JPJ

I do like the new blue on the EVO V

No interest in this premium rack mount preamp? 

Price drop £500 including the case. 

Not last night but earlier today. Played the new Tyneside Americana and Blues Festival this afternoon with Ten Bob Blind, our female fronted Americana/Country band. The festival was organised over three days with three stages all within a local social club. The festival was really well attended with over 400 attending each day. Lucked out with the provided back line, an Eden World Traveller head and Markbass 2x10 supplied by the PA guy who was also a bass player so I had a lush sound both on stage and FOH. Hopefully this festival will become a regular on the national calendar 🤞

On 19/01/2024 at 18:50, dave_bass5 said:

Yeah, the thing putting me off is i dont really want yet another tablet, and im so ysed to ipads. I also have an old iPad Air gen 1 that runs MS well enough, but again it’s linked to my account. I have a licence for MS that is linked to my account, and i have an Apple music account as well, so my ID needs to be on the ipad. 

I have an old iPad I use for the X-Air and to get around the account problem, I just created a second Apple account using a different email address. The only apps on that iPad aside from the standard built-in stuff is the Behringer app which I still prefer over MS. For break music, I use my normal Apple account from my phone over Bluetooth to my Apple AirPort Express that I use for the X-Air.

This will be me Sunday afternoon opening the Blues Matters stage with our little female fronted Americana/Country combo “Ten Bob Blind”. A bit of fretless bass and EUB tomfoolery. If you happen to be in attendance please do come and say hi (no heckling mind 😂)

The quietest passive bass I own is the one where I shielded the pickup cavities and the control cavity with copper tape and connected all the shields together with the bridge earth and to the earth lug of the output jack. Not even a badly wired fluorescent light will affect it.

My OCD says you have to put the same washer under the volume pot as well please 😵‍💫

On 15/01/2024 at 17:08, Bassybert said:

Did you get any further with this build @JPJ?

No I haven’t, unfortunately life got in the way and whilst I haven’t given up, I bought a Vanderkley 2x12 to fill the gap in my cab arsenal in the interim.

47 minutes ago, WalMan said:

Are the headphone outs on XR16 and XR18 just the main outputs or can you route an aux for stereo personal IEM mix not affecting FOH? I can’t work it out from the manual 🤷‍♂️🤪

You have 6 aux buses routed out of the box to the six aux out xlrs. The standard headphone out is either your left right main outs or a solo’d channel. You can route one of your six aux busses to the headphone out but you then disable that bus aux out. Hope this helps?

+1 for the Behringer B205D. Played a support gig a little while ago and the headline acts bassist was using one with his db and he kindly offered to let me try it. It was one of those tight little stages where you are almost stood/sat on your amp, so having this thing at ear height was a godsend. He obviously knew it well and had the eq spot on and it produced a surprising amount of bass from its 5” speaker. Plus points I could clearly hear every note I played, downsides I could clearly hear every note I played. Note to self, stop prattling around on the internet and practice more instead 😂

Truly beautiful. Please record a few sound clips for us when you can, for us fellow Overwater nuts. 

10 hours ago, itu said:

Specs, we need specs of that machine! That looks so good.

Scroll to the first post 😉 #heretohelp

Whilst I am not desperate to sell this bass, I could do with the space so I will listen to sensible offers. If you think I am off with the asking price, shoot me a pm - I will not be offended 😎

Calling @Blartfactor10 - clean up aisle 9 

I have no need for this. I already have way too much stuff. But I want this so bad 😂

I must admit I thought the attraction of a Wal was the active circuit. Given that this one is passive and it’s been butchered to an add a J pickup I can’t see it being worth anything like the asking price. 

I have (had) a T-Bone IEM100 which appears to now be the property of our singer 😂 She loves the in-ear mix/experience and is using the ubiquitous ZX10 pro’s with the T-Bone. No issues with drop outs or interference apart from the time she forgot to plug in the aerial 🤦‍♀️

Yesterdays gig (Sunday) was in the lounge of an ‘old school’ working mans  club in what we still refer to as a ‘pit village’ despite the fact their pit closed in the 1980’s.

This is a regular gig for us that we play twice a year. It’s always well attended and yesterday was no exception despite it being the first full weekend of the new year. Played to around 100 enthusiastic punters who get the band and our choice of music. Some idiot (that’ll be me then) forgot to pack the reel of XLR cables so we were ‘back line only’ which meant a lot more stage volume than normal, but the audience didn’t seem to mind. Another plus was the drummer going in-ears - he’s now a convert so that’s three down two to go towards getting the whole band on IEM’s 😎

My rig from yesterdays gig. Ashdown “Head of Doom” Geezer Butler signature with Vanderkley 212MNT. Bloody lovely 😎

First chance to gig the Vanderkley today. Because some idiot (that’ll be me then) forgot to pack the reel of XLR’s we were back line only out front. The room was a moderate sized social club lounge sitting around 150 folk. The Vanderkley filled the room beautifully and the Ashdown Geezer was hardly ticking over 😎

If it’s a water slide decal I normally mist a couple of coats of sealer over the decal before I immerse in water to do the slide bit. Stops the decal curling up as much in the water making the sliding part a lot easier. 

If I’ve read the OP correctly, I think the question is does anybody else double between DB and fretless electric bass. If I’m right, then I do this every gig with my country/Americana band, albeit the DB is an NS EUB but 42” scale. I have no problem transitioning between the two, just make sure the side dots on the fretless bass are ‘on the frets’ as against between the frets which you can see on some defretted basses. 

I have used a PC connected to my Behringer XR18 capturing all 16 channels for mix down after the show, and I have also used the Zoom H4n either on its own, or cabled to the headphone out of the Behringer (best result for a quick stereo mix). The H4n is a really good piece of kit, and can easily record a whole gig on one SD card.

Next to go in my surplus gear clear out is my Radial BassBone two-channel preamp/DI pedal.

I’ve owned this for a long while, and is a Swiss Army knife for bass players. Two channels, one with full eq (high, mid, low), the second with two pre-shapes or flat response. Separate level controls for each channel along with a foot switchable boost.

Two separate inputs allows you to balance input volumes between say a fretted and fretless bass, bass and EUB, or passive and active basses. 
Built like a brick outside toilet, with a full metal enclosure, and it includes the legendary Radial DI out (on XLR) with a ground lift that your sound guy will love. Comes with original owners manual and power supply (Note: this is 15V 400mA centre positive supply).

8/10 condition-wise and fully functioning. 
Collection from Killingworth, North Tyneside or let’s talk about postage. Reason for sale, too much gear and this has been replaced in my rig by the EBS Stanley Clarke.