spiderjazz

After having the bass for a week now I'm still really enjoying it. Also the eq on them is very nice, I have a Tanglewater Contemporary Jazz as well, which is a nice instrument but I always found the EQ either boomy or too harsh, the MM eq seems's a lot more musical.

I tried this out a few weeks at a music shop in Dublin, couldn't get it out of my head so had to go and and get it on Saturday. It's an absolute beauty, really fun to play as well. [attachment=162060:stingray (4 of 5).jpg] [attachment=162057:stingray (1 of 5).jpg] [attachment=162058:stingray (2 of 5).jpg] [attachment=162059:stingray (3 of 5).jpg] [attachment=162061:stingray (5 of 5).jpg]

Did the same myself after having used it for about 2 years, it's a bargain and a half for the price they charge.

String gauge is the important thing for this, especially if you're going to be on a 4 string neck with a 34" inch scale. If you look at the following link http://circlekstrings.com/CKSIMAGES/CircleKtensionChart.pdf you can calculate the tension you currently have your strings at with your current tension, and what you would need to increase the gauge to to get an equivalent tension in C. For example, if you're tuned to E on your low string with a 0.105 gauge string, there will be approximately 43" pounds of tension. To get the equivalent tension in C, you would need a 0.130 to 0.135 gauge string. I have my bass tuned in drop C, and I was using the low 4 strings in a 5 string set (130, 100, 80, 60), but I found the tension in the high C and F strings quite high, so I'm currently getting the bass set up with a 0.125 set, but using the low B string for the C, ignoring the E string, and using the other strings in their respective places (0.125, 0.85, 0.65, 0.45). This should hopefully lead to a balanced tension set, with the string tension roughly the same across the strings

I haven't read much about how the Kemper differentiates the amp and cab parts of the tone, when you profile the signal have you a seperate amp and cab block? Looking forward to hearing your clips of it, haven't heard any bass clips of it yet.

Nice review. I haven't had a chance to try one myself yet, but all the reviews for it are very good. Are you running it through studio monitors/frfr setup, or are you running the patches back into a cab?

Thanks for the responses all, I assumed it was banana plugs, but as you said it was terminal posts that I was looking at to bridge the channels. I've ended up using a single channel with a speakon to jack connection, and for my current needs (playing in my bedroom), it's more than doing the job! Thanks for the help.