Seriously though the filter emulation is perfect, very much like the Steiner-Parker that was in my MicroBrute - it will even self-oscillate accurately. I spent an hour already just making noise with it.
Meanwhile, I think I found u-he Repro used, trying to work out a deal, and this will complete the analogue sounds I have been hunting. I donāt care about the Prophet-5 emu but I really really want the Pro-One. This plus MiniBrute V will cover the nasty, and Diva the nice.
The Minibrute would have been my first choice if I ever wanted to buy a hardware synth again. It sounds amazing and works very intuitively ā I love that the UI is an exact copy of the original Minibrute. My next step is to connect my Keystep for some live pitch shifting and modulation.
Acid V is probably my favorite plugin right now. I just made a killer acid track right off the bat!
Soā¦ this one timeā¦ in the clearance sectionā¦ I bought the body of a G&L Tribute Series Fallout short scale bass. It had the MFD pickup and the OMG Mode switch and everything. Then I bought a neck to go with it.
I didnāt even know exactly what I was going to do with it. Someone asked me if I ever tried tuning in fifths, so I looked up what that was. Instead of a piccolo bass, itās now a 5-string cello guitar. F1-A3
Drilled a hole in the headstock, filed down the nut. Oh, it didnāt come with a brisge so I bought a $20 used one that had grooves in the saddles. Good enough for stuffing in an extra top string.
Itās pretty fun. I think of it as āmelodic bassā. It goes in a few songs and runs through my bass rig. Still learning how to play it. Good thing I donāt really know what Iām doing. Makes it much easier just diving into things with no preconceived notions. I generally reference the scale (and chord) charts in TuxGuitar when writing down / composing.
Sooner or later Iāll probably add a Bigsby vibrato and Schallar adjustable roller bridge. Along with a Gizmotron e-bow. For preamps itāll be an Audere Pro Z, a Lusithand/u-Hill/other filter preamp, and a switch to go between the two or try running parallel. Oh, it needs a new nut, too. Will go with something natural that would otherwise go to waste ā more cows than humans in this solar system!
Definitely needs to be refinished because itās an ugly off-white like it used to smoke before it met me. Maybe thatās why it was in pieces at the G&L clearance section!
Iām planning on going to a gem show and picking up a bunch of gemstone/mineral powder, etching out some of the fingerboard and maybe other areas, then fill it in with cool inlays. Everything having dots is boring.
Oh. Itās got DāAddario Chromes flatwounds. Looking into other options. I want to stick to flatwounds and need to order singles so my choices are limited.
Today I am proud of myself!
Local shop had a post about a Boss Katana 110 on promotionā¦ an amp I nearly bought a few months back.
When I rang them, it was the Demo oneā¦ no case, no power cable, no boxā¦ 150ā¬ less. I decided not to.
Actually happy that I resisted that impulse or I couldāve ended with a potential problem on my hands.
Donāt worryā¦ I am playing with Parallax Neural DSPā¦ if I get it working without noise (ongoing issue atm)ā¦ I will buy that for Reaperā¦ and eventually new monitors.
A new version is out and videos with it have been spreading like wildfireā¦ thereās a 14 day trial.
Much unfortunately Parallax X + Dingos are the things that stopped me from buying a Dingwallā¦ everything sounded the same and I was so annoyed at the tones.
Hihi I was talking about the Nolly X plugin from Neural DSP.
My Dingwall -Nolly sig- was a very versatile bass tho. It sits excellent in a mix imo, but I can also imagine people donāt like it at all. My beef was more with the frets that wear down fast. Eventually I traded it for a stealth black Bongo which suits me better.
Anyway with a good EQ pedal or plugin you can make sound most basses somewhat similar to a Dingwall. Parallax can do that for sure!
I generally reference the scale (and chord) charts in TuxGuitar when writing down / composing.
