51m0n

This isnt a test of hearing so much as a test of your PC audio card, and the speakers you are using.....

I will say they that those particular MB heads tend to produce a slightly warm very clean tone, they arent' uber clean (the F1 F500 and other digital power amp section amps are far cleaner) in fact, buit stay very very true to the bass that is plugged into them all the same The eq and filters are really nice, although the sa450 sweepable mids make the eq section far more useful for me. They arent very genre specific at all - if you need grit stick an appropriate pedal in front of them....

IIRC the updated limiter did not find its way into the LMIII in the end. However that issue only arose when driving an 8 Ohm cab hard, with a reasonably sensitive quality 4Ohm cab there is no problem generating very large amounts of volume from that range of MB heads (the LMII-alikes, digital power supply, analogue power amp).

I think you're wrong, not my experience of MB heads into great cabs at all. Driving a suitable cab they are excelletn amps for all styles of music, IME and IMO.

Not even close to halfway decent compared to a lot of the people on this forum.....

[quote name='guildbass' timestamp='1337706508' post='1664339'] I'd love to find a room that worked well but without such a luxury it's much nicer to record 'dead' and put the room on afterwards. We recently set up in a house and as soon as I cranked up the old MD409 the room just crushed everything...the ceilings were too low for starters. I've tried in churches too...It IS lovely but you need a time to get the 'room' mic'd up as well as the talent... [/quote] Agreed. Finding a good room where you can let rip is (that you can afford) is a complete swine. Guerrilla recordings are great fun if you can find somewhere good though.

[quote name='guildbass' timestamp='1337706079' post='1664329'] Well, the SPX900 was a revelation when it came out and was an industry 'go to' effects unit in the 90's. At the end of the day we are talking about a powered 24bit desk with mastering and a full effects suite for sometimes well under £300. Mine was used by Steve Wilson to record porcupine Tree's live stuff off the FOH desk and he's pretty fussy about sound... [/quote] For a hardware device of '90s era it was one in a long line of perfectly good multi fx devices from Yamaha (loads of project studios had them I agree) but in the 90's it was all about Lexicon for reverb and Eventide Ultra-harmonisers for modulation fx. Since Bricasti hardware solutions turned up they've consistently been 'the best' for reverb although a lot of people still love that Lexicon sound. The Eventide stuff is still outrageously powerful too. What I'm trying to say is you can get a taste of that Bricasti sound for free right now [url="http://www.samplicity.com/bricasti-m7-impulse-responses/"]from here[/url] running them in this here [url="http://www.knufinke.de/sir/sir1.php"]free vst[/url], and it will sound incredible (promise, I use that exact set up for a lot of reverb requirements). Another amazingly superb free vst reverb is the [url="http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads/"]Varety of Sound Epicverb[/url], which is every bit as good as the Yamaha ever was. If you want a great plate reverb try [url="http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products/tal-reverb"]Tal II[/url] All free, and sound fantastic in their own ways.

There is nothing industry standard about the Yamaha SPX reverb..... Compared to a convolution reverb impulse from Bricasti (free) running in SIR (free convolution reverb impulse plugin) the Yamaha SPX reverbs will tend to sound very very last millenium IMO.

[quote name='Teobass88' timestamp='1337692597' post='1664036'] In my humble opinion...absolutely no! MarkBass is appropriate only for pop.... [/quote] Errr no....

If there is anything to the graphs that are on there then [url="http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-10-Pencil-Condenser-Microphone.html"]the matched pair of sdc[/url] look incredible for the price:-

They have some [i]really[/i] interesting kit on that site:- 7 micro SDC's for $99 anyone? [url="http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-Micro-Silver-Bullet-Drum-Pack.html"]http://www.karmamics...-Drum-Pack.html[/url] Or a matched pair for $34? [url="http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-Micro-Matched-Pair.html"]http://www.karmamics...tched-Pair.html[/url] Or a matched pair of SDC's for $129? [url="http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-10-Pencil-Condenser-Microphone.html"]http://www.karmamics...Microphone.html[/url] I'll be looking into these for sure, either of the matched stereo pairs would be great with my Zoom Hn in 4 track mode. Ta!

If you want a cheap ribbon then do yourself a favour and get a[url="http://www.cascademicrophones.com/cascade_FAT_HEAD_II.html"] Cascade Fathead II[/url] with the Lundahl transformer mod, absolutely gorgeous sounding mic, for guitars, OH, voice (esp a shrill female voice that you need to control), metallic percussion (tames the transients perfectly).

Still better than fabricating that much cable/multicore yourself, costs more in my time to make it than it does to buuy it (for all that I can make it without any issues, #1 solder soldier me)

He is a particularly dapper fellow, we all feel dowdy by comparison

Have a top time all of you, wish I could be there....

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1337607307' post='1662629'] I have the red audio drum mic set and it is indeeed very versatile! I tend to buy my mics used on here or ebay, i've not bought a dodgy one yet actually the most annoyingly expensive bit for me were the stands and cables... you don't really think about them until it's too late. [/quote] Wait till you need a decent multicore and patchbay....

"You dont know what day it is" ROFL - priceless, what a c**k!

[url="http://www.red5audio.com/acatalog/Drum_Kit_Mics.html"]Red 5 Audio do some really good mics[/url] (for the money). If you go their drum mic set you'd have a pair of small diaphragm condensors (good for the guitar and piano) 3 tom/snare dynamics (also good on piano, cajon, bass) and a kick mic (good on kick or bass, [size=2][i]but IMO not on both at the same time in one mix[/i][/size][size=4])[/size] Their valve condensors are also v nice for the outlay. A lot better than much of the cheap Chinese mics you can find out there.

Doh! Nice effort, be a good chap and take that back down please.....

[quote name='BigBeatNut' timestamp='1337254655' post='1657861'] .... and why use two mics for bass and guitar when you can do both with one mic ? (I wish I could find a link to the article where Gabe Roth talks in detail about his approach to recording) [/quote] See attached....[attachment=108156:sh*tty2.pdf] Hmmm, attaching a pdf is proving to be a PIA! [attachment=108158:Gabe_Roth_S_is_P_pt2.zip] OK thats a zip file containing the Gabe Roth Pretty Is Sh***y Part 2 article. Best of luck, you may have to save it and rename it to a .zip then open it (wtf is the site up to?)

R.I.P Donna, totally world class act, Moroder and her redefined dance music completely, everything else was stale the minute I Feel Love was released.

Well done chaps! Starting to get the sweats and the uncontrollable shuddering happening - standard withdrawal symptoms..... <GEEK>Strictly speaking CTRL F5 doesnt clear your cache, it refreshes the page from the server, the rest of your cache will remain unaffected.</GEEK>

Over my cold dead body

God Damn boy! You sure dun played that nice.... Hyuck Hyuck! (Jolly good effort old bean, top drawer and all that )

Who needs more than one mic for a drum kit then?