Looking at buying myself an Avid Eleven Rack in July this year.

[kimball492]

Have you profiled any of your Amps or others yet with Bias

[DrNomis_44]

Have you profiled any of your Amps or others yet with Bias

Not yet, I might need to upgrade my copy of Bias to do so, I have built a couple of amp models in Bias though but I was just feeling my way around the software, Bias is definitely a keeper for me.

I might look at upgrading once my funds permit.


I've currently got my Marshall MA100C amplifier at a friends place being serviced, my friend is going to replace the four original output valves with a set of new ones, and he's also going to replace the original output transformer with a new JCM800 output transformer, I got my friend to do some service work on the amplifier because it kept blowing fuses at random times, so I'm looking forward to when I get the amplifier back, that's one problem that digitally modelled amps don't suffer from.

[Clebby]

If you're only getting it for protools, and don't care for the eleven rack, I'd reccomend - if you haven't already - checking out reaper for a DAW. It's very very cheap, and you can even trial it for free indefinitely. I haven't used it yet personally - guitar and gear issues that seem to flow into one another - but a lot of people I've heard talk about it really like it.

[DrNomis_44]

If you're only getting it for protools, and don't care for the eleven rack, I'd reccomend - if you haven't already - checking out reaper for a DAW. It's very very cheap, and you can even trial it for free indefinitely. I haven't used it yet personally - guitar and gear issues that seem to flow into one another - but a lot of people I've heard talk about it really like it.

I've actually got Reaper installed on my PC and have purchased the $60.00 license they offer and Reaper is working well on my system, I've checked out some demo clips on youtube of the Eleven Rack and have been very impressed by the amp models it offers, I practically can't hear the difference in tone when comparing the Eleven Rack's Plexi presets with the real thing, to my ears it's that good, so I definitely want to get myself an Eleven Rack, because it works in standalone mode I realize that I can use it with my Behringer Keyboard/P.A. amp in times when my Marshall MA100C amp goes faulty and needs repairing, so that's a bonus.


I'm currently running an older version of ProTools (LE 6.4) on an old 90's vintage Macintosh G4 Power PC, it has had it's original single 450Mhz CPU module replaced with a dual 500Mhz CPU module and I've maxxed out the ram and upgraded the graphics card, the contemporary music department where I'm doing a Vet course in music is running a fairly recent version of Pro Tools, that has made me feel the need to upgrade to a recent version of ProTools, also, both my two Firewire Audio Interfaces (Avid Digidesign Digi002 and Saffire Pro 40) will work with recent versions of ProTools (from version 9 and up), incidentally I have just gotten both Audio Interfaces working at the same time on my PC, I just had to add an extra PCIe card with Firewire 400 ports on it and buy two new Firewire cables, so far everything seems to be working fine and my PC seems to be pretty happy, I'm pretty stoked cause I have some extra inputs I can use now.


This year I'm also going to look at buying some extra DDR3 Ram sticks for my PC as I have three spare DDR3 Ram slots on my PCs motherboard.

[dave.king1]

Did a rough recording in Reaper this afternoon of an original one of the guys wrote, just me and the singer with a Tele, Takamine & drum machine all through a single Senheiser mic into an old laptop via a small Peavey mixer.

Gives the three of us something to take home to work on harmonies and lead lines.

Ultimately I will rerecord it as a backing track using the PBH-4 and the drum machine and we'll play they electric, acoustic and steel parts live

[DrNomis_44]

Did a rough recording in Reaper this afternoon of an original one of the guys wrote, just me and the singer with a Tele, Takamine & drum machine all through a single Senheiser mic into an old laptop via a small Peavey mixer.

Gives the three of us something to take home to work on harmonies and lead lines.

Ultimately I will rerecord it as a backing track using the PBH-4 and the drum machine and we'll play they electric, acoustic and steel parts live

Would be cool to be able to check out the demo recording, maybe we should start a thread where we can showcase home recordings.

[stan]

That would be a good idea, even a PBG version of rig rundowns to show the chain of events

[DrNomis_44]

That would be a good idea, even a PBG version of rig rundowns to show the chain of events

Absolutely, we could also include a description on how we got the sounds we get, recording setup, etc, would be of benefit to those wanting to learn how to do home music recording and how to set up a home studio.

[keloooe]

That is a good idea, especially for the ones who are just starting out! Maybe some of us can do complete tutorials on recording and we can have threads for the tutorials?

[DrNomis_44]

I'd be happy to pass-on what I know about home recording, I'm doing a Vet course in Music at Uni and part of the course involves learning how to record/mix music in Pro Tools.