Higgie

Absolutely love all of his work. His earlier poppy albums, the later ones, the trio...Excellent taste in bass players too. His voice is awesome, guitar playing too...Major fan here

To get this sound I typically run an octaver into a fuzz (in my case Aguilar Octamizer into a Swollen Pickle clone) and then I use my Subdecay Prometheus in envelope mode, turn the depth all the way down and then use the freq knob to select a frequency range. It helps tune the sound into that one particular frequency where you get the sharp cutting synth sound throughout the whole range of the bass. Bear in mind I have the Octamizer before my X-Blender, and the fuzz and filter in it, so I'm effectively blending Clean+Octamizer with Octamizer>Fuzz>Filter.

Move the whole bottom row across and get an OC-2 on there

I was a firm advocate of the OC-2 until I bought an Octamizer. The Aguilar unit is capable of the synthy sounds, as well as more natural sounds, all the way down to pure sub rumble - It's awesome. I never used the 2nd octave on my OC-2, so the Octamizer was a logical step forward, as it then gave me control over the tone of the octave note, and the tone of my clean signal. Infinitely more variable, and takes up less space on the board too. True Bypass and a Blue LED sealed the deal for me

[quote name='Higgie' post='482795' date='May 8 2009, 10:58 AM']Admittedly my first compressor was a DOD milkbox (which was a noisy piece of crap) but I then moved on to the Aphex Punch Factory, which was ok, very transparent, good for the price. I now use a Demeter Compulator (not alot though, I don't find myself using compression live) and couldn'y want anything more from a compressor. Compressor GAS has been vanquished for me!![/quote] Just as a follow up to this, I sold the Demeter as I didn't find myself using Compression, but decided to try out the Aguilar TLC - The thing is now on constantly! It's 4 knobs give it a lot of control for a pedal compressor and they interact really well with eachother, making it a pretty straight forward and awesome sounding unit. I love it!

I just took delivery of my new DB750 that I bought second hand, and no matter what I did I couldn't get the Clip light to come on. Active bass (Lakland DJ5) into the amp with the Gain, Bass, Mid and Treble knobs dimed, with the master EQ all the way down, and it didn't clip once even with the most aggressive technique. Now it sounds fantastic with everything from the Active Lakland to my Passive P with flats, but I just couldn't get it to clip. I just wasn't sure if this was natural behaviour or not! Can anyone shed some light on the matter? Cheers