This is great info. Subjective of course. Playing as a session player for an artist can be very different to being the artist creating their own sound. The one thing I find important to use correctly on bass is compressor. Also subjective to the genre and tone goal.
Nice Stingray....you got a good one & well set up...nice...sadly can't afford a Stingray but my maple board Fender 75th Anniversary Jazz fitted with SD Apollo Noiseless Linear Coil Jazz pickups sounds so good, & no noise at all , older Stingrays sound fantastic, & i like 9v active bass's....👍🎉🎸🎧
GOOD STUFF Dan! I agree with u...always send a "clean" and "dirty" to be mixed. No need to mix it urself...thats not what ur hired to do. But...it never hurts.to know how to use ur gear. Whatever that is. I ❤ ur MM...I NEED to get one. That would be very useful to me. Cheers! 🎶
Thanks Dan! I’d be very interested to see a video of you using plugins and effects to shape your sound. I recently upgraded my audio interface and found that I can get a nice fat sound with multiple inputs connected. I currently have the master output and clean DI signal from a tube preamp running into separate inputs and a SansAmp running into a third input. The 3 signals blend together nicely.
Very good, as alway!! Could you do a lesson on how to use a compressor? For newbies (such as me 😊) this seems to be one of the effects that is harder to understand, because a good compressor setting is so sutble. So I find it quite hard to really find a sweet spot. Cheers, Daniel
Radial Pro D.I and Sansamp Paradriver v2. Not as expensive but give me a solid sound whether I use my Sterling or my Godin bass. Thank for sharing. Cheers from Canada mate !
I mean I wouldn’t say compression is all about gear or that it’s even remotely unnecessary or unimportant. That could definitely be sending players down the total wrong path. It’s a professional tool and you could even say necessity ESPECIALLY for bass players. No matter the professional setting whether recording with a qualified studio engineer or on a stage being mixed by a FOH engineer, they’re going to use compression on the bass. It would be unprofessional not to. For some reason lately the word compression is synonymous with bass players particularly, except as a bad thing due to the lack of knowledge on the subject and throwing around the word “squashed”. If you’re “squashing” when using compression, you’re using it completely incorrectly. All it is used for is to make your entire signal even and punchy and just balanced whether solo or part of a dense mix .You want your highest note the same volume as your lowest note and everything in between as well. All it’s supposed to do is grab the peaks and raise the dips so you’re not overwhelming the signal when playing one specific area on the neck. When setting a compressor, as soon as you see that meter or LED appear, you’re accomplishing the purpose of that tool. There’s no “tone suck” there’s no loss of low end. Those are the results of an unaware person completely mis-using the most helpful tool due to not putting the small amount of time in to learn about it. You don’t need it for “slap” or a certain technique lol. If it’s done properly it’s a set it and forget it friend of ours and you can use any right/left hand technique and not need to go within a mile of that compressor. Think about live performances. Do you think the engineer is watching the bass players hands and judging when to switch the compression on and off the whole time? Lol no sir. As FOH engineers they just know how it works and therefore how to set it and forget it. And don’t think jus t because you’re a hobbyist or not working on a professional level which makes it unnecessary either. I mean sure, you can do whatever your little heart desires but whether playing in your room or Madison Square Garden, or playing Gwar or Gwen Stefani, isn’t the goal to sound professional or “good” as a general and subjective term or just the intent to NOT sound like an amateur as best we can? Whatever you do, strive to do it well and learn what you’re doing. Strive for knowledge that’s all.
Thanks Simon. It's different on all the basses I have as I don't have one universal set up. I don't actually know that measurement off hand either! If you really want to know, message me and I'll find out...(so I remember to do it).
Turning up the bass quite a bit on a 2eq Stingray is already a significant bass boost, so I wouldn't quite agree the sound is that neutral. And thanks for the -18 dB tip when it comes to digital input gain, although it requires a rather good dynamics mastery. If you go about and slap a bit too heavily you could end up eating up many of those 18 dB, wouldn't you ...that's where compression helps. But best is not having to fix things with compression and rather work on mastering the dynamics at the source... and by the way, I have the impression high end gear often has its own internal sophisticated concealed compression "secret weapon" recipe to avoid ugly clipping (Avalon, Allen & Heath, Markbass...)
🙏 probably two things...1) I focused on practising speed, accuracy, and this kind of thing (it didn't come naturally - I needed to deliberately practice it). 2) I've been playing and practising for a long time so it gets easier the more you do it. You can't do much about 2) if you've just started but 1) will get you where you want to be!
This is great info. Subjective of course. Playing as a session player for an artist can be very different to being the artist creating their own sound. The one thing I find important to use correctly on bass is compressor. Also subjective to the genre and tone goal.
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This has been my biggest issue with doing videos but not in studio. thanks
Nice Stingray....you got a good one & well set up...nice...sadly can't afford a Stingray but my maple board Fender 75th Anniversary Jazz fitted with SD Apollo Noiseless Linear Coil Jazz pickups sounds so good, & no noise at all , older Stingrays sound fantastic, & i like 9v active bass's....👍🎉🎸🎧
Very helpful
Refreshing! Tone comes from years of quality practice. Ive heard Squire Broncos sound amazing in the right hands
GOOD STUFF Dan! I agree with u...always send a "clean" and "dirty" to be mixed. No need to mix it urself...thats not what ur hired to do. But...it never hurts.to know how to use ur gear. Whatever that is. I ❤ ur MM...I NEED to get one. That would be very useful to me. Cheers! 🎶
You should get one! They're awesome. This is a pre Ernie Ball and it's worth trying to find one.
Very enlightening as always. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Great stuff as always!
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Pretty cool! Tools for the tool box!! Nice work as always!🤘🏻
Thanks for checking it out!
Thanks Dan! I’d be very interested to see a video of you using plugins and effects to shape your sound.
I recently upgraded my audio interface and found that I can get a nice fat sound with multiple inputs connected. I currently have the master output and clean DI signal from a tube preamp running into separate inputs and a SansAmp running into a third input. The 3 signals blend together nicely.
That's a great idea with the three signals. Good idea - I'll do it.
Very good, as alway!! Could you do a lesson on how to use a compressor? For newbies (such as me 😊) this seems to be one of the effects that is harder to understand, because a good compressor setting is so sutble. So I find it quite hard to really find a sweet spot. Cheers, Daniel
Good idea - I'll put it on the list!
Radial Pro D.I and Sansamp Paradriver v2. Not as expensive but give me a solid sound whether I use my Sterling or my Godin bass. Thank for sharing. Cheers from Canada mate !
Exactly what I was talking about - these will do a great job!
I mean I wouldn’t say compression is all about gear or that it’s even remotely unnecessary or unimportant. That could definitely be sending players down the total wrong path. It’s a professional tool and you could even say necessity ESPECIALLY for bass players. No matter the professional setting whether recording with a qualified studio engineer or on a stage being mixed by a FOH engineer, they’re going to use compression on the bass. It would be unprofessional not to. For some reason lately the word compression is synonymous with bass players particularly, except as a bad thing due to the lack of knowledge on the subject and throwing around the word “squashed”. If you’re “squashing” when using compression, you’re using it completely incorrectly. All it is used for is to make your entire signal even and punchy and just balanced whether solo or part of a dense mix .You want your highest note the same volume as your lowest note and everything in between as well. All it’s supposed to do is grab the peaks and raise the dips so you’re not overwhelming the signal when playing one specific area on the neck. When setting a compressor, as soon as you see that meter or LED appear, you’re accomplishing the purpose of that tool. There’s no “tone suck” there’s no loss of low end. Those are the results of an unaware person completely mis-using the most helpful tool due to not putting the small amount of time in to learn about it. You don’t need it for “slap” or a certain technique lol. If it’s done properly it’s a set it and forget it friend of ours and you can use any right/left hand technique and not need to go within a mile of that compressor. Think about live performances. Do you think the engineer is watching the bass players hands and judging when to switch the compression on and off the whole time? Lol no sir. As FOH engineers they just know how it works and therefore how to set it and forget it. And don’t think jus t because you’re a hobbyist or not working on a professional level which makes it unnecessary either. I mean sure, you can do whatever your little heart desires but whether playing in your room or Madison Square Garden, or playing Gwar or Gwen Stefani, isn’t the goal to sound professional or “good” as a general and subjective term or just the intent to NOT sound like an amateur as best we can? Whatever you do, strive to do it well and learn what you’re doing. Strive for knowledge that’s all.
I'd use that eleven rack.
I didn't know evidence audio cables and JulesAmp. Thanks.
If you end up liking them, I apologise in advance to your wallet...
@@OnlineBassCourses :-)
Nice work, would be handy to know your action height in mm’s measured at the 17th fret. Cheers
Thanks Simon. It's different on all the basses I have as I don't have one universal set up. I don't actually know that measurement off hand either! If you really want to know, message me and I'll find out...(so I remember to do it).
Turning up the bass quite a bit on a 2eq Stingray is already a significant bass boost, so I wouldn't quite agree the sound is that neutral. And thanks for the -18 dB tip when it comes to digital input gain, although it requires a rather good dynamics mastery. If you go about and slap a bit too heavily you could end up eating up many of those 18 dB, wouldn't you ...that's where compression helps. But best is not having to fix things with compression and rather work on mastering the dynamics at the source... and by the way, I have the impression high end gear often has its own internal sophisticated concealed compression "secret weapon" recipe to avoid ugly clipping (Avalon, Allen & Heath, Markbass...)
I agree with you Paolo, regarding the EQ. I guess I meant I usually go flat with passive basses. Technique is also key as you mention!
how did you get to play so fast on fills...what do you think when you play your solos on grooves with the correct timing
🙏 probably two things...1) I focused on practising speed, accuracy, and this kind of thing (it didn't come naturally - I needed to deliberately practice it). 2) I've been playing and practising for a long time so it gets easier the more you do it.
You can't do much about 2) if you've just started but 1) will get you where you want to be!
What do you use to video record? How do you synchronize the audio and video of your bass playing?
Sony ZVE10 and iPhone. Synced in Camtasia. You can use any editing software or camera for that matter.
Thank you. I’ll look into those. Excellent work with all your educational content.
@@jjones1003 thank you.
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you need to pay for the plugins?
Yes, for the ones I use apart from the ones that come with Logic (which you pay for in the first place).
@@OnlineBassCourses ok thanks!
Cables are highly underrated and highly overrated at the same time.
Because they don't matter unless faulty.
@@iggynub Nicely said.
Great playing but not a world class bass tone.
Thanks!