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Another seamless bargain deal done. Everything you want from an online transaction. Deal with confidence! Shug

Plenty of wireless midi ovee Bluetooth soulutions if you did go that way though

Three Little Birds - Bob Marley

I had a deadish/dullish spot on a '79 Precision Bass - it was centred around the 2nd fret/F# on the E. It just sounded ponky and the F and G were just less dull. The notes just went quieter, too. Other strings weren't affected. Didn't seem to matter what I did new/old strings etc. nothing made any difference. All I really did was to subconsciously dig in harder when I was on those three notes. The was no recourse with Fender, I just put up with it until I sold on the bass and bought a Thunderbird and it became someone else's problem. It's the only bass I've had that had the issue.

For me, the reason I am using the MPC live is that I wanted something which wasn't an iPad to take live and use. OK, the iPad is more capable, but the live is a chunk of hardware with professional audio connections and thick rubber pads that I can press - if I kick it I will damage my foot. I already have an iPad for lyrics and controlling the mixer, I don't want to have to have another one for other stuff.

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I've shown this before. That's more the price, I reckon.

Shocking colour.

I have exactly the same, for the same reason, but using little black dots of the sort usually used to cover cameras on laptops. These can only be seen close up.

In general I am not a fan of passive tone stacks, much prefering active EQ sections. However, much like the AD200, the TB sounds so good at close to flat settings, the EQ can stay where it is almost all the time.

Yes I think I read it’s closer to 625W approx under test.

I'm eating my previous words as the SP 404 MK2 is currently on its way back to Amazon for a refund. It's not that it's a bad bit of kit, just that at £420 it is hard to justify when things like an iPad (or even a phone) are so good for a lot of this stuff nowadays. The 404 feels a bit like a throwback to hardware from 30 years ago. My iPad with Gagageband (free), Patterns 3 drum machine (£20), Koala sampler (£5), Synth One J6 (free), together have so many more features even just for sampling - like stems separation and ease of visualising and cropping samples, and is so much better for stuff like visualising and moving about drum patterns or full song structures or adding well featured synths etc. and is more portable. It's quite telling that a £5 app like Koala is includeded as a sort of partner product with the 404 as it basically mirrors almost all of the features via an app but then has additional things like stems separation and instant access to however big your phone/iPad storage of samples is (instead of the 16GB workably accessible on the 404 which you end up moving from your iPad or Laptop anyway if you want to do stuff like stems separation and file management). The obvious caveats are if you need to buy a Laptop or iPad and audio interface specifically for this then that is at least the same cost as a 404. And there are limitations to iPad/Laptop/Phone like not being able to finger-drum velocity sensitive pads or twiddle knobs - at a minimum something like a small Akai midi interface can do that for another £100....so the costs can potentially add up to a lot more than just a few apps. As far as using stuff like the 404 as a multi-fx though, I think I need to conclude that the best tool for Bass multi-fx are Bass multi-fx pedals! Even something as cheap as a Zoom B1-4 is much better suited to the job than things like a MPC or 404. ........Although saying that, I am now a bit 'iPad curious' as a live effects unit, I have it set up with my usb audio interface at home and am hearing no noticable latency playing: Bass Guitar > Interface > iPad > Garageband set to monitoring (with effects) > interface > mixer (and it works well as synth controlled by my keyboard). Is this perhaps a new rabbit hole of trying to use this iPad setup as my Bass multi-fx?!? I think it could work well for 'always on' type effects with it sat on my amp at rehearsals but the faff and cost of making it 'gig proof' and adding midi footswitches for live use probably makes it a no-go.