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There's a ton of sheilding paint. The shaft is 25mm long, 8mm dia? and the knob is 6mm dia. 150kohm linear. I've looked everywhere and even thought about putting a short shaft one in and putting flying leads in, but there's not enough space. The one I ordered ended up being 6.5mm dia. It's 25 years old, and it's done its work. These things don't last forever. Cutting my losses for the sake of £30 and a half hour swapping over.

Out of curiosity, how is the body size on these? Is it closer to the Ibanez SR or to a Jazz bass?

I used the Nux 5.8 one for a while, but for the amount of gigs I do I moved it on and just went back to my trusty old BOSS WL20, any issues I`ll swap to a lead.

Xvive A58 Guitar Wireless System review | Guitar World Nice little review on Guitar world - pretty positive

That would do it Even with horns the output off axis would be reduced a little, below the crossover point of course you are getting sound from the woofer and with an 8" speaker the crossover point could be as high as 3kHz, most of the midrange which is essential for speech (and presumably singing) is below that. I noticed the other day that your feedback is very high frequency and seemed to be over a narrow band. Given your singers very random approach to PA in general and eq in particular I dismissed this at the time as operator error but some horns have quite sharp resonances due to phase problems in the horn. You could try and locate that frequency and filter it out alternatively turn down the top end a little and boost the mids. Either way you need to get the monitors pointing at your ears. Get some wedges sorted to put under them for next week. Which mic does your singer use? If it's a cardioid like the SM58 then make sure the speaker is pointing down the gun barrel, at the back of the mic, if it's a super Cardioid like the Beta 58 then the monitors need to be slighly to one side, roughly 135deg. Some mics are better at rejecting feedback than others so that is worth a look too. Then there are the human issues. He needs to trust that you will do everything you can to sort his problems but he needs to talk to you. It should be simple enough to explain that if the microphone is at the point of feedback then he simply can't turn it up. You have to turn something else down, so ask him what he can hear most loudly in the mix at that point and turn that down. That might in turn mean adding something to the FOH but that shouldn't be a problem. There could also be problems with his mic technique, moving closer to the mic will give him extra volume without extra gain and feedback problems. The other problem may well be hearing loss, everybody our age has it and people in bands usually worse than average. I struggle to pick out conversations in noisy rooms and he may be struggling to pick out his voice in the mix, especially as the band get louder and he gets tired. Again it's mid range losses that are the problem so boosting mids in the monitors will help. If he's ever had a hearing test and knows what frequencies he needs more of then that would help Another idea to help might be to consider side fills as monitors, hide your monitors behind the PA mount them on stands at head height and point them across the stage. This works well if you have super cardioid mics whch are less sensitive to sound coming from the sides.

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Cheers Bas. Yeah, I didnt mean I thought I needed the case for it to work, just that it's not a feature I care for. We have loads of USB C ports with us so if I need a top up im already covered. Id rather not pay for something go dont use. I too am a fan of the Xvive, I still use my 2.4ghz system at home sometimes, although I do find I get quite a few dropouts. It's well made and compact. The A58's seem to be a good upgrade but I dont see much written about them.

just ordered a WS-70 off Aliexpress, for some reason the amount was down to £8.36 by the time I paid for it, I'm wondering what the catch is 😂

Hadn't come across the Xvive A58 - looks like new kit out this year with good reviews. I'm a fan of their U4 for IEM's. They do look quite bulky though! Btw - if you don't want to take the Nux case to gigs, there's nothing's stopping you leaving it at home - it's just there for convenience and doubles up as a back up battery pack. It's also available in 5.8 GHz.

I've edited that post as I have no experience of Entwistles so can't confirm if they're adjustable or just for show, best message them to confirm. I think Retrovibe also do adjustable J pickups.

Thanks Lemmy. The Entwhistle pickups are particularly cheap, definitely worth considering!

Bought a brand new RH750 about 5 years ago after seeing good reviews and being very pleased with my Classic 450. After two gigs the knobs fell off (known issue) and now after only a handful of gigs ( use iem and no amp 95 percent of time) it lost power and sounds like 30w if that. Yes it had been cared for and carried on a padded case etc etc. Looking at comments now suggest it was never 750w anyway and many reports of unreliability. TC have now discontinued the range and probably with good reason, ruined their reputation to me, would avoid TC products, shame as they used to be world beaters. Terrible customer service, well zero as they never respond 😂.

All J pickups should have adjustable pole pieces IMO, been a few times where I've struggled with the A on a 5 string. Btw if the pole pieces on your existing pickups extend down below the bobbin base you may be able to tap them up to create a radius, I did this on my old Nordstrands (after getting the go ahead from the company) and it worked a treat. Entwistle pickups look to be adjustable if you're after for a cheap but good option, again I'd message them and check: https://entwistlepickups.com/alan-entwistle-bass-guitar-pickups/

There’s not really any point in further comments until you post a clear picture of the setup. It will be helpful to see a clear, top-down, image so that we can trace the cabling etc. Si

Probably one everybody knows but for tapping out tuner ferrules/bushings a suitable sized socket from a socket set is ideal.

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Spirit of Vintage now £44 (+ £10 postage) at Thomann

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I've ordered the Artec now, ETA 12th Aug, will let you know how I get on. 👍