stingrayPete1977

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1469812063' post='3101293'] A 3A fuse is not right for an amp that could draw over 900W. 240V * 3A =730W. I'd go for a 10A fuse as stated above. What is the rating of the internal fuse? My shuttle 6 has a T-5A internally and the max [i]average[/i] power is stated as 400W on the back of the amp. [/quote] Input and output wattage have nothing to do with each other, an Ampeg SVT 300 watt head draws 430 watts at 230 volts for example, them valves creating heat and light are wasting power compared to a modern high efficiency amp. A Crown 2500 watt PA amp will take 600 watts at input voltage.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1469883028' post='3101745'] Presumably you can enjoy an evening out whether you use a compressor or not? [/quote] I like an evening in unless I'm being paid to gig, I sometimes just sit in the house looking at my music stand and a Berlitz travel guide to Milwaukee

I'd carry an ampeg single handed to every gig before standing on a pleasure board!

When you can buy a perfectly well made bass for £300 these faults are a pee take for a grand, I blame Bono.

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1469868684' post='3101561'] The sad little gear snob inside me, does baulk at the thought of paying a grand for a MIM. [/quote] I think that about all these Mexican signature models, I thought the mex stuff was ok years ago for £4-500, I bought a strat for £459 when they still had genuine usa pickups, it was nice but not a grand or more, used USA just makes more sense to me.

Get yourself an Xair mixer, tops off the main outs with more control than you could ever wish for,subs off an aux out where you can control the sub mix beyond your wildest dreams,with full control over each active speaker like that you won't be able to get anymore from the speakers you have. Individual monitor mixes and an fx rack you would need a separate van for alone if you went analogue!

The problem imo is that in many venues trouser flapping volume is too much for the on stage mix, that gives the guitarist the perfect excuse to blast the Marshall, the singer now can't hear themselves so the monitors go up, more feedback and now the band is louder than the PA. The dog and duck and an 8x10 don't mix.

It's a bank of six SVTs with an Ampeg fridge for each one!

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1469792610' post='3101071'] Time for a revival of this thread and a list of participants! Current state of play is the following - feel free to edit adding your name and gear you plan to bring. 1. Bassace. Bryant Solo DB, Felix preamp, Puma 500 amp, Crazy 8 or OneTen cab. 2. Happy Jack (TBC). Andreas Zeller DB and a KK BabyBass (plus, if I'm feeling mischievous, a Takamine TB20) 3. Bluejay (TBC). Cameras and video equipment; I can bring a lefty EUB if anyone remotely gives a damn about it, if not, I'll leave it at home 4. Owen 5. Neilp 6. StingrayPete1977 Gedo DB half carved and stagg eub both with Spiro weichs. Yita carbon bow. [/quote]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1469619309' post='3099735'] I'm glad that you put a smilie at the end of that statement I might have thought that you were being serious. The "digital music revolution" has simply exchanged one set of "fat cats" for another. And i'm not entirely sure that it's a good thing. At least record companies had a vested interest in going out and finding new artists and depending on the budget doing some development and promotion - certainly far more than the average musician could do themselves. Apple and their like are simply distributers. They don't care what they are distributing so long as you are paying them (via an aggregator) your $50 or so for the privilege, and they certainly aren't going to be doing any developing or promoting of new artists. It might be easier than ever to record your album and for it to be available for the public to buy, but that alone doesn't mean that they are going to buy it or even know about it, when its up against 25 billion plus other tracks on ITMS... [/quote] Worse than all of that they force fed everyone with an Apple product the new U2 album, that surely was worse than the VW diesel scandal for pollution, noise pollution!

I think that's what you need, make a good starting mix into one 745 and save it on the mixer, adding more speakers on the gig should just make it sounds better! If there's something you don't like in the initial mix you will just be fighting it during the gig.

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1469777480' post='3100942'] RCF 745s and RCF905s. The gear is more capable than me for sure when it comes to good tone. [/quote] I'd be running nothing more than a 1x12, 2x10 or in ears with that PA, honestly you would need a very serious bass amp to compete with that out front, I'm talking like Flea's 7 cabs serious!

Has it really took you lot six pages to realise this is a troll? Lol It's not one of my own alter egos this time by the way

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1469723154' post='3100673'] on my fenders with the J retro preamp I've installed a micro toggle switch to isolate the battery. You have to remember to turn the volume down before using it to avoid the 'thump'. I prefer that to having a lead hanging loose & having to turn down the amp which is a double pain after a sound check. You soon get used to turning down the volume first. Another great thing is, if you use the bass in passive mode, I switch the battery off because it's still powering the amp even though it's not in use. If you decide to do it: use the switch to break the hot wire, It's the negative wire that breaks at the jack socket with most preamps so breaking the hot wire totally isolates the battery when the bass isn't in use. [/quote] It makes no difference where you break an electrical circuit, positive or negative, once the jack plug is out the negative is isolated and there is no potential difference for current to flow, switching the positive off will make exactly 0.0 mA of differnce compared to pulling the lead out

Yep, big modern estate pub full blast until 12, farm miles from anyone sound limiter installed, been there a few times.

[quote name='Sammers' timestamp='1469653411' post='3100148'] Yeah man, TC + Stingray = Awesome! What's up the neck on that red 1 though? Looks like a full Rosewood or Bubinga neck... or possibly a very dark roasted maple. Cool stuff either way! [/quote] I don't know looked like a status neck at first,are MM building him custom ones?

What does it do?

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1469698254' post='3100355'] You know, I was thinking about this statement - I can't actually recall a single instance where I have been at a gig, playing or otherwise, where a PA has failed. I've witnessed plenty of guitar and bass amp deaths though... and countless pedal board failures! Just how common is a PA failure nowadays? [/quote] We've lost a few passive tops over the years (speaker, cross over, bad connector)but carried on with just one,amps and pedal boards etc far more often.

You can always log into the xair mixers with any smart phone up to four users at once, being the bass player and organised I take my phone charger as well as my tablet and charger! I've actually got a Mackie pro fx mixer that I throw in for proper paying gigs as it doesn't take up much room and would work fine with our powered PA, I also take a spare micro head and all my amps have a di to go through the PA in an emergency if it wasn't already. I can't understand why people think a modern PA with powered speakers is more of a liability than a conventional PA, worst case scenario we could use amps as back line, lead vocals straight into a powered wedge pointing at the audience and finish the gig with the damaged speakers.

We take a spare marquee and electricity generator to every gig including a fully stocked bar, tables and chairs etc, we set up two stages and take duplicate instruments for each tent plus a spare PA for each tent, come on you are being paid guys!

Just because YOU didn't pay that price doesn't mean the seller didn't get the asking price, I wish I'd bought every 60s P bass on the market 15 years ago including the 'overpriced' wishful thinking ones!

Maybe his bass tech just paints them between songs? Route for the single coil behind the pickguard!

Lol

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1469644098' post='3100028'] Me too... I'll use it every day and expect to get 6 months plus life out of it... possibly a year but I'll retire the battery before it fails on me. I also have passive options on all basses..just in case. [/quote] I've only got one passive bass! Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder might be a stretch :-o [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-01/20150105_201850_zps9am97dvx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-01/20150105_201850_zps9am97dvx.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1469640875' post='3099996'] I'd do away with my rig if I was guaranteed a decent PA system and a sound engineer with good ears on every gig. The singer in the cover band has been using in-ears for his vocal which was an improvement for him, but as he is also the guitarist and the guitar wasn't in his in-ears he was "disconnected" from the guitar and the balance was "problematic" between the instruments. The other problem was, they ate batteries. [/quote] So he puts his vocals in the in ear mix but not his guitar? How do you do one of those head bang wall emoji things?! Lol