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2 of the rooms I play in couldn't be more different. The first one is nice sounding, high and sharply pitched ceiling, lots of stuff on the walls. Sounds great. Small amount of natural reverb. Then the other - no matter what EQ, no matter what other instruments it just sounds horrible. Somehow boomy and dead at the same time. I end up lowering the bass and low mids massively and getting a twangy sound just so I can then turn it up enough to hear it without the room going boooooooooooooom. Doesn't help that the supplied drum kit has the longest kick drum I've ever heard. But will they put a pillow in it...

The USA ones can be unscrewed and rebuilt for left or right handed use. The USA ones are also a little bit lighter in weight.

Miki's got himself a new custom Sting.... er BB model. Looks great to me. Would be nice if it was a lightweight production model.

You're not the only one to have experienced that. Psychosomatics are fascinating! IR / Cab sim into the vast majority of real cabs sounds like ar$e. That's why it's not an option.

Surely the simple fact that a pleasing EQ setting when playing alone doesn't work in a band is enough to show that a band situation test is the ideal approach? I'm fortunate enough to have 2 sets of cabs at home at the moment and I prefer one set when playing unaccompanied and the other when playing with (at the moment) backing tracks. Acoustic instruments are different, particularly the classical ones. They've been developed and tweaked over years to work together. Even then there is "band adjustment" going on - you're just not seeing it as that. If you've got a band with 4 trumpets, then you're going to need 10 or more violins to compete, and to avoid the violins still disappearing they will have different parts to play to fill out the sound. They can't change the sound of the instrument, so the number of a particular instrument and the musical arrangement is adjusted instead. It's the same aim - to make the band mix work. But saying that (and I've just asked her) - my daughter has 2 clarinets and she plays her wooden one at home / lessons / trio, and her plastic one in the big band. She tells me she can hear the plastic one better in the big band even though the wooden one is the better instrument.

The cab sims on the Darkglass head only work on the DI and Headphone outs. Not on the speaker outputs.

Older than Manze's Pie & Mash? They were 1902. My dad (classy as he was) took my mum on a first date to Manze's. When she saw the liquor she refused to eat any of it! It's wonder I'm here at all!

I've been wondering about these too. I used to have the older EQ-20 which I think was their first EQ with presets. It looks a far better choice for bass than the Source Audio ones - some fiddly ALT switches on those. Maybe after payday!

With no gigs / rehearsals in the near future I did a couple of play along vids for the very first time just using my iPhone. The video was ok, but the sound, while actually better than I expected, wasn't very good. the phone also picked up some physical bass and finger noise that I'd like to avoid. What's a better way of doing it? I'm not fussed about studio quality recordings or anything and I definitely do not want to have to sit in front of a video editor trying to sync audio and video. This is supposed to be fun, not work. From my ill informed position it seems I could get a better mic for the room and plug that into my iphone or my laptop. That seems easy enough. The mic could be placed away from the camera that way to avoid picking up finger noise. But is there something of a halfway house? Webcam with a plugin (I have a few) so the backing and my bass can be adjusted for levels after recording? No EQ, no sync-ing etc, just a level balance? Any ideas? ta

ah well. It's not like the price will be remotely affordable anyway!

You and your tiny hands again!

I kind of like it. It's unusual. I do like the control system. I have 3 active basses and I tend to only tweak them to fix room problems rather than being the core of the sound. I like 44.5mm nut width on 5 strings. But I reckon the bridge looks really tight. The total string width at the last fret is 71.4mm - same as the regular 5 string bongo that has 17.5mm spacing at the bridge. So it has to be quite a bit tighter than that. Maybe as tight as 15mm to 16mm (extrapolating from 71.4mm and the 17.5mm bridge spacing on the regular 5 string) I've had 16.5mm at the bridge before and that was too tight for me.

What is the bridge string spacing? I can't see that mentioned.

You really need to try them If weight is an issue for you then do be aware that the "lightweight" badge on the Darkglass cabs is rather disappointing - a lot heavier than their rivals. Some of them are still heavier than the old Marshall VBC412 cabs I used to use 20 years ago. I have 12 inch and 10 inch based cabs from Barefaced and they are VERY different in tone. I like them both and I'm still in the honeymoon period for the 12 (Super Twin) My thoughts though, after playing alone and with backing tracks / CDs etc is that when playing alone without any other noise at all I probably (it's very marginal) prefer the 10 inch cabs. But when other stuff is going on I definitely prefer the 12. My Super Twin is very new though and it hasn't loosened up yet so my views may well change. In the past I owned a pair of Mark Bass 1x12 cabs and they had a very warm sound that when paired with a MB head as well didn't cut enough for me. I sold them went with Berg HD112, then to Berg CN112 (didn't like them but a lot lighter than the HD112) then Barefaced One10 (pair - kept them) and the BF Super Twin. Before the Mark Bass 1x12 I was using a pair of the massive Marshall VBC412. The Mark Bass cabs were the least impressive of all of those. But I don't know what music you play - they might be perfect for your needs - and also the newer model 2x12 might be quite different to the older ones. I don't know.

I had the original one. It had an artificial quality to the sound that I didn’t get on with. But their new pedals have really been excellent so I’m hoping it will be good, and maybe stop every bass drive trying to be Darkglass.

Just bought it. I’ll give it a try.

I’ve never listened to it!

Can't slap on a P? Freddie Washington is judging you right now!

Fender don’t give weight info as they vary so much.

Sandberg Superlight. 6.5 lb jazz. Wonderful. Things.

Same tune, but this time with a Precision. No setting changes at all. Loving that the different tones of the basses are coming through so much. https://youtu.be/FA176OaMRQU

https://youtu.be/x_Zy3R_zU5o Sandberg with flats https://youtu.be/x_Zy3R_zU5o

Thank you kind sir. Ive recorded a few on my Sandberg and P as well. I’ll give them a listen and then post if they are not too bad.

I've actually got one of them. It's great fun but a bit gutless at 8ohm. Amazing for it's size into 4ohms though.

By the way chaps and chapesses... Euromillions roll over tonight is £76 million. Might as well get a ticket!