tom1946

Another day another perfect deal with Iain. Bought a beautiful Antigua P bass and as ever it is in mint condition, well packed. Thanks Iain, you're a real gent. Tom.

Thanks for your input. What I want from this is to just experiment with playing music into my Mac, organising it and perhaps making a few backing tracks for our church band. On top of that it would be good to play about with the software sounds to see what I can create. All simple stuff really.... except it isn't

I'm a beginner, very much so and I'm not looking to make a career out of it because I'm too old now. I dabbled a bit on a Yamaha YS100 back in the 80's. I still have it in the loft. Anyone remember them?

HI all, just starting out soooo... do I need active monitors or will passive be ok? thanks.

Thanks guys, I will do that. The keyboard looks ideal, is it polyphonic? can I play etherial strings etc'? or is that done using one key? I don't know how they work and the advert doesn't say.

Forgive me guys, I've just found the recording forum . I feel like a fool now... sorry it's my age I didn't know it was there, (shakes head) burger...

Now I'm starting to look forward to this, as said I have a Mac and g/band so I'm going to order a 2i2 or a 2i4. I'll also need monitor speakers so any inexpensive recommendations? You get what you pay for I know but which ones?? thanks. ALSO Can anyone recommend a small keyboard to input synth/chorus type sounds please?

MUMMY!!! It sounds like you are near the bottom of the slope, I'm getting a lot of really good advice here so what do you all think of buying the Scarlet 2i2 and setting sail with garageband? Just to see where it goes.....

Good advice, thanks very much.

Thanks, I have SM57's and 58's for live stuff so covered there. I have G band so I'll try that and see how I get on. I looked at a couple tutorials on toob but he went too fast to follow, a fault of a lot of tutorials. The Focusrite 2i2 seems popular so I'm off to read about it.

Thanks for the input so far. It's a minefield isn't it? I think I will dig garageband out and give it another go first, if I can work out how to shift to track two...

For a long time I've wanted to record a few songs with around 5-6 instruments purely for my own amusement. I have a Mac and said instruments but where do I start? I've never done this before and I'm aware that I need an interface to get the music from the instruments to the mac but what to use? It needs to be simple and effective, I know Focusrite make lots of stuff but I have no idea what to buy, or software? I have garageband somewhere and I tried that. I laid down one track and for the life of me couldn't work out how to switch the damn thing to track two. Any help to get me started would be much appreciated. tom.

I have a P Lyte and as I never use jazz bridge pickups mine sits redundant, I only bought it because it was a P and it's very light. (no pun intended)

I like to move around but the music stand is a beach to coordinate.... so I stand looking bored.

HERMES!!! never use herpes they are shockingly bad.

Thanks anyway, I found a Gator hard/soft case that fits the bill. cheers.

Liking the Presarius scary face from Star Trek Conan

Just got one of these bad boys and it won't fit my hard/soft case that I use for my Precisions. The tuner on the G side makes it too wide at the neck end. Anyone suggest a hard/soft case for my sub please? cheers.

Thanks Pawel, Oh dear, I ended up with P2go as they were the only ones less than £100! It's going with DPD though so hopefully it'll get there, it's also well insured. Thanks for the input. tom.

Hi, does anyone know a courier that can ship to portugal? The ones I've tried want the address in Engrish. Stupid people, why do they offer portugal if they don't understand the lingo? Help...