51m0n

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!

I'm looking for a luthier recommendation near Brighton, needs to be good with replacing pups and preamp rather than the wood bits 😁

Ta!

Another Brighton based Roscoe lover here. Two 5 string century standards, fretted and fretless. Lovely basses. 

If i was after a 6 I'd be all over this!

GLWTS

And there's me wishing my Becos Twain had 4 more knobs 🤣

1 minute ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The Joyo bantamp has 'one knob' compression. This sort often seems to work well, presumably as all the clever parameters are preset to sensible values.

One knob compression is Satan's own device, its always wrong ....

3 hours ago, Al Krow said:

But has a pretty hefty price tag, ooof!

Once you start taking tablets and routers into the mix that does increase effective size / eliminates the convenience of a one-stop desk but agreed the RCF M18 is definitely an alternative option to think about here.

You want full featured and small footprint you can expect to be paying a bit.

As mixers go these days feature per buck is unreal. In the late 90s big studio consoles with 32 channels and eq and dynamics on ever channel, but no other fx with 12 Busses would cost at least 250k.

These things really do compete feature wise, and have fx built in, and effectively perfect recall,  for just a few 1000 all in.

That's cheap as chips!

Midas m32 rack is the most compact solution for the mixer, u til you add in the stage boxes for io of course 🤣

1 hour ago, Chienmortbb said:

To be honest compared to the RCF M18, Behringer X series and Soundcraft Ui series, that is not very compact,

Agreed 100%

If it has faders it is not compact, and can't compete for features per cubic cm either

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

 

Except in the real world it doesn't really work like that. 

 

Unfortunately for us the human brain is very good at a subconscious level at distinguishing between sounds that are delayed because they are coming from some distance away and those that are just being delayed. Even when the delay times are very small. That's why latency of over 10ms, caused by AD/DA conversions and wireless transmission, will be noticeable, and for many musicians completely distracting, whereas having the sound delayed by the same amount due to the listener being further away from the source is not as off-putting.

Not quite

The human hearing system can detect delays between ears down to 3 or 4ms easily, some people even less. But as a direction finder more than anything. 

I don't know anyone really distracted by standing up to 10 feet from their amp. And that delay is just a fraction under 10ms.

On 05/11/2022 at 12:33, Chienmortbb said:

Good to know but I will have to check that.

Check away, it's common sound engineering knowledge

If precision is your thing 0.343m per ms

In context sound moves 1 foot in 1 ms give or take.