Hello good people od Bass Buzz!
I have been collecting (read sporadically buying) all kinds of music related equipment before I decided to take the plunge, buy a bass guitar and subscribe to Bass Buzz lessons.
Now I want to use what I have to have the best bass tone that I can get, but somehow, I am not reaching a level of satisfaction that I was expecting to reach.
Everything starts with the Squier Sonic Precision Bass.
Equipment which I accumulated is:
Caline Wine Cellar - Driver and DI
EHX Bassballs
Behringer MDX 2600 Dynamics Processor
Behringer DSP2024P Effects Processor
Behringer DSP8024 Digital EQ and RTA (not used at the moment)
Wharfedale Pro Connect 802USB Mixer
Sennheiser HD 280 Pro Studio headphones
Out of all this, the best thing that I achieved was plugging bass into Wine Cellar and splitting the signal in following way:
- XLR out â mixer channel 1
- Out â MDX 2600 â DSP2024P (Analog Chorus, 100% wet) â mixer channel 2
While keeping channel 1 at 0 to +3 dB and varying channel 2 from -15 to +6 dB I could dial in the intensity of wet to dry signal. Mixer has 3 band EQ centered at 80, 1k and 12k with 15 dB cut and boost. On both channels 80 was set to -9 dB, 1k to +6 dB and 12k to -9 dB.
Channel 3/4 was input, to mix in the Bass Buzz lessons from my phone.
And this gave me semi-satisfactory tone, but I wanted something more. And as I started experimenting, things went south pretty fast.
First, I wanted to include Bassballs in the signal chain, but nothing worked as I would like it to (or as it works on YouTube videos).
So, I am thinking where to go next.
Although I am exclusively playing through headphones, because of the neighbours, I started to think about bass specific gear, such as either combo practice amp or just amp head in 50 - 75 W range.
Am I thinking in the right direction or is there something that I could do with the equipment that I already have, that I do not see at the moment?
Looking forward to all the input!
Cheers,
Rob