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Really depends on whether you intend to mix in the same space as record. Room problems (standing waves, early reflections) occur in most household rooms that would make your monitors less "truthful" and make it hard to do mixes that translate well in other places! Adding channels via ADAT is an effective way of expanding your kit to record drums - i recently purchased Audient ASP800 for this very reason, and connect it via ADAT whenever I need more channels than my RME's have. I guess you should be careful about whether you are trying to optimise the space for recording, or mixing. Fashion nowadays is to record as dry as possible - which can be helped by doing things like hanging up duvets behind the singer. lots of good advice in Sound on Sound articles. That may work for a corner of your "mixing room", but an entirely different approach / new set of compromises may be needed if you want to record drums in the same space as you mix / monitor. Drums normally sound best in a good room, so making it completely "dead" is unlikely to get great results IMO... It is definitely a journey, so take your time, experiment, and try to understand some of the physics underlying what's happening - then you can address problems as you become more and more aware of them. I guess I'm saying that you shouldn't expect to have a great sounding space with perfect results straight away - but don't get discouraged! It's definitely a hugely complex area - with the key pothole being that you can easily sink lots and lots of money into things that make objectively little difference to the results. Studio gear GAS is even more dangerous than bass/guitar GAS, in my experience... you've been warned!

bottom left - summing box, and bottom right - AMEK limiters? very tidy, great job

Just finished mine, and tested it in anger at rehearsal. Thought i'd share the photo. I made custom length cables, took a few hours but saved a few bob . One spot CS12 power supply is secured underneath. Cali76 and Aphex are 'always on' tone shapers, others used as needed.

Something about this bass makes me think of Prince, perhaps the curves / flamboyance

As bass is normally panned dead center, I suspect you may have better luck if you apply Mid-Side approach (which would allow you to get at the center, without affecting the rest of the mix). You could then try to precisely target the most prominent bass frequencies. You have to be careful to avoid removing the bass drum "thump" however, as it's likely to be in the same frequency area as the bass... I'd be happy to have a go at doing this - I got a few new tools and this could be good practice for me. Feel free to drop me a PM, and then you'd need to send me the MP3 / WAV cheers Roman

I think the only way to do it properly would be to replace the fingerboard entirely. That's likely to be £200+ job... unless the bass in question is really, really special, I wouldnt recommend it! For what it's worth, I found playing on lined boards easier, having previously only played unlined ones.

+1 on ACS custom molds. mine are still going after 11 years!

loving the fusion mb500, though fan was somewhat louder than expected. really not a problem in a real world application - gigs, rehearsals, normal volume recording. However, if you try to play at bedroom levels you might hear it...

Sebastien bought my Warwick thumb in a somewhat complicated transaction, which also included him buying and sending me a flight case for the bass to be posted in. He's a great guy, very honest and prompt with payment - I would recommend him. p.s. he's now owner of a kickass bass too! :-)

sold a gigbag to Simon, instant payment. deal with confidence!