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I can't answer that it all depends upon where you are going to use them and how they are used. There's no reason why they shouldn't sound the same at low sound levels. However making loud bass is af everything else is equal question of shifting lots of air and a big piston will outperform a little one if everything else is equal. Thats about cone area so you can work it out . Roughly thats 250cm^2 for an 8, 530 for a 12 and 850 for a 15. That's comparing like with like. The rcf 702 gives 129db, the 705 gives 131db and the 905 133db in their spec sheets. You'd have to decide for yourself whether the extra 2db or 4db would be needed. Remembering also that 2x 12" 702's are £1470 and 1x 905 is £1150. The 12's weigh in at 42kg and the 905 at 31kg so tht is a factor too. I doubt that in practice a single 12" sub would outperform the 12" speakers in your ART 932's, so I think only a pair of 12's make sense

wow how did you get it for £63? I just went on site via link and with the discount code it came to £151. I’m always late to the party 🙈.

Hey Jack, picking up that bass was a good move. Here's to the next 1000.

I've been gigging for over 40 years but I don't understand compression. I've used it in front of an octave pedal, to make the octave pedal track better but I'm not sure it worked any better (it was in the early 90s)

That's what I was reading too. Fred and some of the other guys from Peavey are regulars over there and actually did quite a bit of Q&A with Trace enthusiasts while they were developing the TE-1200. I think an 800W version of the head is the sweet spot - sell it for under a grand, then make some cabs that you don't need an enormous car and roadies to move around, and they'll shift a lot more of them. Assuming they can sort their distribution out, obviously...

Tbf - the HX Stomp should also be fine for use on guitar. But I think the GX10 will be excellent - I've always found the Boss sound to be better / less harsh tonally "out of the box" than the Stomp when gigging with the guitarists I've worked with, some of whom have been on Helix and others on the Boss multis, and the form factor with its decent size colour touchscreen and built in expression pedal on the GX10 make it really easy and fun to use.

Just in case you’re wondering what other earth-shattering events took place on that fateful day, here you are: Key Events & Themes: Austerlitz Reenactment: Thousands gathered in the Czech Republic for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz. Ebola Discovery: Scientists identified fruit bats as animal reservoirs for Ebola in Gabon and Congo. China Tax Abolition: China announced it would end its national agricultural tax in 2006. Hurricane Epsilon: Became the 14th hurricane of the record-breaking Atlantic season.

I’d fallen out of love with pop music in the mid-80s and simply stopped listening. Until my daughter started playing ‘her music’ in the car on long drives, I’d never heard of Nirvana or Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Lenny Kravitz or … or … or … But that’s OK. I’ve spent the last 20 years playing almost exclusively the music of 1955-85 and I’m really very happy with that. I haven’t yet played my 1000th gig but it’s getting closer – two or three more years should do it. It’s hard to over-state the impact that Thursday afternoon was to have on the rest of my life. I didn’t have a clue at the time, obviously, but that decision to go up to my daughter’s bedroom led to a new interest and obsession, an entirely new friendship group, a divorce and a re-marriage, early retirement and a new career. Oh yes, and Basschat.

December 29th 2005 was my 49th birthday. I took the family out to a nice restaurant for a celebratory lunch, had rather too much to drink (yes, we walked back), and by mid-afternoon I was sitting in my study when I remembered the bass. I played honky-tonk piano as a teenager and the cowboy chords on guitar, sang in several choirs, so the musical background was there but it was all 30 years in the past and included no bass EXCEPT I’d always sung along with the bassline of songs. While my friends were miming Paul Kossoff’s string bends in the solo to All Right Now I’d be going “ba-bum da bum-bum bum-bum bum-bum” with Andy Fraser – stop laughing, you know the bit I mean. The bass was a Dean Edge that my daughter chose at Macari’s in Charing Cross Road – I took her there specifically because of the Beatles connection. I remember almost nothing about it because I traded it in p/x for a Hofner 500/1 1963 Re-Issue within a few months. The practice amp was a generic, lightweight thing with (IIRC) an 8” speaker. At the time, and in my tiny study, I was impressed with how loud it was. The tuner was one of those Korg plug-in types that everybody used in those days and carried on using until a year later, when the clip-on tuner exploded onto the scene. And the teach-yourself book? Well that was by Basschat’s very own @Stuart Clayton … Crash Course, and I can still remember (and play!) that very first bassline. My intention was solely to be able to play along to my favourite songs, especially Macca’s basslines for The Beatles. I had genuinely no interest in playing with others, still less being in a band and performing live on stage. I hadn’t been to see a band play live in years at that point (family, career, family, career) and the only pubs I ever went into were the newly-invented gastropubs for the occasional Sunday lunch with my family.

Twenty years ago today, pretty much to the minute, I started playing bass guitar. I went up to my daughter’s bedroom, picked up her bass and practice amp, guitar lead and teach-yourself book, and carried them all down to my study. Plugged it all together, tuned the bass, opened the book to Lesson #1 and started. Just like that. There’s a back-story. Obviously there’s a back-story. As a pre-teen, my daughter was one of those annoying people who could learn any musical instrument without any apparent effort. She was also even lazier than me and would abandon said instrument as soon as anyone suggested she put some work in and get really good. By the time she was 12 she had already been through flute, piano and guitar and then she announced that what she really wanted was to play bass. So I tole, I dun TOLE that girl, I’m getting fed up with this and I won’t keep doing it … if you do the same as you always do then I’ll come and take that bass and I’ll learn to play it myself. You know what she said? “Yeah right, Dad, like that’s gonna happen.” So she played the Badass off that bass for a couple of months (Blink-182 and Green Day, mainly), then put it on its stand and abandoned it. That would have been about October of 2005.

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…