klutz Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Hi Guys, Totally new to the forum and ready for some music having finally landing a sweet 4003 from 2001 yesterday. I've taken tomorrow off work so I can plug in and start playing with some sounds. Will start with stereo DIs altho I have a Marshall guitar amp here too. Was wondering if anyone has any useful suggestions for plug-ins - I suppose firstly, I'd like to get close to Chris Squires' tone and then go from there. Being pre-2006, my rick doesn't have the Vintage Tone switch (although I am open to getting this added if anyone who has this can recommend it?) so will be looking at compression, EQ and distortion etc to start and it take from there. Any thoughts any of you would like to share would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pendingrequests Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 My advice is just to spend the whole time experimenting. You do all of the EQ and compression in Post anyway, so just have fun and play Stereo DI's? for two basses? Not really needed in my opinion. Again just play with all the in-built effects in post and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Get the VTC installed, it adds a lot of options and really differentiates between the tone of the neck PUP and the bridge PUP. Go for the switchable circuit (push/pull bridge PUP tone pot) as opposed to the tone cap alone, as if you do the latter and don't like it, you'd have to uninstall. As for recording, I like to send the tone I want in rather than getting it afterwards as it changes how I play, but I might be the exception! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 [quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1340108903' post='1699170'] As for recording, I like to send the tone I want in rather than getting it afterwards as it changes how I play, but I might be the exception! Chris [/quote] That's the way to do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 (edited) As far as recording goes I always try and capture the bass at multiple points in the signal chain. I play through my rig for what I hope is the correct sound - and as Beedster says the sound tends to affect how you play, but record the raw bass sound, a DI from the amp and if the environment allows it a mic in front of one of the speakers. In an ideal world either the amp or speaker track will be the one for the final mix, but if necessary I can always go back to the original raw bass track and either use an amp sim plug-in or re-amp and re-record. Edited June 19, 2012 by BigRedX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klutz Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 [quote name='pendingrequests' timestamp='1340107809' post='1699134'] Stereo DI's? for two basses? Not really needed in my opinion. [/quote] Stereo Rickenbacker outputs [quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1340108903' post='1699170'] Get the VTC installed, it adds a lot of options and really differentiates between the tone of the neck PUP and the bridge PUP. Go for the switchable circuit (push/pull bridge PUP tone pot) as opposed to the tone cap alone, as if you do the latter and don't like it, you'd have to uninstall. As for recording, I like to send the tone I want in rather than getting it afterwards as it changes how I play, but I might be the exception! Chris [/quote] Aye, the VTC does interest me and the press/pull version sounds like the way forward thanks Chris Ya not the exception there either [quote name='charic' timestamp='1340109707' post='1699188'] That's the way to do it [/quote] Definitely [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1340110796' post='1699219'] As far as recording goes I always try and capture the bass at multiple points in the signal chain. I play through my rig for what I hope is the correct sound - and as Beedster says the sound tends to affect how you play, but record the raw bass sound, a DI from the amp and if the environment allows it a mic in front of one of the speakers. In an ideal world either the amp or speaker track will be the one for the final mix, but if necessary I can always go back to the original raw bass track and either use an amp sim plug-in or re-amp and re-record. [/quote] Definitely Thanks for your replies, but I was thinking more in terms of recording the Rick stereo set up and if there were any plug-ins/presets any of you might suggest for this in particular. Am gonna have fun experimenting today anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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