Recent content by Oliver Lukacs

Bought it, downloading now. It takes soo long...can't wait for the downloads to finish.

+1 on XP. Vista was preinstalled on my new machine and I had to get rid of it as Cubase kept constantly freezing and I just couldn't make anything work on it. Sometimes the brand new quad core pc with 4 Gb memory had difficulties startin up. Even though I disabled alot of crap that runs in the...

I also use a cheapo spdif cable I bought on ebay for 3 quid. Sound is not travelling through a spdif cable, so I think any 75 ohm spidif cable does the trick.

oops, sorry mate...

That thing is called distortus maximus. How the hell is this not a distortion pedal? Why is it not called preampus maximus then? So tell me, how else would you use a distortion pedal if not plugging your guitar into it and the output to the amp sim? I also clearly said in the beginning, that I...

guitar. And bass sometimes but I basically play guitar on the bass so that's the same thing:)

I always record the spdif outs of the pod. If your soundcard has spdif try those. I never heard a difference there but maybe I am a little deaf:goggly:

Yeah, you have to be careful with those:) You go like "just a little more of this" and your guitar sounds like a jigsaw in no time. Apart from guitars I didn't find it useful for anything else. If I want to brighten things up a bit, I use my aphex unit.

I actually don't know if you can switch the preamp off in the pod. Never tried that. As the distortus maximus is supposed to be a distortion pedal and not a preamp, I used it as a distortion pedal infront of the pod and it sounded awful. the built in tube screamer sounds way better. But...

You can use it on anything. How it will sound is another question. Try it out and tell us how it was.

well, skeksis268 said that, not me. I was saying, that I can not imagine it sounding good straight into a mixer. All I said was, that it sounded shitty through a pod xt.

the amount of gain was fine but the sound was awful. I tried it out, couldn't get a usable sound out of it and sold it. I cannot imagine this thing to sound even half way decent straight into a mixer.

I had a distortus maximus for a couple of days and then sold it on ebay. I didn't like it at all. I would rather call it distortus minimus. I didn't try it on a real am though, I just chucked it infront of my pod xt. So if you are playing through a modeler, forget it. It might sound good on a...

I heard alot abut Andy's C4 but I can't find the original thread. Could someone point me into the right direction? I tried to search but it doesn't come up with anything.

Ok, thanks for all your suggestions. I will probably tune half a step up and use 45's. I just wanted to make sure I am not doing anything stupid. PhilR: could you be a be a bit more specific what you mean by "same notes as guitar"? Do you mean tune the lowest string to C, then G-C etc.? That is...