I’d stick with Garageband, it’s far more capable than Audacity as a DAW. Audacity is an audio editor, not a DAW, and has some workflow constraints that make it really inappropriate for use as a DAW as you move forward with it.
It will work fine for basic recording and editing but that’s it.
I use amplitube 4 and 5 on a 10 year old dell and they work perfectly for me. I record almost everything on amplitube and move it to Reaper after.
I’ve been using mine for 4 years and it’s great, easy to take to a friend’s house when i want to play with him too. I’ve thought about buying a “better” interface but the iRig does everything i want right now so why spend more money.
Same here.
I always make a huge deal about when I sell one, and zero deal about when I acquire one.
It seems to be our natural instincts. I thought it’s my secret move but apparently we all have that hardwired, lol.
Lol too funny. Not only do we have GAS and MBD but now we all have SDS, Spouse Deception Syndrome
No! The WHO no longer recognizes this as a disease. It’s now called MHR, Marital Harmony Retention, and is considered perfectly normal.
That’s about where I’m at right now: “basic recording and editing”.
Are there any specific settings or something I should be setting? I’ve tried it on two different machines, and on each the input from the iRig HD 2 breaks up all the time. And I’m not talking about the gain setting on the iRig - the same gain setting is perfect for Audacity and Garageband - I’m talking about in Amplitube.
Any help is appreciated. 
Right, but it’s not where you are going to be pretty soon, if making music is your goal, so you might as well start out on a tool that you can grow with
On the other hand if all you ever want to do is covers over backing tracks it might be fine? I’d still want something that doesn’t destructively modify the source items even for that, but YMMV there I guess.
I have an IRig HD 2 that I got as a gift. And a Scarlett 2i2 I purchased myself.
I thought it would be quick and easy, hooked up my bass and recorded Silent Night on it. Played it back; that’s not what my bass sounds like. That’s not the right tone.
I recorded direct into my Android phone and had no breaks of any sort.
I then unboxed my Scarlett, downloaded Reaper, was up and running in no time. Now my problem is I’m picking up everything, little touches on the strings you don’t hear through an amp. I don’t know the correct recording term, but in photography I’d say we’d handle it in post. I don’t know how yet, learning curve, but I’ll get there.
But it is what my bass sounds like.
I suspect if I turn the gain down, and learn about proper decibel levels and do some post it would sound fine. Also if I had a backing track I was playing with you’d never notice.
The Scarlett doesn’t seem to be any more work than the iRig, opinion from someone who hadn’t used either coming into this weekend.
I don’t like that my tone sounded off in the iRig.
Just my 2 cents.
That’s often referred to as the dry signal.
In a mix, a lot of those little sounds will get buried under the other tracks. I wouldn’t worry about it too much. A lot of tracks have little bits of “character” when you listen in isolation. As long as it is not muddying up other parts of the mix, you are good, but then again that’s what EQ is for.
Delivery took quite some time, but my Christmas GAS fix is finally here. Korg OpSix, a new take on FM synthesis and Behringer’s ARP 2600 clone. Damn these things sound nasty.
And you can transfer calls to any department on that thing on the right, correct?
“Corporate accounts payable, wellbi speaking, just a moment.”
Even intergalactic calls are available!
(B) ARP 2600 … it looks complex, but it was in its inception designed as an educational synthesizer, so it’s quite straightforward. You don’t need any cables, but it’s in reality pseudo modular synth, so it can be connected and communicate with a lot of other gear and you can reshuffle all the signal pathways, etc. …
AND IT SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY SAVAGE!
I know, not anything like a new/used bass, or some big electronic goody, but I had these small and inexpensive, but mostly needed, items on my Christmas list.
And 
forgot them (I got other nice things, though). So, I ordered them for myself:
. I have used my open headphones with it, but somehow felt in-ear earphones might be better, and didn’t have any.
(I will try #3 for blocking sound of the vacuum when I clean). Could definitely have used either #2 or #3 at my nephew’s wedding earlier this month, when the volume from the DJ was SO RIDICULOUSLY LOUD - you could not hear a person speak without them having to yell in your ear. Ugh.
! And I had seen good comments for it here in the forums.
Edit to add: I think the ear protection will also come in handy when I’m at my desktop computer and not playing bass, but sometimes watching videos (it’s where my bass is, and just a few feet from our piano), and then my eldest son decides to play piano - he is very heavy on the pedals and loud when he plays!
I just picked this up in a trade:
I cleaned it up, put some new strings on it. I traded it for a bass I was selling… I’ve never owned an actual Precision or Jazz bass, this marks my first. I guess it’s a Squier Contemporary Active Jazz Bass in a limited edition (?) satin graphite metallic finish. It seems to play and sound well enough, and it’s in really good condition (scratches on the pickguard, but that’s easily replaceable I assume.
So, yay, I guess I’m a Jazz bass owner now.
These are great looking, been wondering how they sound.
I think someone has the all black version on here somewhere.
They get good marks from folks that have tried them.
Wish I remembered this one when I was at Sweetwater, would have given it a spin.
Nice. I really love the Orange sound too, both guitars and bass.
