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Trick Fall
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Post by Trick Fall » Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:50 pm

I haven't recorded a ton of bassists, or bass amps, but my favorite bass sound I ever got was my SF Champ with a 50's style Weber speaker at a pretty low volume with either a Sennheiser e602 or a 57.

Lately I've been using a RE 320 on my bassists TC Electronic amp. I'd like to come up with a good DI sound to use, but they all the options I've had and tried always sound small to me.

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Post by vvv » Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:02 am

Do try and find a Meek VC3Q - can be a pretty unique but cool DI sound for cheap. That, or a 1176 clone (not so cheap) used as a DI are current faves of mine for variation from my usual Brick to dbx DI sound.
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Trick Fall
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Post by Trick Fall » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:13 pm

I have a VC3 that I'll give a try.

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Post by kslight » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:30 pm

So the other day I was working on a cue and I wanted to get a "filling" bass to rock with the live drums so I didn't have to play any other stuff (as opposed to a bass that doesn't take over everything). I ended up running my baritone acoustic direct into my chain of Moog pedals, then direct...turned into hairy dead weather bass...loved it.

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Post by vvv » Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:46 pm

I've totally been having fun with bass lately, using octave pedals and distortion,
(and here),
slide,
amps and DI,
fretless and A/E, etc.

Today I played a Hohner headless into the Brick and an 1176 clone, and then tripled the bass line on the chorus; it can be heard here (some of the above might have doubled parts, also.)
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