For how long did Jet use the Pepe Rush cabinet for recording?
When the 'bass' version of the AC30 was available (to give the classic 'three AC30s on stands in a row' look on stage) did Jet switch to it for recording?
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MMStingray54 wrote:I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that Paul McCartney's bass may have been DId at least some of the time at Abbey Road - there again my memory may be askew or it may have been the later era - JimN??
JimN wrote:MMStingray54 wrote:I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that Paul McCartney's bass may have been DId at least some of the time at Abbey Road - there again my memory may be askew or it may have been the later era - JimN??
What I have heard is that Paul's bass was amplified in the studio via a Leak (hi-fi) amp, which would have been the doing of George M and Geoff Emerick.
Iain Purdon wrote:Again, I doubt that McCartney’s bass was DI’d in the 60s. There weren’t a lot of fundamental frequencies to be heard/felt.
Iain Purdon wrote:Again, I doubt that McCartney’s bass was DI’d in the 60s. There weren’t a lot of fundamental frequencies to be heard/felt.
MMStingray54 wrote:Iain Purdon wrote:Again, I doubt that McCartney’s bass was DI’d in the 60s. There weren’t a lot of fundamental frequencies to be heard/felt.
I've heard today that it's recorded that the bass began to be DId from Revolver onwards (1966). I'm surprised the Vox bass amp set up wouldn't have been used prior to this as well.
MMStingray54 wrote:One can only imagine the frustration playing through a 30 watt valve bass amp (the sound of which breaks up way before maximum output), competing to be heard in the mix with two 30 watt guitar amps and a drum kit, and without PA support.
When I played in such an ensemble in recent times I used a 500 watt class D transistor amp with 2 X 2 X 10 high output cabinets - plenty of headroom, but bass sound similar to recordings on less than half output/input volumes - and even then sometimes had difficulty hearing myself above particularly the rythmn guitar - bassists often moved to solid state amps from the 70s (eg J P Jones - Led Zeppelin with Acoustic) as they produce clean sound without break up until very high output (unless using something like an Ampeg SVT - hugely powerful valve bass amp weighing a huge amount - and getting there by brute power and not getting to the point of sound break up simply by huge power thus not needing to turn up that high!!)
Back to the Beatles and Shads - there would have been no need to run the bass amps at high volume for recording purposes so I can't see any reason why they wouldn't use them, miked up, to record (once they had them of course!!).
As far as DI for bass in the UK is concerned, much of what went on at Abbey Road with The Beatles, Martin and Emrick was ground breaking. Some of us take for granted the ability to plug straight into the desk, or live, use our line out amp facility to pump our sound straight to the PA mixer - back then they had to develop a DI. As I said, apparently started in the UK with the Revolver album (also introducing the Rickenbacker bass) - unless someone else has other info??!!
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