so similar for me. i've been recording bands with totally different ideas of bass sound and how the bass fits in the band so it changes, but for my own bass and playing i love the hamptone tube DI. i was using the grace 101 for a while (pretty good for mid present stuff), but the hamptone pretty much rules on the bass di.Recycled_Brains wrote:i've been extremely happy with the results i'm getting just using the D.I. on my Hamptone tube preamp with a little bit of "over-easy" compression through my DBX 160x. sits so well in the mix. great tone. i'm planning on grabbing a sansamp soon. i've used the bass driver a lot and love it.
if i'm micing a cab, so far the best sounds i've gotten were using an sm7b, or AT4040.
for amps, my new favorite is the Ampeg V4-B. so awesome.
-ryan
for cabs the re20 usually just doesn't do it for me, but i like the sm7 a lot, 421s sometimes, and my akgc28/lomo capsule ldc if i'm not using it on something else. i used to sometimes do the sm57 as a second mic at a 45 degree angle thing, sounds cool for some stuff but haven't done it in a while. my bass really likes a little compression with the 1176...lends a feel my other comps don't.
i do mic and di, but most of the time i rely mostly on the mic signal.
oh yeah, the v4b totally rules. the straight up v4 is almost exactly the same but has reverb. they can sound like an svt, but you can push it more easily so you have a lot of tonal options. ruling.