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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

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Thanks Looney - I'll see if I can put the pics in photobucket

I'm taking a break from bands for a while and so my ibanez SR 600 is up for sale. I bought the bass new from Mansons in Exeter in October 2014. It's been well looked after and always kept clean. I changed the pickups to USA Bartolini MK4 around a year ago, added a hip shot de-tuner and bought the correct ibanez hard case.
This bass has loads of different tones available with the built in pre-amp and pickup pan knob.

The bass was around £500 new and now includes £340 of extras (original parts included as well as a set of flats) so I'm asking for £425.

Cash on collection preferred please. I'm located I cornwall but would be happy to travel to Exeter if that makes it easier.

I'm trying to upload more photos but it keeps failing. Apparently my global upload quota is full but the one photo I've uploaded is only 1.43 MB. Any ideas?

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just a thought, could you not buy an Ipad interface and garageband?
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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

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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
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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?

Thank you! Now corrected.

I used to record music with a friend whose now moved to the states. It was 20 years ago and we used a couple of tascam portastudio four track tape recorders.
We're planning on getting things going again and sharing files across the Internet. I currently have an old laptop and a zoom h4n portable recorder which works as an interface. I've tried recording using the h4n interface into cubase le on the laptop but there's loads of latency so I think I need to find another way.
The h4n has a four track function which works really well but is tricky to use due to the limited number of buttons etc.and is limited to four tracks.
im not a fan of computer recording so I'm thinking of buying a tascam DP24 SD digital portastudio. Can anyone tell me the file types these things produce? In an ideal world it will record .wav files which I can then upload to google drive and share with my mate in the states.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Pete

Thanks profFink. I've read through a few reviews and they seem to say the same thing. Seems using the headphone socket gives poor quality. There's also a fair bit of latency. Fortunately I've discovered that the battery is stuck in it so back it goes!

Cheers,

Pete

and I'm pretty dissappointed with it. I saw it in Maplins and it seemed to be exactly what I need - a means of switching between clean and iPad effects. I don't need much in the way of effects other than some overdrive and flanger. I'm not a fan of pedals but thought this looked like a neat solution. I've not tried iPad effects before.
I've bought the amplitube svt plug in and it's not great. The sound seems distant and vague so I guess it's lacking clarity. With the plug in switched off it sounds even worse - very different to the clean channel.
Has anyone else got experience of these? If so how do you rate it?
I read in another thread that interfaces that use the iPads headphone socket lack sound quality so perhaps that's the case with this.

I have one on my ibanez sr600. Currently set to drop c for a qotsa cover we do. I've had no tuning issues at all and never need to retune the dropped setting unless changing strings.

Hi,

Has anyone used a Yamaha spx50d for bass? If so how did it do? Is the distortion any good for bass.?. I'm after some effects but don't like pedals!

Thanks,

Pete

Thanks chaps. I was torn between black and dark tort but very happy how it turned out. I'm thinking about cream pickup covers if they're available but maybe that would be a step too far. I'm sure everyone knows what a black and white p bass looks like but here it is pre swap -

After months of researching smaller bodied basses and nearly buying one or two I found myself trying out a Mexican precision in a shop a couple of days ago. It was nowhere near as big, cumbersome, heavy, thick necked or dull sounding as I remember them being when I bought my ibanez a year or so ago. Anyway I've ended up with a black and maple Mexican p. Not being a fan of white pick guards I've swapped for a dark tortoiseshell. Very happy with it especially the tone, something my ibanez can't do.
Cheers,

Pete

Well I offered £450 and got declined so I'll keep on looking. Thanks for the help.

Pete

Certainly sounds overpriced then. Looking again the neck is ovangkol not wenge so definitely a standard corvette. I could try a cheeky offer but I think I know what the answer will be.

Thanks chaps,

Pete