Frank Blank

Indeed so, I am extremely fortunate to be in a duo with someone who is not only a great singer and quite unique guitarist but also knows the fvck out of the tech side too, in fact, what the hell am I doing on here!

Yes, I have done this a couple of times. What I needed/need is a quite basic lesson in all things audio. The Stomp has kind of forced me to do this because it’s all very well achieving a tone simply by moving sliders up and down but having an understanding of the controls makes it all so much easier. In this vein every term I now stumble across on the stomp that I have no knowledge of I look up and read about, for instance take plate reverb, I know what reverb is but had no idea about the huge plates of steel used in the original units, very interesting and informative it was. But I just zone out with compression for some reason, she teaches music production and sound engineering at University so I really should just listen to her!

Excellent, thanks for this, I hadn’t compared them particularly.

Sorry! I didn’t mean for you to write all that out, thanks though... As you know a compressor reduces the dynamic range of your bass signal. The most obvious benefit of bass compression is to stop the lows swamping the higher frequencies. This allows the bass to sit better with other instruments by controlling its dynamic range ...this is all I really do with compression and I’m lucky that the woman who constitutes the better half of musical duo is a sound engineer, has been for decades, I just moan about certain aspects of my tone (compression wise) and she sorts it. I just feel a bit stupid because with every other aspect of my tone I deal with it, I ask her what something is when I’m stumped but, compression... Im going to read the two items you referred me to and ask my comrade for an explanation. In summary, yes, you still owe me a coffee ☕ 😁

Their last great album imho, mind you they made some fine music in their and were consistently good live.

Thank you Sir! Looks even more like I might be able to satisfy my yearning, now I need to find one to try out...

I have, bass > Stomp > QSC K12.2. ...you are welcome to try mine out if you like.

Could I swap that coffee for a compression lesson? (That doesn’t sound right...)

No, quite, it’s been a WAL or a Stingray every time I’ve seem them (and that’s too many times). Mind you, a lot of players used odd guitars/basses when they were miming on TV. There is hope, Eastwood make a copy of the AEB, an EEB... https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/eeb-1 ...not that I know a lot about the company.

Ah, yes, having googled it I think you are right, however, as only twenty were made I don’t think I’ll bother trying to source one!

Could anyone tell me the make/model of the bass Mr Severin is playing on TOTP? ...love this track.

First Aid Kit and The Staves, both superb imho. Who doesn’t dig consanguineous harmonies? Talking of which...

London Calling - The Clash Pop Muzik- M Peaches - The Stranglers

...or buy second hand from Basschat where you’ll get more bang for your buck and can discuss any purchase with the BC hive mind. Oh and welcome.

Absolutely!

I swear by the ‘silent’ Neutriks now, I was constantly forgetting to turn the volume down before unplugging and getting that awful thump, not any more! Found my brand.

Cheers Sir, I did exactly this (a very easy process in HX Edit too) which has, as you suggested, halved my patches down to, ahem, two! Cheers again.

Morning and welcome!

Hello!

Just furnished Lawrence with a couple of leads, great comms, pleasure to deal with, a gentleman of the highest order. Cheers.

Pukka, hopefully @TheGreek will accept my offer of a lift and that almost gets us up to double figures!

I’ve no problem giving you a lift Sir, I always feel a bit daft travelling to one of these with a spare seat.