New Acoustic or Bass + Bass POD XT?

[Andelusion]

Help me! (I have no idea which forum to put this into, this one should be okay.)

I've been upgrading my recording setup recently, and have pretty much everything I need in terms of hardware and electric guitars, but I'm still missing a decent acoustic and a bass (at the moment I use my keyboard for bass).

I've got a bit of money (read: student loan, I feel guilty ) to spend on either a 7 String 'Fusion' Acoustic by Emerald Guitars (http://www.emeraldguitars.com/guitars/fusion.html) which Is about £555 minus shipping, or a Peavey Cirrus BXP 5 string bass and Bass POD XT which comes to just over £600 together.

I've just begun a popular music degree at Uni and I can see the acoustic coming in handy for ensemble performances and what not (at the moment I only have electric guitars) although I would like to learn how to play bass, and it'd definately be useful for recording.

What would you do?

[lemongrass]

tough call - sounds like you need both :-)

either get the one you need first, look for used versions and get both.

or you could think about using credit and get both, but that's a poath to the dark side ;-)

Cheers
John

[Andelusion]

Haha, well i'm using my student loan, so technically it is credit