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Royal Blood? I've s*** 'em...

I use the same amps at home as I do on the loudest gig. 800 watts sounds fine in my front room. They all have a thing called a master volume.

So I got to play it last night for a few hours (more hours than I had) and it was hugely enjoyable. Did all of my new songs that I have to learn, and then went through whatever was next on youtube. Bad: The strings, they are not good, but I am not really holding that against them, my normal strings aren't far off half the price of this bass. As a result it sounds a bit scratchy and trebly - who knows, it could also be the pickups. It is a bit headstock heavy. The body is really light and the tuners aren't. Not a lot and nothing that would be noticed on a strap, but on your leg, especially considering how smooth it is, it does try and go headstock down. Obviously it hasn't been setup, and I haven't had a chance yet. The strings are too high, they can go down quite a way. The bridge pickup is way quieter than the front pickup, probably because the bridge pickup is miles away from the strings. I will do an adjustment today. Good: The body and neck are really smooth and slippy. Both matt (which is great), there is no grip at all on them, which is pretty good. Fit between the neck and the body is good. Machineheads tune fine, smooth, nothing much to say other than they are heavy. General fit and finish - I don't have any frets like the picture above, they are all very good (not like my rick, but that has a varnished neck, and this is unfinished). The ends of the frets dont snag or catch. The neck in general is lovely. Because I haven't put the strings down, I don't know how good it is, but it seems good so far. Knobs are good, no noise, turn smoothly and have an effect all the way through their travel. Haven't had a look what the electronics are like in there yet, probably won't unless there is an issue. Didn't get any noise, but my living room isn't that noisy in general.. Pickups, probably fine, they seem a bit trebly but that might just be the strings, hard to tell without having decent strings on it. I assume they are fairly generic. Bridge, BBOT, does the job, shiny, solid. Body. Can't get over how nice this is, very smooth in its oh-so-green, with a good grain coming through. Overall finish is very much like my Maruszczyk, but lighter - my Maruszczyk is chambered swamp ash - no idea what this is, probably paulownia, but more figured? Plastic - again generic, fitted well. Overall I have a great time playing it last night, it handled just fine, and I would happily use it gigging if it had another string. I probably will take it to a gig to try it live, but only for one set when I didn't need the other string. Will try it in the metal band in drop D. This is well worth the entrance fee.

Well damn, have I missed the boat in spectacular fashion - my first order from Thomann was in 2007

It's a tricky thing to get right. I really like simple analogue synth programming and the real-time morphing possibilities, as long as I'm working on a classic-style synth like an Odyssey or Minimoog, where every function has a dedicated knob/slider. Also that approach relies on keyboard as an input method as I can play with one hand and tweak with the other. Much harder to make that work in a pedal format - keyboard naturally has all that space above the keys. Assignable expression pedal is about the limit imo. I've not spent enough time trying to make sense of FM with the benefit of a good instruction manual, but it's certainly not intuitive like analogue. I think most users treated the DX7 as a tweakable preset machine and I expect that's how 99% of the FI4.5 users are going to approach it. Really looking forward to the release of this update! Though it's going to require me to make a new pedalboard, to fit it in.

what bass is this please? That's not very good is it, even for 60 quid

I am finding this with classical double bass. So much of it seems impenetrable and near impossible, but a few months later, I can breeze through it and (even better) introduce some personality into the playing.

My backup head is 250W and I wouldn't worry about gigging with it. In fact tonight I might gig with it, as a proof of concept/fire drill.

Hi all. I've been studying this diagram here: https://bartolini.net/wp-content/uploads/Docs/Electronics/EQs/NTMB-Mid-Switch-Configuration-Advanced.pdf I've got two position switchable midrange version utilising a push-pull on the midrange pot (as depicted in the bottom left). I get 800hz with the switch in normal position and 250hz when pulled up, bypassing the capacitor (well, bypassing it thanks to the switch and resistor setup). 250hz is too low to be practically useful I've found, or at least it is with the Q value of the preamp - it takes away too much from the bass frequencies when I cut it. I want to shift this up to around 350hz which means installing a 0.68uf cap in series when the switch is up... If I sever the jumper between the bottom two switch pins (the ones engaged when the switch is in the "up" position), and replace it with a 0.68uf cap... that would do this, yes?