Ho! Ho! Ho! Audio related gifts under £100! Please recommend

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:44 pm

onehandstand wrote:http://www.phonefingers.com/

for my lemur

that looks like a sex toy.

thehouseofdis · Post by **thehouseofdis** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:09 pm

sparklepuff wrote:
onehandstand wrote:http://www.phonefingers.com/

for my lemur
that looks like a sex toy.

Dual use!

Dr Dub · Post by **Dr Dub** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:04 pm

regarding the Bass - the OP wanted gifts around 100 Pounds, which is around 200 $.

For this price, you can get a playable Bass, which will give more fun than the 100th Plugin (in my opinion).

It will be a Bass you should look at as a nice Toy, if you want to become a serious Bass-Player, you should spend more. If it s your main Instrument, you will spend much more.

But if you want a great Sound-generating Toy - i d recommend it, thats the way i did it.

As i speak of Toys - you could also get something sound making from a Toy Store, like REALLY cheap Keyboards, Toy Handys or so on.

In my experience, a mic and some toys through Live s FX is a LOT of fun and often cheaper than PlugIns.

Just my Taste...

The Freeq · Post by **The Freeq** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:47 am

Dr Dub

Could you recommend a bass please...

thumperjack · Post by **thumperjack** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:16 pm

spiral wrote:we can all post our amazon wish lists

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:32 pm

The Freeq wrote:Mmmmm....food for thought!

Audiodanage stuff is really good but its a plug-in and wanted something different (something I can touch : )). Electric bass sounds like a goos idea but can't play a lick...still worth it?

With all due respect to great bass players, if you are worried about figuring out how to play an instrument that is generally played one note at a time then maybe you shouldn't be doing music. On that "note" if you write electronic music then maybe buying a snare would be more your speed.

Seriously, you can pick up bass fairly quickly and it's a lot of fun to play and can add another style to your songs that you just can't get from programming.

TroyP · Post by **TroyP** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:05 pm

Radial DI2 - stereo direct box

m-audio has some sweet new headphones.

Dr Dub · Post by **Dr Dub** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:32 pm

I m not a good Bass player, and it is not my main Instrument, so the Bass people here can probably recommend better ones, but i have much fun with my cheap one.

I don t know where you live, but here in Germany, the big online stores like Thomann have kind of a "House Brand", and i would just pick up one of these.

A Humbucker style Pickup will give you less trouble to record because of a higher output and less noise (this is specially like this for cheaper instruments)

one example:

http://www.thomann.de/de/harley_benton_ ... _ebass.htm

The Freeq · Post by **The Freeq** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:44 pm

Cheers Dub

I'll check that out thanks : )

To that other guy...I actually do music for a living and was just interested in a piece of equipment i have no experience in and it is an insult to great bass players i'm sure. People play most instruments one note at a time that doesn't mean you can do anything good with them. So just relax.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:02 pm

btw for a bass guitar, don't look for a specific brand, find a used one that looks good and feels right, then spend $50 to get it tuned up it it needs it.

bass can be easy to pick up but once you're played with a good bass player you realize how hard the instrument can be to get good at. it's not so much what you play, it's what you don't play, how you form the pocket working with the drums. my $0.02.