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REDDI Tube DI Mega-thread-III

#304
OK, got to hear them. Both sound great. Wouldn't complain about either of them. Agree about the wireless, too. I liked the sound better with it, though I might feel differently if you were using a brighter tone.
 
#306
Merry Christmas to all you REDDI lovers!

Last night I wrapped up a seasonal recording project, and I multitracked all of the bass parts through a REDDI. Man, it sounds great! I LOVE my REDDI.

"Deck The Halls" (arranged by Catherine McMichael)

And Kirk - I tried your technique of recording a clean and dirty track simultaneously. I used a Wren & Cuff Box of War fuzz pedal for the dirt, and you can just barely hear that in the mix. It sounds absolutely BEASTLY when you isolate the bass part, and it really does cut through the mix better even with just a small dose of dirt.

I only had one REDDI, so the Box of War went through a P1 preamp. I've got another REDDI here that's new in the box, and I'm now sorely tempted to break that out for my next project. LOL
 
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#309
That dirty part is quite dirty, but when you add the clean part, it cleans up and doesn't do the "flies buzzing" sound that often plagues blending clean and dirty. Nice job of that!
 
#310
How dirty do folks usually go with the dirty track? I'm just experimenting on my own here, no real experience with it. Just relying on my ears...

I could imagine dialing the gain back a bit so it just crunches on the attack of the note and then cleans up as the note sustains... I'll have to try that on the next project. On this one, I wanted more dirt than that to contrast with the pristine/classical quality of the music. When the bass takes the melody in the middle, the dirt comes through pretty nicely and makes it sound MIGHTY...
 
#311
FWIW - I used this bass, a Roscoe LG-3005 with the pickups "reverse slanted" like Jimmy Haslip's Roscoe. The bassline was all neck pickup. The violin part was both pickups blended equally, and the viola part as all bridge...

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#312
RocketMusic said:
How dirty do folks usually go with the dirty track? I'm just experimenting on my own here, no real experience with it. Just relying on my ears...

I could imagine dialing the gain back a bit so it just crunches on the attack of the note and then cleans up as the note sustains... I'll have to try that on the next project. On this one, I wanted more dirt than that to contrast with the pristine/classical quality of the music. When the bass takes the melody in the middle, the dirt comes through pretty nicely and makes it sound MIGHTY...
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One person's concept of excellent dirt can make another person break out the washcloth. This one's a matter of taste - not that I like eating dirt or anything like that. Now fuzz is something I could chomp on all day.
 
#313
I just came home from a church gig tour. The other members asked me why i bothered to carry that big thing around when i had a good di in my Basswitch. So i asked the soundman if we do some ab testing. (i really think the basswitch di is top notch German quality...but) After the testing the enginer came up on stage (with a serious look on his face) he told us that the last di (the reddi) sounded much much better..and he said that he was a bit shocked because of the big difference. It was fatter and warmer.
 
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Ukiah Bass said:
One person's concept of excellent dirt can make another person break out the washcloth. This one's a matter of taste - not that I like eating dirt or anything like that. Now fuzz is something I could chomp on all day.
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Yeah, that's how I look at it, too. I love super dirt in the right places. I also rarely do blends, and never with plan overdrive. My Team Awesome Fuzz Machine has a blend and I'll mix a little bit of clean in with it, but I find it takes away from the intensity.

Generally, though, I go for more like what you did, Greg...a Jamerson-y/McCartney-y fatness that sounds clean in a mix but big and fat.
 
#317
Work how? Delivering the REDDI sound into your rig? To be honest, I've not had much luck doing that. Any time I've split it, it seems to affect the REDDI in a negative way. But I haven't tried a mixer. I lug enough stuff without adding a mixer into the fray.
 
#319
Well you wouldn't necessarily need a mixer for that, but you would need some sort of preamp unless you have a power amp that the REDDI works in. I don't have much experience with power amps, though, so I'm not really the guy to ask about that, but running the REDDI into the effect returns of my amps has not worked to where I wouldn't need an extra preamp.
 

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