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Baer Amplification Megathread!
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Actually, you're half tempted to get an ML112 of your own as I recall. LOL
Yah, that too.
I have a gig next Sun you could bring it to - though it is jazz (with a dash of funk) so it wouldn't get a very vigorous workout...
Had the 5th gig in 3 days this afternoon. ML112 was in fine form - cutting up the live tracks now. I had it on the cart for the first set, felt like I wanted a bit more booty so moved it to the floor. Turns out both sounded fat out in the house.
Also, I did a bit more tweaking with the upright. Turns out using the Puma head and cutting the upper mids and highs to about 9:00 gives a really good tone. Not boomy, articulate, but not scratchy piezo stuff (KK Bass Max pickup). I tried it with and without the fDeck HPF and that wasn't really necessary as the ML112 handles the lows well.
Had the 5th gig in 3 days this afternoon. ML112 was in fine form - cutting up the live tracks now. I had it on the cart for the first set, felt like I wanted a bit more booty so moved it to the floor. Turns out both sounded fat out in the house.
Also, I did a bit more tweaking with the upright. Turns out using the Puma head and cutting the upper mids and highs to about 9:00 gives a really good tone. Not boomy, articulate, but not scratchy piezo stuff (KK Bass Max pickup). I tried it with and without the fDeck HPF and that wasn't really necessary as the ML112 handles the lows well.
Great line from Robin Williams in the movie Robots - "It's a fusion of jazz and funk... It's called junk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUvdLQfcIDs
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Or the farmers market gigs. That trio is a mix of jazz and rock and its outdoors. Next steely gig is fairly high profile so I need to not be experimenting live 
Or the farmers market gigs. That trio is a mix of jazz and rock and its outdoors. Next steely gig is fairly high profile so I need to not be experimenting live
ahhh, yes. I bet it would kill anywhere though but it does have that vintagey tubey thing going on. The 25W setting is really nice. I'm always there. The Panini spot is attractive - but Id have to talk the other half into helping me out.
25W @ Panini would be cool actually. Small room, could get a bit crunchy. I'm there next Thu.
I do the same thing with both the RH750, Tone Hammer or VT Bass, which is cut mids around 700hz to 1000hz. While it might be the dreaded scooped tone for so many, I've found that it always helps the bass find it's place in the mix instead of competing in the spot. It doesn't take a lot of scoop to make that work. I prefer to let the 2.5k range of the bass do the speaking, and then fill out the rest of the tone with some 100hz bottom. It took me a long time to get to the point where I enjoyed this. It's a "less selfish" bass tone IMHO, because in the past I was all about hearing everything I could and boosting highs and upper-mids until the bass just stuck out like a sore thumb whenever I heard audience recordings. I'm still learning to appreciate a bit more "pillow" in my tone compared to those years.
What I like about the ML is that cutting those mids a bit doesn't instantly make your bass disappear. That mid driver is still there and speaks through the EQ changes without letting me get buried. It's the same thing I experience with IEM's and cutting mids. Love it.
That 1K area is the 'gank' area for many of us, and cutting that can really smooth out the response.
Most 'scoop' controls (enhance, etc.) cut mids at a much lower freq (300-500hz), and also boost deep low end and often sizzly highs. That is IMO where the dreaded 'scoop' comments come from.
I think it's bass/amp dependent also. For me, with an already mid-forward RH750, I find I need to cut about 800 hz around -6dB to get a bass tone that I like very much. From there, I make further EQ changes to highs and lows depending on what I'm wanting to do.
