Cuzzie

So to keep it on track I’ll pm you @mcnach

Exactly what I felt, and it’s due to the steel pole pieces, and the rotation of the magnet Leo did to make them higher output. They are often Treble happy basses, probably designed that way as Leo’s hearing and high end hearing went down hill to compensate. Ultimately I had a couple of pre-amp pedals I liked to use to sculpt my sound and all of that energy was too much sonically for my tastes, but on build quality - right up there, as well as options on different neck profiles, don’t just stick to the #12 PJ type config, if you like a skinny neck the #8 is to die for and the #6 ( I think!) is an awesome fat P bass, but still quick and easy to play due to a flat radius.

ASAT is a great bass, I had a solid and semi hollow, electronics are good, but I didn’t get on with the pups

I have a plant in the audience....

It’ll go fine, no doubt you will be a star, but you would shine with a comp!

Indeed it is actually proving the need for compression. Sounds like it is being used correctly, but used correctly it should just sit nicely in the mix, so you think you don’t need it, bin it, then realise what it did so it’s bought back again, as infinitum etc. This is one of the best compressor advocate phrases of you analyse it properly

@Al Krow It doesn’t need to replace those other pedals , it can just sit next to them on the shelf keeping your book ends aligned. So far as the tuner goes, when you get deep into your editing, careful you don’t reassign FS3

Ray J P PJ Humbucker In no particular order you need them all or at least have tried

Agreed with above if you want Ray don’t get an L2k. The L1500 has a powerful but very harsh inherent treble like sound which you may or may not like. Don’t be put off by it if you like the bass as you can easily mod the innards and make the treble less harsh, and increase the ability of bass roll off and head into sub territory by adding another capacitor on the back of one of the pots and changing the R7 resistor on the pre-amp. 10 min soldering job. Good basses them G&Ls

Back to my Logs and flapping trousers again.....It is Yuletide

Ahhhhhh well spotted Sympathetic overdrive (as opposed to parasympathetic) is definitely the best for tube emulation

When my speaker farts out, it not only sounds bad it also smells bad

Someone wrote on it with a sharpie

https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/gear4music-34-bass/1323475283?utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_ios&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ios_social job done

But in those 3 points you are cherry picking what you want to hear and skewing the argument if you take it in isolation. How about “you just won’t sound ‘better’ *wink*” and ”...bass is an instrument that really benefits from compression” ”...compression is an enigmatic....tool amongst bass players” People will always fit an argument for what they want, or if not understood find a reason to call it futile.

@Skol303 i’d Read that, sadly some will stare into the abyss and dismiss. You should include which the best compressor for metal is as well....

As they say Always by your side.... Cracking company

Glad you got a sound you like, that’s the most important, but no compression going on in that chain........!!

Expert in my own household only

@paul_c2 ha! At some point something will mask being poor I agree, but I am not talking Milli Vanilli poor - although their dancing was ok. You knew what I was getting at though really!

As you know @Al KrowI am fully aware of compressors vs limiters vs limiter compressors, but you have encapsulated and confirmed the point that a limiter is a compressor, so.........if you say there is no need for a compressor but for a limiter, that is contradictory. Thats without getting into modulation, distortion, tubes etc compressing sound blah blah blah ad nauseum. All that aside, it’s whatever works for each musician and using anything in general should not be used as poor craft or musicianship as is sometimes brandished around, it’s just choice

A limiter to all intensive purposes is a compressor with the ratio hovering at about 20:1. This is why the argument that I don’t need a compressor, but a limiter is required is bolderdash.