Recent content by flaccid

Cool spin. Hehe yeah Peavey are shit. I'm looking at buying a Carvin 150w head, and a Sovtek 1x15 box - I'm just going for a hell cheap but good sounding rig. Fender are worst than Peavey but, well the BXR series are. I used a 200w BXR the other day for a gig, and I had it fully cranked, and it...

You shouldn't need to get a preamp if you have a mixer - unless you you want to put it through a vaccuum tube preamp. Different technigues get different sounds. If you are not miking the cabinet, then use your D.I. output - this means the single comes from the preamp on your SVT - and its...

I would go the Fab Tone over any of DS product. These pedals rock. If you have ever heard of a band called Grinspoon, then you will have heard what it sounds like. I find the DS1 has crappy bottom end. DS are just like grunge distortion. If you want a BOSS product go HyperFuzz of HyperMetal. Or...

I'm not really into multi-effects for bass, but you usually can't go wrong with digitech. Avoid digital distortion but - its crap. Zoom is ok. But I don't them myself. For distortion I use a Big Muff Pi. Or you could use a BOSS Bass OverDrive. Generally with effects, there is no best unit. It...

Nows its obvious that you can add EQ and effects when recording or mixing down tracks, but what is the "usual" time to do it? Could someone clear it all up. I realise that compression/limiters/gates are used when recording the tracks, but do we eq here as well or just record a dry track. What...

Wondering if anyone out there could recommend some real cheap 1X15 bass cabs. I've only come across one brand - Sovtek which retails for around $419 Australian dollars. Help me out guys :) Cheers, Chris

JKountz thanks alot, looks really good. I think that the combination of a 4 bus mixer and a 4 channel sound card could make a good solution to 4-track analogue cassette recording. Cheers.

Thanks nero, that looks pretty dam good to me. I've always heard about Aardvark, but never could find the homepage. Keep me posted if anything else comes up. Cheers.

1) In my opinion - always use analog compression - rack compressors. I prefer processing the sound on laying down the tracks, rather than mix down. In my opinion digital effects/processors especially compression lacks lacks clarity. 2) Yes, software compression plug-ins are available. But stay...

I'm not into computer hard disk recording much, but I am wondering if someone out there could inform me of some sound cards which have 4 mono balanced/unbalanced line in inputs. I don't know of any myself. They seem to either have the 1 single stereo unbalanced input, or 8 to 16 inputs with the...