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Reaper, Mac or PC, has buit in pitch shifting, and retuning vst effects (that are a fair bit better than those in Audacity)...

Volume may not be an issue, structural damage and deafness will be, but at least your back will be fine

Oops double post ...

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1380934150' post='2232680'] You must have one on order then ?! [/quote] If it fit in my car and my house the Berg might well be worried As it is it won't fit in either!

Its a lot bigger than an S12t.... It does a lot more in the way of low end extension than an s12t too!

Crumbs!

You need to get to a Bass Bash. There were a load of BF cabs of all generations at the SE one, including a new Big Twin, and that is a stunning sounding thing, and has enough headproom to knock down planets....

Played with one for a couple of hours at the SE Bass Bash - they are monstrously loud, my measely 500w MB sa450 head into one literally emptied the hall with the other 30 or 40 bass rigs, because no one could hear anything whilst we played with it. Once again apologies to everyone who put up with my getting very excited with filter sweeps into brown note territory at extreme war volume. Apparently you can jam 1600 watts into one all day and it will just turn your internal organs to jelly... It sounded fantastic, effortlessly loud, but more than that a great tone. Killer cab...

I have the fretted version, more spector than thumb bass to be honest, esp wrt the bridge, which is a serious hunk of metal! Also ironically easier to slap on that a thumb....

Yeah, thats not economically viable, I can get DRs cheaper!

Soak them in meths works a lot better than vinegary water and boiling, no heat cycle, no water trapped in there where you cant dry it out oxidising and weakening the metal. Thing is the frets knacker the strings so you can never get back what you've lost completely.

No five string sets from him though

A coloured tone amp usually can only produce that colouration, if you are getting louder, you just get more colouration, its never not got its tone stamped all over your sound. If all you music that you are goin gto play with that rig needs that particular colour then you are golden, right until you play something that it isnt at all musically appropriate for, then you're stuffed. I play relatively uncoloured gear by your standards (plenty of mojo and heft from my MB sa450 for me, and my Berg dishes it out in spades, but it isnt saturating at all), if I need colour I have fx that can add more colours than any amp can (other than that SWR oddity with all the fx built in that Michael Manring was pedalling for a while, or the MB multiamp I guess), so why would I need the amp to do that too? Having said that if I'm tracking or mixing a band then getting the right kind of saturation onto the bass (and everything else pretty much) is absolutely vital, even if its supposed to be dead clean a healthy dollop of tape or transformer style saturation at the right frequencies can lift an ostensibly clean sounding part right out of the track in a glorious way....

How much do those Cleartones cost, and where from Nige?

Voting thread is here:- http://basschat.co.uk/topic/218396-augustseptember-mix-competition-voting-thread/page__fromsearch__1 please give sme time listening to the efforts of those who took part, they've been attempting Kit Richardson's magnificent You Look So Good Tonight (thanks to Kit, and Nigel), and deserve to get some feedback from people for the work they've put in, there are some cracking mixes in there! Thanks!

I reckon voting closes on Monday 7th October...

Up to Master Of Puppets they were really in their own special place of absolute prefect thrash, and damn fine it was too. Had they stuck with the same production team ([url="http://www.michaelwagener.com/html/discography.html"]Michael Wagener people, is an absolute monster of great guitar tones[/url], and he understood that bass has a place in rock way before the Black album) for And Justice it would likely have been as good as Master, but frankly Ive recorded better sounding heavy stuff on a four track, it had less balls than a girl guide choir. Utterly awful, such a pity. The Black album just wasnt thrash any more, but the production was better.... Lars has always been a cocky little tw*t who spoke utter sh**e from dawn till dusk, and beyond though

I've already got down to one of two, just need a listen on some decent speakers to be sure....

Voting thread up! http://basschat.co.uk/topic/218396-augustseptember-mix-competition-voting-thread/page__fromsearch__1

First of all I'd like to thank Kit Richardson, and Nigel on behalf of everyone who has taken part in this mix competition for letting us have one of your lovely songs to play with. Secondly, I've not entered, it really wouldnt e fair to put a mix that I spent a very long time over against these mixes that have only had a few weeks of spare time sent on them. If you want to hear my mix, then by all means follow the link in my signature. Here's hoping it is your favourite if you do Right so the mixes are in, excellent and diverse efforts they are too. Here is the link to go and download or if you cant be bothered, then just listen to the mixes:- [url="https://soundcloud.com/bc-mix-competitions/sets/bc-august-september-mix/s-YT2sD"]https://soundcloud.c...ber-mix/s-YT2sD[/url] If you do want to download them they are very very high quality mp3s rather than wavs this time to make this rather less onerous on the dedicated few Once you've listened, chosen the one that sounds nicest to you then vote in the poll.... To all those who participated, once again we have wildly varying levels on the mixes sent to me, peak levels differeing by some 18dB between mixes. So some of you have really struggled to get the K12 mix thing. That being the case I loaded all the mixes into Reaper and set them to the correct level based upon the loudest part of the song and rendered each one to a 320kbps mp3. Although there is some difference in apparent level (always the case) the results are far closer than what I was sent. I am sure this process has not detracted from your efforts. If you feel it does, complain all you like, but I probably will ignore you [color=#ff0000][b]VOTING IS CLOSED[/b][/color] Right the results are in![list=1] [*]You Look So Good Tonight - Mix A (4 votes [30.77%]) : VasDim [*]You Look So Good Tonight - Mix B (0 votes [0.00%]) : xgsjx [*]You Look So Good Tonight - Mix C (0 votes [0.00%]) : Lurksalot [*]You Look So Good Tonight - Mix D (7 votes [53.85%]) : Ironside1966 [*]You Look So Good Tonight - Mix E (2 votes [15.38%]) : Dad3353 [*]You Look So Good Tonight - Mix F (0 votes [0.00%]) : Moonbass [/list] [size=5]Well done VasDim!![/size] Excellent mix well deserved win, you managed to tame Kits voice the best for me, and I also like your aggressive pruning of the arrangement and concentration on the backing vocals over the rest of the mix. Great stuff mate! I'll put out my notes on the mixes later when I get a minute, well done to all of you, I get the distinct impression this was the busiest piece a lot of you have ever attempted, it only gets harder the more tracks you have doesnt it

Top stuff!

I've a tonne of ideas for the Recording Blog, but the blog just disappeared one day a while back, if we could at least get the BLog info up as stickies (particularly the compression one!!)..... Not just the sort of 'How the big boys do it with unlimited budget' stuff you find in tape-op and mixmag ionline (and SoS to a degree); much more things like, how to record your band in a room so well with just a few mics that it sounds like a 'proper recording', which leads to mic types, why they work like they do and discussions on their placement. Simple room acoustic improvements (this would be very simplistic, and also a few 'cheats' to get by if you are trying to turn the front room into a vocal booth for an overdub or whatever. Strategies for recording your music when you ahve limited kit. Why you will only save money if you save up for certain really good bits of kit rather than getting a cheap alternative now, and how to keep recording with very little until you have what you need. All that kind of guff This reminds me I need to get the Kit Richardson mixes up, snowed at the moment with work in the day and mixing (very very) late into the night on an interesting project at the moment (metal meets symphonic, always tricky )

The Audient ID22 has a pair of the same Audient mic-pres that are in its big flagship console, and the ASP-008. They are excelletn mic pres, however expect it to run pretty warm, since they are true class A design, unlike pretty much all the other mic pres in interfaces out there. They recommend leaving one or two spaces above an ASP008 in a rack to keep it cool!

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1380284832' post='2223255'] My dad once knew a percussionist who was a 'triangle specialist', I must admit my knee jerk reaction was "I bet he's not a rich man" but having heard him play, I can honestly say I was staggered by what it is possible to do with such a mundane instrument. [/quote] Our percussionist is a specialist in a particular form of deep Turkish tambourine, he makes it sound like everything from congas and timbale to splash cymbals, and the rhythms he can produce and evenly maintain for minutes at a time make my jaw drop....