51m0n

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The easier the load in the worse the score 🤣

On 24/03/2025 at 21:18, Chienmortbb said:

Are you using the asio4all driver?

I dont, I use the x32 or x18 drivers.

On 24/03/2025 at 21:02, Al Krow said:

Good to hear from you @51m0n! I've missed your erudition on all things compressor related! Hope life is treating you well, and the music is still being made with your band?

Cheers matey!

Life was a bit crap for about a year or so - hyper stressful workplace political shenanigans - picked up now, new job helping a lot!

Tracking drums tomorrow with the band (well enough of it to make sense)!!! Using the X32 with a couple of digital stage boxes.

Nice sounding room, 28 tracks for drums, bass, keys (6 tracks for the keys!), and guitar, with a hint of guide trumpet. No messing!

Wanting a live-ish sound so doing this in a huge function room with heavy drapes over the windows for a guerilla live room. We've recorded there before and I was super impressed with how the room sounded.

Going to experiment with some of Moses Schneider's really incredible drum mic-ing techniques , because, well I can with 32 channels of input to futz about with.

Specifically his snareo, droom and wurst mics will be added to the normal setup. Plus a couple of more standard room mics (a huge old figure 8 ribbon well out front, and an LDC in phase with it)

With our music I've alwasy wanted to be able to drastically change the character of the drums through track sections and never had the mics to do that well - well tomorrow I might

Wish me luck!!!

Run an x32 for recording onto windows no problem. Have had great success with the xr18 too.

X32 with the x-live card is mental though, 48KHz 32 bit floating point to the sd cards, and usb at the same time (albeit at 24 bit). 

So far it's been spot on.

My windows laptop is a bit of a beast though, ROG Zephyrus with 32 GB of RAM.

I use Macs for work too btw

Yeah, because anyone can be

But, they would need to find a 

Bassist

Live and recording sound engineer 

Poster manufacturer

PA

Band secretary and cat herder

So, that's probably why my band members haven't bothered yet 🤣

On 27/12/2024 at 22:04, Al Krow said:

Gents, maybe a bit of a noob question but picking up on @EBS_freak's point about aux feeds for subs...any reason we can't apply hpf/lpf on the desk to route a sub 120Hz aux output to the Sub(s) and supra 120 Hz (via the main outs) to the Tops?

 

In which case the Alto TS 12 would be back in the game 😄

 

 

Nope, assuming your desk supports that

It's more faff, you need to watch the Q on both filters, gentler slope and the same crossover point is probably your best starting point. Oh and unlike IEMs/monitors you want a Post fader send usually 

You are sacrificing an aux out/matrix or however you end up implementing it, but you also get the advantage of choosing what to bother to send to that channel - which can mean not having to worry so much about high passing lots of channels

The band must know the songs inside out.

However well rehearsed you think you guys are, you can be better rehearsed still. 

Record your practice time on your phone, listen back for areas to work on.

Do what the engineer wants.

Do not over eq your bass sound, let him do the eqing. 

Have fun!

Absolutely gutted.

Plux is my eldest, Herbie was an absolute gentleman,  met him first a quarter of a century ago, he was so generous...

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/97801-today-i-played-herbie-flowers-1959-jazz-bass/page/1/

Really sad about this. Loved Herbie, super chap, looked after Pluxtheduck on a few Rockschools, and was always so generous with his time and knowledge. 

RIP

Pop Will Eat Itself at Chalk Brighton

Felt like I was 18 again, except for my knees, which assure me I'm 88 now 😬

James Taylor Quartet tribute to The Meters this evening,  on the train home now...

Was excellent if a little short...

Still got my Twain on my board 

Serious kit that!  

Haven't seen one of these for years. Killer bit of kit, GLWTS!

Its been a while, was just checking the new HX Stomp patch levels with the BT to make sure nothing I'd set up has gone completely bonkers and thought, that needs a wee piccie that does

1176 and La2a are very expensive specialist comps that realistically you won't be using live in rack form.

The new UAD modelling pedals are superb though....

Focusrite Compounder was what I used to use in my rack

Dbx160

Drawmer

Joe Meek

1176

La2a

Whatever you can find thats decent project to pro studio will work.

Less is more for on stage always on compression,  the devil is in the detail of the attack and release times. Keep the ratio low and take the threshold down till you get at absolute most 3dB of compression. 

30 to 50ms attack

60 to 100ms release 

You shouldn't really hear or feel it much until you play in a mix and at that point it just adds a bit of punch and clarity to everything IME

Fabulous mic these, amazing on the front of a kick drum too...

GLWTS chap!!

Band played a blinder, ridiculously great reaction from a very hot and sweaty crowd in Hastings. 

New tracks went down superbly.

Old hands who have seen us many times repeatedly told us it was the best gig we had played there and the second set was particularly brilliant. Apparently it highlights all sorts of different variations of funkiness whilst always sounding like us.

Got paid well by the venue and the tip jar was stacked as well. 

All in all an absolute belter of a gig 🤩

4 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

I wonder how many people will HAVE to swap over because they can’t possibly gig with ‘only’ 48khz. 😇

Higher sample rates drop latency

That's the only possible advantage IMO

And it's very tenuous since there's nothing wrong with the XAir latency at all.

8 hours ago, tauzero said:

CQ-20B, competing with the XR18, is £780. £220 more than the XR18. That's quite a price differential.

In fairness, the tech thet have in there is a decade newer than the x series. 

Whether that really translates to more useful in the intended setting or not I couldn't comment. 

But on paper the hardware is significantly more powerful.

Doesn't do ultranet though, so no good to me.

Ooh it's been ages since I got along to one of these

If I'm free I'll come along, gear will be whatever is handy, Barefaced, couple of Roscoes, EA iAmp, and a Becos Twain could all make an appearance 

Watch the videos matet! 

I would say reaper is apparently almost unique in having routing options capable of doing this but in all honesty I am not up to speed on new UAD stuff so it could be doable elsewhere.

Building your own crossover network will really help you understand what is going on in the allvin one multiband crossovers too.

Saturday was our first gig since the pandemic. Yeah yeah, it caused mayhem for the band members and family and its been a long hard road back.

Great night, rammed venue with many punters super happy to see us back for the first time since late 2019.

We played great, for me it was the first time with a p16 for my IEM mix which was cool and the first outing for my EA iAmp Classic which just  kills. 

Amazing to get out and play again.

If course, I only went and got Covid at the gig!

Poorly now 🤐

On 25/01/2023 at 11:14, Mykesbass said:

There is a huge thread on compression on here. I think it was @51m0n who posted a fairly full on guide to the art. Hopefully if it was he can provide a link, if not, sorry for tagging you!

I used to be way more active on here and talked a lot about compression. But I got very bored of arguing sound engineering methods with bassists if I'm honest, and don't get engaged in it so much now.

You have a very fine memory though if you are referring to this gem I put together based on the second talk I gave at an SE Bass Bash. The first was 2 hours long and covered a lot of compressor history and usage in music since the 1950s. I think most of the audience fell asleep 🤣

This us more about setting them up.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130215154741/http://blog.basschat.co.uk/setting-up-a-compressor/

There are other posts of mine that delve into a method for single led compressor pedals that is fool proof  a search for my babbling on compression will eventually uncover that one too.

The archiving lost loads of the diagrams I'm afraid...

Cheers chsps!

I though Bernie only did his own thing these days, interesting 🤔 ta!