bennifer

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='213516' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:14 PM']You’re still looking at around £350 with that though. You can pick up an Mbox mini with ProTools LE 7.4 for about £160 brand new from ebay.[/quote] ah yeah totally, they're more expensive than one with just a few channels, however I was replying to the bit about the guy wanting to record a full band - with that you really want 8 channels for just the drums, then track everything on top of that. But yeah, if you just want to track a bass or guitar, a basic usb-jack will do ok, better yet a basic 2 channel interface with provision for zero latency monitoring and phantom power were you to use a condenser mic to track vocals.

The cold tap seems to be keeping the blisters down, I'll work through the pain until the pain is no more! Bennifer is a nickname I got because my hair got so long it was almost like a womans - jennifer/ben hybrid! Cheers for the welcome and look forward to getting involved on the board is there a way to search on here for members in your area? Especially stuff in the for sale!...

[quote name='bremen' post='96679' date='Nov 30 2007, 03:17 PM']no, that isn't the case. The speaker rating is simply how much power you can put into it before it shakes itself to bits and/or the glue melts in the voice coil. Tha amplifier doesn't care how close the speaker is to death. On the other hand, a less efficient speaker needs more input power than an efficient one for a given sound pressure level, so that _will_ work the amplifier harder. definitely![/quote] True, but surely if you max out the amp, although the speaker can take it, the clipping thats going to occur from pushing an amp to its limit can damage the speaker. Certainly in Live sound PA terms ive always been recommended to run an amp way more powerful than the speaker - the amp can be run at a quarter or half capacity, so its not getting strained or anywhere near clipping, and the speaker, well you arent running that to the limit either so nothing breaks. Correct me if im wrong!

Haha, come to think about it, I do drink a lot of cheap cider. Personally i'm quite the packhorse though, i'm one of the fussy ones that doesn't like other people touching my kit! Infact, i've been known to help out other bands at gigs - although i'm never getting involved with carrying an 8x10 ampeg cab down a narrow staircase into a cellar venue ever again!!!

[quote name='tonybassplayer' post='210770' date='Jun 1 2008, 09:39 PM']Looking forward to see what responses you get as I have been thinking about an audio interface for a while now for my mac and keep looking at something that will do the full band but that would probably cost a few hundred pounds and I will then probably only use it occasionally so the best option for me would be a cheap, simple, one channel interface to use with garageband. Tony[/quote] Some of the best cheap audio interfaces suitable for that are the Motu 8pre and the Presonus Firepod. I've personally got the Firepod, it has 8 XLR inputs on the front and a further stereo 2 channel Spdif input on the back, which I link a fairly classy Focusrite Penta Preamp/Compressor into to give me an extra channel in. Its a rock solid system and sounds great. I haven't used the 8pre but its about the same price, it has the bonus of having ADAT which lets you link in a further 8 channels if you buy another rack preamp strip. Of course, if you're a bit sketchy about affording an interface with that many channels, you're probably going to be screwed when it comes to recording in as you probably won't have any microphones either! A decent drum mic kits gonna set you back at least 500 quid! Hope that helps.

Hey guys, just signed up and thought i'd post something in here. I'm Ben, 21 years of age currently living between Camberley Surrey, my hometown, and Lincoln, where I go to uni taking a film course. I've been playing drums for 5 or so years now, a beautiful Premier Artist kit with Sabian cymbals. However i've got to the stage where living back in Camberley over summer, I can't really practise the drums that much as im back living with the parents and the noise is driving them nuts! I always planned on learning bass and only went to drums because a mate gave me a kit for free back when I was procuring an instrument. So now im doing both, bass being something I can practise in pretty much silence whenever I like, aka midnight when im bored and can't smash the drums. An old college friend sold me an Aria bass that she believes is an IGB30, its totally mint, might as well have never been out of the box, not a single scratch, just 40 pounds - feels like a bargain and giving me something to learn on for fun. Don't have an amp at the moment but i've got a home recording studio setup so just running through my rack of bits and bobs and out of my monitors, running AmpegSVX at the moment for a bit of modelling. Getting on quite well with the bass now, have been playing a couple of weeks and I think the rhythm from the drums has helped me loads, now im just getting my fingers past the point of severe pain, which I hope stops soon! Anywho, thats enough of a rant, thats me done until I get a job sorted and can afford to look into some kind of nice amp