jensenmann

Check out Bach´s Weihnachtsoratorium. The bass voice of the choir is a perfect example of how to play walkingbass. If you analyze it it tells you everything of how to create interesting lines.

New CD arrived: the Winery Dogs (Sheehan, Portnoy and Kotzen). Good songwriting and kickass musicianship.

Currently I´ve "Hold on, Liberty" by The Intersphere in my car CD-player. Those guys are incredible musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZK2sG6DdCQ

Thanks, mate!

Honestly it´s not difficult to mic a bassamp but you need a properly designed recording space and a good idea how to do it. I usually place my basscabs with their rear directly at the basstraps of the room. These will absorb the lowend radiated to the back. That way it will prevent reflections from that wall interfering with the cab´s signal. It´s necessary because the mic not only points to the amp but to the wall behind it, too. It would pick up reflections from there as well as the wanted signal. Without basstrap there´d be combfiltering going on leading to a very uneven lowend response. Then I place two boxes of absorptive foam around the cab. They will eat up a lot of the energy radiated from the cab into the room, reducing spill into other mics (drums, roommics, etc..). And they prevent spill from other signals into the bassmic. The third measure is to place the cab as far away from other room-boundaries which in my room is easy because it´s huge (>200sqm, 6m heighth). In small rooms you need to have a lot of lowfrequency absorption going on to control roommodes.

I always record DI + amp and blend them. As JapanAxe said whatever bass the track requires will be used. In my case these are Wal 5strings (fretted or fretless) or Fender Jazz and Precisions. My recording amps all are vintage tube amps and cabs which I don´t carry with me for gigs. They are too heavy and expensive for gigs and have low wattage. Some of them being unreliable due to age as a bonus :-( That´s not exactly what I want to gig with. That means that my settings for recording are always different from gigs.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1484917127' post='3219664'] Yes. With his technical ability as well. And not just on bass, but singing too. [/quote] And your keyboardplaying will improve, too.

Here´s another Wal, obviously mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3y2IRHgtxs I bought her new in 1989 for 3500 DM (german Mark). In the meantime I had >30 other basses but this one is my big love. Most of the others had to go at some point, even if I played them for quite some time. Whenever I grab this one it feels like home. Somehow everything at this bass is exactly how I like it. That surely isn´t elitism.

I used to play my Stingray with an old SVT + SVT cab.

Have a look at the Yamaha MG12xu desk. It has easy to use compressors on board, a Multi-effect and two group outs which is great for recording. Besides that it´s got all the features you mentioned. Soundquality is much better than Behringer.

These amps reside in the studio: Ampeg SVT (1970) + SVT cab Ampeg B15 Hiwatt Custom 100 (DR103 1976) Fender Bassman 135 + Bassman 4x12" cab + several Boogie, Marshall, Kitty Hawk, JBL and some other strange cabs That´s for gigs: Trace Elliot SMX600 selfmade preamp + KMT poweramp

I´m happy with my Beyer DT770s.

Oliver, you´re killing me....

If there is no reference to A, B or C then it doesn´t matter which one you are using.

There´s a lot of useful information in that interview. Thanks for sharing! I do disagree a bit on that LDC subject, though. I find that the most important difference between good and mediocre LDCs is how precise they capture the lowend. Many LDCs tend to have wooly, cloudy, less defined lows, while the better ones capture very solid lows. I´d always go for a good Neumann for that pupose, like a U87, U89 or U47fet, or a Beyerdynamic MC840. The picture of the Rode next to LDC comment especially doesn´t translate to me well since Rodes were some of my first LDCs and they really suffered in the lowend. Having said that I have to admit that I prefer dynamic mics on basscabs. My goto mics are Beyerdynamic Opus 99, M88, or EV RE20. And I always blend mic and DI to one track and compress on the way into the computer, either with 1176, LA3A or LA2A (occasionally SPL Dynamaxx).

Those Golden Age products have cheesy chinese transformers inside. If you go for one of these then have them upgraded with original transformers. That makes all the difference, esp. in the lowend. I´m through that.... Trannies are available from audiomaintenance.com in Manchester. The best preamp for DI recording bass in my book (and arsenal) is a Gyraf Audio G9 preamp. That thing has blown every single bassist I recorded away. Totally...

Way back in my giggin´days I played larger gigs with my SVT+8x10". For smaller gigs I left my 8x10" in our tourbus and carried the SVT with me, using a single Boogie 2x10". Later I went through several other amps to go with my smaller cabs but in the end nothing came close to the SVT+8x10" combination. Today it resides in my studio and honestly I´m glad if the bands I record like my B15 or Bassman 135 rigs more. The sound/volume ratio is a lot better with these. But then... still nothing comes close if you want that sound.

To be honest, I don´t use the midi function. In one band I was planning to use the Midi part, but they threw me out before it actually happened. Maybe they were afraid that I could replace all of them ;-)

Nope, the Midi Bass will stay with me, except I get a seriously dangerous offer.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1440062430' post='2847899'] Lovely... MK2 Shedua? [/quote] Absolutely. I bought it from spiritchaser. It must have been fretted at some point according to the serial number in the Wal database. But it arrived here with a superthin fretboard. Close to no wood left. I had german luthier Günther Eyb of Eyb Guitars replace the fretboard with a 5mm ebony board. That made a lot of a difference in tone in a very positive way. I´m very happy with it as it is. So much that my only fretless GAS is a 70s mapleneck Precision for it´s beatiful and very different tone.

Here´s a picture of my fretless prior to a recording session.

[quote name='spiritchaser' timestamp='1435301754' post='2807346'] My current rig minus the Darkglass Duality Fuzz and Boss DD: Glockenklang Blue Sky + Mesa Boogie Diesel cabs [attachment=195036:SDC14920.JPG] [/quote] Damned,.... Oliver, whenever you want to get rid of your Boogie cabs give me a call. I currently have a 1x15" with horn and could have a use for either the 2x10 or another 15" cab.

Some of my rigs which I posted in other threads before: Ampeg B15s + ´62 Jazz in my controlroom [sharedmedia=core:attachments:92838] Ampeg SVT + 8x10" + Squier JV Precision prior to a session in my studio [sharedmedia=core:attachments:91982]

Luckily these days are over for some reason .... called age and damaged back. I can´t even lift my SVT on top of the 8x10" alone anymore.