fatback

[quote name='iconic' post='742905' date='Feb 12 2010, 11:02 AM']....not too familiar with attitudes...is this an early Attitude? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RED-YAMAHA-ATTITUDE-ELECTRIC-GUITAR-MARSHALL-BASS-AMP_W0QQitemZ330403801555QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item4ced99e9d3"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RED-YAMAHA-ATTITUDE-...=item4ced99e9d3[/url][/quote] Anyone who claims to be 'very reluctantly' selling a bass they then call an 'electric guitar' makes you wonder. Havent seen one of these before though.

[quote name='HarryPotter' post='742126' date='Feb 11 2010, 02:34 PM']I have a crate bt-50 I could let go cheapish, it can (just about) keep up with a quiet drummer etc. I think its a part of the ampeg group as it has the same built in tuner lol. It's not an 8x10 but its a start.[/quote] Youy see a good few Trace Elliot combos about going dirt cheap. Heavy (hence the cheap) , but imo often louder than their rating.

I should really do this, our singer sings a lot in G, so I could do with a low D. Detuning all strings, ok, but drop tuning would give me anervous breakdown.

[quote name='bumfrog' post='741079' date='Feb 10 2010, 02:49 PM']/nerd mode on/ actually, SAS is the latest version of SCSI /nerd mode off/[/quote] ok [i]a [/i] later version honestly, i'd be surprised if a usb2 or firewire external hdd didn't work fine for you. Try recording to tyhe external and try just using the external to copy. It won;t be a big problem.

SATA is just the latest version of scsi. For setting up a cheap media editing system with high speed drives, the old scsi-2 is still a useful option. You can sometimes get 10,000 rpm scsi drives cheaply, and a wide-scsi adapter is cheap too. I've gone that route for broadcast video, where access speeds are critical, but it's overkill for audio imo. Also, scsi drives are relatively low capacity compared to modern SATA. If you're buying a SATA drive for audio, google the reviews. You'll find some are better than others. Just make sure you always have your recorded tracks backed up onto a second drive. Drives fail sooner or later.

There are far more technically knowleedgable folks than me on the forum, but as I understand it, usb 2 is in fact a little faster than Firewire, but firewire is much better at traffic management, much more likely to keep things in synch etc. USB2 with a 7,200 rpm drive will work fine until you hit too many tracks or too high a rate. Try it. [quote]I generally record at 48K 16bit but I know that's probably frowned upon these days.[/quote] That should be fine unless you process the data a lot. Every time you add an effect, say, to a track you add digital errors, so the higher the bit rate the better. But if you don't go crazy, there shouldn't be a problem. It's a way better quality than than we had in the past, that's for sure. In Cubase and/or your audio card software, you'll be able to set a latency value and see an error count. You want the errors, obviously, at zero. Latency shouldn't matter too much unless you're using vsti instruments (if I understand right). Hopefully some proper sound bodz will confirm or not what I'm saying.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='739878' date='Feb 9 2010, 12:28 PM']Yeh I have no problem with moving between PCs, it's just the speed of the thing really. At home I regularly transfer between the two machines, but I just copy to the local drives before I start working, as I assume it's going to crash if I try working from USB. I didn't realise you could get firewire drives. I shall investigate, ta![/quote] The problem isn't so much crashing as glitching and driopouts and stutters and all that nastiness. Which is why the number of tracks and bit rate are the things that matter. Fewer tracks at higher rate/more tracks at lower rate for a given amount of glitching. Drive speed matters too. If you want to record large numbers of racks at high quality, a 10,000rpm drive is a gift. Not cheap, but not too dear either. But most standard 7200rpm drives are ok in normal use.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='739809' date='Feb 9 2010, 11:25 AM']My mixing and recording set ups are several miles apart. At the moment, I carry my PC to and fro. I'd like to stop doing this, but what's the best solution. An external drive? Can I record 16 channels at a time onto a USB drive? I have another computer I could use at one location see.[/quote] USB 2 might be OK, but for multiple tracks and / or high bitrates, firewire is better. If you've already got a USB drive, you could just buy a firewire enclosure and ransfer the drive into it. Presumably you have firewire on both PCs, if not you'd need to install firewire cards, cheap and no problem. As i said, USB might work for you anyway. Moving between two PCs should work fine. Obviously you'll need the same software on both and you'll need to make sutre you keep the project files as well as the audio files on the external hdd.

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='738850' date='Feb 8 2010, 12:23 PM']Count yourself lucky you weren't flying a plane! [/quote] omg

[quote name='Bass-ic' post='738779' date='Feb 8 2010, 10:49 AM']GK do a small 100-150 watt combo bass thing. other wise, the line 6 lowdown 110 is ideal. Its not too heavy and would be fine on a sports rack. I've just got one! Line 6 puts out about 75W. GK is slightly bigger in size tho Beleive it or not harley davidson did a large rifle carrying thta can be fitted to a motorbike. There was aplce in north London that you coul dget one from. Im just thinkingtha a hard case with something ilike a pannier mount might be best foe a small travelling headless bass.[/quote]biked, but Years ago, when I biked, I used to carry my gf and her cello on the pillion. It was fine unless there was a crosswind.

[quote name='DHA' post='737028' date='Feb 6 2010, 11:29 AM']Not the valve, more likely a power supply issue or a damaged pot. VT1's have two pre-amp stages there is no power amp stage. No valve pedals have power stages, just pre-amps. Dave[/quote] Thanks, Dave. Maybe just a dirty pot. Sorry for the total ignorance about valves. I get plenty compliments on the sound of your box tho

[quote name='riff raff' post='735967' date='Feb 5 2010, 11:36 AM']thats the most ridiculous thing to say.if i work hard(i do) and earn the money to buy the gear i want(i do) i can do whatever i like with it.and treat it however i like. they're only tools.beat the sh*t out of them i say.[/quote] +1 unless it's got some historic or rarity value

Does the praise above apply to the 5 string as well? I've no idea about Ibanez

There's a danger of confusing versatility with quality. A quality sound has all the frequencies, harmonics etc in there. If you want to treat the sound, you've got a good place to start. Versatility is something different. Being able to make your bass work in a lot of different styles of music matters to some people and not others. Either way, you'd want a quality sound to start with. The sound that matters to me is that basic starting position you get from the bass (and its preamp). my 2c.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='734889' date='Feb 4 2010, 11:30 AM']That list does a good job of showing just how many brands now think their gear is worth twice as much as anybody else's gear.[/quote] Wow! Great job.

Hi, I get a burst of hissy, crackly noise on my VT-1 about two minutes after powering it up. If I give the level pot a turn, it stops. What ould be causing the noise? Is the valve about to fail? Being new to the delights of valves, I dunno what the symptoms of failure would be. Do they stop workijng completely? Can the power stage fail and not the first stage? Thanks for any info, fatback

[quote name='Rich' post='734668' date='Feb 4 2010, 12:47 AM']Corrected for you What a farce. A career as a promoter does not await her.[/quote] Or most lkely it does.

+1 Anchor that thumb. That is, always be in a definite position, not slithering about. Are the side markers in the right places on that bass? I guess they would be on a quality machine, but if they're not move them so they're in fret positions rather than between the (imaginary) frets. [quote]Remember if you can't hear yourself live, you probably aren't playing in tune.[/quote] That's why I like a lined board, even though it doesn't look so cool.

[quote name='basshead56' post='732671' date='Feb 2 2010, 10:50 AM']+10000! Don´t take orders from a prat like that mate. Tell him to stuff it, and walk. Start your own band with people you get on with and who´ll play the music that you wan to play.[/quote] +10001 Not that playing written bass lines is a bad thing, but you need to feel respect for the person writing them. So if you don't, move on. Hey, (unless you're getting paid) it's supposed to be fun.

Best tip I got was to sit (on a chair) with the bass body on my left knee and my back straight, rather like a classical guitarist. Two big advantages: first, i don't get aches from being hunched over the fretboard; second, the neck position is very close to what it is when i'm standing, so my hand position feels the same. As for kit, I'm always in front of the PC (my jukebox) either playing through the sound card and hi fi monitors or (better) through my Trace combo.

Try some African or african-inspired music. You could start with Paul Simon's Graceland (the magical Bakithi kumalo) and move out from there. Technically as hard or easy as you like, but it'll make you smile. Sounds like you could do with that. Hopefully life will look up for you soon,. fatback

Well, for a start, you [i]both[/i] have to be listening. fatback

Sound clips of Danelectro Baritone and some info here [url="http://www.danguitars.com/Baritone.html"]http://www.danguitars.com/Baritone.html[/url] Love the sound, but I have to tell myself to be careful. It's a [i]giitar[/i], with the attendant moral hazard.

[quote name='The Funk' post='728339' date='Jan 29 2010, 03:23 AM']4 stringers = bass![/quote] I like that one

[quote name='Thor' post='722227' date='Jan 23 2010, 03:08 PM']Guys just be straight and tell them what your upto Yeah right, Mrs Thor had me sussed the other week, she stubbed her toe on the Fender Sub Lime fuzz pedal I had stashed at the bottom of the bed she howled "I thought you were only borrowing that for the weekend", I replied I did & liked it so much I bought it! No trouble apart from being told to move it from under the bed [/quote] Aah! I spose [i]under[/i] the bed is ok. I was thinking that taking your pedals to bed is just asking for trouble. This thread is making me think 'what are we afraid of? Are we mice or men (and women)? I guess the biggest fear is that if you're rumbled with a new bass she'll retaliate by buying totally unnecessary things like food and clothes and stuff. fatback (one bass)