JPJ
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Wow thanks for pointing this out. Due in no small part to my lack of theory or technique, I’ve stayed away from this sub-forum but it looks like I’ve been missing out 🤦
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So, prior to lockdown I was taking lessons and learning to read the dots. I really need to pick it up again and I’m looking for an online source for good quality bass sheet music. What do you use and can you recommend?
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I’d probably go for the Eminence that was up on here, and have it converted to left handed. Removable neck for flying and having seen a few American country and blue grass bassists using them over here, I’m guessing they are the flight bass of choice.
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Just in from a very enjoyable evening at the Harbour View Speakeasy in Sunderland, Tyne & Wear. This is a very popular buskers type night with a featured player or band given 45 mins at the end to close out the night. I played tonight with our acoustic’ish trio doing a set of country & Americana tunes to an appreciative audience. Only my second gig entirely on EUB and i just about got away with it. Lovely to see a pub full of music lovers on a Thursday night.
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My understanding is that the Basschat 1x12 design is FRFR and reading the comments from those who have completed builds, it certainly appears to be so. I’m sure you’ll get a lot of comments suggesting you simply buy a PA top cab and run through that as your power amp & speaker combo and I know of a couple of local bass players who have gone down that route with varying degrees of success.
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I’m on my third EUB, and each one has been quite different. Like quite a few of us electric players who’ve crossed over to DB, I started with the Stagg which sounded nothing like a DB and was difficult to play as it spun around requiring a lot of left hand steadying. My second was a five string KK Baby Bass, and whilst this was a massive step up from the Stagg, I had issues with the weight of the instrument which ultimately led to an old left thumb injury rearing its head, so that one had to go. Sound-wise, the KK definitely had thump but it missed the harmonic content of a true DB. I’m now gigging an NS NXT 4 string and this has been a revelation. The fact the bass is on a stand means you can get the bass to sit where you want it to, taking all the stress out of your left hand/arm. Sound-wise, again it doesn’t sound like a DB ‘out of the box’ (and it was never intended to) but there are a few tricks you can do (change to the NS Traditional string, use a ninomute or similar) that can get you pretty darned close. In my current doubling rig, I am running the NS through a TC Electronics impulse loader using the 3Sigma impulses designed specifically for the NS and others tell me I am achieving a very convincing double bass sound/tone. Bottom line is you can spend thousands going down the EUB route and still not achieve a true double bass sound/tone. Where I am at right now is a sound/tone that is close enough to the sound of a good DB amplified using a piezo type pickup, and whilst I am still lusting after a real DB, I’m happy where I am at right now. However, if I ever get the wife’s redundant treadmill out of my office/man cave, then a real DB will probably arrive shortly thereafter.
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Latest iteration of my board. Gone are all the effects - I just don’t use them. This board is now purely about the tone, and covers my doubling gigs on EUB/fretless/acoustic/electric bass. The SushiboxFX Finally is really my secret sauce ‘always on’ pedal that just adds a lovely warmth in front of my amps and has a great FOH DI out. The TC Impulse loader is for my NS EUB and I am running the 3Sigma German bass and Czech bass impulses. Combined with the ninomute I’m getting a pretty convincing DB sound live.
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Personally, I think you’ll be lucky to sand through the new paint and leave the aging on the original paint intact. Sandpaper might be way too aggressive unless you are thinking of 2000 grit and above wet sanded. Might be worth trying some alcohol rubbed with wire wool first to see how easy the new paint releases from the old?
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Does the bass have a scratchplate? I’ve had those resonate in the past, but its nothing a small piece of double sided tape didn’t fix
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You don’t have to rip one out of a dead box. When the amp blew in one of my EV ZX15’s I was able to source a complete new plate amp (including the dsp) for around £250. Not sure what the crossover point is, but I have used one of my ZX15’s as a bass monitor driven by my EBS Stanley Clarke pre and it sounded great.
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I do enjoy these guys videos but when they are sitting there doing the bobble heads to whatever piece of music they are listening to, I can’t help but think of Beavis and Butt-Head 😂
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There are rumours circulating in certain circles that Behringer are about to launch a Wing Compact, and a Wing rack, hence the discounts on the x32 stuff.
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For the XR18 I use the Behringer app on Windows and I’m a bit of a novice with Mixing Station but I’ve found that if you hit Mix/FX Send button on the main display, then tap on the name of the bus you want to EQ, you can access the PEQ for that bus. Hope this helps? -
Firstly, I’ve got to say that I find the Line6 Helix website pages absolutely useless. So can any wise Basschatters advise which Helix product allows you to run two instruments (so two separate 1/4” inputs), two separate signal paths with EQ (including HP & LP filters, can easily load IR’s, and has a built in XLR based DI output. I don’t need lots of effects (but some would be nice, maybe reverb, compression, chorus, octave, and a bit of drive/dirt on one signal path). Smallest form factor wins as I’ll not be doing a whole lot of patch changing.
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I always favoured the Rudi Sarzo ‘beauty and the beast’ TonePrint as it preserved the bottom end of my signal.
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TC Spectracomp is about the same size as the Micro Thumpinator and a really powerful compressor if you’re prepared to dive into the software.
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Are you taking your in-ear feed from the desk? Is it digital? If so, play with the eq on your IEM feed (aux) channel. As I’ve learned, EQ’ing IEM’s is as important as EQ’ing channels or the overall FOH mix.
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Be careful where you buy your draw from. I got mine from a computer company and it was deeper than a full depth rack case and required some metal butchery to make it fit.
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I wouldn’t go with a shallow rack, especially if you intend mounting a power strip in the back. The fan for the XR is on the side and I’d recommend you give it plenty of space as they do run hot. I have mine in a gator 6U full depth, along with a DriveRack, a drawer and of course the very necessary external router (Airport Express).
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I have used the system before for half a gig without issues so I think this was a peculiarity of a big stage and the transmitters being side-by-side and a good distance away. I will however run an XLR to have my transmitter directly behind me when we’re providing PA.
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We were discussing this gig last night and our singer mentioned something that occurred to me on stage but I’d forgotten about. We could actually hear the return sound from the front of house slightly delayed from the sound in the in-ears. You only noticed this during quiet sections or song endings but it was a little disconcerting at first having never really heard this before.
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Influencer or pimp, it’s a thin line……😂 Very tempted to upgrade my X-Air XR18 to the x32 rack at that price 🤔
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So I finally did it. I played a whole gig on IEM’s. Yes it was at a bike rally with a massive PA system and professional engineers both at FOH and monitor desks, but I did it. And what a revelation it was too. Bloody loved it. I used a combination of the X-Vive wireless and Sennheiser IEM100’s. The X-Vive transmitter was stage left at the monitor desk and I was about 10 metres away stage right. Our singer guitarist uses the same setup and I would get an occasional crackling if his receiver was between mine and the transmitters or if I turned to face the transmitters (the receiver was hanging off my back pocket). Other than this, call me a convert. The X-Vive played nicely with my Shure wireless too. Now our second guitarist is talking about going in-ears too so that will be the whole band using them.
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How was your PA last night JPJ? Well it was pretty bloody awesome thank you. Massive RCF line array setup with a wall of bass bins the width of the stage, centre fills sitting on the stage, Digico desks at FOH and monitors, and the best bit, a professional crew to run the bloody thing. Massive sounding rig and a couple of engineers who really knew what they were doing, Shout out to ‘Dave’ on monitors for accommodating our request to not use his rather beautiful Martin monitors and to use our in-ears instead.
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How was my gig? Bloody marvellous thank you. Last night our little southern rock tribute played main stage at Stormin the Castle bike rally in Witton-le-Wear County Durham. This annual bike rally is probably one of the largest, and features two live music tents, both equipped with professional sound and light. We were second up on the main stage and technically supporting Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons (Phil Campbell of Motörhead fame). The PA was a massive RCF Line Array and both the FOH and monitor desks were Digico (for any fellow PA gear sluts). I decided that as we had a pro engineer mixing monitors that I would use my IEM’s and I am so pleased I did. I could wander around the rather large stage without suffering any loss of sound quality and also I’m not suffering the post-gig tinnitus this morning despite it being rather loud. Highlight of the gig, well there were many. The tent was full of enthusiastic bikers from the off and stayed full to the end with lots of dancers and singing along. We played rather well even if I say so myself, but the ultimate highlight was when the FOH engineer came up to me after the gig and said he loved working with us and that we were the highlight of the weekend for him😎 There were a number of pro photographers snapping away in the pit so I’ll update this post later with some better action shots but for now here’s a quick shot from the pit as we arrived on site.
