mcnach

2 hours ago, solo4652 said:

So, it's a done deal. Latest message from drummer: "Thanks for looking into things Steve. I’ve built a few PAs with IEMs in them so I’ve got it buddy. Just trying to work out the most cost effective architecture to make it works for us so we can all opt in or out of using them. [Myself and guitarist] will [pay for it] between us. If you could just check your Di out and let me know what type of plug it needs I can take it from there." Currently, I don't use the DI on my head. Not sure I want the added complexity and faff of that.

It's literally just a cable from the amp's DI to the mixer, you don't need to do anything else if you don't want to go IEM. You carry on as normal, but they can get your bass in their IEMs, nothing more complicated or sinister than that..

On 19/01/2024 at 14:07, Greg Edwards69 said:

One of my band's guitarists has just bought an Allen & Heath CQ18t. Not had the chance to play with it yet but I've been exploring the tablet and phone apps, as well as reading up on the specs and it looks darn useful and easy to use. 

 

It's similar in design to the X-Air and X18 in that it's a combined wifi-enabled stagebox with a touch screen, with 6 aux send for personal monitor mixes, not to mention built in effects.

 

One of the issues many X-Air owners have is the wifi is a bit unreliable and resort to using third-party routers. Allegedly the A&H router is more reliable.

 

There's also apps for both iOS and Android, for mixing and personal monitoring, as well as windows and mac.

 

I know it costs more than the Behringer, but it might be worth a look anyway.

Hi Greg!

You are right, it seems like the built-in router is not reliable and I've heard similar stories about some other mixers (not all!). However an external router doesn't cost much and it'll all be in a rack case.

That A&H mixer looks really cool! It's a bit more expensive but it has a touch screen already and it looks like it can record each channel in a separate track for processing later, directly on the mixer rather than having to plug in a laptop to it...

Hmmm... Something to think about, it definitely seems more user friendly. Thank you for the heads up, I would not have thought of this one if you hadn't mentioned it!

On 20/01/2024 at 22:46, tauzero said:

 

I have an XR12. I use a Nokia T20, and have an elderly Huawei 10" tablet as backup. At the last gig, I started losing connection with the 5.8GHz router I was using, so I switched to the XR12's internal wifi for the rest of the gig, which worked fine.

Somehow I missed the replies to my post... and guess what? I've got a Nokia T21 now  

Refurbished from Nokia directly, £107 total. It would be rude to pass it

I don't have the XR18 yet but I have been playing a bit with the apps. Mix Station looks great, and when I found it wasn't free I was "of course, here we go" but it was something like a fiver or so, well worth it, although it's going to take me a while to figure things out. The XAir app seems a bit simpler at least for the basic functions, it would be perfect for each person to adjust their own monitor mix with it.

10 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

 

I know what I mean anyway 😂

As long as you do!

On 26/01/2024 at 15:30, Bassman53 said:

I play round wound on electric bass, just got a double bass with flat wounds , should I use same type strings on electric bass as upright, why or why not?

Personally, I'd be looking for different sounds from those different types of instrument... so I don't see a reason why the strings should be of similar construction. They're independent.

On 26/01/2024 at 08:03, OliverBlackman said:

No median would be the average that increases most from inequality. Still, not a discussion for this thread although I do believe that’s a reason why there’s a market for £5k+ basses.

Hmm, growing inequality in the form of the top % earning more, relatively, means that the average will be pushed up a bit, but the median will likely remain similar or even decrease, no?

On 27/01/2024 at 09:07, Rodney said:

Just had a friend solve this for me. While the amp has the variable line output via the dial next the power button, you must still have the gain up and mute the speaker only from the master control. Seems a bit strange to have variable line level in itself and then make it dependent on gain level too but that’s what it is. Regards

Seems logical, that's the input gain control, if you turn it to zero...

4 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

 

Where's the line between "a decent bass for the price" and "a decent bass"?

To me a decent bass is one that works the way it's supposed to, reliably. Just that: a bass I would be happy to gig/record with.

On 23/01/2024 at 12:45, asingardenof said:

"Decent" is very subjective though. You could buy what I consider to be a "decent" bass for a hell of a lot less than £1200.

Indeed.

Yes, prices have gone up a lot in the past few years, but at the same time I don't think there's been a better time than now to buy a cheap instrument that is also decent.

I'm going to get an XR18 mixer for our monitoring purposes.

I have a question with regards to what tabled to use for this.

I have no clue what specs I would need. I gather that to run the app controlling the XR18 we don't need much, but I don't know what is enough.

This would be purely to be used with the XR18, nothing else.

I'd prefer Android, but not set in stone.

I guess at the very least I need it to be dual band wifi... and I would like to be able to connect the tablet to the XR18 with a cable (using a USB-ethernet adapter) as a 'just in case' option, so it has to be able to do that.

Any hints/recommendations? 

On 11/01/2024 at 08:03, wateroftyne said:

Admittedtly I'm terrible at maths, but:

 

 

I have run this through the most powerful supercomputer in the land, and it has confirmed that 8 basses + 1 amp = 9 items. Therefore the above statement checks out.

 

What am I missing?

You're missing my ability to misread things

On 11/01/2024 at 05:11, wateroftyne said:

Hmmm…?

I misread... see post above.

On 11/01/2024 at 01:57, mcnach said:

 

I hope both of you can count better than that... 

 

 

It turns out it's me who can't count... 

I read it as 8 basses sent for sale, and 7 out of the 9 sold within x weeks... I missed that it was 8 basses PLUS 1 amp, so sum =9.

It wasn't a great joke to start with, but now it's also meaningless...

And I had to explain it!!! 

Time to get my coat...

8 hours ago, warwickhunt said:

I sent 8 basses and an amp to Will for commission sales and he has sold 7 of the 9 within 6-7 weeks.  Good comms and prompt payment to my bank, so I have no complaints!  

I hope both of you can count better than that... 

11 hours ago, Ramsay777 said:

An incredibly bland one at that, EBMM have lost the plot on pricing.

I think people have lost the plot as to how much they'd pay...

2 hours ago, jonno1981 said:

Keeping their lawyers busy aren’t they!
 

I wonder how they’ll market passing these off as vintage inspired or something. Pretty blatant, but no different to many other manufacturers, or to their original j and p types. 

Re: "vintage"

Well, it's been 47 years and a bit since the Stingray was released into the wild...

On 24/12/2023 at 15:56, badger said:

say yes, but only if you can play the drums.

Ooooh, I like your thinking! 

On 24/12/2023 at 15:11, NoRhino said:

What will you be doing during her bass songs?  If you'll be singing lead vocal or playing another instrument it can add a different dynamic for a couple of songs.  If she doesn't need or want you to do anything but leave the stage kill the idea stone dead now.  

This.

As a part of an arrangement where various band members' skills are reshuffled to achieve a goal, why not. As a 'fun thing' that she wants to do... Don't even open that door a crack. It'll be hard to close it.

On 24/12/2023 at 13:48, solo4652 said:

I play in a good 5-piece pub covers band. Drummer's wife plays keys - sort of. She has bought a bass and at last night's gig she told me she wanted to play bass "on a few songs" next year. Hmmm....

She can want from here until the moon. It doesn't mean she'll get it

Obviously I don't know your band's dynamics. In any of mine if someone wanted to play bass on a song, really wanted it, sure, we're the accommodating type. But she sounds like she wants to do more than that. What does the rest of the band say?

On 10/12/2023 at 13:02, Corsair said:

Hi Folks,

 

One of the basses in my stable is a squier jag bass, the one with the single humbucker pickup.

 

I wasn't expecting to like this bass as much as I do and will be  upgrading the bridge, tuners and pickup.

 

The stock pickup can sound a bit muddy and I wanted to swap this out for a replacement. A friend of mine who's main bass is a late 90's US made stingray has offered to sell me the original pickup as he swapped his out for a Seymour Duncan some years back and the pick up is going unused.

 

I'm not an expert in this stuff but from my understanding the MM pickup is passive but the preamp in a MM bass runs off a 9v battery.

 

My question is because the Squier Jag bass is passive will the MM pick up sound dull if its run without a 9V preamp?

 

Cheers

Those MM pickups sound just fine without a preamp, despite what many say (makes me wonder if they tried them). You just won't have the tonal diversity that the preamp's built in EQ will give you.

My 2002 EBMM Stingray has now a bypass switch, so I can play it passively (just a little 'get me home' switch, in case I mess up my battery replacement schedule). Plenty of output (of course, if you normally boost the crap out of the preamp controls, it'll be a bit quieter than that!) and if at the right spot for a Stingray, it has plenty of Stingrayness (just one of the many flavours available if you had the preamp too). If it's not at the Stingray position, then it'll never sound like a Stingray anyway, but it'll sound good.

9 minutes ago, mcnach said:

 

Yes, but at least Sire seemed to put the MM pickup at the 'right' spot

 

I had a Lakland 55-02 because I could not find a xx-76. These days I don't mind the string spacing being <19mm (in fact, 17.5 or 18mm seem perfect for me now). If they don't weigh as much as Pluto and the neck profile feels good, I can see one of these in my collection. I have a Ray35 but it's really heavy. The Hogmanay gig is going to be tiring.

Hmm, looking at the relative dimensions of the pickup and polepiece arrangement... it looks like it'll be 16mm spacing. Boooh. 

I guess it won't tempt me anymore, then. 

On 19/12/2023 at 17:41, Bleat said:

The Z reminds me of the Ibanez RDGR basses. 

Yes, but at least Sire seemed to put the MM pickup at the 'right' spot

I had a Lakland 55-02 because I could not find a xx-76. These days I don't mind the string spacing being <19mm (in fact, 17.5 or 18mm seem perfect for me now). If they don't weigh as much as Pluto and the neck profile feels good, I can see one of these in my collection. I have a Ray35 but it's really heavy. The Hogmanay gig is going to be tiring.

On 18/12/2023 at 18:44, Machines said:

Can't wait for the influencer reviews totally ignoring the literal elephant in the room.

 

Shame this, definitely a missed opportunity.

What is it?  

I've been thinking a few minutes but I don't get it

Not a fan of the Sire headstock, but despite that I thought the Z3/Z7 basses looked pretty good if you remove the oval scratchplate.

This one would tempt me, and the one in 'rosegold' too, yum.

On 06/12/2023 at 23:19, PaulThePlug said:

Just seen these...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284274593800?

Think i'll go these at the bottom... also offer some fair protection! and a basschat washer on the horn!..

That way the strap can be undone if need be simply at one end...

I use those in a few of my basses. They work really well.