combo amps

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I don't doubt that you can get better tone from a good bass amp (and a good mic, room, and signal chain, along with good mic placement, room treatment, etc.) than you can from direct in the absolute sense.

In my particular case, though, direct sounds better - I have a some nice preamps (API 3124+, GR MP2-NV, even the TnC ACMP-73) that you can plug a bass right into, and they just kick the balls off my bass combo amp, even though I can put a decent mic in front of it and run it through one of those pres (my room sucks - that's prolly the main problem). I'm just sayin'... It's usually free to try out what you can do with direct using your *existing equipment* while you're shopping for a combo, so I'm urging you to do that if you have an instrument input anywhere. If not, then never mind :)
 
antichef said:
I don't doubt that you can get better tone from a good bass amp (and a good mic, room, and signal chain, along with good mic placement, room treatment, etc.) than you can from direct in the absolute sense.

In my particular case, though, direct sounds better - QUOTE]

Sure. I was reffering to guitars in my post about DI vs Amp. A lot of people (from what I gather) prefer to DI basses. I don't have a bass amp, so I'm stuck with it; like it or not. So yeah. Good point.
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Pretty decent bass amp, Jenny. I'd be happy with it, probably.
 
Jenny. said:
What do you think of this?

http://www.dv247.com/guitars/peavey-max-112-bass-guitar-amp-combo--34173

Jen.
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I have this http://www.thomann.de/index.html?partner_id=97926&page=gb/laney_rb3_richter_bass.htm.

I'm using it for pretty much the same purpose as the one you described previously. I think you can get a workable guitar sound out of almost any guitar amp, but in the case of a bass, you need something that bit bigger. The EQ is pretty responsive and the internal compressor functions albeit to a point (you'll probably compress at the mixing stage anyways). DI works well too.
 
In between DI and mic'ing would be the emulator?

For bass, I use a POD, or rather the POD Farm plugins as a Amp/Speaker emulator. The sound as a result is probably a joke as far as real recordings go, but for me and my purposes, it sounds infinitely better than just DI bass.

I know a few bass players and I asked them about how they record. I got told they both mic and DI and use a blend. They said the DI is "ok" but it lacks "punch" which is supplied by the mic'd cabinet. But also, that the DI supplies a tone that a mic'd cabinet can't supply.

FM
 
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