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You need different couloirs guitar and bass leads to keep you right 😀

I had my old stomp set up in line with other pedals as well as some things in the loop. Ian Martin Allison has just done Janek’s podcast and they touch upon this briefly about committing to a Stomo and how IMA has his set up. Might be worth a look although it doesn’t go mad in depth into routing. Between the stomp and it’s loop and an external looper there are quite a few possibilities depending on your needs.

As in MorningStar ML5? I think it’s a midi switcher so while I’m guessing it can change parameters etc I don’t have first hand experience using one. I don’t use midi on my board as it’s a much more meagre looking creation than some of these big boys.

Until Thursday 😀

The clean track/dorty track is a standard and as others have said a clean DI track can alway be though if as a ‘safety track’ if things don’t work out/as a clean blend to ensure a strong low end without getting too muddy etc. lots of producers and artists like that clean solid low with the dirt being added to the higher frequencies doing that x-over type thing. The Darkglass X pedals use that principle clean compressed lows worh face melting dirty mids. See what features your daw has and if you can pull up an eq pelf the track play about with it, even on a clean bass, and hear what the main frequencies are doing in terms of punch, mud, woolly, bright, nasal, zing, air and all these other ‘eq’ descriptions. It’ll stand you in good stead for gigging and general sound management- say you’re gifs a doom and you get one of those eq anomalies you’re likey gonna be in a better position to problem solve and get a sound you like. It’s time well spent. “Produce like a Pro” on YouTube has some good videos on recording as do a heap of others. There’s a a school of thought about putting the track in as complete as possible or the old “fixing it in the box” but it’s good to try both options if only to figure out which option is better for you. It’s good to make our own mistakes even if we’re told differently sometimes. Good luck and stick with it!

It could sound muddy or quite ‘thick’ in a mix (it does to my ear but then we might have different ideas of what we’re trying to achieve with dirty bass) but if that’s the sound you’re going for of and/if it works for demo purposes then there’s no right or wrong.. Are you using a daw which has the ability to eq and make some changes? I started out experimenting with eq and figuring out how to get my bass sitting where I liked it - the clean blend/mixing a clean and dirt track and Eq-ing both to get the best of both worlds is great learning too. If you have some Cab sims/cab IR you can apply it might be fun to hear it through those too - a matter of trial and error all this home recording stuff. Adding cab sims can help make the bass fit better as it can massage the high end etc. Something like a zoom or hx stomp can be a good investment as an interface for daw effects etc.

Too many years with awful sound and I found a solution which works for me with the gear I had. You (quickly) learn to use what you have to make it work… which was the original point in the first post 😝

My board is designed for live with iem and/or direct to my amp, foh or both. There’s really two signal chains happening. The entire chain runs through the LBA 2020s transformer’s underneath the board after the Beta. So as you see it bass goes in: Tuner>Beta>Compressor>Simone> From Simone I have the DI out going to the Element to FOH so the house sound isn’t really that dirty but the wee bit of grit is tamed with the CabIR. From the 1/4 out on Simone it goes through the rest… Simone1/4”>Enhanced OD>Fuzz>Thumpinator>Element>amp This way I get filth through the amp on stage but foh remains civilised. It seems to work.

It was great to have JC and his tech talk through the rig. Those ones are the best.