WinterMute

I used an 800RB through the late 80's into an Ampeg 8x10 and a Trace 4x10, bi-amped. Very nice, clear and powerful, could have used a gain stage in the pre-amp but at the time it was just fine. Lovely amps.

Sold my Squire VMJ fretless to Kenny, quick payment, no trouble at all. highly recommended. Rich.

When you sing without headphones, you monitor your pitch by listening to both the sound through the bone and through the air, when you listen to headphones, the sound through the air is replaced with a version very slightly delayed by the recording system, the delay is usually imperceptible (unless you have severe latency problems) but it is enough to change your perception of the sound. Many stutterers do not stutter when their voices are played back to them in real time, it's the same principle. Simple solution is to seat one of the phones behind your ear and you'll hear a mixture of the track and your voice as you usually hear it. Some singers prefer not to use headphones and use monitors, Freddy Mercury famously used to record with a hand held mic standing between the monitors in the control room, of course you have to put the mic out of phase otherwise the spill is horrendous.....!

Geddy Lee says if you play fast enough it doesn't matter.....

I was at the O2, its a bad room to drive lots of bass into, and if Rush do anything else it's drive the bass, Geddy's sound has the sonic range of most bands all by itself...!! I watched Prince's FoH sound guy wrestle with the bass during the first gig there a couple of years back, the problem is (according to live sound guys I know who have worked there) that the room is completely different when empty, as the audience are effectively the "walls" of the room. You have to rebalance the whole gig from the top after the crowd arrives. You could hear Rush's sound change quite dramatically as he sought to find the balance, and the band were clearly having monitor issues as well. Didn't stop them from tearing the bloody roof off and delivering one of the best performances i've seen from them in 20 years, mind. Cracking gig. Met up with SS73 and his brother, who took my spare tickets, great to meet you guys. Geddy has some new Custom shop necks on his basses, hence the V logo in some shots and the new pearlescent block markers. [url="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/190/img0340fe.jpg/"][/url]

[quote name='JMT3781' post='1075981' date='Jan 3 2011, 01:38 AM']yeah, ive run it through my 1000w bass rig, and it sounded great, not lacking at all. I'm not really desperate for the money.. but as someone with far too many basses that dont get played, it would be silly to start the same trick with keyboards lol.. i dont know, gonna have to AB at some point[/quote] A/B is the way to go, most emulators sound pretty good, but none sound as good as the original IMO. If it works for what you're doing, ditch the Moog.

Geddy Lee circa Permanent Waves/Moving Pictures. Even his modern tone would do to be honest, but I grew up in the shadow of that awesome growl, and I'd love to sound like that.

Don't do anything with the Moog until you've compared the output sound through some serious bass speakers, I'd be really surprised if the Korg emulation comes close in terms of real bottom end response. No doubting the Korg's capabilities, I have it on my iPad and it's a cracking little unit, but I've yet to find an emulation of anything that holds a candle to the original in audio terms.

Godwhacker..! SD odd lyrics! Haitian Divorce is fab too.

I tried one when they first came out, sat it on top of an Ampeg 8x10, I didn't really notice a difference... Ended up using a Hartke Transporter 2x10 with the ally cones, that had some cut to it! Used them with an 800RB that had a variable x-over built in.

Depending on the players rig, I'll often take a DI from the bass, a DI from the amp's pre-amp output (a lot of amps have a DI output these days) and I'll mic the cab too, the variation that affords in the mix is well worth the effort. I will always re-align the mic'ed track with the DI tracks, because it'll be slightly late and the phase change will rob you of some LF, just a case of dragging the mic audio forward by a few milliseconds in Protools.

As above, I have a 201 on my VMJ fretless and I did indeed have to shim the neck, the base plate of the Gotoh is just too thick to let the action drop lower. Followed the excellent "How to shim a neck" guide right here, no probs at all, bass plays like a dream now.

I have Wizard 84's in my Squire VMJ fretless, they are darker than the 64's, more aggressive and tighter in the LF I think. Thoroughly recommend Wizard pups.

Loving Mike's 'tache in the first clip...! Never a big fan, but if your gonna slap, might as well slap like a bastard eh?