mixer does it, its fine on my X18 as I put 16 inputs to the input and keep the stereo USB output on other channels

Firstly, Audacity does let you have as many tracks as you want, although it is not great at it. On the garage band front, it sounds much more like an input source issue. Assuming that your Peavey mixing desk actually outputs / inputs on USB (and I know nothing about peaveys), you have to tell the mac where the inputs and outputs come from, ie, which device. Under GarageBand->Preferences (menu), the second one across is 'Audio / Midi'. For it to work you have to have the input set to the peavey desk. It sounds like you have the output set to it (why you don't hear the output when it is plugged in). If you want the output through your speakers, you need to set the output to something else, such as 'Built in output'. Then when you have the input there, say 'New Tracks' from the track menu, one of the audio (mic or guitar), and under there it lists the inputs you have. Select one of those and it should appear in the track when you are playing. You can tick the 'I want to hear my instrument as I play and record' if you have it coming to a different output

Thats a bit unfair, I didn't, or do you mean the correct number of lashes for pointing out that someone posted in the wrong thread. In which case, what is the required number of lashes for someone pointing out that someone pointed out that someone posted in the wrong thread? Has to go up each level no?

Was this intended for this thread, or the 'when will it be ok to start gigging again' thread?

I can't imagine that would actually save you any money though. The wood they are charging thousands to add is only costing about £100, so maybe you could take the price from £2000 down to £1900 by supplying your own wood?

Is that not really the basic idea of most large shops though, yes, including halfords? I mean you have specialist places, and then you have a general shop. are there any large shops that are that different? Maybe you have been spoiled by good guitar shop experiences, luckily I haven't had too many of those

When that is an option. It took me a long time to get a pot that would work for my SR1000, as it has a dual track mixed value pot. When I did it was very expensive and now after a couple of years, it is scratchy again

Not sure what you mean by indies, but I bought a bass from bax music and it took a couple of days longer than it originally said, but they did have a banner on their home page saying orders might take a couple of days longer, so I didn't feel unwarned!

Yep - in the dawsons thread last week, its good news:

Agree on the first one and not the second!

Sounds good, although the first place looks expensive! On the other hand, I have often though of just putting a guitar synth on a guitar and using that for bass. Seems like it would probably be easier to trigger with the higher frequencies, this is if all I wanted was what teh synth was offering, and not just 'as well as the bass' thing. But I bought my pickup so I could take it apart and put it on the Chapman stick, so I guess I just need to learn to play that more!

1 bazillion I think. The other 399 bazillion want to hear 'Invisible touch' and 'land of confusion'. And maybe even really old stuff like 'Mama'

How can a genesis track, especially from Wind and Wuthering be overrated when 99% of people have never heard of it Compared to what? I was listening to Ummagumma and Piper at the Gates of Dawn yesterday. You can say the same about the wall and dark side! In fact, if you take out from dark side to the final cut - it seems like quite a clear progression

Well, yes, every time I have been offered the option it has been a puzzled 'why would I do that?'. I mean if it gets to the end of the listing and noone offered anything (I normally have an offer on it), then I will assume it is either too much or too uncommon and either list it again lower or not bother.

They can. If you are selling something, the new thing (ie, the last time I sold something, I don't regularly sell) is eBay will give you a button saying 'Send an offer to your watchers to tempt them into buying, we recommend £nnn' which is probably some scaled value. So you dont' find out who your watchers are or get to talk to them, but you can send them like a group offer. And I don't think it is only watchers, I think there is a 'you looked at this, there is an offer on it' thing too

The emails depend on what your mailing preferences are. I only get messages via email

Can't help with a manual as I am not one for such things, but the metronome volume is in Preferences->Metronome!