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You cant get light, great, deep, loud and cheap. Its not about imaginative, its about realistic..... So he either compromises on one or more criteria or he saves up. Many years of bitter experience lead me to that conclusion, I am definitely not alone there :), best of luck breaking the rule.

You cant go cheap loud light and great at the same time. If you really need to deal with that deep a low end you need physically big too. I'd recommend a Barefaced Big Twin gen 3. Yes its what I've use, but I also have 2 FR800s and a Big Baby, and they are all amazing (even for the price), but for serious deepness you will not find a better cab than the Big Twin in my experience - truest low B I've heard and I have no doubt they will handle even deeper better than anything else. 2 Big Babies or 2 BFR800s gets really close though if you want that form factor. One of these days I'm going to run the whole lot up just to tilt the earth off its axis

I can't help it, being Grand Wizard of the Knights Martial comes with some baggage....

I use a rack compressor for some always on super transparent compression and limiting of any stupidness on my part. That being said if I wanted to add a compressor pedal then it would be purely to get a very obviously compressed tone (think sledgehammer or whatever) I would want it to be squishy and obvious. Personally I like optical compressors for this, and whilst the PC-2a is no doubt fabulous, I have had a bit of a thing for Joe Meek rack compressors of old. since we are talking pedals though I would add a Joe Meek Floor-Q to my board, I've used the Joe Meek OneQ in the studio as a bass preamp just because the compressor is so much fun, and this is the same compressor circuit. Its not subtle, probably carries a little noise but its got a super funky squish to it that I love for those moments when you just need the compressor to pump and grind on your tone

Well burn me at the stake, how did you guess?

Lucifer will have you by the bald in that case....

Single knob compressors are the work of Lucifer himself....

Yet to try it at war volume, need to borrow it from its real owner (eldest son) so I wont say anything other than it seems fine at practice volumes, and the eq seems very usable for general tone control, it is the opposite of surgical, which suits his needs perfectly.

Got one

I loathe audacity. Truly. Its such an outdated piece of software. Yet there are a couple of things I have used it for that nothing else will do (recovering files from corrupted SD Cards for instance). I use it for nothing else.

As long as your program is entirely loaded into memory then no, but that in and of itself requires a program that is small enough to exist in memory in total, and doesn't rely on reading/writing to the source drive in use...

You're too kind

Each to their own I think that for me there is very little added by virtual wobbling wires and a pretend rack space. There is much more to be gained from an understanding of I/O matrices for rapid routing. Being a software engineer I am very at home dealing with virtual representations of non-real concepts that are logical representations of flows of data within a piece of software, which is kind of a long winded way of saying I don't need to see things made so pretty for the sake of it when a simple table will actually make my life easier by making things quicker and more clear. That's not to say that I think Reaper is ugly, it isn't, it's just not unduly and unnecessarily pretty for the sake of it, animations use up cpu, and if they are only for the sake of prettiness rather than presenting functionality simply and effectively.

I don't really like Reason It's all too much GUI which is just a pretty distraction for me - and I design GUIs for a living 😆 When sound engineering I'm interested in one thing, the sound. I have no need for a DAW that tries too hard to look like hardware, that's pointless. I need a tool that is extremely versatile, has no built in limits other than the power of the machine, and that let's me experiment with creative routing to achieve unusual ideas easily. I also don't want any cpu cycles wasted on anyything unnecessary at all...

So no then? Really thought this was a more popular head...

I remember Logic on Mac back in the day asa a midi sequencer. Macs never crash they said. Hourly it would crash, all the damned time. On any one of 12 available machines. A gargantuan pain in the derrière, and not a patch on an Atari for midi. Hey ho 😆

Sounds to me like it does things a little differently to what you are used to. Personally I prefer audio to insert at the cursor point. Also I use it for mixing/mastering more than composition, and prefer the extreme lightweight of Reaper compared to the monster that is Logic Pro. I can use any VSTi out there with it, and its 64/32bit bridge has always been a super strong point compared to many other DAWs

Wow.... Its the most logical DAW I've ever found :D, a track is a track is a track. Any track can have any amount of channels, any track can instantly become a group, any track can handle playing back any type of item. Routing to make a track the equivalent to an aux channel on an old desk is drag and drop, you can route signal through extra channels in a track if you want to take this stuff to its logical extreme as well (don't know another DAW that can quite handle that actually, they probably can now but they couldn't for ever). The routing is simply amazing. You can add fx to any track, because they all work the same you always do this in the same way. Automation is trivial, and its the same for all tracks. To me it really feels like an extension of a large scale SSL console of old in a lot of ways. Plus I can not harp on about the built in fx enough, multiband compression with unlimited bands, unlimited bands eq, convolution reverb etc etc etc all built in to the DAW and all sound incredible. I love it to bits. Obviously if it doesn't work for you it doesn't work for you, horses for courses etc

Reaper. Without doubt. It's my favourite DAW regardless of price.

Cheers Paul! Fingers crossed there's someone a little closer 😆

Can always find Leslie on Facebook and asked her if she remembers, she's really rather lovely, probably won't even bite your head off 😆

Would love a chance to try one before taking the plunge. Looking to plug it into a BF Big Baby which I'll bring along ☺ Ta!!

I love the fatness of an opto compressor. .... They're just squidgy and add real grooviness that I clearly can't put into words 😂 Or get a great vca compressor, they are a really good best of both worlds workhorse tool.

Another great opto compressor option is the Joe Meek FloorQ. Really good squishy action sounds very fat 😆

Look I am an advocate of using whatever tools you have to get the best results you can for yourselves and your audience. No one NEEDS a compressor on their bass. There, I said it ? You may find one can help you to either achieve a tonal goal or to sit in the mix more easily. You may find its all smoke and whistles and too much shag and hassle. It's all fine. Really. Go play, enjoy the heck out of it. If anyone on herequest ever wants to ask anyone more about compression, ask away. People will answer. If anyone considers someone a lesser player for using compression I'd respectfully suggest they don't really know why someone might want to. It ain't a magic wand it ain't never fixed crappy technique for me, quite the opposite actually, it makes quiet stinky poo louder so any string noise rings right out ? Play how you want. Peace...