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    I Hate Compression!

    in Effects

    Posted · Edited by 51m0n

    Still people on here not getting compression. 

     

    My advice, find a local studio thar does sound engineering courses and go to one.

     

    You will learn a lot more than arguing on here.

     

    Simple answer, bassists know jack about compression,  it's definitely sound engineer territory.  Learn to be a sound engineer so you can make yourself sound better as  bassist in the context of a band.

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    How was your gig last night?

    in General Discussion

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    Did live sound to help a friend out.

     

    First time in a decade doing live sound for someone other than my band!

     

    Desk was a soundcraft ui24r, perfectly nice bit of kit, not a brilliant ui but ok. Never used one before, so a bit in at the deep end. I thought he was going to bring his Midas Pro 1 though, bah humbug! 

     

    Band is a Stones tribute band so drums, 2 guitars, bass, vocal, bvs.

     

    Sound checked in 30 minutes. 

     

    Had a blast. Apparently best on stage sound they've had, which is nice.

     

    Oh and the punters reckoned it was the best band with the best sound they've had in the venue ever.

     

    Pretty chuffed really, guess I've still got it then 🙂 

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    What is Your #1 bass for all situations ?

    in General Discussion

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    Roscoe Century Standard 5 string.

     

    I have two though, a fretted and a fretless. The fretted has bartolini soap bar pups, the fretless Bart j pups, so there are more sonic differences than the obvious.

     

    Neither is #1, but unless it's a slapped bass part I now prefer the fretless, just don't tell the fretted one I said that!

    Compression etc

    in General Discussion

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    You can mix and master now to far higher fidelity than anything produced in the 70s and 80s. On a laptop. All on board. No studio.

     

    You can't track for stinky poo without a good room though. There were great rooms in the 70s and 80s. There still are, but they cost a huge amount of cash because there are even less of them.

     

    Vinyl cannot reproduce bass as accurately as digital, so that is not the issue. 

     

    The consensus of quality has changed vastly over time.  The loudness wars on cd ruined 2 decades of cd quality masters in a never ending spiral of average volume over everything crystal meth style addiction. 

     

    Streaming has actually addressed this more than anything else due to all the algorithms these sites have generated to figure out equivalent playback output volumes across masters from all eras as close as possible. But bit depth is compromised and they are lossy compression formats normally which tends to affect the loudest masters the most adversely by nature of data compression mechanisms. Its super important to understand the difference between data and audio and audio data compression before trying to understand what might be adversely affecting your playback in a given instance. 

     

    Mastering engineers now work on gaming those Streaming algorithms to their advantage. 

     

    And so it goes on....

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    Amps with Compession or separate Compression pedal??

    in General Discussion

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    On 04/07/2022 at 21:21, Merton said:

    Are you able to make this year’s SE Bass Bash? Would love a crash course in compression if you are able to 😀

     

    On 04/07/2022 at 22:20, pete.young said:

    Pretty please. It's been a few years since the original presentation, which opened my eyes.

     

    51m0n's review of the Becos Stella is here:

     

    I'm really sorry chaps, I am completely snowed for the foreseeable doing house renovations that are becoming ever more epic.

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