Al Krow

For some reason Phil Lynott never played a bass line on the original and I was initially trying to figure out why our band's cover of Thin Lizzy's cover felt fuller on the low end 😂

And if we're talking about great covers done by Thin Lizzy, we can't not mention Whiskey in the Jar can we?!

My bandmate has the CCR original in his solo set. But given his favourite band of all time is Green Day, I suspect he's going to love this!

Thanks - it does seem that the ASIO issue is Windows specific. Interestingly the CQ guide video shows the desk being plugged into Logic Pro i.e. obviously with a Mac rather than a Windows DAW. But I'm reluctant to switch from Windows to Mac as I'm not using a Mac for anything else!

Had a crack at using my A&H CQ18T as an interface with my Windows DAW. Input with ASIO was fine, but struggled to get any sound output using ASIO (and similar issues with a second DAW I tried) so I ended up having to resort to Core Audio (WaveRT), which has much lower latency than the other alternative of Wave, so that I could hear what I had already recorded. But then setting it up for multitrack recording - there was leakage across DAW tracks and a bunch of artefacts and delay on the recording. Horrible! Checked online and apparently issues with ASIO are not uncommon? Thought I'd go a more traditional route of getting a Focusrite 2i2 interface (Gen 3 are being sold new for a very good price), and bingo all was well with the world! Artefacts etc. all gone. PC able to input and output to the interface using ASIO. I'll therefore just use the desk as a mixing desk into the Focusrite, when pairing with a DAW going forward. The ability to multitrack record is still very much an option when recording a live performance using the SD card slot on the A&H desk, but you obviously can't see / tweak the levels being recorded.

Looks like an interesting alternative to the Zoom MS60B+ Liking the form factor, drum machine and 80 minute looper storage Seems to be geared primarily at guitarists, but hey...

George certainly did! But Ringo?

Apologies for zombie thread resurgence...but was just listening to favourite George Harrison track and just clicked that his was an excellent cover! George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You (Version II)

@Chienmortbb Filling Out the Sound of a BGD Trio - Gigs - Basschat Here you go - maybe a few useful pointers in this thread for you. Tbf it had dropped to page 9 so was pretty buried!

@MrDinsdale Newbie Q: if I put a pedal in the send / return loop of the Core am I correct that it can be set to run in parallel and won't be impacted by any of the fx in the Core? I'm thinking that would be the ideal set up for little drum pedal for home use.

If your website generates a single paid gig per annum then my guess is it will likely more than cover its running costs for a year. We've just this past week secured a 40th birthday party booking via ours. It is just one channel of getting bookings for us, but once it's been properly set up, it shouldn't take too much maintenance. I know some of BCers's bands get a very significant portion of their bookings via their website, far more than my crew do.

@Quatschmacher you mentioned "neural net" refinements would be happening to some of the patches, and which will also lead to further improvements to tracking. What's the story there and what sort of timeframe?

Colour me interested! Speaking of colour...will there be any other colour options available down the line?

Love the fact that you still have a trusty Zoom B3 alongside an HX Stomp! Out of interest what sort of fx do you find yourself using the Zoom in preference over the Stomp for?

Just came across this post on Talkbass - really nice plug for the FI Mk4: "I’m either crazy or stupid, but I absolutely love bass synth pedals! Like a guitarist with OD and distortion pedals, I’m nuts for the synth. I have a C4 (which was actually my very first pedal) an FI v.4, 2 Enzos, a DigiTech Bass Synth Wah, a Boss SY-300, and now an Enzo X. I’m selling one of my original Enzos to a friend. I got the SY-300 for a crazy price last year, but I’m not crazy about it and plan to sell soon. If you want my advice (feel free to disregard), hang on to that FI if you have the ability. It’s a fantastic pedal that you don’t have to worry about settings during gigs. The real UI is done in a DAW, but there’s enough you can do with the factory patches using the basic pedal UI to keep things fresh and interesting. There are certain sounds on the FI that I’ve never been able to replicate using other synths. For me, the FI is all about having fun. It’s not about creating patches from scratch. The Enzo X is a different beast. It’s better for deep editing and experimentation. It’s about creating patches. The UI is part of the pedal itself, as I’m sure you know. I didn’t have the money to get it, ended up using credit, as I’d been waiting for it since I tried an LVX!"

Can they add PWM just via a software update? I think a couple of folk have mentioned that omission too, including the Music Radar article, which was otherwise raving about the pedal! PWM useful mostly for string pad type sounds, or does it have wider use?

That's great thanks Peter! They seem to have included quite a bit of stuff since the original Enzo, a lot of it not specifically synth though. Have they improved the synth aspects too? The Arm chipset sounds like it's a premier piece of kit, though, and likely to give it DSP capability significantly ahead of any of the competition. Look forward to your further thoughts as/when you get a chance to get your hands on one.

Well, that's Music Radar's view of it!

@Quatschmacher other than polyphonic capability, do you have an initial sense of the overall capability of this unit vs the FI Mk4? Is it a step up and, if so, how significantly? Be very interested to get your thoughts as our resident synth expert!

APRIETA - VINCEN GARCÍA - Great to see one of the world's top current bass players using a Yamaha BB!

Don't think you need to beat yourself up/feel bad about it Phil? Paid gigs are the lifeblood of any covers outfit, and if you're managing to get them for your duo as well as for your band then more power to your elbow mate!

@mike257 - with regard to our specific line up, we have a male low bass vox with a C2 to C4 vocal range i.e. 65Hz to 260Hz, but he mostly sings in the C2 to C3 range i.e. up to 130Hz. He's not got a particularly strong vox and the bass vox is harder to hear in the mix anyway. Setting the HPF across the board at 150Hz has left his vocals sounding thin. So I was thinking of making an exception for his vox, and lowering the HPF to 60Hz in line with what we have for the bass guitar, and as with the bass guitar giving him a 3dB boost in at around 120Hz (2nd harmonic of C2). But, unlike bass guitar, keeping that 3dB boost up across the full 120 to 240Hz range i.e. up to the 2nd harmonic of C3. In isolation his vox does sound a lot richer with the updated EQ settings, but we've not had chance to try it in a band mix and I guess the proof of the pudding will be then! However, I wanted to run it passed you (and others more expert than me on here) before I cause chaos at a gig when I'm unlikely to have the bandwidth to figure out / remember / correct for what's causing us to sound awful!

Hi Pete, it's not configured in the same way as the OC5/OC3 i.e. the basic octave patch is full range. I tend to think of the OC5/OC3 (optional) range setting as being more aimed at guitarists, as us bass players will more often want the octave thickening on the upper range rather than purely on the lower strings i.e. if anything we would want it reversed? If however you did want something similar to the OC5/OC3 then I think you can insert an fx block so that only the lower frequencies are impacted by the octaver - not tried this yet, but I suspect @MrDinsdale has made good use of frequency selectors already! Fyi - I've also offboarded my EBS filter pedal too now, so currently down to just the Core + SY200

Definitely! I think the money for most BC bands these days is going to be more in live performance, and material releases almost become promo material to get a following/fan base to come along to hear us play live? Btw loved your band's track 'We're connected' - great lyrics (and bass line wasn't too shabby either!)