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strap length ? A bit personal, but lets just say i don't get many complaints 🙂

remember a few posts back i said i use the AMEK 9098 with my bass sometimes.. well i was just watching this with Bootsy talking about his history with Tascam. and hay ho, look whats in his rack at about 0:58 i wonder if he uses it for bass also ? aaahhhh im going to have to find out, my new mission 🙂 I love that X48, you just dont see them come up that much 🙂

ahhh ha ha, thats great...i went the other way !, i got rid of my Alesis compressor and kept the drawmer, im not even sure why now it was a while ago, horses for courses at the time i suppose. i wonder if the TC reverbs in the 02R are the same in the d8b ? as the ones in the d8b sound great and well usable, and because they are right there i use them on nearly every mix i do. at the mo cus im doing an old school rave type track ( not my usual thing i would strongly like to point out haha ) im using some old Yamaha reverbs to try and get that "Old school" sound, so im using a rev 7 for one or two things (i have two of those) and last year i got hold of pro R3 which was yamahas flagship back in the day which im finding a few good uses for but still really tinkering around with it looking for its strengths so cant say allot on that at the mo but its "WIDE" open i know that. and i do like the upfront open sound of it, so im using that more at mo that the Rev500 iv had for a while on this track, we will see 🙂 Regarding the D8B, i love that thing, im so use to it now i just cant be @rsed to use anything else and go through all the learning again, so just incase it goes down i have another at the ready, Here ya go, this will take you back.......

I think i have just duffed down me leg 🙂 I like the M1 allot, i have the M-one and the D-two ( delays) both great units, i use them all the time, the routing building blocks in the M-one is just a fantastic idea and makes a big diff in the sound what way you put them, still both great units even by todays standards and you can pick them up quite cheap now. im going to check out the WA Bus compressor, cheers , The Klark Kt has had some great reviews, iv never tried one, , im just fixing a Universal audio 1176LN for someone, and still waiting for parts, their back up service is just CR@P ! ! but when thats done al have a little play on that should be about the same sort of think as the Klark, But at the mo im using Massenburg EQ with drawmer the old DL221 remember them ? the dam thing just keeps going or if not the drawmer then i have some software built into the mackie D8B called "finial mix" i think this was sold off by mackie to tracktion and is now called "master mix" but is more or less exactly the same thing and works wonders in the D8B. Cheers for all that https://www.tracktion.com/products/master-mix https://massenburgdesignworks.com/

owen, try this its a stand alone system, you dont have to connect it to any daw, just chuck your mp3, or better a wav file in to it, then pick a style from a big list, and let it do its stuff while you sit back and have a brew. one thing... put your original file in its own folder on your desk top then do it, then all the stuff it does will be saved to the same file. its free for doing files for up to 3 and a half mins or 4, or something like that, and will only use 4 multiband compressors, but good enough to give you an idea, plus its got some VERY handy tools you can use. try it if you like, ya good to go, if not its cost you nothing. i know people who are charging using this as a mastering service. cheeky buggers enjoy https://www.curioza.com/index.php/audio-mastering

youd fink with spell checker it would sort it all out for you wouldn't yo?, yea.. that's cr@p as well 🙂

yeee haarrr , Let me at them :-), i could walk down the line of them cr@p, cr@p cr@p cr@p cr@p cr@p cr@p cr@p cr@p ..meehhhh av ya got any plecs ? ?.. ahhh.... yeaaa there cr@p too, ah well..bye 😋

pointy headstocks sharp angles in bodys. headless basses stick basses roundwound or tapewound strings cheap electrics that have next to no variance in tone glued in headstocks light bass bodys maple fretless necks stock musicman stingray pickups, they still not addressed that out of line G pole piece that plastic chad valley ronco stingray battery holder. the newer wide G&L natural maple necks ( awfull) bridges that when the barrels are on the base the strings are still too high. ( more to do with the neck pocket too high really) sh!t tuners that unwind themselfs carved engraved bodys single cut away bodys fat chunky necks basses that are more "ART" than usable bass, like overpriced over the top Alembics. semi body basses with F holes, though some do look great. fanned fret boards. see through resin bodys covers over pickups, right where i want play pickups that are right on the end of the neck, i can get my fingers under to snap, and last but not least... Anything that says rickenbacker im pritty sure that covers most of it 🙂

haha there is that, sometimes if its say a date stamped pot like the 60/70/80 cts and you want to keep it original or an expensive pot then its worth the effort. if replacing there are some very high quality pots out there that are worth looking at, im just working on some universal audio preamps and comps like the 1176LN limiting amp and they use PEC pots made in Canada, well impressed with them, and im very tempted to try some on a passive jazz.

you could write about any thing, 1, your own life and views 2, commenting on others lives and views. macca said he writes about the day, from when he " jumps out of bed" what you see and what you feel, its as simple as that. you could add another insight to a book you read, aka steely dan. or just some good advice you might want to share or just about searching for an idea for a song untill the light popped on while reading a post on bass chat 🙂 But for me clever writing is next level stuff, some songs that tell you everything in the first two lines. like.. "Seven days" was all she wrote, a kind of ultimatum note. as much as i dislike him, thats clever

If you have tried all that and its still crackly, then.... 1, take it out, 2, bend back the 4 legs on the pot covering. 3, take apart. 4 clean the carbon track with a cotton bud and isopropinol or WD40 . ( then check it with a meter if you have one) 5 and again very carefully clean the wipers without bending them, if they are worn right down the the legs renew pot 6, again clean the carbon track with vasaline leaving the faintest trace on the track ( literally hardly anything) 7, put back together leaving some vasaline on the shaft ( acts a a dust trap on the shaft) and you should be ok

that was ace, enjoyed that cheers, did notice that's john east retro pre he is using there

loads of names above julian crampton has been a big fave of mine for years. i have loads of stuff with him on, and what a nice guy. played with loads of people, seen him once with another hero of mine deodato ! i just about duffed down me leg 🙂 he does lessons as well if you feel the need based in london https://www.juliancramptonbass.com/get-in-touch Touring / Recording INCOGNITO THE PASADENAS DONNA SUMMER GEORGE BENSON PAUL YOUNG M PEOPLE US 3 WESTERNHAGEN ED MOTTA MICA PARIS BASIA MATT BIANCO HEAVEN 17 ANGELIQUE KIDJO JIMMY SOMERVILLE CONNER REEVES GEOFFREY WILLIAMS MAYSA DOWN TO THE BONE PEE WEE ELLIS AND FRED WESLEY STEPHEN DUFFY AND NIGEL KENNEDY PP ARNOLD STEVE WINWOOD EN VOGUE ERIC MARIENTHAL REEL PEOPLE ELVIS CRESPO JASON REBELLO TONY REMY TERRY CALLIER JEAN TOUSSAINT STEVE GROSSMAN RAW STYLUS CITRUS SUN RAHSAAN PATTERSON PETER WHITE JAARED GREGG KARUKAS TIM BOWMAN RANDY SCOTT CINDY BRADLEY OLI SILK GARY HONOR MARION MEADOWS ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY THE SUNBURST BAND DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS MARK ALMOND THE LUNGAU BIG BAND VOODOO FUNK PROJECT TONY MOMRELLE OLA ONABULE JOEY NEGRO ADAM F REDMAN LEON WARE MARK NEVIN RANDY BRECKER GERALD ALBRIGHT MARC ANTOINE CHUCK LOEB DAVID BENOIT KIRK WHALUM BONNIE PINK SKY WU STEVE COLE JEFF KASHIWA THE SAX PACK MARIO BIONDI JAKATA JHELISA B.E.F SHEENA EASTON RAVEN MAIZE RAVEN MAIZE JAZZINHO/GUIDO DE PALMA BRIAN SIMPSON GRAHAM HARVEY GARETH WILLIAMS CHIELI MINUCCI U NAM ATTILA MOLNAR NEIL ANGILLEY ERIC DARIUS MICHAEL LINGTON VINCENT INGALA STEVE OLIVER NILS JIPTNER (Glen Gregory,Martin Ware,Green Gartside, Sandy Shaw, kim Wilde, Midge Ure etc..)

Hi all, just wanted to ask is anyone still using their red head ? and how they think it fairs to other stuff they have tried, modern or old, Im still using mine, and have tried a few others a few years back but just keep going to the red head. so nothing new in the last 6 or 7 years, and there is a reason for that i think its become part of "my sound" now, and as much as i try when i tried others i am just now so use to it, that i don't think the others sound like me, or more to the point, sounds like it, but its not just the sound its the way like your bass you get use to it. i know exactly what setting to set if i want that nice clean studio sound with a bit of click from the frets, and the same if i want that Motown sound, its just something you create over a long time using something and being able to dial in that sound right away, familiarity could be the death of advancement here i know, but again there is something else going on that i feel is missed on a lot of things today, again its "familiarity" its abit like your studio headphones that you have had for years, and have got so use to them you know their faults, you know the hi's in them are not exactly how they sound in the monitors and that lack of wide mid in them, but you are so use to them you know how to eq the mix to compensate, so when you try a new " better " pair you then have to RE eq your head, and spend time re eq ing just to get to the same place you was with your old pair, and i think that goes with alot of things when buying new gear, trying to get "your" sound out of a new piece of gear is it just something you had before ? now... on saying that, i know it takes some a lot of trying new gear to find their sound and its only when you have tried quite a bit of gear you say to your self, "well actually i loved that sound from my old trace elliot, i was more at home with that" and you learn to live with that, its a great adventure and a learning curve that most of us go through, all to get that sound that is in our heads. so ... after all that, im stuck with the red head, and cant see myself in the future with anything else. although i do have a 2x12 silverado that does the same thing, its just to big to take out. i have a few extension cabs i use with the red head depending on the gig, but overall im very happy with everything it still gives me.