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Neil C

Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 04:25 pm:

I currently use a Line6 Bass Pod, which I then put through a Joe Meek MQ1 (just to boost the slightly weak signal from the pod) which then goes into my PC.
I've never been totally satisfied with the performance of the Bass Pod.
I've recently heard about the Sansamp bass driver, and have only seen excellent comments about it on the internet.
Is the Sansamp suitable good for dub, and do you think it would improve my sound? (you can hear my current bass sound at http://www.soundclick.com/bands/4/vitalfeedmusic.htm
Yohombi is the dub track)

Thanks.

Mike Zee

Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 06:00 am:

Neil, well..I was thinking for a while how to sort of answer to your question... I ..heh heh .. I have to shortly say: "NO, replacing your recording set-up with SansAmp box will not improve your bass sound".
now, having said this ...I gues I have to go to long long explanations etc... but. really, since your are an experienced bass player, you know it yourself, that recording bass is a very triky thing and includes many components and variables/options and personal preferences as well, including actual playing techniques. Same as with guitar recording.
In general, as I know, professionally bass is being recorded directly through preamp/di into mixer/recorder track PLUS what ever extra tracks the producer may come out with, such as micing cab, plus wet track through effect/drive/distortion etc etc what ever effect may be there..... and then , later when mixing the complete band, the producer tweaks the combo out of these recorded tracks...to get the best to producer's ear result of bass sound against (withing the mix) the rest of the band. You see, great sounding bass line alone does not really mean much, because when you mix it with other instruments the bass must has its 'CORRECT' place... and there's absolutely no way to predict it how it is going to be, until you actually have everything recorded and seat down with fresh head to do mixdown.
Now, so as you see, you've got pretty good quality '"direct" bass recording tool... maybe it's the best in its price-zone. Well, it's digi-toy in a sense. So what? Well... this depends..I guess.
SansAmp DIbox is a sort of unique thing...it's analog specific driving/DI box which sounds pretty damn good as is.... but that's just what it is..nothing more than that. You'll get a nice tone with somewhat tweakability. You can work with it for a while and maybe find the great way to get what ever you desire (subjectively). I think the main key for recording bass is to capture the 'best' possible basic tone and then apply wet/mic(ed)/effects/eq etc to get overall great mix with the rest of the band. So DI box of good quality gives you this basic step, but this is only a portion of the process. And BassPod also gives you this tool, well, plus you have much more options there, with only cons that they are digital (and then it's depends on how much you hate digital modeling ..heh heh ) If digital nature does not bug your mind...then you are fine. If you producing your tracks with some computer-based recording environment, then you should not worry about it.
...okey, blah blah....
If I actually had the pod or samsamp myself, I could go into specifics... but I never had them.
Here's a long topic at fender b-board: discussion on pod and other
Also browse through this forum, especially in bass/amp topics...there's allots of informative stuff there. This board is large and pretty fast moving...there's tone of conversations there, sometimes hard to find.

/respects,
/Mike Zee aka DrZEE

Neil C

Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 03:28 pm:

Thanks for that Dr Zee, much appreciated.

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