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    I'm having a rethink about how I work in my studio. Around a year ago I bought the RME BabyFace Pro to replace my RME Fireface 400, and I bought the Artist Mix because I was longing to get back to using faders having spent a couple of intensive months mixing and editing using a mouse, which left me with mild RSI in my hand (which I must admit I didn't realise until I picked up a bass for the first time in a month). And guess what, I'm still using the FireFace and mouse, because I've simply got used to them, have learned to be a little less tense when I'm working (no more RSI), and I also prefer to use rack-mounted gear and keep all cables etc out of the way. The BabyFace has been used for four recordings, and has quite literally had the XLRs plugged in and out once. The Avid has been used about the same. In short they are both as new (the RME was bought about 12 months ago, the Avid in June this year). I'm looking for £450 for the BabyFace and £550 for the Artist mix, insured courier is £25, collection welcome. I've got all the original packaging, I'll post photos later today. Details of both units are below Re trades, I'm going to have to retire my Fireface 400 because whilst it works really well on my machine running El Capitan, it's a bit buggy with what is now my main machine running Catalina. I'm looking at a FireFace 802. I'd consider a PX/trade for an 802 or for something very similar BabyFace Pro https://babyface.rme-audio.de/ Artist Mix https://www.avid.com/products/artist-mix
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    Not a great bass track, but the guitars on this are lovely, bit of a Hendrix vibe?
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    Told you
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    You’re probably right
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    In other news, Les Paul was Miller’s Godfather!
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    I can’t believe he was only inducted this year?
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    One of those ‘could have been me’ moments! Thanks for identifying the player, the sing is far from my favourite Steve Miller, but I love the bass
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    Ha ha, he's such a guitarist with those windings (and playing), quite like him though
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    Having recently done Yes and Warren Zevon, the next stop on my 70's music odyssey is Steve Miller. Admittedly I was listening to this on bloody nice headphones which helped put the bass front and centre, but the bass tone and the bass part itself are just lovely, bass tone pulled back to about 1% away from being muddy, and just works. And I didn't expect a bass solo 2 mins in
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    My Barefaced Super Twin (2x12) is marginally bigger than my old Mesa Boogie Powerhouse 1x15, weighs marginally more than a postage stamp (my 7 year old daughter can lift it), and underneath an SVT-2 Pro is the full, fat bass tone that was always in my head. None of the other cabs I've used have given me that tone, and that's everything from Ampeg, Bag End, Boogie, Fender, Mark Bass, PJB, and loads more I forget, and in just about every combination of speakers. They come up used on this forum occasionally, and even new are well worth the price. I know what you mean about small boxes sounding boxy, that's my experience also, there's no point compromising on cabs when the rest of you gear is quality
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    Yep, must admit I didn’t hear magic, great time, but nothing that would make me think ‘man, I gotta get me one of those PUPs’ . Might get a can of the snake oil he’s used perhaps
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    Fair point
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    I think this one does it better https://thebassgallery.com/products/wilcock-the-mullarkey-short-scale
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    If only I had a grand Or Andy’s address and a crowbar
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    Yes Luke, Yes
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    Very gender biased Dad Again, experiment Nicko, depending on what voice you're going for, a pop filter (spoffle as Hugh Laurie apparently named them), can take a little bit of the air away from a voice as well. I guess like filtering, don't put something between the source and the desk unless it improves something
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    Probably not a helpful post Nicko, but trial and error is the only way to work with mics, there are general principles but there are people, rooms and equipment that fall outside of them and you won't know whether yours do until you try. There is certainly comfort in believing that the set up that you're using should be correct for the parameters in question, and that's a good place to start, but that doesn't mean that it is. I've got four five decent vocal mics, on paper an SM7B really shouldn't be my first call for my own voice - in fact it should be the least suited to it - but as soon as I started using it about three months ago people who were listening to my suff said "voice sounds like you're in my head". Just worked for a whole load of reasons I won't pretend to understand
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    Guys, with apologies, the guy I'm interviewing called me yesterday and said he can't download Loopback, turn out his Mac is a PC!!!! Any thoughts on equivalent options for a PC?
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    Last bump before ebay, trade offers?
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    UPS

    Beedster replied to Scooby's topic in General Discussion

    Exactly, as per my point above it's not just about the courier's T&Cs, but about respect for the buyer. I can't believe the completely useless packaging that some gear I've bought has arrived in. Shops often send instruments in quite poor packaging - for example an acoustic guitar in just a box - but at least you're generally covered if it gets damaged, it's really no fun having to contact a member on this forum to say 'the bass/amp/cab is badly damaged and frankly it's not because the courier was crap - they're always going to drop things or put heavy boxes on top of fragile items - it's because you didn't take the time to pack it well with that in mind'
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    Yep, I thought it was a shorty form the original vid, now I look at at in full length it screams neck dive and possibly a PITA to gig as the result. I wonder if that's why it never made even a short production run. In the photo above - curiously posed in front of two oil tanks - it reminds me a lot of a 3TSB Shergold Marathon I owned years ago. Sadly, now that I've made that connection, all I can see is a Shergold body with a Fender neck, and you know what, suddenly it looks all wrong
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    Yep. Re some of the previous posts here and elsewhere, the maths might explain why you hear what you hear, but in my experience will rarely predict it with any reliability. Trial and error is the best bet, and the best place to start is the gear you already have, adding extra cabs will always make a difference, just not always the difference you want
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    Proud Mary. CCR
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    What a load of balls
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    If only
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