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I've been looking at amp / speaker / hpf specs etc and have come up with a bit of a "theory" on this. I used to own a Puma 900 and it was a great amp and from what I can see the Eich is a slighly improved / re-badged version so I'll bass (😉) my thoughts on this. As we know, the idea of a high pass filter (HPF) is to reduce the low frequency part of the signal so that the sound is cleared up, speakers are not pushed too far and amp power is not wasted on inaudible and/or unreproducable frequencies. This allows all the energy to be used to push the relevant frequencies, resulting in greater punch and clarity. A quick look at quality bass speaker designs (Barefaced, Vanderkley, Bergantino etc) shows that their operating range starts from 40hz and heads upwards. Trying to put frequencies lower than 40hz at high volumes through them will probably end in tears. This is where a HPF comes in and one of the popular and highly reccomended ones is the micro-Thumpinator which filters out frequencies below 25Hz. If you look at the EQ frequency centres for the Eich amp and think of the Lo and Lo-Mid in a slighly different way you in effect have a built in adjustable HPF! The Lo control cuts and boosts around 30Hz so if you use it to cut the signal it acts like a micro-Thumpinator. You then can use the Lo-Mid @250Hz to help shape the low end ouf your sound. It seems a bit counterintuitive turning the bass knob down to sound more like a bass but I've tried this out live with a number of different amps cutting the lows and boosting the low-mids and find it cleans up the sound and gives it more punch....YMMV. Maybe Magan Trainor should have sung "It's All About The Bass (Knob)" 🤣

Sold some pickups to Steff. Easy experience and quick payment. Thanks

Just did a trade with Keir of my Roscoe with his ACG (a brand I've been wanting to try). Everything went smoothly and I'd be happy to deal again with him.

As others have said Lee is a great guy to deal with. He just bought my Berg Forte. Great comms, quick payment. Many thanks.

Something like this from North West Guitars. Nitro is quite toxic to spray and I believe needs special respirators, venting etc. Does it need to be nitro as there are "safer" options.

It took me a while to get my head around this when I was first trying to install series / single / parallel switches in one of my basses. I then came upon this diagram showing 2 types of DPDT switch connections. It looks like the one in your diagram is type 1. Using this diagram and inserting the switch connections (in red) onto your diagram lets you see the current flowpath. Parallel Series Single This one is different because (for the top pickup) the current flows from the + , throught the black wire / pickup / white wire to the switch and then on to ground. Although the green wire is connected to the switch terminal the flow gets dead ended throught theother pickup to the red wire. Hope this helps

Achieved....just for the number of CD's alone! 🤣

Just sold Steve a Gator rack unit. Quick payment, good comms and as others have said an easy transaction. Thanks Steve 👍

Just bought a pair of speaker cables off Graham. They're in great condition and it was an easy deal. Many thanks.

I'm interested in the possibilities and options of such a system. 👍 I'm assuming from your numbers above: 2 guitars (one in stereo) = 3 chan 2 keys (both in stereo) = 4 chan bass = 1 chan sax = 1 chan 5 vocal channels drums = ? chan That's 14 channels without any drums through the system. Is that enough as a sound engineer could easily use 6 mics / channels on a kit? Would you be mic'ing the kit or leave that to the engineer using house mics? I'm assuming you would be providing all the cabling between instruments and your mixer / splitters? Would this include from the drum mics? I'm not sure I would use a 10m loom from the splitter to FOH. I'd just use bulkhead connectors on the rack unit and let the sound engineer do the connecting from there to their stage box (just like they would if mic'ing up).

Yes I remember it. David Shields and John Vannerman ran it and did indeed have a Wall of Wals. Many years ago (April '98)I'd somehow found out that John was selling his matching pair of fretted / fretless 5 string Wals he'd had made and he was asking somewhere between £1500 and £2k for the pair! The next weekend I travelled down from Huddersfield with the intent to buy them.....but they had been snatched up just before I got there. I do remember John showing me a pair of Sei fretted / fretless 5 strings (never heard of Sei at that time) but I ended up trading my Pre EB MM Sabre in for a JD Calibas my gateway drug into 5 strings! 🤣

I think excessive volume is a common problem for many jams (and gigs). For a number of years I used to be in the house band for the local blues jam. I kept saying the volume is causing people leave. People would be sat with their fingers in their ears and then leave, it was that obvious. We had a really good sound guy who would (as requested) mic everything up......and then mute it at the desk as the stage volume was so high he couldnt do anything with it! He had a superb Nexo / Allen & Heath system at his fingertips that he could only use as a vocal PA I eventually tired of it and passed the batton to others.

Yes, I was planning on going to the Birmingham show as it's around my birthday but decided at New Year to give it a miss as (even today) the website gives a great list of exhibitors but minimal info on what else is happening. There are 10 items in the Blog of which 1 is bass related 🤷‍♂️ Again booking hotels etc at the last minute gets expensive.....at least Birmingham is only a mere 850 mile round trip 🤣 I'm probably going to regret not going but hope it its a great weekend. 👍

Blimey, this is the first post since this thread started on Nov 2nd which has some actual info. Thanks @Goliath_FX 👍 Like others, I've looked around the intenet to try and find more info with either nothing solid and very much a vagueness about the whole thing. I have heard Dan Edwins name many times on here but don't know him or his ways of working but if I was putting on a bass related show I'd want to be advertising as much info as possible to stir peoples interest and get them there. 🤷‍♂️ I'm assuming as he runs Bass Review Magazine he knows his competition / market and therefore is aware of Basschat / Talkbass / many bass specific Facebook groups which would help spread the word. I've noticed a bit of a trend of events like this drip-feeding information over the months beforehand to allegedly build up the anticipation levels. I used to go to the London Bass Show regularly until they started doing this. I was reluctant to commit a lot of time and money (the ticket price was a minor consideration) to attending something where I didn't know what was happening! I know I am very much an outlier in being in Aberdeen but I'm sure many of us have to plan / budget / manage family etc to be able to attend. For me leaving it to the last minute to decide to go is not feasible as it's at least 2 nights in a hotel hotel, food, last minute flights / train pricing or the thought of a 1,100 mile round trip in the car if its London based! Sorry, rant over.....I really do hope the event does go ahead and is successful. Whether it be a local Bass Bash or nationwide Bass Show they take a LOT of organising and commitment from the teams that put them on. We need them to be a success or we'll lose them 😢