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There's a really nice late recording, Joe Henderson Big Band from 1996 that I like.

Just about to light a barbie, so I'll put some sausage and burger music on. Which, today, is:

'hybrid' ... didnt spot that. Even nicer.

... I just noticed that's a Boosey & Hawkes Excelsior in my avatar. Doesnt go out very often these days.

Strunal make great basses. It's the same factory (in Luby) that used to make the old ply basses imported by Boosey & Hawkes in the 1960s (eg the famous 'Aria Excelsior'). I had a factory-new 5/40 some years ago, it had sweet tone and was built like a tank (in a good way). The sound mellows with age and use, so if this one has a few years in it that's not a bad thing. Pictures? I think the 35 denotes some concessins in accessories, so expect slightly cheaper tuners etc, but none of that makes a jot of difference if you're talking a 'starter' bass at good price.

My sire v7 has a good B think it’s 130 on a 34” a certain amount comes from the construction, strings aren’t the whole picture I play one for the ability to get more location options, it isn’t about playing low notes per se

I replaced my two One10s with a single Monza and I'm over the moon! The single 1x10 cab is louder, goes lower and beautiful punchy way, and has better dispersion than the two BF combined!

Man, they sound very very interesting, but €120 for a six string set is wild! Maybe one to add to the lottery win purchase list...

Does this make sense?

As a 4 string player, I would ask a question. When I did play a fiver it was to allow me to get to a D below low E. I never needed to play the the Low B as it is to far into the “muddy waters”. If you go through a PA, a decent sound man will HPF your sound to about 70 Hz, which means almost no output via the PA playing an open B.

Next doors kids screaming at each other over who's next on the paddling pool slide (extended 12" remix)

Cracking job looks brilliant now

Probably not.

dead letters - the rasmus

This is quite an investment & their is a steep learning curve to this particular pre..So i trust you get the best results for your outlay...( Take other preamps out of its signal path to hear just what it is imparting upon your tone)

That sounds like a best of both worlds scenario, thanks! So to summarise: by switching to pre fade setting for aux out: (i) singers will get consistent IEM volumes irrespective of what's going on with FoH volumes / adjustments (ii) singers will still get fx (reverb) in their IEMs, but based on FoH volumes, as fx is applied to the post fade signal. Is that a fair summary?

Hobgoblin is more your folk music shop - they do have acoustic basses (4 string, fretless and even a 5 string which they made for me). But they specialise in stuff that other shops don't stock: accordions, thumb pianos, erhu (Chinese violin), Indian lap-harmoniums, fretless banjos, marimba, chambord, bagpipes, and a couple of zebra-hides worth of African drums. If you haven't heard of it, can't play it, and don't need it, Hobgoblin stock it.

I bet he dines out on that! I really like Hobgoblin, but I have also been a bit disappointed the last couple of times I've been in one. I just felt a bit unwelcome. Massive shout out to Foulds in Derby. Great shop.

I usually spend at least an hour revising the set in the afternoon before a gig. So by the end of a gig day I will probably have spent close on 4 hours of playing. I'm wondering how many of us do 30minutes a day of practice.

Yeah, it's a little counter-intuitive, for sure. Your last line has it right - basically, all of the input channels feeding each mix can be pre-fade, but as the FX come post fade before they reach the IEM mix, they would remain post fade. So, if you turned up the vox in the main mix, the level of the dry vox would remain the same in the IEM, but the level of the vocal reverb would still increase in the IEM. Given that you hopefully don't need to make massive adjustments to vocal levels once the show is underway, and that the preferred reverb level is hopefully several dB lower than the dry vocal level in the first place this is unlikely to be a deal breaker, but it's an easily overlooked quirk that's worth being aware of. HTH, D.