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Don’t forget that the Ashdown preshape button works ‘the other way around’ I.e. you press it in to defeat the preshape not to enable the preshape. That caught me out for years before someone on here helpfully pointed this out. Press that button in to get rid of the inherent boominess.

Excellent stuff, thanks chaps (roll on order) 👍

Quick question, I’m a mild eczema suffer which unfortunately affects my hands. When I have an outbreak, it can make my plucking fingers painful if the keens are in the wrong places (which they annoyingly usually are). For gigs, when necessary I have been using both the white microporous tape and regular flesh coloured Elastoplast, but it seldom lasts a full set. I’ve seen a few double bassists using finger tape, so I know I am not alone, but what tape are you/they using? Oh, and before anyone say’s “use a bow”, let me assure you the world is not ready for my bowing technique (or lack of)😂

Have a chat with Martin at @Stoneham amplification, he’s very busy but he might be able to help.

The lack of a full eight channels is a drawback, but I will be using my EBS Stanley Clarke pre with my double bass, so I can control gain/eq etc here. But I would have been happier if Behringer offered a Flow 12 but then I guess this would compete with the X-Air 12. Thanks for pointing out the Andertons offer - I have pulled the trigger even if delivery is not slated until 20th June! I’ll report back once she gets here.

This is going to look lush imho - very retro. I remember a guitarist friend back in the late ‘70s having a 40W valve ‘Bolt’ combo in a similar natural wood finish that I thought looked so classy compared to the usual dinged up tolex look.

Most of my double bass gigs are now amp less as we’re an acoustic trio playing small pub type venues where I can monitor via FOH. For my electric gigs I’m still amped up, albeit a much smaller rig than I used to use and whilst we’re all using IEM’s, our PA isn’t man enough to handle the whole band with authority in the larger venues we play. On my double bass gigs I share the OPs joy of turning up with just my bass and my pedal board and one day hope to do the same on electric gigs too.

So I am being attracted to the diminutive Behringer Flow 8 to use with my little acoustic trio, as the XR18 is a bit overkill for the tiny venues we play. Ideally the Flow 8 would have had a couple more XLR/combo inputs but I think I can make our two mics, two guitars, and one db work within the Flow 8. I’ve watched a few videos online and it seems like it can do everything I want it to but I thought I’d ask on here whether anybody has any real world experience?

@steviedee I first tried the Sonicake IR loader but it couldn’t handle the file size of the Sigma IR’s so I moved it on and bought the TC Impulse. I didn’t need the headphone out as the TC lives on my doubling board and I have the headphone functionality via my EBS Stanley Clarke pre

Having owned my XR18 for just over ten years, mixing from the side of the stage whilst playing, last night was a first for me as I went out as a sound guy, working for a mates band who had just bought their own XR18 (albeit v2). So before the gig, I created a new scene file on my XR with all the basic settings I could pre-gig (channel layout, hpf’s, global effects, stereo combinator etc and then took my Surface Go to the gig with the scene file loaded and simply transferred the scene to the their XR. I did update my firmware and X-Air Edit to the latest versions first so there were no difficulties between the v1 and v2 hardware and all worked perfectly. Being able to sit with a live band going for it really taught me a lot about my mix, particularly around eq’ing. Making space for each instrument is vital, and gating all those horrible open drum mics is essential to stop your whole mix becoming a mud bath. I really enjoyed the experience and the only complaint was they were too loud 😎 I also managed to multi-track record about 75% of the gig for them so will have fun over the coming days mixing that lot down. Interestingly, they were using a TP Link router with both 5GHz and 2.4GHz channels. I was using the 5GHz channel for the Surface Go, but my old 2012 MacBook that I was using as a back-up and to do the recording was connected on the 2.4GHz channel. The Surface Go suffered three drop outs over the course of the night whereas the MacBook stayed connected throughout the whole evening. The venue POS system was running on a 5GHz network albeit separate channel but I guess this was the culprit.

I watched it on iPad using the link in NickD’s original post and I didn’t get any adverts 🤷‍♂️

Calling @Blartfactor10 a man with the necessary skills to rebuild him