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[ Follow Ups ] [ The Recording Website Message Board Archives (The Early Years) ] [ The Recording Forums ] Posted by JC on January 31, 2000 at 15:36:56:
In Reply to: OK, so just cank it? I'll try it posted by Silent Bob on January 31, 2000 at 15:06:47:
it's a mixture of all these things folks have mentioned.
it's vintage basses, tube amps (Ampeg with the fridge-sized cab that had the 10's..), great optical compressors, tape saturation, etc, etc.
a lot of the problem these days is that bass rigs- from the pickups to the amps to the speakers- are more accurate and have much better actual low-end than bass amps in the '70's had. Folks often forget how far basses and amps have come, even in 10 years, much less 20 years. In 1985 there were few basses/amps that sound as good as half of the inexpensive rigs sound today. I remember shopping for bass cabs that year and could only find two cabs on the market that would produce frequencies as low as 30 hz. Nowadays they are much more common... and to be different, now, you have to sound like what we were trying NOT to sound like 20 years ago... ayye! I'm getting all confused!
- optical compressors? how does that work? SilentBob 15:54:48 1/31/00 (0)