Fender Jazz Bass with Keeley Compressor

Описание: When I got this little studio re-configured, the frustration always has been the live sound. Then I remembered when I recorded all of my previous projects while living in Columbus (my first real home studio with digital audio) everything I did was mixed with Sennheiser open air headphones. They were the yellow foam that did so well, and made them a lot of money. They were great accurate headphones. I had to run the headphone send at 3:30 to get enough signal to the elements. Run them HOT! But they were accurate, and every time I tried to monitor or mix with my Yamaha NS-10m's, the sound was muddy and inaccurate. So why would 'Nam be any different? I got spoiled with my set up in the garage running four speakers, two on poles. Great for playing live keys and getting a band sound even with the drum machine. BUT upstairs there always is some issue either with infrasound or EMF or RF. So I just said, even after I managed to get my four speakers in the correct place, forget about live sound. So I set up my sub-mixer without ever turning on the Crown D150 amp. Quiet. No fan. No hiss. Nothing. But Sennheiser closed ear headphones. So the little mixer is in a smaller rack right at my thighs where I can get to it, adjust levels, reverb, and plug in the cans. The new SoundCraft is in the corner on the big rack. My cord is not long enough, (she said) So no live sound. Nothing to disturb the neighborhood, and they don't like my doing any kind of music. So last night I got the three other keyboards mixed in with the Soundcraft daisy chained. Tonight, I said "I am going back to my smaller MOTU Audio Express audio interface) It is a half space rack deal, and when I have been recording into Quicktime with the Presonus Audiobox ll, I have a high pitched digital whine. NOT. So this Audio Express is firewire, not USB. Better. I had to build two more little shelves onto my monitor stand to hold it and my Countryman D.I. box. I used its two Analog 3/4 inputs, TRS, and out of the Mackie's TRS main output jacks. All was good and the high pitched whine was gone! Hurray. So what next? Bass. So I use the Countryman D.I. to record Fender bass. And I added a new Keeley pedal compressor as the suggestions of Laura Leezy of Khurangbin. It compresses the wide bass frequencies, too much for usual program material. So I built these shelves, installed the devices and plugged the bass into the Soundcraft. I did the same eventually with the Samson CO-1 mike. The funny thing was, I was singing into the wrong side of this mike. The blue light that indicates 48V phantom power is the side the should get audio. My bass rotor mike on the Leslie 142 is turned around the wrong way too! SHIT! And Also on the Leslie 60's I recorded last night. But they sounded fine, but picking up a lot more room sound from the back of the mike. So I need to change those. I did. So everything but the MIDI modules in the rack are now live to play live. Eight keyboards, the bass, and a live vocal mike. It was a lot of progress. You just have to use the CANS all the time. The sound still changes around you in the room all the time, but you get used to it.