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I've got two hifis at home, and various other speakers and things around the house, all tied together with a piece of software called Roon. Roon brings together my collection of CDs (all ripped) and downloads, and integrates it with Tidal (also works with Qobuz). How it looks on the computer/phone is as if it's offering up a gatefold LP with liner notes on each album. So for me, it gives me the stuff I miss about vinyl, but easy to use, and music in every room of the house. The liner notes often have links to other artists/albums/producers and you can go down a rabbit hole realising that x artist played on y's album, but was in a supergroup with z. Fantastic! I spend hours lost in my collection. And it's simple enough once set up for the rest of the family to use. Unfortunately, Roon is looking a bit expensive these days, and they're into the subscription model, which I personally don't like, especially to be charged for listening to my own music. I bought a lifetime Roon subscription some years ago, and it cost me about £350, which I rationalised as like buying the best CD player I'd ever buy. I've certainly had my money's worth. As much as I love my hifis, music in the kitchen whilst cooking is a great thing!

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I literally own one bass cable . So the cable I'm using it the one I usually use between my bass and my amp (ancient Roland cube thing). I just pull it out of the amp and stick it in the Babyface. I'll give input 4 a go over the weekend!

Turns out this is wrong, incidentally. The Babyface has 1MOhm inputs. So I'm guessing the pedal idea wouldn't have helped anyway.

OK I checked and TotalMix has a little symbol of a guitar over the input into which I plug my bass, so I'm going to assume that I'm successfully using "instrument mode". However, unlike @TwoTimesBass I am nowhere near hitting clipping with everything maxxed out and an active bass.

Thanks guys. You're right, Bitwig is a strange fish. I love it! It's absolutely geared towards someone who's interested in synthesis (me) and much less towards someone who wants to work heavily with audio (unfortunately now also me!). From memory, I switched the inputs from +4 dB to -10 dB and it was louder that way, but still pretty quiet. I'll have to do some fiddling around to see how to switch from line to instrument, which sounds like it might be the issue, but I don't find RME TotalMix very simple to use, so I could easily have overlooked this.

I've been a bedroom player for a long time, and am turning my thoughts to recording my bass for the first time. I have a reasonable setup, using Bitwig as my DAW of choice (love it), and an RME Babyface Pro FS as my audio interface. The Babyface is supposed to have HiZ jack inputs for instruments, rated at 470 KOhm, but they seem to record a bit quiet. I read that DI boxes are supposed to put out 1 MOhm, and was thinking that might solve the volume issue and improve the general quality, but I also read that Boss pedals all put out 1 MOhm, so I thought one possibility would be to get something like a Boss limiter, and that would give me real control over the volume hitting my DAW. I'm not sure whether it's considered bad practice to record the bass post-effects, even if it's only a limiter. I'd be really interested to hear any thoughts from those far more experienced than me!

Really enjoyed watching through those, thanks for sharing them. Duran were OK by me at the time, although I was suspicious that such a focus on image must surely mean the music and/or playing was being curated heavily by the record company. I was already heavily into bass when Planet Earth came out, and couldn't argue with the groove. I do think John Taylor was underrated. I remember trying to produce my own basslines in a similar style, and it always seemed the lines were too complicated. Somehow his were always perfect.

I bought my Bogart bass from Ismael. He's a great seller, very clear communication, and patient with my questions. Definitely recommended. Thank you.

On my monitor's built-in speakers, I preferred the Schack , but once I put it through the Genelecs I thought the Bogart was the best, but only marginally.

That's the one, yes. Unfortunately I don't use Facebook, but I've seen a few Youtube's of Karl playing Bogarts. Sorry @itu if the quotes have been excessive, although I don't think I'm the only one.

Phew. In between your posts, I decided to abandon the quest for a Steinberger, and plumped for the very tempting Bogart in the classifieds here. I had wanted a 4 string, but at the tempting secondhand price, I am prepared to have a go at learning 5 string. Really looking forward to receiving it. So it's a relief so see that you didn't say all Bogarts are dogs

D'oh, silly me, I've already been in touch with this gentleman via BC. Thanks so much Cuzzie.

Thanks Cuzzie, I don’t use Facebook unfortunately. What price is it?

Better and better, I was thinking about Bogart lately. Thanks for another interesting post!

Thanks Chris, all this is very useful to me. Looking forward to the Status chapter.

No I meant the one on eBay which is in the UK. Wasn’t sure if linking was appropriate

There seems to be a 5 string XL2 on that auction site at the moment. Wondering if anyone has any opinions on condition and/or value?

Ooh, handy, thank you!

Fantastic!

Haha, yeah the latter. I've been oogling the Bogart basses too. I'm not in any hurry, so it's just whatever comes up when. I treated myself to a £6 strap for my Hohner, and that's keeping me entertained for now