WinterMute

The issue with me has always been phase accuracy of busses, sample accurate delay compensation and the ability to speak Eucon for the controller data, any DAW that doesn't have these things is next to useless paid or not. I'd switch to UAD's Luna tomorrow if it supported Eucon.

Pretty much all bundled software is for is to get you to buy the full version when you hit the limitations, if your PC is still in the minimum spec required by Reaper, go for it. Others have commented on the basic functionality in the plug-ins, but you could always spring for one of the Waves bundles or get the Sound Toys set, which is brilliant. Just remember the DPS penalty for 3rd party plug-ins will tax older computers. I'll not mention Universal Audio at this point...

Just follow some basic rules: Never, ever buy first generation hardware, be it computer or audio. Never, ever let your computer update anything in the middle of a project. Chose your weapons for a project and stick with them, don't add or update. Only update when you have the time and energy (and funds) to fix whatever goes wrong. Only update major components when the developer says they are cleared to run under your stable version of whatever OS you chose. Back-up, back-up, back-up. Go make some music, all DAW/OS/hardware combinations work for the active creation of music.

20th Anniversary SR5 "SR5" Fretless, OLP body, MM neck, Bartolini pup and pre-amp. Stealth Bongo 5

Best advice he gives, sort your room/monitors out and REFERENCE. Put simply, no-one's room sounds accurate for bass, mine included and I know what I'm doing, I exempt the likes of Abbey Road and Real World from these comments obviously! Almost no-one has a big enough space in a hobby/home studio to be able to reference bass frequencies properly, so we employ acoustic measures, my room is slightly overtrapped for bass as it's so small, and I have to employ Sonarworks to even out the response, even then the monitors cannot reproduce sub 60hz accurately and are suspect below 120hz, so the only way I can tell what's going on is to listen to recordings I trust and compare the bass response against those. This works well enough until the Flexbass 25 system shows up in a week or two, at which point I'll have to reconfigure the bass traps to take account of the extra bass energy in the room, and re-analyses it. Bass is probably the hardest part of any mix, it's so fundamental to modern musical styles.

Current bass GAS being scratched by ACG, it may or may not last... I've upgraded my studio many times over the last few years, monitors, interfaces, control surfaces, channel strips, plug-ins, the list goes on. I've just ordered the Amphion flexbass 25 system to cure the long standing lack of LF in my small room, the truth is that I need a bigger room, but it'll suit for now. The ideal target is this: https://rupertneve.com/products/5088

It's all about variations in tone, I've got the Stomp and had the Pod XT Pro before that, and that constitutes a part of my "sound", the other being the DI'd sound of the bass itself, i then mix the two together at the mix down stage t get the sound that works for the song, sometimes adding extra processing to the tracks as I go. It depends what kind of music I'm playing, wether I'm playing fretted or fretless, what tone I think works for which song. If I'm doing something that require a particular tone, the amp and cab models cab be very useful, I like the SVT and 8x10 combo from the stomp for overdriven sounds, but the core of the sound is always the bass via a good DI.

Save up, get Melodyn, you're welcome.

Result, that's a proper looker, congrats.

Buy Apple stock early 80's. Don't sell the Wal, or the JD or the Warwick... Practice more.

Always liked a bit of Giger, so these have long been favourites

plus varying amounts of distortion.

DI box into a mic pre-amp input is the usual way, some amps have DI outputs that'll do the same thing. Bass into DI will give the sound of the bass via its pre-amp, an amp will colour the sound, a box like the Line6 Stomp will add modelled amps and cab sounds. Other boxes are available, Tech 21 Bass driver DI etc. Loads of options. Depends what kind of sound you want.

Did someone leave it on a radiator? It seems to have melted... One fugly bass.

Too bloody small to let it get messy, I'd be up to my neck in tea mugs and biscuit wrappers in no time.

Mines been posted on other threads, this is it's current state.

Infra sound is well known as a physiological trigger, people who live near wind turbines are often driven to despair by the LF, anything at significant levels below 15hz will cause a physical reaction. If your bass playing is having that effect, a high pass filter set as steep as it will go (24db/octave or better) dialled in at 25 or 30Hz whilst practicing will help. Obviously you don't want to record with that set, but I've often added a 25hz gentler sloped filter in mixes to tame unruly LF below 20hz.

Anything old with a valve in it...

Unfortunately most music rooms also have amps and computers in them, not to mention people, if you don't have active airflow, they get hot and stuffy all by themselves. Even on cold days, my sound proof studio gets uncomfortable after an hour or two, I run the AC on circulate pretty much al the time.

Yup, single room AC, keeps the fresh air circulating when it's not cooling too...

My first bass amp back in the early 80's. Certainly didn't appreciate it then... Not a great pic, but that's it behind me in, I think, 1980

Nope, but he was still Rorshach...

Every time I see one of Alan's builds coming to life, I'm seriously impressed with what the man can do with a bit of old tree... That's a proper looker.

Soundproofing for bass is very expensive and a bit hit and miss if you're not an experienced builder. I've built studios for years commercially, and it cost me about £8K to soundproof my garage, but it only really works as I have utility room with 2 good doors and an exterior double skin brick wall between the studio and the house. A lot cheaper to get some really good headphones. LF is known to effect people physically (look up The Brown Sound) so it's not unfeasible that they're causing the wife's headaches.