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Of course, agreed and thanks for pointing that out as of course compression does more than just tame spikes. I guess for me that's the main thing I use it for, gently taming any errant notes / variation across the finger board rather than massively altering the other aspects of the sound hence my focus on that.

Worth pointing out that p bass and flats and a good technique is likely to provide a fairly even signal anyway - kind of natural compression I guess. I’m always astonished when recording with that setup how even and with few spikes the audio file records. So compression really may not be necessary.

Plus one for the Tascams - I have one which is at least 10 years old but great to just plonk down in the middle of the rehearsal room and leave recording for the whole session. Seems to pick up bass really well too which is an added bonus!

Yup. Really common rhythm at the moment in dance tracks.

Looks great at a glance — all I can say is that adding the chord symbols in to show harmony makes a big difference to any transcription. Thanks for sharing.

Yes he keeps cropping up on my Instagram feed. He beats, hands down, both my bass playing and beard wearing!

Agreed - there's always something to learn isn't there. Nice to see a fellow Yorkie too, though I no longer reside there any more.

you can get them in the UK though: https://www.andertons.co.uk/acoustic-dept/acoustic-guitar-amps/audiosprockets-tonedexter-acoustic-guitar-preamp

Chromes are lovely. I've got them on all 3 of my P basses and they sound great new or really old. But if you want that sound you'll need rounds. No reason. you can't swap them out for a bit and keep the chromes - flats never really 'go off; so. you could put back on when ready.

Round wound strings it is then.

Agreed - the difference is all in the strings. For me it's all about the flats but both do sound really good and as always is massively context dependent as to what you might choose to use. Having them solo'd like this is cool for hearing the differences between them but it's where they sit in the mix that is really important I'd argue. Either way two great players, two great sounding basses and you've got to love funk with a pick

Yes that’s what I meant sorry for May confusion.

Highly recommend @Quatschmacher online tutorials! Plus the Squeezer is awesome but a total PITA to programme unfortunately. Still love it though.

Yeah it would definitely do that for sure but maybe overkill

Yup. It's deeply versatile. Might be overkill for just one sound. Would an octave pedal work? Post a link to the kind of thing you're aiming for?

Honestly C4 is light years ahead - tape vs CD kinda vibe I'd say...

Source Audio C4 synth is the one then - small footprint, easy user interface and LOADS of presents available online. EHXsynth9 is a bit of a waste of time compared to what else is available these days IMHO.

You could try the Source Audio C4 pedal with an envelope with a quick attack and very short sustain to emulate the muting? You can use your dry signal with the envelopes in the pedal. Probably the closest you’ll get to emulating a physical technique with an effects pedal. @Quatschmacher could probably be more specific about the details.

I thought I'd revisit my decibel readings as well cos, well why not, this is a cool thread. 90db inside the studio (VERY loud for me, I monitor much more quietly than that and 55db ish outside the studio next to the side window. Tiny bit of noise of the back alley but hard to pin point exactly where it's coming from if you didn't know. Pretty good I reckon, and basically at lower volume there's no obvious bleed out of the studio so I"m not disturbing anyone nor alerting 'ner do wells' to its presence

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Recording-Studio-Build-Like/dp/143545717X This book was amazing too - might be worth laying your hands on?

That's interesting to know, I think the side window (triple glazed) in my studio had argon but not sure about the thickness of the glass. Not sure about the two Velux loft windows though Having said that though they all do an excellent job of killing the sound which is the main thing. But I'm gonna make a note of that in case I ever get the chance to build another home studio. Thanks!

I was advised by a number of folk that using double plaster board was a cheaper and better alternative to special acoustic plasterboard....might be worth looking into. Also I hung the plasterboard off the wooden stud with aluminium rails so that it was basically 'floating' so less vibrations could get though. https://www.noisestopsystems.co.uk/shop/wall-soundproofing/soundbreaker-bars/

What are you going to do internally to further sound proof? I suspended double thickness plaster board off the wall to provide a further gap / sound proof. Triple glazed windows too would help.