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jps wrote:Western Electric 639B ribbon microphone. I have some recordings that I did with it in the early '80s. Since these have a figure-8 pickup pattern I used two bass amps for the recordings, facing each, other with the mic in between them. One amp was my old rack system with a greenface Furman PQ-3 preamp and Crown D-150A power amp into a 2-12 Bullfrog guitar cabinet, the other was my former Traynor YSR-1 Custom Reverb amp into a rear loaded folded horn I built with a JBL 2225 driver in it. For one song I used the tremolo on the YSR-1 along with the clean sound of the rack amp. These recording were all done with the 4005WB that was sporting either D'Addario XLs or Reds.

FIREGLO67 wrote:

jps wrote:Western Electric 639B ribbon microphone. I have some recordings that I did with it in the early '80s. Since these have a figure-8 pickup pattern I used two bass amps for the recordings, facing each, other with the mic in between them. One amp was my old rack system with a greenface Furman PQ-3 preamp and Crown D-150A power amp into a 2-12 Bullfrog guitar cabinet, the other was my former Traynor YSR-1 Custom Reverb amp into a rear loaded folded horn I built with a JBL 2225 driver in it. For one song I used the tremolo on the YSR-1 along with the clean sound of the rack amp. These recording were all done with the 4005WB that was sporting either D'Addario XLs or Reds.

That sounds amazing! Have you got a copy of the recording? I'd love to hear it.
How did you find ribbon mic? Plenty of warmth and clarity?

jps wrote:

FIREGLO67 wrote:

jps wrote:Western Electric 639B ribbon microphone. I have some recordings that I did with it in the early '80s. Since these have a figure-8 pickup pattern I used two bass amps for the recordings, facing each, other with the mic in between them. One amp was my old rack system with a greenface Furman PQ-3 preamp and Crown D-150A power amp into a 2-12 Bullfrog guitar cabinet, the other was my former Traynor YSR-1 Custom Reverb amp into a rear loaded folded horn I built with a JBL 2225 driver in it. For one song I used the tremolo on the YSR-1 along with the clean sound of the rack amp. These recording were all done with the 4005WB that was sporting either D'Addario XLs or Reds.

That sounds amazing! Have you got a copy of the recording? I'd love to hear it.
How did you find ribbon mic? Plenty of warmth and clarity?

I will have to transfer the recording from a cassette I have of it (I also have it on a 10" ¼ track tape), I'll see what I can do. I thought the mic was pretty faithful to the sound I was hearing but with a tad bit of high end roll off. The bottom end was pretty monstrous.

pag wrote:Never mind give me the Rick acoustic....what about the bass....that Precision!!!....and the 4000!!!!!