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@51m0n thank you again, you are my knight in armour. i would like your post, by The BC compression rules have stated I reached my max like quota. just to complete what you have eloquently said, one is the Cali76G compresso with a Germanium and the second is a Compact Bass, so 2 different animals....!

Simple spreadsheet equation 1 Cali - semi pro 2 Cali - pro Cali to the power of Pi - world class rock star! you can have my cast off groupies

@Al Krow best Agent zig zag quote ever, is you don’t always need another bit of Kit! i do love you Bas

I am a geek too

the really important thing about that sheet which is brilliant is how a single plucked note can go through all those Hz ranges, hence harmonics etc.

@5im0n thanks for that lovely explanation it makes complete sense to me, I sincerely hope you are ready for more of @Al Krow questions now, or rebuttals, i’m Getting some popcorn

Did I mention Kings X were the world class band ever

@Al Krow re world class bands from 90s onwards, I forgot to mention The Atomic Bitchwax and you cannot forget Monster Truck or Robot Lords of Tokyo, but I concede you may have a point. Not many people beat Kings X

Excellent, bell end doesn’t get autocorrected!

Bas You are a being a bell end luddite! not saying The Who aren’t world class by the way, but I suppose you will trot out Dexi’s midnight runners in a bit

I live in Venezuela....

Bas, To name a few from mid nineties onwards Foo Fighters, Nickleback, papa roach, avenged sevenfold, Five finger death punch, alter bridge, black stone cherry, stone broken, inglorious will that do so far.......

@Osiris can give you the lowdown on a Genzler Mag 350. great amps like their bigger brother

@Al Krow except James used ancient strings from the dawn of time and foam under his strings to limit the vibrations and therefore potential frequencies of his strings. he also went straight into the board with Altec equipment with guess what, compression drivers to get a line level sound as well as up to 5 pre amps Live he had an Ampeg B15 which would guess what......

Title says ”live bands compress bass since when” since the Dawn of time....

Bas, dirt pedals compress the signal most people using an envelope pedal will have some form of compression after it to control your quacking, can be the same for chorus type effects, but they are less particular to compression before or after. pitch shifters respond well to compression before as it’s a steadier signal to work with tune amps compress a signal DI output compresses the signal before it hits the mixer board as well as the other things people above have said. its pretty ubiquitous. i suppose you could change your question to do they have a compression pedal on their board, but the fact is still there is compression going on with a pedal or not

Yep all good big bad Bas, you know I support you all the way. one pedal I will slightly differ on and support a bit more is the AO, I think actually it’s not a bad one at all for not losing the bottom end like the other distortion circuits can. It still not for me, as the others aren’t at this point in time. i will say though that when you get going with the microtubes circuit, you may find you dial in a tiny soupson into the mix and it will cut nicely. good luck in your gig tonight bro xx

Ok loads of knowledgeable people on here, way better than me, but the question is what do you feel you are missing in your sound. Do you need to push your sound more? do you need more clarity? are you getting lost in the mix? if you are not missing anything, your bass blends well with the guitars then carry on, you don’t need anything.

@Al KrowGlad you like it Agent Zig zag. i think you read too much into the frequency of stuff selling though, there have probably been about hundreds of Fender jazz basses up, there is some mark bass gear regularly there etc. does that mean they are poo? Nah - some of them up for sale were duplicate or additional amps to existing set ups that people decided was not for them especially as they already had DG pedals in their set up so they kept pedals and moved amps. Some people rationalise consolidate and create funds for stuff. Is DG/VK the holy grail? Dunno, but you like it. its the same with all this best of stuff. Is my Hartke VXL the best pre-amp pedal out there?Probably not, but it’s best for what I like currently and it’s what’s best for each individual. So if you are a true convert, you may go back to the DG thread I created where you accuse me of bilious vitriol against their product line (even though we have established it was only against price points, not what they are) and you can write a convert statement saying, “sorry I jumped on the bandwagon, I take it all back” As for keeping it longer than I kept mine, well first i’d have to tell you how long I had it for exactly, but we all know what you are like with your sweeping statements....!

Pretty sure @Wolverinebass is a 12 user, otherwise it’s just me and you so far mate!

Oh I have had both a solid body and a semi hollow ASAT and that body position is meat and drink for me, so I have no worries at all. really want a a solid body and I love a headstock so it’s kind of a Hamer for me as a Holy Grail. just Found out Sandberg did a few 8 string custom builds, but they won’t do a 12ver. I took good looks at Galveston, musicvox etc. And I know I haven’t played them, but they just don’t resonate(!) with me like a Hamer

You are more experienced than me in the multi string respect. its irrational, but I don’t really want a Dean, I sort of want the real McCoy, I have big mitts so I should hopefully be Ok

Of course mate this is my new dirt pedal I play into the Tyler This is the Tyler thread

@Sean utterly jealous mate. I have serious 12ver gas and am waiting for a Hamer to come up, and I know I have a set up waiting for it with instead of the LS-2 I have a Tyler by KMA Audio Machines to blend modulators and dirt with a clean signal. This does not require bi-amping, I started a thread on it in the effects section with links to how it works. so far as 8 vs 12.......although they are essentially tuned the same, to my ears the 12 is so much more, that extra octave string giving more presence in the mix. There is a reason why Tom, Jeff, dUg use a 12 and not an 8. only 8 I have tried was the Spector, I was thoroughly unimpressed by it, could have been an off day for me, maybe I expected too much, but I await patiently.