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It comes down to the fact that something is worth what people are willing to pay. Personally I think that’s obscene money for a second hand bass.

I had one on my Ibanez in my last band. Needed it for a few songs. Singer and guitarists would never factor in time for me to retune so the d tuner was awesome. Never had tuning issues, it was very reliable. As stated above you need to use iit whilst tuning up to make sure the strings settled.

Well I got a bit fed up with the flats so tried some new slinky’s and swapped the Hartke head for my Rumble 150 head. Totally different! The clarity/transparency of the Hartke head was amplifying elements of the sound that aren’t audible through the rumble. Sounds loads better and has brought the zing back under control. It’s there when I want it. With the flats a bit of zing was out of the question.

Wow! Just got back from band practice with the flats on. Can’t believe how good it was sounding. Very pleased. Ray with flats through an ebs multidrive. Hartke head and fender 115. Sounds great clean too!

Bit too soon to know how it’ll sound with the band but with flats on this bass is sounding great!

Well, hopefully just a minor teething problem but last nights practice with the Ray wasn’t good! The punch and clarity completely disappeared in the mix and I was struggling to hear myself. The only way I could get it to cut through was with a tone I didn’t like! ive just put my set of fender flats on. I’ll give those a go next time.

Yep, not happened before. What’s really weird is the fact I thought I liked narrow necks. When I got my p bass it seemed to wide at the nut. This is a few mm wider but fits just right. This one weighs in at 4.3kg. 400g heavier than my p bass. Band practice tomorrow. Let’s see how it feels after a couple of hours hanging off my shoulder. Looking forward to hearing it in the mix.

Went up to Exeter today to have a look at a few basses. Not really getting on with my MIM p bass and as I’m back in a band again I thought I’d have a look around, try a few and see what I like. I was expecting to be coming home with, if anything, an Ibanez SR as I had an SR600 in the last band and quite liked it. Anyway I tried a few out today - Rockbass NT Streamer MIM jazz Aerodyne Jazz ibanez SR500 Mustang PJ And this Ray 34 that was heavily discounted at Project Music. I’d never played a stingray type bass before but always been interested. Once I’d played it I kept coming back to it and nothing else seemed to have as good a combination of playability and tone for me. Pretty versatile tone wise too. Can’t believe the punch, definition and clarity. I absolutely love the neck on this. The notes seem to just flow out of my fingers! ! Very happy and can’t wait to try it out at band practice this week. cant stop playing bullet in the head!

Thanks for the info chaps. If this band works out I may be posting NBD!

Thanks skeg, that makes sense. Nothing inferior about the 1800.

Been interested in the SR1800 since playing one in Mansons a few years ago. I walked out with an SR600 which served me well in covers bands for a while but sold it when I stopped playing live. I’m getting back into a gigging band and looking for a tonally versatile bass. Very tempted by the 1800/1820. Does anyone know the difference between the two or is it just that 1820 is the new name for the 1800. The 1800s seem to be discounted in a few shops. cheers, pete

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1462309614' post='3042090'] just a thought, could you not buy an Ipad interface and garageband? [/quote] Well I have got meteor on the iPad and did use my Roland cube amp as an interface. It was ok but thin sounding. I bought an iRig stomp thinking that would be a good alternative as well as giving me iPad effects. That sounded thin too. Turns out the iPad mini has a HPF filter on the input! Aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhh! I think I'll stick with what I've been doing recently- four track recording and bouncing on the zoom followed by transferring the files to the laptop and mixing in cubase. It works quite well but is a bit fiddly and easy to get lost! Thanks for all the advice everyone.

Well, thanks very much for all the advice. I don't really want to tinker around with the laptop too much as its my partners and she likes to have everything up to date etc. I've just spent an hour trying different asio settings in cubase and I'm getting nowhere. I started picking up foreign radio again and decided to forget about it for now. I have a very short fuse with all things I.T. related. Thankfully this iPad seems pretty stable. If my ironic funk project continues I'll have to buy the tascam! Cheers, Pete

Thanks lowdown I'll check that out. Well I've tried asio4all. It doesn't have the same problem but there are now latency issues. I've only tried reaper so far. I've also now started picking up foreign radio stations!!!

Thanks for the info Dad. The laptop has 64 bit Windows 7. I've watched the resources monitor in reaper and cubase and it doesn't seem to be getting any where near max when things start getting bad. I've also used the Windows performance monitor thing and that seems the same.

I should probably have said that up to now I've been using the zoom as a digital four track and bouncing four to two when I need extra tracks (sometimes 4 bounces per project) and then putting the SD card into the laptop and importing each original track into cubase for mixing. The laptop has coped fine with this as long as I let it warm up and get any routine stuff out of the way. I've been using some effects, compression, and control automation without issue. This does make me wonder if it is a asio driver/interface issue?

Thanks Howiebass. Haven't heard of that before. I'll give it a go.

Sorry, no idea why the pictures are upside down!

Hi, I posted a while ago about being interested in buying a tascam dp24. I've decided against that for a number of reasons and so I'm trying to get cubase to work with my zoom h4n on my toshiba laptop. I'm having a bit of a problem with the sound. Bear with me as I'm no I.T. Expert. My zoom h4n works as a usb audio interface and came bundled with cubase LE 6. I tried this set up a year or so ago and had latency issues so gave up. I was more interested in using the zoom for recording band rehearsals anyway. I've been trying again this weekend and found that one or two tracks will record ok with little or no latency. When I get to around track 3 or 4 (all audio tracks) the sound starts to break up and the playback or recording pauses every now and then. Once it's started to break up it will be the same whether recording or playing back. It won't even cope with just playing the metronome. If I then open the device set up page which shows the aiso set up it clears again - I don't even need to change anything.I have also tried reaper. Whichever software I use the problem is the same although cubase has fewer pops and clicks than reaper. The laptop is a toshiba L500 19Z. Intel Core Duo, 4 GB of RAM. Any ideas? Thanks, Pete

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1454188767' post='2967434'] A quick look here [url="http://tascam.com/product/dp-24sd/"]http://tascam.com/product/dp-24sd/[/url] seems to suggest that the kit will do what you ask . seems a lot for what you need though , a simple interface like a scarlett 2i2 would interface to your laptop easily , it has a monitoring so that latency doesnt affect that much and although you will need some simple DAW skills , it is definately do-able [/quote] I'm not sure how an interface would work with my laptop. My zoom h4n works as an interface with monitoring and I get latency and clicking in the files. I'm not sure the laptop is really up to it. Would a different interface make much difference?