brandon

Would I have to convert it to an audio file first before inserting the bass amp and cabinet?

Thanks for clarifying.

No but I notice that the Bass P Lite doesnt have a great note range and find that I have to transpose my bass line by an octave to get it to work. Which is very odd.

Am with you there John. 25 years ago I recorded a few tracks in CPA9. In those days the FX that were available were basic midi stuff and some fairly decent (mainly 3rd party) reverb, chorus, compressors, flange, EQ (the usual suspects). There wasnt any mastering stuff 'freely' available to my knowledge. And when I first started recording, to me, the mixing was the actual 'mastering'. Now am not wishing to beat my own drum but the tracks I recorded back in those days, I simply couldnt (or wouldnt ) want to hear them in any other way. They hold their own (production-wise) with was available on CD at the time and as far as I am concerned as good as I want them to sound. And I put this down to the fact that, as there were much fewer resources available at the time compared to now, I worked with a handful of processors and got to know them really well. I didnt have the plethora of plugins available today, didnt have any choices to make with the occasional resultant wrong choice, and just got stuck in mixing the songs to exactly how I wanted them. And I used a set of headphones that cost no more than £4. And they sound absolutely fine on car stereos, CD players, MP3 players, active monitors, even smartphones. An additional problem is that having so many effects available can be tempting to use something unnecessarily and end up ruining what could have been a good recording. A lot of commercial stuff that has been available over the last 3 decades has fallen foul of over-processing/mastering. To the extent that the vocals can be lost in it (this could be a sign of my failing hearing however). Just an aside - I remember listening to songs on an old battery pocket radio with one very 'tinny' sounding speaker. And I will never forget when I bought the single Schools Out (Alice Cooper) and playing it on my stereo system at home. I couldnt believe there was an actual backbeat having only heard the cymbals and never having heard the bass guitar. Thankfully we arent recording for that era anymore and glad that the mono days are long gone! Just out of interest does anyone know if mono recordings and early stereo recordings mastered or simply just 'prepared' for radio/home systems?

Mine was more of a rhetorical question. No matter how many sets of speakers, buds, headphones or how many times you run your own mixed song through it will always be personal to you. And if you have hearing deficiencies (which you are unaware of ) and dont hear certain frequencies then the mix is going to sound different to someone with 100% hearing. I agree that for commercial releases you need someone who has form/a pedigree in that sort of thing. But for personal/semi-pro stuff then you rely on the advice of others. But they cant mix it for you so it can only be as good as what they tell you. Now if there was a piece of software that can 'balance' a mix (so to speak) i.e. make it so that someone with say 80/85% hearing perfection is going to hear every frequency at the appropriate levels then we might be on to something. I have no doubt such software exists but it doesnt get over the fact that when you do mix a song you want it to be as personal as possible. And no software knows what you (personally) want. Am sure we have all heard many successful songs and still find the vocals a bit muddy, or the snare non-existent or just a mish mash of instruments yet that same song could be flying high in the charts...simply because someone mixed it the way they wanted it. Interesting stuff ??

Just a quick one. How do i know I am using a Track or Project template? is the 'home' screen a project template for example?

I also find it interesting that we all have different hearing. And pick up different frequencies to each other. How then can we be trusted to mix and master when its our hearing that it is created for and not the masses? ?

Thank you and yes I noticed the slap and slide sounds. Where would i adjust the velocity for example from 118 t o110 as you mention as mine only goes to 100%

Sorry John when i said fretless bass I meant to say fingered bass -thats the sound I am trying to emulate. is that possible with the P Bass?

I couldnt get the Ample P Bass Lite to work for some reason. Downloaded it a couple of times but no sound at all. I use the Ample Guitar no problem. EDIT: I just got it to work. Do you know if there is there only one preset that comes with the free version or are there more hidden deep in the files that came with it? And do yo have any hints to get a decent sound from it? Thank you

Hi John -when you say dial in better sounds can you elaborate. Or do you mean from the drop down list in the softsynth? I am looking for a good fretless sound but wasnt happy with the preset in SI Bass. Thanks

Might I need to delete the TTS1 from the original project first or will it be subsumed into the new project?

I will certainly give it a try thank you.

Thanks for that Nigel. Although its a shame am also glad its not something wrong with my project. Might be a bit tricky to remedy it now. Do you know if there is there another way of doing this? Edit. I think I know the answer. Create a new project with one track in it. Add the TTS1 then copy the midi into the track and bounce it to a wav file then import that into the original project.

I have about 15 tracks in a project, mainly audio with lots of effects and softsynth drums and SI bass. Everything fine. No lags, no dropouts. The project is rock solid stable. an dplays everytime. I removed the SI Bass and replaced it with the TTS1 Fingered Bass and all I get is fatal errors everytime I attempt to play the track even when it is solo'd. Any ideas?

I used to love the manuals. Made great bedtime reading -when you finally got to bed that is!

I just wish Focusrite had alerted me to the VG Iron freebie. I had been very curious about it and now feel its a useful tool even just for getting ideas down and writing a score - if you are a guitarist you can then play what you have assembled. I wrote to F'Rite but got no joy (not that I expected to).

If you scroll to the bottom of the page below theres a place to enter email address for future offers. https://focusrite.com/en/plugin-collective

I just found out its easy to enter your email address and you will get notifications of future freebies. The Ujam was a steal - am peaved I missed it.

Thanks I seem to have missed it by a few days. which is a shame. I didnt receive notification from Focusrite for some reason.

Hi - when you say you downloaded it for free is it a demo version or the full working copy as I have Focusrite Scarlett(s) and havent seen this before?

It does now Reginald?

I missed that one completely Nigel; the gain level of the source track was set slightly higher. ?

I have tried bouncing these drums (SSD5) to an audio track singly (i.e. split) and as a full kit and the results are the same. i.e. a lower quality sound (dull/tinny almost) and lower volume than the original softsynth sound which is in my opinion very good. I have had no problems with bouncing to tracks with other instruments and wondered if there was something fundamental I was missing or might have overlooked.

Many thanks