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Hi David, Thanks for this. I didn't quite follow your final para - grateful if you could clarify for me: If the singers are getting the pre fade signal in their IEMs (which as we have said will help give them a constant IEM level independent of any adjustments we make to FoH levels), but the fx/reverb is only being applied at the post fade stage, then won't the reverb be present in just the FoH and not in the IEMs at all if we set it to pre fade? If I have this wrong and the reverb will still be heard in the IEMs, albeit at post levels, when the IEMs are set to pre fade, this should actually be a decent compromise!

I don't do owt specifically to be gig-fit... However, in order not to be completely broken when I reach my late 60s (not too long now!) - also having two herniated discs - I do a morning routine of exercises involving crunchies, press-ups, Pilates stuff, Yoga stuff, Mars Bars and a Flake plus squats, some weights etc. And about 5 times a week I walk up our local hill, which is about 1000' climb. And when I can be bothered I go out on the mountain bike, and go climbing and/or mountain walking. Bass wise, I do various hand and wrists stretches as part of my routine, as well as doing an hour or so practice every couple of days.

I’m a little you get but the gym has been transformative for me. Especially as I was lucky enough to get a trainer to design a plan. Resistance bands, too, are really fantastic exercise.

That's a great deal. I owned an Ashdown EB 150, which was a beginners combo similar to your's, with a 15 inch speaker. I used it for years and partnered with another 15 inch cab it could be really loud. I still really like the Ashdown sound.

Hi Ian. Stentor make good, reliable and affordable instruments from what I can tell. I have one and it’s well built and sounds good. It’s limited in terms of the tone, but when someone with talent and skill (not me) plays it, then it sounds great. The pickup here is a good one and the bass looks in good order. The bodies are small which can be a blessing if you’re not as tall as me, but you may find the sound isn’t as strong or loud as a bigger bass. Set up is important. It may be perfect but more likely it’ll need a tweak so factor that in to your costs (and inconvenience). Looks good to me. If you want to play rockabilly on it I’d look for a more affordable and durable ply bass.

Thanks for the replies, as it is presumably the tips that cause the sound attenuation is it really worth spending a lot on iem headphones or should I focus my money on getting a selection of tips? All I really want is to be able to hear myself and to protect my ears from the loud volumes that are typical of playing a gig.

I'm afraid that I find exercise bikes deadly boring. I really need to get out on the MTB again, even if its just on the canal towpath. The trouble is that I find even the slightest hill a bit of a problem now. Lifting weights is the best thing to do, especially as you get older and you start to lose muscle tone and your bones become weaker. I pay £16 per month in gym fees these days, which I by any account is very good value!

Not posted on here for a wee while now but i've been using my WB-100 for best part of this year so far and i'm loving the tone with my Sandberg VM4 thru both my Mesa SW210/115 rig and now with the Barefaced 212 cab i bought few mths back. It was originally bought as a stop gap until i managed to get my Mesa TT800 amp but tried the WB-100 again early this year and realised i just love a full valve amp. One of the reasons i stopped using it was that i was getting a bit more distortion than expected and found the overall volume was limited because of it. What i found was that it was my pick up height that was the issue on the VM4. I dropped it a touch and the level of distortion appears to have almost gone completely except when really digging in. This allowed me to get the WB-100 gain up at a bit more and the overall volume is now more than adequate even for larger 200 seat capacity venues with no PA support. At the moment with the BF 212 my settings are :- Gain @ 11-1 depending on how i feel on the night. Bass @ 11 Mid @ 2-3 Treble @ 11-1 Master @ 11 - 1 Dave

Bargain that, well done!

Also, you’re on the IOW. Message me if you wanna try my Fender P5/Yamaha PJ5!

I like a Fender P5, and IME, they’ve been great. Rather than a super clear, solid low B, I’d say the B is uniform with the rest of the bass. It sounds like a P bass. It’s not a Lakland, and won’t have that B. I also have a 5 string PJ that I play with P pickup solo’d, it sounds great. But it’s not a P bass, in feel or sound.

Johnny come lately... the new kid in town!

Does it out you off the buyer though? It’s either going to be a complete chancer or someone who doesn’t really know what they have and have now lowered it after being made aware. Both scenarios I find off putting for a purchase.

MIDI over USB is not the same as traditional MIDI using DIN cables which is a peer-to-peer connection. USB over MIDI requires one of the devices to be the "host" This usually means a computer or a dedicated USB Host device. Unless either the Zoom or the MIDI foot controller are capable as acting as a host device you will need something between them to do the job. As usual Zoom don't tell you much about the USB MIDI capabilities of the MS60b+. Some of the Disaster Area pedals might work but the couple I had a look at don't appear to be host devices.

All Out Of Love - Air Supply well, that didn't last very long ...

So Ebay just e-mailed me to let me know it's now been reduced by £1,479.00 to 873.72. I won't be cracking the champagne bottle and reaching for my wallet JUST yet...

Lost In Love - Air Supply

Hi Al, That's not quite the full picture re reverb in the monitor sends. You're right the send to the reverb unit will be post fade - that's because we generally want the relative level of reverb & dry signal to stay the same when we adjust the fader for the main mix. However, each monitor output can still be set to pre-fade - so normal input signals will stay at the same level even when the main mix is adjusted. This does throw up the slight complication that the reverb that is being sent to the monitor will still be post fade, as that is where the FX unit is getting its signal in the first place, so if any big changes to the vox levels are made in the main mix, those will result in the amount of reverb in the monitor send changing too.

Bootleg Eagles. Fairly new on the block.

Do the Aguilar pick ups make a difference. ? Nice wee family going on there. I'd quite like another VM4 just for a change of colour. Dave

Is that your actual bass in the photo? If so it looks as though you have already tried a taper wound B-string. If not try one. IME The extra inch of a 35" scale bass makes little difference to the clarity of low B. What I have found that works are all the following: 1. A heavier string. 130 is the MINIMUM I would consider for a low B. If you look at string tension figures for those manufacturers that publish them, the standard 125 low B has a much lower tension than the other strings. 130-135 is a good compromise between getting a more balanced tension and for the string to not be too thick to make playing uncomfortable. 2. Taper-wound string. 3. Moving the pickups away from the lower strings. I'd drop it a couple of mm more from the low B compared with the height away from the G string 4. If the bass has a bolt-on neck making sure it is as tight in the neck pocket as possible. With the bass about a tone way from standard pitch slacken off the neck bolts about a turn. Then bring the strings up to pitch and once this is stable tighten up the neck bolts. This method uses the string tension the pull the neck as tightly as possible into the pocket. IME getting the best sound and feel out of the low B is all about neck stiffness and neck joint construction. You can't do much about the neck stiffness but you can make sure any bolt-on joint between neck and body is as tight as it can go.

Part of this comes down to how you view relationships online and with Basschat members. As part of a community here I’d consider people to be friends and expect them to treat me that way. (I remember when my band started. York5stringer gave me a £500 PA and told me to send him the money when I had it. That’s from a person I’d never met and had only ever interacted with virtually.) If you consider us all as individuals with a virtual relationship and no moral responsibilities to one another, then it’s fair game. Each opinion is valid. I subscribe to the former if I’m honest, but I’m knowingly quite naive.

This is true. It was my first time using this rehearsal space and when I entered and saw it I rolled my eyes before even plugging in. Big difference to the 90s era 50 watt Peavey I've used in similar situations that weighed an absolute ton. I think for amps that remain static for long periods (rehearsal rooms for example) more solid amps are the way to go.