alexclaber

[quote name='Bo Millward' post='595764' date='Sep 11 2009, 03:37 PM']Alright man, I've got a Spector NS 5 and a Vintage (JHS) Jazz copy I'm doing some d.i. recording clips with. I'm doing them through a DHA VT1-EQ-Bass-Drive an i can drop you them if you want. I'm guna do a walking line, a slap groove, a finger funk groove, a tapping phrase, some plectrum rock and A odd meter low F# djent groove.[/quote] Sounds good to me! This is going to end up an epically big matrix like on basstasters isn't it... Alex

[quote name='Tait' post='595670' date='Sep 11 2009, 01:41 PM']i don't own anything popular, i have an ibanez SR500 and then my taitycaster. but my dad has a MIJ precision with EMGs, a warwick thumb, a fretless jazz, a rickenbacker, and a stingray. i can get recordings of all those clean if you want me to.[/quote] Yes to all! SR500 would be good because there's a lot of those about. What/where are the pickups in the Taitycaster? Alex

Sample levels are fine. Alex P.S. Cab should be with you on Monday!

[quote name='Linus27' post='595548' date='Sep 11 2009, 11:56 AM']I am also a pick player of 23 years so I can do both with pick and fingers if you like.[/quote] Yes, pick would be great! Regarding settings on the bass, just take a note of what you've done and let me know regarding pickup balance, passive tone, onboard EQ. Alex

[quote name='Linus27' post='595540' date='Sep 11 2009, 11:44 AM']I have a Stingray 4 3EQ with rounds, Fender USA Jazz 75 Re-Issue with rounds and Squire Vintage Modifed Fretless Jazz with flats on if any of these are any good to you? I can run it flat out of my Shuttle 6.[/quote] Yes please! Will be interesting to have two different players through both StingRays and Jazzes, though you'll have the colouration of the Shuttle 6.0 Si, I think you and your Roscoe could be good because I know you're quite a one for a bright modern sound which will show up the differences in the highs between the single drivers, woofer+mid, and woofer+tweeter cabs. Alex

[quote name='Sibob' post='595500' date='Sep 11 2009, 11:10 AM']'73 Jazz with Wizards '03 Stock US Jazz Parts Precision P/J w/ Dimarzios Could record Focusrite>Cubase or Sansamp>Focusrite>Cubase[/quote] Yes to all of the above! Alex

[quote name='nottswarwick' post='595495' date='Sep 11 2009, 11:03 AM']Any use to you?[/quote] Yes! Would like to hear LMII DI as well if that's ok. Alex

[quote name='davidmpires' post='595497' date='Sep 11 2009, 11:04 AM']Can I run my amp without the speaker pluged in?[/quote] Yes, definitely! Alex

Oh why has this been moved to the recording forum, hardly anyone comes in here!!! Alex

[quote name='davidmpires' post='595479' date='Sep 11 2009, 10:43 AM']I have a Spector Euro 5 LX with Elixirs, if that's any help.[/quote] I guess that's a modern classic, so yes! DI'd from your Markbass F1, all EQ flat, three different pickup balances, would be great. Any techniques you play. I think 128k MP3 is perfectly sufficient quality so files should be emailable. Alex

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='595457' date='Sep 11 2009, 10:19 AM']I'm very happy to play with them in when I'm with my band, playing stuff I know inside out, but when I'm on-stage (as I was last night) with two sh*t-hot guitarists and a wildly-competent drummer, my chief concern is NOT to drop a bollock. No matter how good the ER15's are, when I'm venturing into the unknown I like to be able to hear [i]everything[/i].[/quote] You can actually hear more with the ER15s in than without them - it just takes time for your brain to adjust. By lowering the SPL level at your eardrum you reduce the distortion within your hearing system which increase the clarity. This is particularly noticeable on long gigs where the brain gets very tired from trying to remove unwanted colouration from the electrical signals being transmitted by the nerves in your inner ear. The transition between gigging with and gigging without them will be tough but it's more than worth it in the long run, both for the long-term health of your ears and for the improved sound you'll hear onstage. The ER15s do attenuate the highs a bit more than the lows (nothing like normal plugs though!) so if you already have hearing damage this will exacerbate this difference but given time your brain can compensate, and it'll do a much better job of adding some highs than taking out a ton of distortion. Bear in mind that an ear is quite like a microphone which is quite like a loudspeaker - and the higher the SPL, the higher the intermodulation and harmonic distortion with all these systems. Alex

Ladies and Gentlemen, In the interest of letting people compare the sounds of my various models, without actually hearing them in person, I'd like to get some nice recordings of popular bass sounds which I can re-amp through my various cabs and then record (with various mics). The plan is to have say a Fender Jazz with roundwounds, funked up, rocked out, throughly dub-heavy, etc all through DI onto a digital recording medium. Then I'll play that back through my U5/PLX through each of my cabs and mic them both up close and at a distance, on and off-axis with an SM57 and some small and large diaphragm condensers. Then you'll be able to listen to both the DI'd bass, and all the different miked recordings of each cab (multiple mics hopefully making up for mic colouration). And then the same with say a flatwound Precision, a Rickenbacker with a pick, a StingRay, etc etc. Plus some effected stuff - overdrive, fuzz, etc. Would be nice to get some of these sounds through a clean DI but others through the preamp sections of popular amps. Maybe a Sansamp or two as well. I was going to do this with my bass but how many of your own a thru-neck chambered 36" with Q-Tuners? Not a great reference point methinks! As I've said to various people, this still won't tell you what the cabs sound like, but it will allow you to compare one to another. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Alex

Outdoors you'd expect the SPL to drop by 6dB with every doubling of distance from the source. Indoors it's more complicated but it was probably sitting around 115dB on-stage! Another handy indicator is that many bassists moan that an Acme Low-B2 is too quiet for most rock bands. That cab can comfortably sustain 115dB @ 1m and peak louder. Scary thing is that with ER15s in and an onstage volume of 115dB you're still getting 100dB at your ear drums. Continuous dB Permissible Exposure Time (before possible damage can occur) 85 dB 8 hours 88 dB 4 hours 91 dB 2 hours 94 dB 1 hour 97 dB 30 minutes 100 dB 15 minutes 103 dB 7.5 minutes 106 dB 3.75 min (< 4min) One thing I often notice is that many PA systems are run rather hard, and consequently with more distortion and a harsher more fatiguing sound. This is rarely consciously noticed by sound engineers and punters because the former often have a significant degree of hearing loss (particularly in the highs) and the latter don't know any better and in fact they associate this distortion with loudness. Alex

How far was your SPL meter from the PA and backline? Alex

Yes, they're the ports - just lows coming out of them! Plenty of stuff on the market now with equal clarity, though back in the day they were certainly ahead of their time. If you like highs but don't like most tweeters then you need to hear some cabs with steeper crossovers which integrate the tweeter more seamlessly and protect it from lows better (thus lowering THD and IMD) and/or cabs with midrange drivers. Last rehearsal my guitarist asked why I wasn't a guitarist as I was strumming various chordal things. I guess my bass is a bass guitar after all... Alex

Have finalised the Double Midget design. Bit taller than originally planned and tweeter isn't coax as on the Midget (no need to time-align the woofer for stacking with Compact as it's a 4 ohm standalone cab and maximising internal volume to get as much LF sensitivity as possible, whilst with the Midget it's been more about power matching with the Compact). Almost a conventional cab - but done better! Alex

[quote name='iamapirate' post='594863' date='Sep 10 2009, 04:27 PM']OK, so it's not actually ME, but it's my (former) bass teacher who I fill in for on occasions![/quote] You realise that splitting a Midget in two won't give a good result, don't you? Alex

So where are the two and how much noise are they making at the moment? Alex

[quote name='basscantdothat' post='594325' date='Sep 9 2009, 09:35 PM']My biggest selling feature of the Trace Cabs were the dual 4 inch bass horns which have now been replaced by a standard horn...[/quote] You don't mean the ports do you? Because the only TE cab I can remember with dual horn tweeters was the BFC. Alex

[quote name='Moos3h' post='594623' date='Sep 10 2009, 11:26 AM']5). People like arguing on the Internet.[/quote] No we don't! Alex

I'd recommend some lessons to ascertain if you're on the right road with technique, and also to find out if your bass setup is making life unnecessarily hard. I wouldn't recommend switching to shortscale unless you prefer that sound - there are plenty of great bass players with small hands playing long scale bass guitars and even longer double basses. My analysis of scale length suggests that shortening the scale narrows the bandwidth, so less depth to the bottom and less clarity to the top. A rounder softer sweeter sound. If you want to find out for yourself, detune your bass by a three semitones and ignore open strings and frets one and two (you'll probably have to raise the action to avoid too much fret rattle). Likewise for a longer scale, tune the bass up a few semitones and play stuff that doesn't need your lowest three notes (because your bottom string will now be tuned to F# or G). It'll take some time but it's a cheap route to enlightenment! Alex

[quote name='Daquifsta' post='594122' date='Sep 9 2009, 06:00 PM']I can haz prize now?[/quote] The prizes are over here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=46816"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=46816[/url] Some tough competition though! Alex

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='592986' date='Sep 8 2009, 03:53 PM']In fairness to Maplins, it's actually C-weighted.[/quote] Damn, you won't be able to sneak below the radar! I was going to say 'let me know if it's accurate' but I don't know how you're going to know if it is. I need to get a voltmeter onto my measurement mic so I can calibrate it for absolute SPL. [quote name='Happy Jack' post='592987' date='Sep 8 2009, 03:55 PM']The argument that usually comes back at me is: "Yes, but it'll sound completely different once the place is full of people."[/quote] Although the sound does tend to change it's pretty predictable - reverb lessens and it ends up less harsh in the treble as the people and their clothes soak up the sound. If you can get a decent sound in am empty venue then it's usually much better once the punters turn up and remove unwanted echoes. [quote name='Low End Bee' post='593049' date='Sep 8 2009, 04:54 PM']"[b]LEB's balsa wood rehearsal drum sticks[/b][i][/i][size=1]TM[/size]" Coming soon to a store near you.[/quote] We used to rehearse with hot-rods which aren't bad but a little too acid-jazz sounding for a rock band. When I get a moment, I'll add something to my site about how to minimise sonic problems in rehearsals and gigs. We spend so much time worrying about gear but it's all to no avail if we're hamstrung by witless guitarists that are stuck on eleven - maybe presenting them with some printed matter will help, as long as the words are kept short... Alex

A useful reference might be that with your WTX260 into the Big One, at full power peak SPL will be over 120dB @ 1m. If you bridge a big power amp into this cab you'll probably get to over 130dB peak indoors! By the way, your new SPL meter is likely to be A weighted which will make you look more innocent and the guitarist and snare drum operator particularly culpable... [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-weighting"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-weighting[/url] Alex