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oh right, didn't realise that Reverb Nation is pretty good. My folk band are on that but it seems there are some regional charts etc which should really be ignored

has everyone gone off bandcamp? I always thought bandcamp looked pretty good

My quickly bodged together set-up for a jam the other day. First time on bass in ages and I sounded incredible!

I thought the consensus was that our instrument lead can make quite a difference, your speaker lead might make some difference, and your power lead definitely doesn't. It made sense to me the last few times this came up? [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1399327908' post='2443246'] According to the laws of physics a bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly [/quote]

I'd just put your logo on a page, then a link to all the social media sites. Embed a feed from twitter or facebook, stick your email address on there and you're done! Obviously it'd be nice to have a full site with "bio" and "gallery" and whatever you want to put on Not sure if this is a good example or not but this is the most recent site I did www.headsticks.co.uk and I think it works well enough although it's not well linked in to social media. It's just very, very simple

any old graphic EQ should do the job. I have the boss one and it's fine. I'd just get the cheapest you can find My bass has active EQ so I can roll off the low end with that

I understand the need to mic if you're using dirt pedals, because without the colouration of amp/cab there will be lots of nasty high end

I would never rely on a mic for the low end, DI is always going to be better IMO I like to take a low passed DI and a high passed mic, a SM57 is fine

A compressor will help, beware of your noise floor as above I'm surprised no-one's mentioned volume. If you turn up loud and stand by your amp you should be able to get more than enough sustain

I've seen original bands who really should have been covers bands!

Bought a pedal from Graeme, it couldn't have gone better!

never heard of the hum debugger before! If you're not sure about sheilding it might be worth taking it in to a guitar shop to get them to check the electrics. It's probably something simple and they'll fix it for 10-20 quid, then you won't need any pedals!

I use a boss NS-2 to gate my signal when using lots of compression and/or dirt

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1396867535' post='2418063'] It's just 3 or 4. Anything like 5 or 7 I write in 4. You can make nearly anything beyond 3 make sense in 4 apart from 6 which is the same as 3. [/quote] This is how I work it, and I manage to play drums in some pretty weird timings. One of our riffs is 13/4 apparently. It just feels like a bit of a weird 4 for me. My right hand is keeping "half time" but my snare and kick are doing 6, then 7. Every time my right hand has done 13 half time hits it's back round to the start. Makes sense right?!

"noise gate" is a bit misleading really. A gate is the opposite of a limiter. Once your signal falls below a given threshold it will cut to silence. Great for stopping feedback from very high gain pedals, and likewise will get rid of the hiss from high gain pedals in between notes. However, if your pickup hums, it will hum while you play, and a gate won't solve it.

You get a buzz from the neck pickup but not the bridge? Something is wrong there, I'd get your bass looked at before you buy any pedals

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1396114086' post='2410094'] It's also why a real mix takes a good 15 hours graft [/quote] Hmm, sometimes it seems a lot easier! My latest CreepJoint track took about 2 hours in total. It was in 3 seperate sessions, but it's my best mix yet, and definitely the quickest!

I don't think a gramma pad will help. Someone posted some ace plans for making your own bass traps in the recording forum. I think it might have been 5imon. There are lots of plans around, but as far as I know you just get the densest rockwool you can afford, and as much of it as you can, chuck it in a corner and cover it with some fabric A sofa or a matress would probably soak up some bass too

cheers PauBass. Dirty bass sounds are a bit of a speciality for me, but this one is definitely the best I've ever done

[quote name='PauBass' timestamp='1396520208' post='2414529'] Thanks! I did think it had a kind of Sansamp tone to it. So the distortion comes from the BDI21? Or did you use any other pedal? [/quote] a small bit of dirt from the behringer pedal, yeh. No other pedals. In the verse section the only dirt is coming from the BDI21, but it's not that dirty. In the other heavier sections the extra distortion channel kicks in, and that's an old Cubase plug-in called Quadrafuzz. I've always loved that plug-in as the filters are very useful. Normally I'd have sent the signal out to a chain of pedals and spent hours tweaking them but I decided to try Quadrafuzz and it works really well

[quote name='PauBass' timestamp='1396519020' post='2414509'] Nice! How did you get it to sound like that? [/quote] Whoever I bgouht it off had upgraded the pickup I think. New strings, Behringer BDI21 driven quite hard, then split into 3 channels, one for big fat lows, one for the horrible nasty clanky highs, and one for distortion which I cut out for the verses. But yeh, it's a squier bronco through a behringer pedal DI'd

I have just nailed the bass sound for my band's latest release. I play the drums, not bass, but I record and mix it. The bass is a squire bronco I bought from someone off here, Neepheid I think? Anyway, I thibnk you'll agree, this is the pinnacle of dirty bass sounds. https://soundcloud.com/rifffactoryrecordings-1/creepjoint-bass-invader

I have a set of newtones on one bass, they're over a year old now and still sound great. I don't play it loads, maybe once a week, but that's still pretty damn impressive. Still, it cost more than £50 and I had to wait 4 months to get them I've always used Elites on my other basses and I like them, but they seem a bit less consistent over the strings when compared to the Newtones. This is on 6 string basses. If I had loads of money I'd stick to Newtone, as I don't, I'll be back to Elites

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1395914208' post='2407800'] Or used more than one cab with the same amp. I noticed this particularly when changing from a Barefaced Compact (which, to my ears, has quite a "middly" sound) to a TKS H115, which sounds a lot more "scooped" in comparison. More mid-boost needed from the bass and/or amp and/or graphic pedal. Next cab = Barefaced Big One, which is kind of half way between the two. Hey presto - graphic pedal no longer required. Sound is a funny thing... [/quote] Very funny indeed! Don't chuck away your EQ just yet, you might need it to adjust to specific rooms More than just the room changing, even your mood can change. I remember (back when I used to get to play the bass!) I would leave my amp and pedals all set the same for every practise. Sometimes it would sound amazing, sometimes it would sound rubbish. I guess sometimes you're just in the mood for it?

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1395910548' post='2407753'] How would they know? [/quote] If you've ever tried more than one amp without adjusting the EQ you would know