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WinterMute
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Paul McCartney... Brilliant bassist, Paperback Writer is almost lead bass. He's fluid and melodic and integrates with his bandmates very well indeed. Generally can't stand anything he's ever had anything to do with, Beatles included... While My Guitar Gently Weeps excepted.
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Lovely people and great kit, met Alex at the old unit when I picked up my Big Twin 3 or 4 years ago, sadly it had to move on when I quit gigging as the studio isn’t big enough for a cab that size. If I ever return to the stage it’ll be with a BF cab behind me.
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The station car park is often a good bet for the O2, much cheaper and there are generally spaces as the commuters go home. It's Pay n Display, and it's not expensive (for London). I think it's the first left turn after turning right to the main car parks.
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I used to think Warwick Thumbs were the business, had an '87 5 string for years, but recently I've become a MusicMan convert, I have a 5 string Bongo which is a beast, and an "SR5" fretless which is a bit of a Frankenstein, but the neck is proper MM and it's very good. Then I bought a 20th Anniversary SR5 from this very parish, and it is, without doubt, my perfect bass. Now all I need is to find a fretless that works as well, apparently there were less than 50 fretless 20th anni's made, so I'm not holding my breath.
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dbx 160x overeasy if you can find one at a decent price, as Ace says, sit it on the FX loop. If you're flush, get a Distressor...! http://www.empiricallabs.com/distressor.html Both brilliant bass compressors, live and studio.
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Sorry, didn't mean it didn't divide opinion, it clearly does, I meant there's no detrimental effect to running a stereo amp bridged into a correct load. You'd have no problem running into your 6x10, it just won't put out the same level as a 4 Ohm loading cab.
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It really doesn't, running an underpowered amp into a high ohmage load will kill then output caps faster, and bass amps have to work hard, so they do have a tendency to fail earlier, but there's no issue running an amp bridged. I made up a Speakon for my Crown XLS to my BF, it was a 4 pole, but it's not the same at either end, one end goes to the amp one to the cab, you have to have it the right way round. Alex at Barefaced pointed me in the right direction.
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Thanks gents, very useful.
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Any user know if the input stage will handle a preamp output? I have a PJB Super Flightcase and run the GED2112 into it with no problem, so I'm hoping it'll be good. Looks like I'll be moving to Australia for a year, can't ship a ton of stuff and the BH would be great.
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Another vote for Crown amps, you can pick up a XLS1500 for £300 on eBay, less if you're luck. Bomb proof, light and powerful. Used to run mine with a BF Big Twin, sounded great.
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Take a look at the Chauvet DJ range, some very useful and cheap units in there. https://www.chauvetdj.com/products/category/washlights/
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Who uses a keyboard/midi controller at the centre of their studio setup?
WinterMute replied to Sibob's topic in Recording
I’ve got a Nord Electro for a keyboard, it’s on an underslung shelf as I don;t do a lot of keyboard work, I have an Avid S3 as my controller for protools, plus the Avid Control app running on an old iPad as an auto locator. The S3 is very smart, puts a lot of the functionality of protools under hardware control, it’s a brilliant piece of work. -
The good lady wife is chasing down leads, she’ll not be out of work long, if it’s still around once she’s sorted then we can talk.- 18 replies
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Awwwww, man... You're killing me...
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You know what else has gone wrong? Too many fantastic 5 string fretlesses on here when I can't afford them.... -
Thanks mate.
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Learn to coil them properly, always remove them with the jack, not the cable. Thats it pretty much.
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Cos the missus got made redundant basically, it’s a beauty but I can’t afford it right now...
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The best of the bunch are the Universal Audio set by a long way, excellent emulations of 1176 and LA2A limiters, the Distressor compressor, a whole range of EQ's and Ampeg and Eden bass rigs. Not cheap certainly although a Quad USB Satellite UAD2 box can be had on EvilBay for £300 or £400, and you get the benefit of off board DSP that doesn't tax your processor too... Waves do some good units, again, not cheap. Sadly you do get what you pay for with plug-ins.
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I used the Crown XLS1500 for 4 years with a Line6 Pod XT Pro into a BF Big Twin, ran it bridged to output 1500w into 4 Ohms using a 4p to 2p Speakon, coded with red tape to indicate the end that went into the amp. Never had a moments problem, fed the PA from the second Effected output so the FoH got exactly what I was hearing onstage. Tons of clean power, all tone control at the bass and the Pod. The 1502 is a better amp.
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BUDGIE...! The Gedster obviously. I've been known to do this, used to front bands in the 80's, and am doing both on the current project, but it's unlikely to see live action, so i've not really been paying attention to the problems of singing whilst playing the basslines... Geddy Lee says that the most often heard phrase during Rush rehearsals used to be "I can't do all this at the same time..."
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Leonard Cohen's Live from London DVD a while back from the O2... Alter Bridge at the RAH with the Parallax Orchestra, although the sound was sooooo bad I left after about an hour....
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Is the roof connected to the house? You mentioned the building is detached. The door opens to the outside? Audio transference particularly in the LF is a big problem where there is physical connection, my room shares a common wall with the house, so isolating the interior wall was essential.
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Technically, that's called "loud"... Getting a good set of seals on the doors, including a raised sill, and any windows will serve you well, but walling up the door won't do much unless you can seal the roof in some way. Mass is definitely your friend however, as is distance.
