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What is Your Home Rig/Sound

#161
Formula73 said:
I guess the biggest part of my point was that there's not much difference, effectively, between my home and gig rigs, tonally, and that it works for me because I'm not a very versatile bassist. I only play to the needs of the music I write specifically for my current band. In fact, everything about my bass playing has been in response to this band as primarily, I was a Gibson into Marshall guitarist (playing 70s and 80s rock/metal covers) prior to moving to Gibson into Muff (with some mids...) into clean loud amp bassist (writing doomy stoner riff-heavy rock) many moons ago. I'm in a 3pc so the fine tone sculpting capability of my different setups is not nearly as important as just the overall character of my sound within the band mix and the fret-clacky smack of my right fingers on the strings.

I am continually awed by the versatility of so many of the bassists here but also realize I'm more of a sloppy knuckledragging luddite than the average TB member.
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There's room for all of us here.

One of my favorite stoner rock songs "Road to Burn" isn't played perfectly by any metric but honestly that somehow adds to the appeal.
 
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#162
YourGuitarist said:
Very much truth to this, there is an increase in the speaker efficiency as the # of cones is doubled due to surface area and often halving of impedance. Not only that, but as speakers approach their max ratings, they heat up which increases resistance and decreases each individual driver's efficiency. Thus, the system is less responsive at higher volumes often denoted as thermal or power compression.

Another interesting tangent to this is that as the speaker heats up, its damping typically reduces, thus increasing the bass around the system's resonant frequency and reducing bass content below the resonance. This may be part of the reason why certain cabs sound boomy as they are turned up and why you may prefer the low end response of cabs that are dividing the load to more modest requirements per speaker.
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‘Thanks for your response. I can’t explain it, but I know what I hear. Thanks again.
 
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#164
Here's my "home rig": Obsolete technology and a cheap-o Franken-P because I don't know any better, but it sounds okie-dokie to me. Knobs on the P are probably WAO, the other knobs (like usual for me) are where I left them last time. I just twist when it seems called for.

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Live it would be a different rig, which varies a lot, and could be even more improbable.
 
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#168
YourGuitarist said:
Exactly, home playing typically follows what sounds good in isolation or turned up relative to the rest of the track while gigging requires the ability to both give space to other instruments and cut through with your own.

What changes to your settings do you typically make between gigging and home?
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Home settings really depend on the tone I'm chasing ie; ultra-funk, caramel-smooth jazz, mod garage...all different and all attainable. Live? pretty much everything on 11...the boys really like to throw down~
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#171
I have two practice rigs , this one is kept at my mother-in-law’s place , as we spend much of our time there looking after her. For silent practice I use the PhilJones BigHead with headphones , for low volume the Darkglass Exponent into a Phil Jones C2. I program the Exponent with a tablet , there’s about two dozen pedals and effects in the software. It’s fun to play around with this.

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At home a little Aguilar rig. TH350 into a SL112.

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I keep the rehearsal and gig gear completely separate. For rehearsals I’ve been running a Monique preamp into a Bergantino Forte. I use the effect return input. Most rehearsals are not loud , and a Barefaced One10 is more than adequate. For gigs I replace the Barefaced cab with larger Bergantino cabs. I have a 112 and 210 but rarely need both. It’s a nice modular rig using the various cabs.

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I mostly play blues and roots gigs , but also play in a little Latin project for fun. I play mostly electric , but also upright. I prefer four string basses. Most have flats but I keep fresh rounds on several. I generally look for an old school thump , something warm and fat. On the gig I usually have Monique dialed in and rarely touch the amp once my volume is set. The practice amp rigs are set to a very low volume. Sometimes I will add a NE-1 Nathan East parametric eq to fatten them up.
 
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Bigger practice area:
Mesa WD-800 into 2 x stacked Subway 15's.
Bedroom :
Traynor YBA 100 tube or Traynor SB500h into 2 x Ampeg 210av's
Basses:
-1975 Ricky with Rounds
-Fender Am Pro I Jazz with Rounds
-Fender Am Pro II Pre with Flats
-Hofner Contemporary Violin (with all German electronics) and La Bella flats
(The little Hofner into Mesa gear is unbelievable ..
I guess Sir Paul picked up some gear knowledge along the way ..lol ? )
 
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#176
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For the House I'm mostly playing to learn and practice songs and don't need much

Have a Rumble 15 which has Headphone out and Acc in which covers all uses I need. Play mostly 5 string now and while it sounds nothing like the Mesa-Genz Benz rig I use out it gets it done for under $100
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I have one of these, the first amp I've ever owned, and I find the low end completely lacking. Looking at an Ampeg Micro VR rig to replace it.
 

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