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cheers! I'll check that out.

I'm not really into mastering in a big way. I know that I don't know what i'm doing so I try not to mess up my mixes too much. I thought T-Racks would be an easy way to a "polished" master, but, yeh, it just destroyed my mixes. It sounds like I should give it another go trying to be much more subtle. At the moment, i'm using the Stillwell Audio Major Tom compressor. If you set it to forward feedback, and set the ratio to limit you can get a lot of "transparent" compression before it starts to mush up.

beedster - are you not happy with reverb plug-ins? There are some fantastic plug-ins available. mythste - I like the multi-band limiter, but the rest was just way too over the top for me. That and it takes up a huge amount of cpu power.

yeh, with my setup as described, there is some serious low end. I also have a LOT more headroom so can turn up way beyond bollock-tickling level. This is with a sh*tty Peavey combo, so your markbass would do much better i'm sure.

you need something to cut out the very low end after the DI but before your amp. An EQ pedal? On my amp, I have the low shelf boosted quite high, but I also have a graphic EQ which I use to cut everything below 50Hz (or 60 or 80, I can't remember what the value is on the lowest slider).

I opened a WH4 before, I thought it was a mightmare to get the board out! If you can't see any dry joints or broken contacts, well, that's as far as my knowledge goes. SFX repairs pedals, and there are a couple of other guys on here. Hopefully they'll see your post!

I wouldn't put any of those in the amp's effects loop. Also, two LS-2s seems excessive. Why not put all the pedals you want a clean blend with in the same LS-2 loop?

I think most onboard soundcards are crap, so if you want decent quality you need an external interface anyway. I assume that applies to Macs too.

oh, downer, I was going to get one

cool, well i'm just an hour or so up the road, just send me a PM some time.

I'm working on my band's new album Friday night which is why I can't make it. I'll look forward to the recordings then! I'd quite like to try recording some of this stuff myself actually. Let me know if you ever fancy some free demos, I have a fairly nice recording set-up coming on (although my mixing's coming on slower!!).

I wish I was free on Friday! I'm very interested in the sounds you're getting

Well, i've been doing it wrong for years, even though I know full well it's a fire risk. I suppose I should buy a couple of proper cables Has anyone actually had an instrument lead melt? I've always made a point of feeling the cables (i'm using patch leads atm) after practise, and they never get warm after an hour of loud volume jamming. Obviously I wouldn't want to encourage anyone to be as stupid as me, it's just i've never heard of anyone actually suffering this fate.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='1112146' date='Feb 2 2011, 11:15 AM']Isn't a wah a band-pass, rather than a low-pass? The reason you're getting no high mids is (If I understand correctly) because the wah's frequency range goes lower than what you're feeding it. And personally, I'm MIDI sync'd with most of my set-up but I do use tap-tempo where I've not got round to MIDI-sync'ing.[/quote] yeh, good point. So it's the fact there's a hi pass on the line with the wah that makes it sound like that. Some of the wahs on the XP-100 are also really "subby" which can be used for these sorts of sounds.

[quote name='leroybasslines' post='1110976' date='Feb 1 2011, 01:48 PM']Which is why I need to try an OC-2! The OC-3 felt a little out of control to me and too fiddly for one or two useable sounds. The OC-2 may be similar, but might make more sense useability wise...[/quote] Did you try the OC-2 mode on the OC-3? I think if you're un sure, then a multi like the zoom B2 is a great idea, as you'd then be able to learn about all effects, and how to control them.

I watched some of the videos recommended in here last night. Some cool bass sounds!! I don't really have any synth pedals as such, but I reckon I can do a good portion of those sounds. The moog LPF - in what way is it better than a wah? And when you're using LFOs to control it, is that from a tap tempo button? Maybe not all wahs are like this, but on my board I have a low frequency line with some comp and OD, and then a high frequency line with my wah probe on. With the wah probe completely closed, I get no hi-mids from the high frequncy line, which is effectively a LPF to me. I can then bring them in slowly, or I can wah. I might have some modulation and probably dirt and pitch shifting going on in the high frequency line at the same time. Am I being stupid?

Would you play for Gary Glitter? Not even for a million pounds?!

I would assume the OC-2 mode would use the same circuit as the OC-2. I've not tried it, but someone else here did AB them.

You can stick all your pedals in the loop. When you want mental noise, turn it on! It takes a bit of the output and feeds it into the input. If you put analogue dirt pedals in there they should oscillate, but you can get all sorts of weird effects. I have my whammy and digital delay in one set to octave up, so it keeps pitch shifting the pitch shifted notes.

I thought the OC-3 had an OC-2 mode? And you didn't like the OC-3?

I don't see why you'd have the multi in the effects loop rather than on the floor? It sounds like you have a lot of guitar pedals there. You might want to think about adding a blend pedal to mix some of your clean sound in with the effects.

Sorry, what was I thinking... To be able to swap between two different basses AND use effects at the same time, you need a advanced multi effects processor. You'll need a MIDI floor board to control that as well.