phairphunk wrote on Wed, 15 December 2004 13:20 |
I don't have the RBI, I just have the little pedal Sansamp, but I refuse to use any other sort of DI when I track.
As a bass player, I'm in the process of updating my rig, and the Sans is going to be my pre. Just that into a power amp into a cab.
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That's what I do right now (except I use the sans amp
pedal into a mackie 1400i into a hartke 1 X 15" XL cab). It sounds great, but I would like to save up for the rackmount RBI version, so that I can tweak the mid's.
As for the original question regarding Bass plug-in's.. I don't really deal with plug in's since I track/mix with a mackie d8b/MDR. The only plugins are in the d8b and they are fairly basic (i can't find/afford the UFX cards, only have MFX). I generally run the bass (through the sansamp and/or a UA 2610 preamp which sounds PHAT). This preamp sounds amazing on everything from bass (direct), guitar cabs, overheads, kick, snare, piano, vox, etc..). this is our main "go to pre" at my studio (of course we only have one other pre a dbx 576, so it's kind of a no-brainer!). hehe.
i would like to pick up a dbx 160x rackmount compressor for tracking, and a UA1 PCI card for mixing (that would entail flying the tracks back and forth from the MDR to the PC, but from what i've heard about the UA1 card and the 1176/LA2 comps, it would be well worth it).
peesow,
tom