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Tom has given good advice as usual. Keep in mind he's a pro; I'm commenting as an amateur/semi-pro (my day job is in something else, but I have been to music school, can read music, arrange, analyse charts, etc etc. That said, I would simply suggest transcribing what you enjoy. I also tried transcribing people I wasn't fussed on and it was a waste, although they were part of the 'canon' of things you were meant to study. But I do best when I find something that catches me and makes me go 'hm...gotta learn how to do that'. The instrument doesn't matter. Have a care that you don't HAVE to transcribe the whole song or the entire solo, although again it's good. But take the bits you like for sure. Overall, I will simply say I have become much less bothered about the process of writing out what I have learned - though it's still good to do. I now consider it best to be able to sing the solo, learn how to play it on bass, understand it as best I can in context of the chords, and then finally write it out. Even then, I consider it more important to use the bits I have learned (try them on tunes, put them in all 12 keys) than I do to committing it to paper. Just my 2p Pete

Reaper. Takes a while to learn, but incredible value and routing possibilities.

Great little amps. Be careful with the balance control and the bass controls/bass boost pushbutton...you can get ridiculous amounts of bass out of these things in the 50 - 80Hz region. I mean, huge.

Thank god you bought this from Beedster... I was seriously tempted. But, it was too expensive and heavy for me to want to take to a gig, and software sims at home when I record/DI work well enough to spare buying and miking this thing up. But god, it was a close thing. Congrats.

And largo, I'm with you on the tolex. It looks about a million times better than the painted cabs. If this tolex was all over the other cabs part from the Retro series I think they'd sell better. Aesthetics count.

Hey fretmeister, how does the One10 sound compared to your Bergs? Was it the CN112 you had?

I've downloaded the demo twice now...and both times ditched in favour of Ampeg SVX. I also have Guitar Rig 5 and I think it is decent but not as good as Ampeg SVX. The Markbass Studio is just a bit characterless for me. But others love it, so I guess YMMV. I cannot answer your final question, apologies.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461613497' post='3036185'] Agree with that. The left hand has a fair bit to do with it too, or at least it does in my case. [/quote] I think about the left hand as more about muting and note duration, although ghost notes/vibrato/'stings' are an important part of how we sound overall. But still, the right hand attack does the bulk of making notes sound good, or terrible. IMO of course, lol [quote name='ambient' timestamp='1461615177' post='3036205'] Different flavours of ourselves, the perfect description. [/quote] I aim to please...

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1461534096' post='3035554'] I've said this numerous times on here, and you always get the same replies poo-pooing the idea that how an instruments sounds can be so much down to the player. I've played other guys instruments when I was at uni, and they played my basses. So same instrument, cable, amp settings, different sound. Yet guys spend thousands and thousands on instruments and amps, when maybe they just need to learn how to use what they've already got ? [/quote] You're right on this. When I studied with Jeff Berlin, we all tried his bass out and he tried all of ours. Without fail, he sounded (or could make himself sound) exactly like himself on every single one. We all sounded the same on his bass the way we did on our own instruments. So that pretty much answered most of my questions and thoughts around that. Amps etc give us different flavours of ourselves, but IMO at the root of it is all down to the player, and in the main how they generate tone with their right hand. It's a tough lesson to take.

The 70s I like better than the 60s - more hi mids - though I like the HC best of all. I do not like the hot wound pickups, they are too dark. Thanks JT, I may have found some good contenders for replacing the Barts in my Pedulla Rapture (they are just a little dark for my taste, and not enough hi mids).

So....anybody?

Alex and Subsonic offer reasonable advice. What goes into a BB2 is largely what comes out of it, at least IMO when I tried one. About as pure a cab as ever I have heard. If you stand further out front and fiddle the mid EQ a lot, you may get the punch you need. I don't want to teach you to suck eggs, you probably have already done this, but the EQ you have available may be the limiting factor. Edit: maybe something around the 200hz - 400hz mark.