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Bass Direct say out of stock on their site. I'm not in a rush anyway. I hope the MKIII sounds as good as yours!

Is the Octabvre actually available to buy in the UK anywhere? I can't find one

interesting topic. In my opinion, if the bottom end drops out when the guitarist switches from rhythm to lead, then his rhythm sound had too much low end in it. Loads of rock songs will have a verse or a bridge where the guitarist doesn't play. This creates dynamics, giving the feel of a quieter section, but the bottom doesn't drop out, because that's the bass guitar and the bass drum

What I'm saying is that these people are trying to do pitch correction, not "as an effect", but they overcook it until it's too perfect and sounds horrible to me EG Michael Buble

what baffles me is that it's possible to use pitch correction and retain a "good sound", and a lot of these singers are actually very good, but this "plastic" sound is used anyway

Yeh, obviously it works for him and loads of others, I just really dislike it

Someone mentioned Michael Buble earlier. This is a great example of the sound I really don't like. I reckon the engineer doing this probably thinks "no-one will be able to tell" but it's so obvious. It's not done for effect, you can't hear any artefacts from snapping notes to the grid, however, the whole thing is so perfect it sounds "plastic" and really grates on my ears.

I use it loads in the studio. I'd rather get a powerful performance and tweak a couple of notes afterwards than try and drop in a word or two, as that always sounds unnatural to me It's a bit frustrating when people want that "perfect" modern vocal sound. If you've heard any country song made in the last 5 years you'll know what I mean. I have one guy who comes to me, a truly incredible singer, he's never out of tune, but he wants that sound. I have to go through straightening out any natural wobbles or unintended vibrato and it really sucks the life out of the performance. When it's used for effect it can be pretty cool, although that does seem a bit overdone in some of the recent rap tracks I've heard

I have a crap old encore P I tune down to low A with the bottom 4 of a 5 string set. I had to loosen the rod a bit to get the low A working properly, and the action is a bit high, but it's not unplayable and it sounds fine. Are the bottom two strings rattling/buzzing a lot?

Can't wait. I've seen them live a few times and they're brilliant

Best BC post of all time perhaps. The only one I can recall ever showing my mates, and they all laughed out loud

Nice one, thanks Lozz! The first mix had a proper grindy bass sound, not unlike yours with Knock Off, but our bassist did not like it at all!

Check it out. I play the drums and produce the music. Our guitarist did the video

My solo album, 12 tracks 26 minutes: https://weisenheimer.bandcamp.com/releases Not my finest hour but I had to do something during lockdown

I saw Martin Greh support Oceansize in the basement at Rock City many years ago. His set was about 15 minutes but I was totally blown away. I was so desperate for him to come back out, but if he had maybe it wouldn't have had the same impact. In contrast Oceansize stayed on for 1.5 hours and I was bored after the first 40 minutes

His solo stuff is the best IMO

My main band Headsticks did a live album a while back. There are no overdubs at all. I might have tuned a couple of vocals here and there but otherwise it's just as it was on the night, less one song. We've been doing "live" sets for people to watch online, and these are recorded live but without an audience. All the audio is totally live, just a couple of dodgy notes fixed on bass and vocals

I used to use thumb picks on bass so I could switch between fingers and pick without having to hold a pick somewhere

maybe you could use a compressor with a slow attack, to exaggerate the initial transient

a cupboard might sound very weird! I think Mike Skinner did a load of vocals in a wardrobe full of clothes, and that sounds very dry Great point about the room though, if it's a bad sounding room the NT1 will pick that up

Great vocal mic but at least twice the price of the NT1A and not as good all round

I reckon I shift most guitarist's tracks by at least 12ms so the latency probably helps! Probably not as useful for bassists who tend to be a bit more "on it"

They're a great all-rounder too. I use mine for the room on acoustic guitars, drums, percussion, sometimes electric guitars too

Just a bit of fun on the drums

Glad to see you're back!