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Okeedokee, I've got a few in, not that many this time, was everyone rather daunted by this one do you think?

[quote name='five-string.co.uk' timestamp='1379932049' post='2218289'] + position in room too. I still find it amamazing how much a room and your placement within it distorts the recorded sound of an acoustic instrument- even with a close-up microphone. [/quote] Critical Distance in mic position is vital to understand, and entirely dependant on the type of mic you are using.

[quote name='ern500evo' timestamp='1379926895' post='2218198'] I understand there was a Big Twin 2 at the SE bash? [/quote] Yes there was, and with the measely 500w on tap from my sa450 it managed to pretty much empty the hall, as no one else could hear what they were doing at all, and URB and I got rather over excitred by the sheer power of this full functional [s]death star[/s] [s]earthquake machine[/s] [s]trouser leg drying device[/s] uber cab. Deep filter sweeps it can handle, slappity tappity nonsense it can handle, walls of distortion, it can handle, befuddled fat old geezer having a mad stab at his bass on mega war volume, it can handle - apologies to everyone who had to hear me (reckon they could hear it as far away as Dartford)! Apparently its rated to 1600w, it definitely goes deeper and far louder than anything else I've played since I borrowed the original Big One for a bit way back when - its much much more efficient than that cab was though, the tweeter is amazing too. Really really impressive. I would say there was no drummer, and no pair of rock guitarists in the land who wouldnt s*** themselves on hearing it. Fear the bassist with one of these beauties ya b*****ds! When Billy Apple ran it off his Matamp 200w head with the Big Baby as well it was utterly earth shaking too, sounded immense! Still grinning about it now

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1379857504' post='2217448'] The bash was great, not just because of the talks from the pro's and all the amazing gear on display. What made it for me was the fact that an enthusiastic amateur such as myself took a piece of kit along that he was not understanding too much and found an industry pro who totally sorted it out. Of course I'm talking about my M87 Comp pedal and 51mon. Over the machine gun barrage of slapping Si took the time to explain the principles of compression, and he had a good old fiddle with my knobs. At this point I've got to apologise to Happy Jack, who I was previously talking to in the hallway, mentioning that some people would perhaps like to turn down. Now I was banging way with Si encouraging me to 'Hit the thing as hard as I could!' And can you believe it, Si found the sweet spot, and I had a grin a mile wide across my face! It was as if my bass and rig had got rid of years of bunged up sinuses and all of a sudden were breathing properly. Blimming marvelous! Up until that point I was feeling a little morose about my rig, and now it was ringing like a bell.. A very noisy bell! And to top it off I then got the opportunity to blow the hall windows out with Alex's Barefaced stack. Priceless. For me this was what the bash was all about. A group of like minded people turning up, swapping stories, sharing expertise, meeting old friends and making new ones. I might not fully understand compression, but I know a chap who does.. and he photographed my knobs.. The answer... Thanks 51mon [/quote] No worries matey! I heard at least two people saying that there should be a compressor chit chat (or how to do compressors dude!) chat like the other year's one every year. They might have a point, what with the blog gone away

A great sounding instrument, played by a good player, in a great sounding room, mic'ed by a good engineer, with a suitable mic in the right place to best capture it. Printed via decent Mic pres and DA converters. Bust one of those and you might get lucky, more than one and you'll have an inferior recording every time.....

They were at the SE Bass Bash. Epic doesn't do them justice at all. They are utterly magnificent cabs...

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1379680978' post='2215646'] I've just bought an MXR M87 Bass Compressor, if you fancy teaching me how to rub the thighs on that one [/quote] Absolutely! Just rock up and ask mate

No Dad, thats called Special Brew, its not the same, its analogue for a start....

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1379668373' post='2215395'] If I can fit it in, will you rub my thighs too? [/quote] I would, but I know a queue would form, and I'd be stuck all day rubbing other men's thighs.... [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1379669172' post='2215412'] Dammit! If I'd known there would be thigh-rubbing... [/quote] See! See!! See!!! I'm afraid all offers of thigh rubbing are going to have to be rejected, in principle. Now if You'd just PM'ed me, HJ, we could have kept this between ourselves, blabbermouth!

[quote name='andyonbass' timestamp='1379607558' post='2214794'] I'm off to Maidstone on Saturday morning to hopefully do a trade deal, I was thinking of popping in on my way back to Swindon - It'd be rude not to!. If I can fit it in, I'll bring my [i][b]EAD Foundation 212[/b][/i] and Markbass TT500 [/quote] Oooh yes, now then, now then, that would be lurrrvely <RUBS THIGHS>

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1379665678' post='2215349'] Ermagherd! Finally! Download link? [/quote] Mans got keep some secrets baby

Where ever you ended up putting the vst when it was 'installed' (hey they are just dll library files, they dont really need an installation per se), just point Reaper at that folder and you're golden, you dont need a seperate area for 32 bit and 64 bit VSTs either. Personally I have a seperate folder for VST and VSTi since it makes searching for stuff easier. Also in Reaper you can get it to show the directory structure in the list of FX which can really make finding the cool nifty new patented [i]TALENT_ENHANCER[/i] plugin much easier to find!

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1379595565' post='2214597'] Looks like I'll definitely be along on Sat, I can bring my old Yam with the bright green strings if anyone's interested on how they sound/feel. Any chance that someone coming has some Seymour Duncan P pickups they wanna flog? [/quote] Yes please, mentalist coloured strings would be a laugh, but I dont want to find out they sound/feel like something I'd rather not put on my bass

I play active, I prefer the sound, but I dont make much if any use of the onboard tone circuit, and thats not what I want active for, its the more stable tone regardless of cable length and so on that got me into active. That and the signal to noise ratio sometimes being far better on a good active circuit than a passive one through a long lead. If I roll all the way to the bridge pickup I may add a touch of low mid or bass from the onboard eq in a live situation, but I'd always prefer to use the amp, or an even better eq if necessary if I'm recording. I dig passive tones too though, in fact one of my basses has a passive treble rolloff and active pickups, which is a lovely solution IMO.

Chaps if there is a real desire we could add another few weeks to this..... I'm not going to say how long I spent on it for real

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1379503572' post='2213376'] I just knew compression was all about getting a banana and a tangerine through a roll of gaffer tape. [/quote] Exactly! My work here is clearly done... Actually that may have been more about phase issues in mic'ed up drumsets, or was it more to do with the fact I was peckish????

Nice to see you making it Alex, was touch and go there whether or not I would have to find a way to fit some BF goodness into my already splitting at the seams car for everyone to have a play with Once again, although I'm not 'officially' going to bore people to death about compressors or mixing or any of that old tat this year, if anyone has any questions about that sort of thing feel free to accost me in a friendly fashion, never happier than when I'm boring people stupid about recordingy stuff after all

Nah TC say and sell it as n watts, when it isnt, its g watts run through a multiband limiter/(other assorted shenanigans) rather like a simple digital mastering cover all solution, in order to get a higher average level to peak ratio (think radio station broadcast limiter). The amp runs harder than a real n watt amp to achieve the same level as an n watt amp (by which I mean in achieving that same level the amp is running closer to its theoretical maximum more of the time - just look at the graphs in the pdf). Which may or may not worry you. It also means the transients are very definitely curtailed, and that is something you may be able to feel. I can honestly say the TC stack sounds really loud, possibly louder than my rig in fact, but I prefer the sound and feel of my rig (I had a day with my rig sat next to Charics - IIRC - at a previous bass bash, so this is a personal subjective impression of the two rigs suide by side for an extended period of time). I have no problem with that approach from an engineering point of view, if they said thats what they did, but in their initial push to market (anyone remember their bass 2.0 ads?) they kept this all very quiet. Any kind of limiting or compression is a form of distortion of the signal, and to claim they have 500, 1000, 1700 watts of [i]clean[/i] usable power is frankly a lie. Whether this is a negative thing is entirely up to you of course

Deadline is Monday 23rd September. Not surprised if anyone has struggled with this, it is a veryu very busy piece of music when you stack up the BVs. Am surprised at how little talk there has been on this thread though..... You dont really need to master it, other than maybe a few 2buss eq tweaks, and the tiniest bit of glue, remember we are after a nice k12 level here, so any limiting is just going to lose you punch and overall level compared to everyone elses (because k14 measures average volume, and a compressor or limiter will effectively raise that, k14 will require you to turn it back down).

[quote name='jcater' timestamp='1379352954' post='2211641'] Will definitely be there as for once I'm not playing on the same night. Not sure that there is much I can add to the fantastic range of gear that is coming, but look forward to meeting everyone. Does Bernie Goodfellow go to these? Jeff [/quote] He came to the Brighton one a few years ago, as did Herbie Flowers who was awesome as usual....

Loud and clear, IME it can really help to swap the tube out for something a little smoother sounding, the treble is somewhat harsh with the standard tube. Great head for the money.

[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1378069314' post='2195565'] We did consider a studio but we don't play well individually, it's more about the interaction and the live sound, the plan is to set up the gear and record during an extended practice session, we only need to get half a dozen songs down to show that we can actually play. We're a 3 piece band with only one singer and want to keep it very live sounding. We did have a go at this before but suffered from an overloud guitar as we mic'ed it, we're going to use the line out feed this time which should help a fair bit. [/quote] Don't DI overdrive guitar! It sounds utterly gash. No reason a miced guitar should be too loud....

Are you bringing that to the SE Bash???? You look like you are trying very hard not to lose control of several important sphincter muscles in that photo

Love that, excellent mix, good grooving rock. Not often a big fan of the rock these days, but this I like a lot, the French accent is ace, reminds me of The Young Gods Well done!!

Mmmmmm beard....