Nice to hear from you, Eliot.

Funny story about Tony Lavin. At my old studio I used to plug directly into the ADAT machine, not even through the board, and it sounded fine. At home now I go through an EMU mic pre. With my upright, I mic it through an ART tube pre. If I use my P bass knock off, I'll go through the ART to bring it up a bit and give headroom, but I don't add compression until the mix. At a strange studio, I might want a limiter or compressor added so I don't slam the track, but usually I'll go with whatever the engineer likes.

I also agree, a lot of tone is in the fingers.

All the Best,
Mike

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You have to practice improvisation. -Art Tatum

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You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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-niteshift

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