I know this is an old post, but for recording at home, what I like to do is use a smaller Behringer board with an MXL990 mic, using the tape-out and an RCA to 1/8" cable into the camcorder or into my laptop. While the Sennheisers are good mics, for my money, they voice a little hot in the mid- and low-midrange. The MXL 990 is an inexpensive condenser mic with a FET preamp onboard. The Behringer I use (an older UB802) comes with built-in mic preamps. If you really want to get fancy, run a BBE Sonic Maximizer and at least a 2/3 octave EQ (mine's a dBx 215) in your send/return chain to really get some clarity involved in your recording.

Sorry so off-topic. Hope that helps.

I've never had much of an issue with the MXL990 and noise. I made a little booth with some acoustic foam and it quiets a lot of the reflections that add ambient noise and hiss into the mic. Might be something to look into. I see you have hard floors, hard walls and higher ceilings, which reflect a great deal of sound.

I like the Presonus tube preamps. Even the little inexpensive ones, for the price, do an amazing job. I get around it with the preamp in the mic and at the board, and if I need to, I've found a boatload of free processing tools to warm up a signal. About a year ago I got on the kick of seeing exactly what kind of quality I could get from freebie effects processing and you'd be surprised.

Oh, and congrats on getting a Silver Creek you like. What about the finish don't you like? It appears kinda satin in that pic, and I think that's kinda cool. I know that one thing about buying from Musician's Friend/Guitar Center/Sam Ash, etc., is that the instruments NEVER come set up. And some require a luthier's touch to correct some of the issues that happen at the factory. Even my Fender Jazz had issues I had to correct that were obviously never addressed when the original owner purchased it.

The guy I bought it from never set it up, just pulled it out of the box and played it. Decided he didn't like the way it played or sounded, and sold it to me. I got it for $200 (it was a blem, and has a lot of dings). A setup, a set of Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder pickups, and some cleanup of the wiring and it sounds amazing.

Here it is, BTW.

On the other hand, when it shows up cracked, warped and otherwise buggered up, there's not a lot you can do with that.

I toured with a PBass in the past. Loved it, the thing was a tank. I switched to a jazz, though, because of what I was playing, I needed the versatility. I do have a Yamaha RBX300 with P configuration SD Quarter Pounders in it, and it gets me close enough to the traditional PBass sound. I've been eying some of the re-issue PBasses, though.

I've only ever played two Gibsons, one a mid-70s Grabber (huge growly bass sound) and the other a mid '80s Thunderbird, but the bass I started on was a 1964 Epiphone Newport, that was modeled on the EB-0 with that big humbucker.

Now I'm down to just my Fender, my Yamaha and a Steinberger. However, you can never have enough basses.

I agree with a previous poster. We need to have a section of the board open for recording.