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Yup, every time I've had a crap sound, it has been caused by speaker cabinets, not amps. Sure, some amps sound less girthy or not as loud, but it's always the cabinet that has ended up making the bass sound incoherent, muddy or just plain horrible. * Ok, so there was an amp or two that was pretty bad in the past.

D'Addario also do a 170, which I would much prefer to drop on a 34" scale to get some tension back - or, as I had to do before anyone in the UK was making a 170, (well over ten years ago now) Newtone Strings custom made me a 145 with a custom core to get the tension up. Thank you for the tags, I am not sure why I didn't get a notification. Drop tuning this low on a standard scale length on a bass that isn't really up to it, can be problematic at best and a PITA at worse. I watched one of my students do all manner of upgrades to his Ibanez bass and was still rewarded with being left wanting. My Shuker basses on the other hand help to focus on the frequencies that matter should I need to drop low. (My 7 sting is an F#'er and is currently dressed with a 190 gauge string that will give me enough to go down to E0.) It's like having a bass with a great sounding B string. Some, no matter what you try, just won't "do" a good B. I have a £200 5 string here that has a wicked sounding B string! The statement "why would you do this, you can't hear it" I feel is based around experiences failing to get the tuning to work or a misunderstanding of how it works in reality. Yes, everyone chimes in and says that the fundamental frequency of that F# is 23.12hz - and 90% of bass speaker cabinets on the market cant deal with that fundamental and plenty of amplifiers are HPF'd long before this anyway. BUT!!! - It isn't the fundamental you're needing to focus your attention on, it's the harmonics of the note, 46hz, 92hz, 184hz etc. Anyone who has heard isolated (mixed) stems on a recording will know that generally speaking, the lows that deep have been carved away anyway. It still sounds deep and brutal though. Your ear fills in the rest. ...and you definitely don't wanna be driving those kinda frequencies hard on stage with your own personal sub either. FOH engineers will not love you!

Julian Krause is a superb resource for interface reviews including Motu.

I've been trying to get the QC to sound like a chain I created in the Cory Wong plug in last night, so I would love to see the individual "plug-in unique" effects dropped in to QC too.

Due to lockdown and covid and all the other nonsense that the last few years have brought me, my journey with QC has been a slow burner. It's not getting out to nearly as many gigs as I'd hoped. However, we've bonded and I'm really enjoying the unit. For the most part I have it on a cool laptop /iPad stand and it makes for a brilliant desktop processor. The form factor works for me given the touch screen and rotary foot switches. I know that I can put it straight down on the floor again and away I go. I am still a massive Helix fan and all of the units available are superb. The LT was my "best fit" at the time and it did many gigs with me. QC, for my needs, physically is a better match for me, though I do miss some of the effects, amp sims and functionality of LT. Sometimes I'm a bit frustrated that QC doesn't do something I have become accustomed to. But then QC can do a whole bunch of stuff that Helix couldn't too, so, its about finding what is your best fit - much like players choosing the DAW they like best, or strings, or IEMs! Now, since Gregor is holding an Attitude bass in the thumbnail, I'm off to go listen to that

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Babicks

It's pronounced:

I've Spanish family and they pronounce their surname EE-ban-yeth, but I can't stop calling the brand eye-ban-ez!

Da-Dairy-Oh

Heart-Key not Harkur

On a related note, I wonder, in an anonymous poll, how many female members have experienced sexist content on this forum including that dressed up as "banter". I guess we won't know as they've probably just left.

@SteveXFR- Dunlop 0.88mm Tortex : https://www.instagram.com/p/Bav1kzLD00_/?taken-by=darkglasselectronics

My digital callipers agree with you, I measured 0.87mm!!

The link above still works - but, you should drop a line to @Ashdown Engineering anyway via their website, they'll be able to help for sure.

@Darkglass @[email protected] tagged.

Ahh, an ole guitarist of mine had a Patrick Eggle, I can't remember the model but it was a wonderful guitar that refused to make a bad sound!

I actually have! He's a good guy, genuine. He's played a million sessions with the very best musicians and with some of the best gear out there. You can't deny that he has a huge amount of gear experience.

Thank you! I've repeated this SO many times! Sponsorship vs Endorsement!

I was going to make a joke about Forty on E, only to discover the song in mind appears to be drop tuned to Eb.. But what is the song? 🧐

I am very much enjoying this thread! I am looking forward to seeing it completed. I'm chomping at the bit waiting for my donor bass to arrive. It's in a container somewhere in the middle of the sea right now I guess!

I am just the same - I've long come to accept that I don't know what some of my favourite songs are really about. You just need to know how to focus this skill and use it to your advantage rather than thinking of it as an inadequacy To be honest, it was such a light bulb moment for me when I realised that deep down, before I could play bass, I would be a bassist - if anyone ever asked me to hum a song, it would always be the bass line first!

(ok, so other than a very short hidden cameo, the band themselves didn't act in the film)