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I play 5 string bass and I like the Warwick Black Label strings.I like the way they feel and they have a tapered B string which I feel sounds better than the more common ones that keep the full diameter over the bridge.I use the .45 to .135 guage set on one bass I have and the .40 to .130 set on...

Groove Tubes has made a few different ppreamps over the years,but the only one I knew about that was specifically for bass was one they made for SWR about 7-8 years ago,the name of which escapes me at the moment,but it was all tube.Good stuff!

Seagull good,Larrivee better.

Save up some money,buy a plane ticket to N.Y.,and buy a few guitars at the stores on West 48th street and take 'em home as luggage.Sell the ones you don't want to keep to pay for the plane ticket.At least this way you will have played the guitar before buying it,plus you'll get to see my...

Calling Mt Olympus (Sonusman et al) While I have read with interest some of your posts regarding various audio topics,I respectfully submit to you that perhaps you have yet to hear all there is to hear,or solve all that needs to be solved.I use a BBE 862 in the loop of my SWR SM400S running...

Yeah,you need to arm the track(s) you want to record to.You do this by holding down the record button and pressing the STATUS button(s) so they blink red.Now,hen you enter record mode the track(s)will stay red and record whatever is coming into the inputs you have assigned them to. Here's a good...

I have a fretless RBX260,and so far I'm happy with the stock pickup,but a friend of mine has a Fender P-bass and he upgraded to a Rio Grande pickup.Sorry,I don't remember the exact model,but the thing is really beefy sounding now and still has good clarity.I believe you could put any pickup...

Toute est claire maintenant,merci mille fois.

I've got one,but I'll be honest and tell you I wasn't looking to buy one,a friend moved out of town and gave it to me,free!That said,I think the sound quality of the drums is at the same level as most of the other drum machines out there,and some of the other sounds like the acoustic guitar are...

Rocinante,thanks for the tip on the strings,I'll check 'em out.I'm confused,however,about your warning not to use epoxy.I definetely remember reading that Jaco Pastorius used boat epoxy on the fingerboard of his Jazz bass once he took the frets out.What's bad about it,and what is a better...

Ionian:I CDEFGABC Dorian:II DEFGABCD Phrygian:III EFGABCDE...

IMHO= In My Haughty Opinion

Mars sells the Mackie 1402 VLZ Pro for $449 everyday.I'd use that extra C-note towards the XT20 and lose the LX20.Better transport and A/D converters,a more pro piece of gear than the LX.Also,check out Alesis' ADAT PC thingie f or your sound card if you're already decided to get an ADAT "cause...

My only experience with Roland VS machines is with the VS880EX which I've owned since 12/98,so I don't really know if you can record the tracks seperately on the 840 even if the fader is for a pair,but if it was me I'd still want complete autonomy for both the faders and the tracks 'cause you...

I walked into Mars Music in the spring of 1999 and there was a fretless Yamahe RBX260 4 string bass for $199.The last thing on my mind that day was buying a fretless bass,but the thing looked pretty good so I picked it up.I had never tried to play a fretless before that day,and a half hour later...

Alesis makes a PC card thingie that lets you edit your ADAT tracka on a computer and dump the edits back onto tape.I forgot what its called exactly.

I have the 2x2,but FYI there's also a company called MIDI solutions which markets a line of similar products: http://www.midisolutions.com

I own 2 BBE's,one is in my bass rig (yum!)and the other is the last thing my audio goes through before being burnt to CD.This is as technical as I can get: the incoming audio is split into 3 frequency bands,and the mids and bass are delayed by specific amounts for each band,the treble is not.The...

In addition to allowing you to burn CD's of your music,the Roland CDR is set up to store the data on the machine's Hard Drive as a backup so the HD can be cleared to allow more recording.

Of the machines you mentioned,only the 880EX and the 890 allow uncompressed linear recording,which may or may not matter to you at some point.The 840 and BR8 machines store data on Zip disks which have a relatively high cost per meg. of storage compared to CDRW's.The 880 and 890 also offer 8...