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Finally had a few hours to myself to really test it. Unless I mess up the threshold completely, it just sounds good on all settings. Always a bit different, but always good. The sort of great compressor where you can't really hear it, you can just feel it. I only ever had cheap ones before, the difference is amazing.

1 hour ago, Dad3353 said:

 

An SSD was mentioned, hard drive speed may not be an issue. 

My bad, I completely missed the SSD part!

I wanted to say Reaper, but I see people are already saing Reaper

However your bottleneck will be the storage drive's speed when recording all those tracks that need to be written on your drive. I would not expect a small older Dell laptop to have some crazy fast storage, so you might need some external (USB) drive to plug in and record to that can handle all that I/O. Definitely do some 15-track dry runs to see how it copes with writing multiple files on the fly.

A placeholder idea that became a short multipurpose song: tested some new gear with it, practiced cutting/editing skills in Davinci, entered the song into the November Composition challenge, and most importantly, I had some fun with it  

Consider that some pro bass players own like 300 basses and keep switching them anyway  (I would)

9 minutes ago, Maude said:

Yes, is the short answer. All the other nonsense about wood and fairies will follow. 😉

...but but but if you can't hear the difference immediately between normal and stainless steel frets behind that P, you might as well put the instrument down  

I grew up listening to my bud playing on his oldskool P. All I can tell you is, my P/J Ibanez sounds pretty Prec-y in the P setting, before and after a pickup change. I guess for the audiophiles, it's not the Fender sounds exactly, but it's as P as it gets. Very, very different when I use the P/J setting.

I also think you can find all sorts of basses in modern music, there is a lot larger selection and most of them are more affordable.

Inspiration: Halloween is long gone, but the Post-Halloween Prowl is still on! Cheer up, hit the derelict streets, get your digital sweeties, and try to have some fun for once in this wasteland.

Used the Sterling Shortie for this, going through a cheap comp, Tech21 Paradriver and a Rafferty HPF into the Focusrite Scarlett. The high-pitched noise on the bass track is due to recording the single coil pickup, so let's call it an effect!

The drums and the synths are played on the Maschine Mikro. I finger-played the drums and cymbals separately and quantised them, so they can act as the backing track. I routed these to Reaper where I finished recording the bass and the guitar.

I kept the sound simple, there's some minimal EQ, dynamic compression, reverb and limiter.

lol cool 😊

My bass track is (will be) also completely uncut with all them fluff in it! But I had to touch up the guitar and the synth a bit, as I suck even more at those.

The Talman is so cheap, you don't think twice before modding the crap out of it. I love mine dearly to this day.

53 minutes ago, Captain Bassman said:

My workhorse for the last 25 years…

OMG it's blue AND has an unusual shape! ❤️‍🔥

Frank Itt on Basstheworld has one of the BEST bass faces when he shows how it's done!!! And he sounds amazing of course.

GAS wins, flawless victory!

Someone just listed a BC-1X on Ebay for £119 including postage only a couple hours ago. IT'S MINE NOW.

So I fell into a pretty deep rabbit hole. I wanted to shake up things a bit, and had some ideas for the video part I simply could not do properly in my noob-friendly Filmora, so I started learning to edit in DaVinci Resolve.

This was some pretty bad timing for a great idea.

Now all that time I should be spending on recording the guitar and the synth properly is actually spent on slow but fun colour grading of the half-complete footage (wow my bass finally looks as blue on film as in real life), and toying with keyframes and stuff... 😅 at least the bass is already recorded 🙃

Every time I try to record myself, I practice the hell out of it, then during recording, I realise... I should at least double my practice time. Recording is an ugly, but honest mirror.

Hope 10 more days is enough... 🙃

nice

5 minutes ago, ezbass said:

I must say that my MXR M87 plays really nicely with my Tech21 VTDI.

That's on the shortlist! It's beautiful but more expensive. I might order both for comparison.

All this talk made me remember I had a cheap Donner compressor buried in a storage drawer somewhere. I was never quite satisfied with that pedal due to the lack of proper controls, I found it either took away thump and character, or it was adding a too consistent mid-growl. I mean, even more so than the other compressors which usually do this, but this is a £30 pedal, so did not expect much.

I finally managed to dial in a setting that's propably the ONLY good sounding one for this specific bass, and I am almost completely satisfied with the results. For recording, I'll probably use a dynamic compressor VST though, but that can't come in front of the Sansamp... 😀

GAS is on half burn, Boss is still on the list, but now it can maybe wait to become a belated Christmas present to myself. 😀

PLEASE STOP

and if you sharpen that headstock, you can cut your steak with it

Well... thanks for the GAS, Boss will owe you a fiver very soon I guess. 😉

It's like the "which pedal goes in front" question. Some people like toilet dangling from their wall, some people like it wrapped comfortably around the bass neck.

After reading about this a lot today, of course all 3 expected answers are represented on all boards 🫠 

1. no you dont need a compressor for a Sansamp

2. yes you need one and put it in front of the Sansamp

3. yes you need one and put it after the Sansamp
So basically only a matter of time before I break down and get that Boss multiband one anyway I guess 😅

until then, here's this guy

@itu Believe me if I'd have the comp, I'd test it. I know exactly how it would act in theory, like you described. I am looking for someone who actually tested it before ordering the comp.

I mean, it's really not that ununsual to have a Sansamp AND a comp, these aren't rare pedals... I am very sure someone tested it before and after and can tell me their results.

If not, I'll let you know my results once I get one in the future.

@ped that's my point, with my ears I detect pretty solid compression even on sub-9hour drive, where it's almost completely clean.

I understand compression basics, I just don't understand how any of that applies if your Sansamp is already compressing your sound and you have a compressor after that (and I would not really put it in front of the Sansamp, as it needs the dynamic range as input).