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So Santa brought me one of these little mixers. I've a little Alesis mixer that sits on my desk to drive my studio monitors and practice headphones. It has USB and I've used it as an interface but the quality is just not great, it's noisy and the mic pre's are really quite poor. Some of the pots need a clean too. So initial impressions: It is nicely made, solid case and all the pots are smooth with a nice feel, everything works as it should. Set up took a time, the handbook isn't much help and the only video's I found on YouTube weren't much help either. In the end once you've downloaded the drivers and the Flow app it starts to work. My iPhone worked out of the box but the IPad didn't recognise the mixer for a while and the windows desktop needed extra downloads. The bluetooth conections were problemmatic as most people have reported. It took me a couple of hours to get everything working as it should. The Alesis just kicked itself into action years ago but it's mainly analogue. The mic pre's are nice, at tleast on the two dedicated mic channels. It does have high impedance inputs ( I should have read the manual before asking Santa) on channels 6 and 8 so may do as a backup for my duo. The bluetooth is a problem, it took a while to pair the control app (the playback connection was better behaved) but playing bluetooth through the Flow 8 shows just how poor the sound is, very lacking in bass and over bright at the top. Playing music through the USB port though is great. Hopefully the D/A works well in both directions. The app control is pretty crude compared with my band mixer. Workflow is simple enough but the options limited and I've spent a lot of time pressing odd bits of the screen to find out how to unlock the next screen, there isn't a lot of consistency when switching screens. It's an odd little beast really, you can only access basic operations from the controls on the mixer and the fx are really modest compared with a 'proper' digital mixer. However there are physical sliders, Channel eq is better than most analogue mixers, you do have at least two decent mic pre's and all the basic functions I need are available to me including recording multiple channels onto a DAW rather than just the two I had available previously. All this in a tiny footprint and at a pretty tiny price. I'll do a proper review once I've used this for a couple of months

Hi, I go through batteries a lot (yes, I take out my cable when not playing) and am thinking about putting a rechargeable battery in and carefully routing an approriate USB-C extension cable through the body with the socket tidy and flush with the bass surfece, intending to simply plug a powered USB-C into the socket. It would be handy to simply and fully charge the battery before each gig without the faceplate screw dance everytime. I'd read before somewhere that for some the electronics within these USB-C chargeable 9V batteries can interfere with the active electronics. Has anyone tried this? The bass I'm thinking of doing this to is a Lakland JO5 with a East J-Tone (Volume / Blend / Tone). It's my main gigging bass so I'm being careful.

Someone's bought it, so eventually the bargain and the bargain-seeker have been united.

yeah that’s exactly what I fear, parting with something, regretting it, then searching hoping it shows up again… but it never does. I have that enough about things I should’ve bought but didn’t! I do agree, and I’m trying to be sensible! I owned about 5 acoustic guitars, sold them and bought one really nice one, that’s great for recording. Electric guitars I’ve whitled down to 4 different types (LP, LP jr, 12 string & a semi hollow body) I’m trying to take the same approach to bass but I find it harder! I’ll definitely always keep a T-40 for recording as they’re versatile. I’m currently trying to build an arsenal of different sounds, so I’m thinking about a fretless (T-40FL would of course be the dream!) and also a Bass VI. I’m struggling to let go though!

I bought my daughter a Boss chorus for Christmas. Playing her Jazz bass in to MXR overdrive in to the chorus sounded amazing.

An update... Late afternoon on Christmas Eve I had an appointment at the Fracture Clinic with a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. The cast was removed and more x-rays were taken, this time under load. The good news was that ankle joint/socket is all OK. Despite the significant amount of bruising, no other contributing factors were discovered. The tendons and ligaments are intact. I'm now in a boot splint rather than a cast and it is load bearing, which means I can sort of walk, albeit carefully and with crutches. Boot can be removed for bed - a huge relief after dealing with the cast. I was also cleared to drive given it's my left foot and I drive an automatic. Boot needed until about the end of January and physio will follow. I can now manage myself without quite so much need for third parties to lend a hand - I couldn't even make a cup of coffee last week.

Yes, KZs. I bought both to save on postage as they get different ‘reviews’ here. Both are ‘ok’ but they weren’t hitting the spot so I’ve also got senheiser 100s and am currently using them. I’d love something more custom but I’m not gigging enough to justify the outlay. The 100s are ok. The existing desk (zoom lt12) is great but only allows mixing channel volume. I expect if I could eq my bass for the IEMs separately to the FOH I’d like the 100s more…

I've had this a lot with various delivery firms... It basically means that they've received notification that this parcel exists but that they haven't been actually given the item yet. You'll get next day delivery after they've finally found and scanned the thingy!

Thanks guys

Thanks AI I’m seriously looking at getting one. I’ve been toying with the tech21 fly rig the gx10 and the Hx stomp. But what I need I thing the boss will be perfect, plus I can use it for my guitar when I dust that off from time to time.