MoonBassAlpha

Had this with a friends brand new AC30. Took a selection of valves round there and just the act of swapping his valves around fixed it.

I thought Beck was great, the best introducing the band spot I've seen. This bassist Dwayne was right on the money, playing and sound. Much as I like the Breeders recorded output, the singing and guitar playing was sloppy, and I was left a bit disappointed, same as when I saw them at the town and country club years ago.

I picked one of these up from Maplins when they were closing down, for £120, and so will add some thoughts. For use in the house, it has some very appealing sounds, the guitar tones with effects can sound amazingly spacious, they use some clever processing to get a very wide stereo effect. Likewise, the bass sounds are surprisingly solid for such a small unit. You can tell there is a lot of compression and d.s.p. going on to keep the tiny speakers under control, but it's really well done, and you can't get them to fart out. It also means that you can't get the bass sounds to go as loud as the guitar ones, but it never sounds nasty. Playing music through it via Bluetooth or mini jack works fine, but has a decidedly bass-heavy bias, which I fix by having a custom eq profile on my phone. Things I would like that it doesn't have: 1: a small strap handle for carting it about 2: built in rechargeable battery, this would really extend its use as a Bluetooth portable speaker of reasonable volume and quality 3: most of the bass effects are ok, but the envelope filter is pretty rubbish

Yes, very good.

Love the matching stand too!

Woweee, need more pics!

Punk

Yeah, where's Discreet when you need him?

Therein lies the mystery! Actually, its sort of slightly psyche pop, which grew out of slightly psyche acoustic, when it went electric. With a little prog in the mix. Current-ish stuff is here if you want to check my description: https://soundcloud.com/the-new-moon

Yes, and very reasonable too - a snip at £150...

Earnest grunge? (or was that your lead singer? )

The idea of this thread was for you to post your band names and see, if at all, the general perception of the Basschat hive mind matches what you think your name suggests. I wish I still had that much hair! Not so bothered about the armour and swords though... And, as stated above, Ni!

Ouch!

The only way I am going to get a shot this month is to jam something out with the lads at practice tomorrow night. Seems highly unlikely!

Ha! Buried on page 90 of the R24 manual, it says you can record at either 44.1 or 48k, but if you chose 48, you can't use any effects, so I probably wont be using that until I get more used to importing and using the files in Reaper. Or just not bother at all. Oh well!

Thanks Skol, that makes sense.

Thanks again for the discussion. Is it the case that 24 bit vs 16 bit takes up 3/2 times as much file space?

Spin off from the recent band names thread: Guess the genre or style from the name: Ours is: Charms Against the Evil Eye

Maybe we should spin this round, and give your band name, then see what others think your style or genre is. I'll kick off with ours: Charms Against the Evil Eye

Update: Having played 3 more gigs this month with the same setup, I now believe the amp used in the above clips is in fact the lunchbox junior. This is the 50W version, as opposed to the full-fat 200W one. Still quite loud though. I can post some more recent links to the last gig of this mini "tour" if anyone is interested.

Thanks for the replies so far folks. I must say, I had forgotten about bit depth, I'll check the specs on my zoom.

Looking to do some recording this evening, any particular reason to choose 96 over 44k sample rate on my R24? (Assuming my memory card is large enough). Cheers MBA

Great result, and a nice looking bass too!

Looks lovely. Could we have a picture of the whole thing please?

My band Charms Against the Evil Eye are acting as backing band for Californian Psychedelic poster Anton Barbeau again, as part of his mini tour to launch his new album, Natural Causes. Tonight, Thurs 10th May is the Beehive, Swindon, Fri 11th at the Black Swan Oxford, and Sunday 13th at the Oval Tavern, Croydon. As usual, it will be nerve wracking and fun in equal measures! (a whole new set to learn, no rehearsals) Oh, and he's calling us Thrust for these gigs