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Come and pop in for a coffee mate... we have a pair of MS8000 into our X32 and it is sitting in my music room! MS8000 > 0.5m XLR/XLR to the X32 and the other outs to a 16 tailed loom/snake.

When it comes to construction materials, the ski is the limit.

Absolutely agree with you there, I can’t watch anything by any of them😬, but , and there is a but , I thought Scott’s interviews with Sean Hurley and Freddie Washington were great, I wouldn’t watch anything else though

Afternoon all, I'm having a first go with Newtone stings. Fitting a set to a recently acquired Tanglewood/Overwater 5 string. Newtone insist that strings suffer if they're cut before being brought up to tension, but how am I supposed to manage that? Uncut strings leave way too much spare to wind around the machine head peg. Anybody else come across this? What did you do? Cheers Phil

Bet it sounds cool! 😎 (I'll get my coat)

Just to tie things up; I received the CTS 250K mini-pot yesterday and installed it this afternoon. It has given the tone more top end than the 100 K volume pot but not a huge increase in volume. Comparing the two, I would say that using the 100K is a bit like having a 0.010 K capacitor permanently engaged. Overall, I think I prefer the 250K tone. It makes the set up a bit more flexible and IMO the DiMarzio P-127 set is a tonal improvement over the standard pickups. The bottom end response is improved and it just sounds more refined. I also sorted the grounding of the chrome covers and realigned the bottom, treble side pickup’s alignment. The bass is now quieter than it was stock, which is a bonus. Lessons: 1) It seems any standard P bass pickup set can be fitted under those chrome covers. 2) To keep the standard electronics, you would need a pickup set with 4 conductors; 3) If you decide on new pots, you will need mini pots: both Alpha and CTS do them; 4) You will need to enlarge the holes for the pots, if you go for CTS;

Wow, I see you did a lot of research! I bought the same pickup for my acoustic bassguitar, I will place the pickup on the damping rubber in the hole of the soundboard. I need to reduce the bottom part of the pickup where the mounting holes are. Do you have any idea how far the coil winding extends? I assume that the bottom protruding part (I mean the side without the output) is just the base without any components inside...thanks for the help W.

There are a ton of comments on here that while not irrational prejudices in and of themselves are legitimate and direct responses to irrational prejudices. All part of the fun in my books ☺️

Learning a scale is great, but how often do you actually play a scale in a tune, rather than as an exercise. Arpeggios possibly, but even then it surely depends on what you are doing immediately before it?

Thanks. Celestion hasn't been known for PA drivers for DIY but they're getting very strong in that market.

It has to be at least 30 minutes to earn any money!

I guess I'm just trying to take life less seriously in my old-fartdom.

Nicky Wire was a user of them for a while. Plays one in the Your Love Alone video, which is brilliant itself.

Thanks. I've never much liked clatter from the open E, and there appears to be a bit of that. There's some buzz from the open G on a vigorous bow stroke. Perhaps it could go a little higher...

Are you all saying these are irrational prejudices? If not, ahem…

Hi Phil, In answer to your questions, insert leads won’t work with the Behringer XR18, or at least not to the best of my knowledge. Based on our usual setup, I’ll need to split 12 channels so I was going for 16 simply because it seems to be a popular format and would work with two of those MS8000’s for a passive split. Because the venue hosts up and coming touring bands I will check with them to see if they can provide a split from their stage box before investing but I think the MS8000 route is the way we’ll go.

Halloween last night at Eventim Apollo. Amazing show, they were supported by Beast in Black whose drummer was energetic and dynamic. Great show overal , unfortunately I had to leave before they ended to catch train. So missed the last two songs. Halloween bass player was outstanding, whenever I see top ten metal bassist poll, he doesn't seem to get credit.

I can't help but think that you must be too loud. You don't need a sound level meter you can get free apps for your phone which will do a simple measurement. All you need to be able to do is to match the output of your drummer. Who may be too loud of course. At rehearsal you should be way below gig levels It's a problem with a lot of inexperienced bands, rehearsal is as often about getting out and making as much noise as possible rather than working on learning or improving new material. Bands playing flat out will damage your hearing. Measurements at Glastonbury showed Drummers experiencing 103db and most of the band 100db average levels. That's way above the safe levels where you would be wearing protective gear in an industrial site. You'll suffer permanent hearing damage in less than 15 mins at this level. Think about wearing in ears as soon as possible. They cut external noise by maybe 20db depending upon fit and when you get the mix right you'll hear everything better. It may be that your problem hearing yourself is that your hearing has been damaged at rehearsal. Hearing your self isn't just about volume, it is also about direction and frequency. Firsly make sure none of the guitar amps are pointing at you. They are very directional and should be pointing at the guitarists ears, usually they are pointed at the back of their legs or at some other band member who doesn't need that much guitar. Secondly point your own amp at your own ears. Speakers are very directional, like a torch beam so standing off axis is standing out of the beam. Secondly the frequencies you need most are the mids boost these. Most amps have artificial boost of the bass and treble to make them sound better at low volumes in the showroom. Cutting the bass also lets you use more volume as the bass is soaking up the power and moving the speakers into distortion. Cut the bass and treble. Mainly though get the others to turn down and the drummer to back off too if they are too loud. My guess is that none of you can hear yourselves well and each of you is edging your volume up to emerge from the overwhelming noise level. Basically you are all fighting a volume war. Our ears aren't designed to work at the volume of a Rumble at full volume and they don't hear well. Keep going and that will become permanent.