stingrayPete1977

Have they got someone lined up for the live shows already? I see you were meant to be doing the yellow bus gig in a couple of weeks.

That's brilliant!

Wireless is ok but you need good clean air or the heft and smothness gets blocked, Ace of Spades with a room full of smoke from grilling bacon sounds brilliant though!

I know it's tongue in cheek but that's still not adding anything. What would you know about cables anyway? My OBBM Speakon is still going strong after about 8 years

As I've said before the cables can't 'add' anything, there's no debate/discussion to be had, if the silver cables make it sound smoother then they are removing something.

Maybe Bonio has used his tax dodging skills to help keep Fender going whilst still in massive debt?

I'm keeping my fat one

There's quite a few of us here with the Yita carbon bows off eBay, I've heard much better players than myself use them including mine and they made them sound great!

I'm not sure I'd delete my bass tracks, as long as you get the credit does it matter?

Certainly different from your normal pub band! I'll let you know what they are like.

Yeah great era and some cool bands with that sound. We're off to see The Soap Girls this weekend which could be interesting, definitely a touch of Hole about them.

Oh no you used "ohms" instead of Hz, TimR will be all over you, lol.

A clean earth is used to protect devices from noise from things like motors from fridges and vacuum cleaners, it will also protect the equipment from a surge on the earth during fault conditions from another item fed from the same distribution board..... But... They are almost always wired wrongly, you need a clean earth socket outlet that separates the earth to the pin of the sensitive kit from the socket pins and general earth in the building, a single cable should come from the fuseboard to the socket and the earth used for the kit, the other earth run along just connects the pins and back box etc straight back to the fuseboard. If you have a standard socket it isn't doing anything no matter what your ears say. In a domestic setting with one fridge and one freezer I'd wager no difference in the audio system, as for 6mm over 2.5mm cable that's 100% nonsense. Btw I'm a an electrician that wires these systems regularly, I've just finished two state of the art IT rooms at a school last week, they have dispensed with the clean earths other than to the network hubs, and the hubs feeding 70 stations are wired in 2.5mm with a 6mm clean earth, to a normal pointless socket outlet

You can't go wrong with a bog standard 3eq Ray, not too flash but at the same time still a serious professional bass suitable for any genre. All mine have maple boards

Rockier and more rock than the Beatles that's for sure.

Surely they are the original Pop band? Pop acts still do a mixture of rocky stuff,dance music,rap and ballads etc to this day.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1510337599' post='3405788'] Phantom power is used to power condenser mics. Some equipment will ignore it. Some will go up in smoke. [/quote] But that would go to the xlr input for phantom mics as you say not the instrument input on the di box?

Tbf I'm not sure all ampeg heads have a DI on the back so the sound crew might have had no choice, still not great putting the phantom up you though. I'm not sure that's supposed to happen either tbf, the phantom should just power the di box to save batteries afaik?

It would have blown your amp up instead then in that case if they'd done the same after you insisting putting the xlr in your di?

I wouldn't call the Beatles a rock band.

Depends how good your foh speakers are imo, I've got no subs but the tops are good and can handle bass and kick drum without the need for subs or at the cost of the vocals (that's why we bought them), lower stage volume and a more even spread of your bass sound especially the mids and above is better than trying to have back line at foh volume, many people here disagree.

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1510312642' post='3405482'] A digital mixer that doesn't depend on Wi-Fi is the answer here. I use an Allen and Heath Qu, on which you can control everything manually if the iPad fails. [/quote] He's saying the actual desk wasn't putting anything out of the Mic channels though regardless, that's either a faulty desk or user error nothing to do with digital or analogue.

Have you got a pre/post switch on your amp next to the di?

Some people, normally guitarists, bring too much stuff, tool boxes, brief cases and bags for life with god knows what in, a stool and an amp stand etc etc etc. One bag with my leads, tuners, strings and tools in, an amp and possibly two basses,done.