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Just to make it clear - I'm not on any commission! 😇

Bought my G&L 5. Easy as.

It's the last few weeks of this year's abstinence thread and we've got @Bass Direct in here waving the wand of temptation at people. 😂😂😂

Last night was my first concert with Keswick Choral Society. Main Christmas concert. Full house. Went well, no obvious disasters! The biggest piece we did was by Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est which is a working of various Medieval tunes including Personent Hodie, Entre le boeuf, Gaudete, etc. This is a contemporary work written in 2007.

If it's a live brand it's a lot easier to send Behringer a cease and desist letter for using name and trade dress?

Welcome anytime

Just done 3 evenings on the bounce, which is quite different for me. Yesterday with my usual melodic metal band, Monday with the slightly more symphonic metal band I've been depping for the last year - but have very recently joined as a permanent member following the eventual departure of their existing bassist, and Sunday with a pub lesser-spotted-covers outfit involving the drummer from the former-dep band. The term 'my band' needs some clarification going forward as there are now three of them, but I'll go with it for now. My band hasn't had a full meet since mid-September due to various work and family bits, so it was nice to get back in the room for the last blast of the year. We have the local Metal 2 The Masses competition in early January (we enter every year; I can't see us ever winning it, but it's a bit of fun) so it was good to find that we could all still remember the songs. To quote our drummer, it's like riding a bike; you never lose the ability to fall off. Warwick RB Streamer LX 5 (passive) -> Joyo 5GHz bugs -> [Boss TU-2 -> EBS MultiComp] -> Mesa D-800 -> Barefaced One10 (x2) Also pulled my modded Harley Benton PJ-5 out of storage and played it for a few songs. It's far too good to just sit in storage so I brought it back home. My new band is a bit more organised and busy, so we had a run-through of the set for a headline gig next Friday. I need to do something about upping my ear protection as the rehearsal room is decidedly medium but with a large PA at play, and my ears are singing. I think part of the problem is that my usual vented Doc's weren't quite cutting it so I bought some new unvented ones in the same size.. but the material has changed and they feel just a little smaller so I'm not sure they're sealing properly. I'll have to buy the next size up before Monday, and also take my Flare Isolates just in case. Warwick RB Streamer LX 5 (passive) -> Joyo 5GHz bugs -> [Boss TU-3w -> MXR M87 -> Sansamp BDDI v2] -> TC BAM200 -> Hartke VX215 The covers outfit is very much just getting going and we're still working around some mismatches in musical taste. I'm travelling hopefully, but at the same time I've told them very openly that I'm not in music for money and won't give up my evenings to play stuff I don't like just because I'm getting fifty quid for it. We've got an initial twenty or so songs that are sounding decent after only a few weeks, but bands like that need a fair bit of material so we'll see how hard the next twenty are to find and take it from there. They're good lads, so fingers crossed. Fazley Piranha 5 (heavily modded) -> TC BAM200 -> Hartke VX215

1.25 m is a very unstandard measure. Use 1.00 m as a reference. Although your room has furniture, it is recommended to have a space that has minimal amount of reflections and reflective surfaces. They tend to boost suitable frequencies. Measuring a speaker, beware: the placement of the microphone can boost the low or the high end. You should have a calibrator to your system.

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On this topic - how do the various vintage BBs compare to the 734a in terms of feel or sound? I've been looking online at BB300s and BB450s lately and the 450 in particular seems like it would have a fairly similar tone. I've also been lusting after BB1200s online and whilst that only has a P-style pickup the few videos I've seen of people playing them, the tone sounds so growly and fierce, exactly like a newer 734.

This set is labelled and will work for your needs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Holmer-Nut-Slotting-Crowning-Luthier/dp/B08JGDN2V2

I might have to drive over and try that Rinaldis EVO FX5. I have absolutely no money spare, but I am really curious to know what they are like. https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/rinaldis-evo-fx5-pre-owned/

“I’ve booked a spa trip” pulls up outside bass direct ”it’s leamington spa”

And this classic:

These are Indonesian made.

And perhaps a bit unfair of me to want that from a £300 keyboard as it seems only more expensive ones that have it (seems I took it for granted with theCK-61!). Still though, it would be useful with the way a lot of people learn nowadays and play along to apps. Or even to just have an 'aux in' or bluetooth in would allow the play with other music - not a big deal if playing out loud as can just put a speaker nearby playing backing stuff, but via headphones it is an issue (and that still wouldn't do the silent 'Simply Piano' type apps that require audio out/back and midi for silent practise). The solution with the ES-60 I have at least just for having backing tracks through headphones is to add a USB interface (I have a Universal Audio Volt 2), send the audio to that from the ES-60 via audio jacks, the Volt converts it digitally and sends it to the iPad or Laptop etc which can send it back to the Volt along with the backing track it's running and I can then plug headphones into the Volt and hear both. As the iPad only has a single USB slot I now also need a USB hub (I'll get the one you mentioned) to also send the USB midi out from the ES-60 to the iPad - so it can recognise the notes being played silently (otherwise it usually works with the mic to detect what's being played loud). It seems to be a strange omission (or half omission) even with the £1,500 Viscount Legend One though as it has a built in audio interface that can send midi out via USB and can receive audio in via USB but cannot send audio out via USB: "USB to host port for transmitting MIDI data to apps on a pc, tablet or phone, which ALSO transmits audio, BUT: it only transmits audio in ONE direction (INTO the keyboard). I have NEVER seen THIS before; any other keyboard that has an audio interface built into the USB port will send audio in BOTH directions. So what does this mean? It means you only get HALF the benefit of a built in audio interface; and that is if you are using the Legend One’s keybed to trigger sounds on a MIDI app on a device? The sounds generated by that app will come straight back into the Legend one (and out of the Legend One’s outputs) without any lag which is really cool. And, you can also use this connection to stream audio into the keyboard as an alternative to the 1/8″ analog in port. The feature you’re missing though, is the ability to send high quality audio FROM the Legend One TO a device to record audio in a DAW, or for making high quality piano videos by connecting the keyboard directly to your phone; to do those things, you WILL need to connect your L&R audio outputs to an external audio interface like a Focusrite Scarlett (which then converts that audio to digital audio to send to your device)" https://pianotone.ca/viscount-legend-one-review/ .....that seems odd and I think it has more potential issues than they mention of recording videos etc. it means if you want to record the actual sounds of the Legend One to a Laptop then you must use an external audio interface. And it is an issue for other things e.g. using Simply Piano type apps via headphones, also for using an iPad/Laptop to live process the actual sounds coming out of the Legend e.g. receive the Legend One sound via USB and process the audio to add an effect then send it back to the Legend One via USB to then go out of its audio jacks or headphones. I don't think it's a deal breaker for me as that live iPad/Laptop processing potentially isn't really needed and adds latency and complexity where I could use Bass effects pedals for that sort of thing, and I have the Volt external interface I can use. Seems odd though that the Legend One has an interface built-in and yet doesn't have that audio out feature - like the reviewer says they've never seen anything do this half-thing, so fingers crossed a it isn't a hardware limitation or a deliberate choice and a software update might sort it.

Oh dear ….. I see financial damage in your future and I didn’t need a crystal ball 🤦‍♂️