BabyBlueSound

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

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).

Help me out please, compressorheads! Just got a Sansamp Paradriver, yay! I have been told before these pedals should eliminate the need for compressors/limiters as they're designed to even out the sound, and I see it's manual actually confirms this. But I have seen a lot of boards where there's a compressor before or after the Sansamp (which is in the chain and not used as DI). After playing around with the pedal, I do hear the compressed character and my crappy uneven playing is evened out to more than I expected it would be. So how would I justify GAS for a Boss BC-1X?

Good to know there is a synth pedal that actually works. The Electro Harmonix Bass Synth was SO disappointing in terms of tracking & triggering... I'll have to check some vids about this SY-200

wrap that thing in toilet paper!

The only thing I forgot to actually mention is the AI I tried: https://moises.ai/ . Give it a go, if you hate mixing, it might work for you! I sort of enjoy noodling around with plugins and EQs a bit and trying to find that perfect growl that never comes, so it's obviously a bit different for me. But I could not do this for a living, oh no.

oh boy. I have very little time in November but will try to produce something for this! When I put in the work, I usually record a video too. Are videos acceptable or should I just rip off the audio track?

You already have the stuff that's needed (audio interface, bass, cable, camera, computer, electricity), so what is your specific question? I'm happy to answer them, just give me a bit more 😁 I guess you need some video recording/editing software. Reaper is supposed to do this on some level but I never tried it for video. Depending on your skill, maybe get something simple. I started with Filmora, pretty decent and EASY for simple stuff and not expensive, but nowhere near what a proper editing tool can do though. You should not need any of that just for the purpose of filming yourself tho. Then you just... start recording both audio and video. Do some loud slaps and thumps at the beginning, so you can sync audio and video together using these peaks. Filmora can actually automatically do this for you, but it's not that hard to manually match a slap sound to the frame where it happens. This is the first video I ever recorded, cut, mixed and edited. It's a bit lame I know, but I was trying out a lot of stuff I would not normally use all in one video.

I am by no means a pro mixer, but a guy working in a recording studio told me some rules of thumb I can easily work with as an amateur. DON'T OVERTHINK IT. - EQ out unwanted buzzing and timber with the help of doing some frequency sweeps - Fine tune your EQ for every instru track to make sure the dominant frequencies do not overlap too much, and make sure you LIKE THEM - Slight panning as per standards - Add only few plugins: Compressor, limiter, don't play around too much, use presets. Consider a mild reverb. - And a final EQ for the whole thing as master where you HPF the sub bass and maybe LPF some very high freq hiss off, and adjust the final sound to your liking - Let your ears rest, do one more round adjustments the next day after relistening - Force yourself not to be a maximalist and move on to your next tune after spending X amount of time on something (I could easily spend mixing 5 days looking for that perfect sound I will never find. Not a good idea) I find my amateur sound better than some other Youtube amateurs, and the above only takes an hour or so once you have the workflow, definitely less than doing a proper recording! I tried AI mastering instead and it always sounded like boxy cardboard crap coming from an iphone speaker, even compared to my Poundland mixing, even when I provided bright classic hard rock songs as mastering references. In the end, my recordings are alright. They're not perfect by any means but on my level it works, and when compared to the raw render, the end result is definitely cleaner, better, punchier. I feel like I'd be kidding myself if I was trying to do anything more.

ONLY blue! (well the guitar is TOO blue and therefore the basses look less blue, but they are!)

I have nothing of value to add but please look at my beautiful green Rafferty

I have long EB cobalt flats on both my Ibanez and Ray, they're fine! But I'd rather not show how the Ibanez looks, I was still practicing with the right lengths there, that one looks awful

They're good indeed, especially the P, if it was not for the noise that bothered me, I would not have changed to EMG. It will be your prize pig!