D-tox
Okay, I want to build our Drummer a SubKick as my bass Sound is now "in the bussiness"
Would it be okay to run it through my old 100w bass amp to give him some more lowdown kick...
AlanRatcliffe
Forget it unless you have a PA capable of going really low. A subkick is basically a big speaker wired up as a microphone to capture the really low frequencies that the normal mic can't capture and a smaller amp or PA cannot reproduce. To reproduce that sound you need lots of power (5-10X the power of your low frequency drivers) and speakers capable of going that low - which means a fairly industrial size PA with subs.
A good way to get the same effect (with no feedback) is to use a drum trigger that adds a sub sample to the kick tone. You can tighten up the tone by using the kick mike to trigger a compressor/gate with a sidechain. You can also take a feed from the bass guitar, drop it an octave with a pitch shifter and also key it to the kick with a comp/gate sidechain.
D-tox
mmm yea, it makes sence now with the big subs etc, thanks for the advise.. I'm just looking for options to help a fellow bandmember ?
Thanks allot
