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[quote name='henry norton' post='474124' date='Apr 28 2009, 12:24 PM']Did you used to be in the A Team before you turned to music? [/quote] No I confused MrT out of his transport by asking him in detail where the evidence of all of his modifications had gone. In the end he was convinced it wasn't the one he'd been messing about with all those years and I drove away with a fiendish band-mobile!

This is my ride:

I'm very impressed!! I agree it could do with more contouring, and for me, the whole left wing looks too wide.

I just get bored with a standard bass sound. Playing through the same tone for an hour or longer? How monotonous!

You look confused!

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='468783' date='Apr 21 2009, 05:02 PM']Gav, the lazy bstard.[/quote] Do you know him? I'll be honest from all the hype and reputation etc, I was quite let down by what we came out with. He's a really nice guy though and seems to know his stuff.

[quote name='AM1' post='468695' date='Apr 21 2009, 04:09 PM']Not at all. All sounds can be re-created to a degree, but they won't necessarily be identical or even really that close. I have heard plenty emulations, some were actually quite close. In fact, the Sansamp has a good Ampeg sound but it is still not identical. Let's face it, if any of them had absolutely nailed it, Ampeg would be out of business. In fact, if sound sampling as a "science" was absolutely nailed, we'd all be playing through a box, by which any sound could be re-created as an exact and identical copy of the original. We are not there yet. It's still a relatively young "science". All the sonic scientists in the world can offer up their theories of physics etc, but those things on the side of your head speak the truth.[/quote] If I play through an Ampeg with all of the bass and middle turned off, will it still sound like an ampeg? What if I use a Sansamp and plug it into the FX return on an Ampeg? Does it sound like a Sansamp or an Ampeg? Like I say, I agree that a certain range of tones are available from different amps, and from amp to amp this range can differ in width. However, you still think you'll be able to tell if an amp is an ampeg or not without looking, and that's rediculous, clearly, as each Ampeg has a range of tones available, and other amps cover some of this range in their range (if you know what I mean). Yes, there is an "ampeg sound", yes, they have a tonal character to them (which Ampeg you're talking about god knows, there are a few different models!!) and yes you could say "wow, that's the ampeg sound" or "they have nailed the classic Ampeg tone". However, to say that the ONLY way of getting a tone within the range available from a given Ampeg amp is to use that specific amp, it's just crazy. There are so many different amps out there with so many options and settings and such wide ranges of tones available, not to mention all of the computer modelling etc. Oh yeh, and about the Ampeg SVX VST plug-in - Have you tried it? Have you tried it with some great headphones? Have you tried it on a great computer with a great soundcard running into a poweramp running into an 8 x 10"? I went into Magic Garden studios who do a lot of pro work, and he has an Ampeh head which he's not touched since buying the SVX plug-in.

[quote name='AM1' post='468671' date='Apr 21 2009, 03:51 PM']I find Ampeg recognisable. It's that simple.[/quote] But they do have a few different models that sound very different to each other. You're saying you can recognise them all as Ampeg? And can you pick out the individual models? Why not? They're very different sounding! One day you'll be outside a gig and decide that your expert ears can tell it's an ampeg inside. Then when you get inside it'll be a POD XT or a Marshall VBA or a DHA head or a Zoom B2.1U going straight into the PA. Just because a sound is distinctive doesn't mean it can't be created by anything else. You're implying that nothing can create "that Ampeg tone" other than an Ampeg. Clearly Ampeg SVX VST Plug-in sh*ts on that claim.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='468644' date='Apr 21 2009, 03:27 PM']My point in general is that you can't just say that "That is the Ampeg Sound". There have been so many different sounds recorded over the years through Ampeg rigs, and even more live instances heard, that the Ampeg sound covers pretty much the whole spectrum of bass tones - from Jamerson's rare live outings, through about half the rock bassists from 1970 to now, to even Victor Wooten's slap antics (until very recently).[/quote] Yeh I totally agree with that. Incidentally, some people will be able to convince themselves of their ability to recognise a specific brand just because of the sheer popularity IE I bet that guitarist's using a marshall, just from hearing it. Well what do you know, you're right! Except you were always "odds on".

It's obvious that amps sound different and have an individual "character". Some amps are more flexible than others. I would generally regard an Ampeg as not very flexible. I think this is due to the sort of "character" built into the pre-amp. It's true that you can use the settings on your bass, on the amp, and varying your playing style to acheive similar tones from one amp to the next. What's clearly not true is that you can get any sound from any amp. Especially if you're relying on the pre-amp. Alex - What if nick oliveri asked you to get his distorted valve-driven sound out of my peavey combo? I personally treat my pedalboard as one big very flexible pre-amp, and whatever amp i'm using as a PA. This way I can extremely close to the exact same tone out of a wide variety of rigs.

I use anti-bacterial handwash to get rid of the cheesey smell. Especially after gigs.

I think I could get a good bass sound out of almost any amp, as long as I had some pedals with me. Since my Laney head blew up about 8 years ago, i've used a Peavey TNT combo with a BW 15" and I love it. Adding a guitar amp using the bi-amp feature really sets it off. I bought it for £150 or something, and I bought a 1 x 12" guitar amp for £50. I did upgrade the guitar amp later, but only because the opportunity came up. It was an amazing sounding rig for £200. Incidentally, I had to give the upgraded guitar amp back, and the old 1 x 12" is broken, so I bought a 2 x 10" Behringer extension cab from someone off here. Obviously it's not bi-amped so it's having a very different effect, but the amount of extra low end produced by the behringer cab is amazing! I was very shocked. I'm convinced that I'll only ever buy bargains from now on.

For a few interesting wahs, a great chorus, an expression pedal, patch saving and foot-switched patch-switching PLUS pitch-shifting, get the Digitech XP-100!! Or you could get a Zoom B2.1U. Or you could tell us you've got a £300 budget and we'll recommend a filter a wah and a chorus for £100 each.

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='465018' date='Apr 17 2009, 01:59 PM'][url="http://www.wikirecording.org/Mid-Side_Microphone_Technique"]http://www.wikirecording.org/Mid-Side_Microphone_Technique[/url] There you go. G[/quote] Thankyou!

Have you tried it at 18V EBS_Freak?

[quote name='escholl' post='464796' date='Apr 17 2009, 10:55 AM']try using it as the S mic and try MS on the cab.[/quote] What does this mean please?

It seems to me you need to figure out if you can compromise and hopefully get along with the complainant. Writing a very sensitively worded letter regarding the complaint and posting it through all of your neighbours doors is a good idea.

[quote name='jacojacojaco' post='464182' date='Apr 16 2009, 05:31 PM']hi, I used a 1971 Fender Fretless with a jazz pickup installed. If you go to www.bassplayer.com, the article has info on that bass. The only pedal I used on that track, and have used on almost all my recordings, is a Boss compressor that has three knobs (the two knob and 4 knob do not sound good to me). It helps bring out harmonics and with the fretless, it makes it a lot more compressed (obviously) and mid-range-e. Hope that helps, Juan[/quote] WOW! Hello Juan. I saw you play in Birmingham with Mars Volta and it was honestly amazing. I was staring at you almost the whole time, I love the way you have a little corner set-up for yourself! I've read that article a few times, great stuff.

I'm not sure what track it is but on that album he just uses some distortion, and what sounds like a ring modulator and a wah.

[quote name='Pookus' post='462433' date='Apr 14 2009, 07:49 PM']Now I have an EB with a similar feel to the set neck Gibson. [/quote] Not without pics you don't.

[quote name='bremen' post='458862' date='Apr 9 2009, 09:52 PM']I love a happy ending [/quote] Me too.... After a nice long massage.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='458601' date='Apr 9 2009, 05:22 PM']20mA.[/quote] oh, lol, that's a bit useless!

You could cut the end of a stereo cable off and add on a mono jack and a DC jack. The DC jack could drive a daisy chain. It would depend on the amount of current the amp can supply as to how many pedals you can run off it.

TC electronic controller or G system or whatever it's called. Or it could just be a midi foot-controller. To the right of that is a white boss pedal but you can't tell what it is.