John T

Thanks for posting this.....Great to hear it again.....I was an 18 year old drummer at the time but loved the bassline as i did pretty much every funky bassline from the era. This tune set the clubs on fire, in particular for me, The Durham Ox Grantham, The Painted lady on the Melton/Leicester road, The Barn in Hockley Heath [revolving stainless steel dance floor with huge glitter ball hanging over it...If you wasn't 'getting down' yourself it was a great vantage point to scan the chics in the whole room] and another old haunt, Millionaires in B'ham city centre. The music was the scene.....Great days indeed!

My last on this thread otherwise i just won't stop....So many great sounding basses on this popular subject i could go on for weeks!!. The late Mike Starr with Alice in Chains..... The Spector NS2 just sounds ridiculously good, in fact the whole track is recorded so well. Crank this up from the first note🤘 Oh yeah and this from Mike Inez/Warwick streamer and a cranked sansamp di.....

For me moving pictures was probably the best era for Geddy's bass tone, in particular his 72 jazz used on Tom Sawyer....I do have a slightly biased opinion as i think Moving Pictures in it's day was in terms of production, song writing and musicianship a perfect illustration and showcase of the bands evolution and the end of that creative phase...Still holds up today, subjective i know but as close to a perfect recording as could be.

That's awesome, the healing power of music is like nothing else.

About time this had a mention!....Classic Jazz vibe and to me a benchmark which guys have strived to emulate since. Then there's this fella......Some nice tones from the breakdown on......

Heres the live version sounding just as good with the late Ricky Lawson, what a rhythm section...That's one tight pocket! RIP - Ricky Lawson RIP - Cornelius Bumpus RIP - Walter Becker

Tight band, fair play!....Some lovely touches in that bass break, great tone too. I detect a slight Stuart Zender vibe which can't be bad!

Yeah, the ZED R16 is a Cracking desk, brilliant pre's and EQ. Used mine daily without any problems.

So it seems more people are still using FW than i'd imagined.....I guess the old adage 'If it ain't broke don't fix it' applies.

As drummer/producer up until my final retirement from drums late last year i used my Allen and Heath ZED R16 via Firewire to multitrack 16 tracks of drums into my iMac and Logic X, always had brilliant results and surprisingly with that many mic's never any latency issues. Now concentrating more on bass iv'e slimmed down substantially in pretty much every way apart from the imac and have been using a much smaller Mackie 820i, still hooked up with firewire and a Thunderbolt adapter. I still get good results but i could probably go the USB route now as i no longer need to multitrack......

Always interested in peoples set ups and why/what they use...... Who uses what, Firewire or USB? In their home studio....

Can't believe i haven't seen a band this year!! The last gig i went to was Deep Purple at Motorpoint arena Cardiff, last November.

Joking aside......If you love what you do perseverance is the key. I have the same issues with writing and as frustrating as it is you need to ask yourself why you do what you do and crack on with it really. It'll come right.

Drums!

I use a little analogue Arturia 32 mainly for writing and accessing virtuals in Logic X. Brilliant controller for my purposes even if i sometimes don't use it on every track/idea.....Depends how i conceived the spark and what is the easiest to get an idea flowing, the Arturia, a bass or guitar even......

Mrs T bought me a Tassimo for my birthday from Amazon....reduced from £140 to £69.....Also 80 L'or coffee pods from £22 to £14.