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I dont, I use the x32 or x18 drivers.

Cheers matey! Life was a bit crap for about a year or so - hyper stressful workplace political shenanigans - picked up now, new job helping a lot! Tracking drums tomorrow with the band (well enough of it to make sense)!!! Using the X32 with a couple of digital stage boxes. Nice sounding room, 28 tracks for drums, bass, keys (6 tracks for the keys!), and guitar, with a hint of guide trumpet. No messing! Wanting a live-ish sound so doing this in a huge function room with heavy drapes over the windows for a guerilla live room. We've recorded there before and I was super impressed with how the room sounded. Going to experiment with some of Moses Schneider's really incredible drum mic-ing techniques , because, well I can with 32 channels of input to futz about with. Specifically his snareo, droom and wurst mics will be added to the normal setup. Plus a couple of more standard room mics (a huge old figure 8 ribbon well out front, and an LDC in phase with it) With our music I've alwasy wanted to be able to drastically change the character of the drums through track sections and never had the mics to do that well - well tomorrow I might Wish me luck!!!

Run an x32 for recording onto windows no problem. Have had great success with the xr18 too. X32 with the x-live card is mental though, 48KHz 32 bit floating point to the sd cards, and usb at the same time (albeit at 24 bit). So far it's been spot on. My windows laptop is a bit of a beast though, ROG Zephyrus with 32 GB of RAM. I use Macs for work too btw

Yeah, because anyone can be But, they would need to find a Bassist Live and recording sound engineer Poster manufacturer PA Band secretary and cat herder So, that's probably why my band members haven't bothered yet 🤣

Nope, assuming your desk supports that It's more faff, you need to watch the Q on both filters, gentler slope and the same crossover point is probably your best starting point. Oh and unlike IEMs/monitors you want a Post fader send usually You are sacrificing an aux out/matrix or however you end up implementing it, but you also get the advantage of choosing what to bother to send to that channel - which can mean not having to worry so much about high passing lots of channels

The band must know the songs inside out. However well rehearsed you think you guys are, you can be better rehearsed still. Record your practice time on your phone, listen back for areas to work on. Do what the engineer wants. Do not over eq your bass sound, let him do the eqing. Have fun!

Absolutely gutted. Plux is my eldest, Herbie was an absolute gentleman, met him first a quarter of a century ago, he was so generous... https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/97801-today-i-played-herbie-flowers-1959-jazz-bass/page/1/

Really sad about this. Loved Herbie, super chap, looked after Pluxtheduck on a few Rockschools, and was always so generous with his time and knowledge. RIP

Pop Will Eat Itself at Chalk Brighton Felt like I was 18 again, except for my knees, which assure me I'm 88 now 😬

James Taylor Quartet tribute to The Meters this evening, on the train home now... Was excellent if a little short...

Still got my Twain on my board Serious kit that!

Its been a while, was just checking the new HX Stomp patch levels with the BT to make sure nothing I'd set up has gone completely bonkers and thought, that needs a wee piccie that does

1176 and La2a are very expensive specialist comps that realistically you won't be using live in rack form. The new UAD modelling pedals are superb though....

Focusrite Compounder was what I used to use in my rack Dbx160 Drawmer Joe Meek 1176 La2a Whatever you can find thats decent project to pro studio will work. Less is more for on stage always on compression, the devil is in the detail of the attack and release times. Keep the ratio low and take the threshold down till you get at absolute most 3dB of compression. 30 to 50ms attack 60 to 100ms release You shouldn't really hear or feel it much until you play in a mix and at that point it just adds a bit of punch and clarity to everything IME