I think I’m a weirdo

[dbsfgyd1]

Yeah

I’ve played with an amp for a long time but always felt meh, it was just so I would be heard live.

Then I played direct, meaning that I had a sound card and just plugged direct and played with iTune or recorded.

Then I used a Darkglass preamp the Vintage micro tube ultra. Very well made but still I still prefer my tone direct.

my bass as an active circuit, I boost mid and treble and favour the bridge pickup and voila it sounds fine to me.

I just feel weird

A preamp with tone control is a preamp with tone control whether it’s on your bass or ancillary gear. I don’t find it weird you have preference.

 

[SactoBass]

You're on Talkbass, and you play bass.

Weird is assumed.

 

[mikewalker]

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[donahue]

You probably have a good sounding bass.

Congrats.

I too have good sounding basses. It’s nice!

 

[dkelley]

We always sensed you were a weirdo... now we know in what way you are.

Welcome to the weirdo club - I've been through the tone ideas you're going through... I eventually come back to more "normal" choices, but then I go off on a tangent again.

Saul Goodman

"It's All Good man!"

 

[Seashore]

I'm... normal, I guess? Yeah. I'm normal. An amp and some cabs, pedals, miking stuff up, even when I run "direct" it's through some modeling or effects. No clean unprocessed DI ever. Normal!

 

[Wisebass]

Hi aiden Fiori

just feel weird

Completely nuts!

To post this on the Amps!!! & Cabs!!! (balls!)

Now just get over to the pedal guys and tell them that you don't need effects...

Sorry! Just my first reaction!


plug your bass into whatever you want!

But it has to be: Light enough, heavy enough, small enough, big enough.

It has to run on tube watts, solid state watts (incl. Class D)

It needs speakers! All kinds!!! 2 Ohm, 4 Ohm, 8 Ohm... and everything in between!

Open ore closed cabs (heavy or light), bigger, better, smaller, louder...

with or without tweeters...

I am not even talking about the micros we use to record our amp sound!

I played direct, meaning that I had a sound card and just plugged direct and played with iTune or recorded

greetings

Wise(b)ass

 

[dkelley]

I'm... normal, I guess? Yeah. I'm normal. An amp and some cabs, pedals, miking stuff up, even when I run "direct" it's through some modeling or effects. No clean unprocessed DI ever. Normal!

Keep tellin' yourself that...

 

[selowitch]

I have gotten some of the best results recording two tracks of bass at the same time: one containing my direct signal and the other a feed from an amplifier (most often my Phil Jones BG-75 Double Four) captured by a microphone. Later I can make one or the other louder or softer with very pleasing results.

 

[Steadfast]

I plugged my bass into a thunder loop bit and it was unimpressive.

 

[Samatza]

Move along now... nothing to see here.

 

[chadds]

If you have a fine bass with good pickups, direct is usually the best sound.

The only ones I know who mic cabinets, are the ones who invest decades and thousands of dollars in gear that gives them a specific sound.

Also, when it comes to a studio recording, I tend to trust the engineer, and they usually just want a flat clean sound at the board.

Am alternate opinion. Sometimes the engineer wants you to sound like you.

If he’s tracking a pop tune and wants two measures the intro outro and chorus and he’s going to cut and paste you, fine. (He should use EZbass)

If you were hired because of your sound as well as your ears or it’s an original project then they want your sound. You want your sound. I am often DI and cab mic’d. Live & Studio.

 

[two fingers]

Meh. To each his own.

I love coloration in my tone. Pedals and amps get me there.


Your way is more convenient, that's for sure.

 

[uncle woody]

Actually I'd think you're the normal one, most people play bass that way nowadays.
Mind you you're on a forum of gear-junkie GASheads.

That being said...
ONE OF US... ONE OF US... ONE OF US...

 

[chadds]

Really it’s what does the music and the gig require?

I’d have a lot less sessions and live gigs if I was not prepared for that direct into say an Avalon 737 session and the next night a hot sweaty roadhouse gig with phat tubes moving lots of cones.

To each his own!

P.S. I love the sound of my EB unplugged played in free air.

 

[OptimalOptimus]

Thanks all for answering my question