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If you need a better DAW for the same price (free), then go look at cakewalk.

Focusrite is doing a little bit off their FAST Bundle. It’s reduced from £330 to £275. However, I got an email from Novation a few days ago with a code. So I tried it last night & got the FAST Bundle for £40. Here’s the code. FASTBUNDLEBF2023

I had one for about 5-6 years. Bought it about 15 years ago IIRC. Great combo & sounds best put on its side. I never played a 5 string through it, but my rig was synth/dubstep focused & went lower than the low B on a 5er.

Gonna suggest a Roli Seaboard block. They’re midi over Bluetooth (which works lovely on my Rise25).

That would be very easy on a Roli Rise. Another option would be to just turn on portamento for that bend/slide & then back off once you hit the last note.

I get you. I was a Christian for a long time. When I played in worship bands, there were some good sessions. Unfortunately though, there were more haphazard, disorganised times than there were good times. In spite of this, I always remained a caring, professional musician & played to the best of my ability (which to me, means keeping in time & not messing things up). Now I’m an exvangelical/deconstructionist & see the bible very differently. However, I’m not going to say that you should too. It’s your life & I think as long as you’re not hurting anyone, etc, then a person should be who they want to.

I enjoy coming back & reading this thread from time to time. So many folk seem to have the same issues as the churches that I’ve been part of (or even tried being part of, but was just used for my skills & nothing else). It’s a shame there’s so much hassle with playing in a worship team, but at the same time, it makes me glad that I’m no longer part of a church or any religious organisation.

Just the same as DIing straight from your preamp (or back of your bass amp head) to the FOH, except you get to hear it like the audience does.

Where ever it sounds best in relation to your other pedals & your preference is the best place for it.

Sorry, I’m missing another month. ☹️

The advantage for me is aurally rather than physically. I play synth as well as bass. Most often it’s synth bass, but for a few songs, I split the keyboard & have the right hand playing something like synth pads, keys or a brass sound. So the bass goes through my board with a preamp on it & then to a small mixer & the synth goes straight to the mixer. Then they both go to the PA cab. Di can come from the mixer, but can also be taken from the preamp for bass only.

Yes, that’s what I meant by TCE, I remember their “but it’s a loud 236 watts”. 🤣 But only a couple of makers do that in the bass rig world. They do this in the budget sound system market, but even better. E.g. a 2:1 system could be advertised as having 3600 watts & breaks it down as 30w+30w satellites x 60w sub. 😂

Haha, that’s a very good point. But then, wouldn’t a sound engineer want to go with a company that shows more realistic numbers?

The thing is though, when the product is already really good, sounds great & is loud enough, why? I can understand the cheap crappers such as KAM, QTX, etc doing it, as they need to have something that looks good, but QSC & RCF? Other than TCE, bass rig manufacturers don’t use “peak”. Are soundies less technically inquisitive than bassists?

When discussing PA a few months back with a chap I know who’s a computing science professor, I asked the same question (but more of a statement) “Why just give peak” & his response was along the lines of “it’s relevant to any spikes in volume”. I suppose “if” the manufacturer measured peak using voltage swing, then it would be relevant?

Thanks guys. RCF do at least put the SPL for their cabs, but you have to go to the back of the user manual to find out that “2100 watts” is a bi amp with 350 watts for anything above 1.8 kHz & 700 for anything below. I would have thought that the non budget PA cabs would have come with some decent specs & would have thought that it would have been demanded by sound engineers, but obvs I was wrong. 😂

It might seem like a silly question… Why do PA manufacturers advertise the cabs peak power & not RMS? Is it just marketing, or is there a good reason behind it?

If you want a freebie that’ll do what you want, then Cakewalk is a great DAW that comes bundled with some extra instruments & fx.

Cheers. I’ll get a decent lekky soldering iron, check the pot values & order 2 replacement volume pots & try that. The other 2 smaller pots are for treble & bass. Those 2 work perfectly. One thing that I was really unsure of, is the grey wire coming from the J pickup. the P has a black & a white wire, but the J has a black, a white & a grey. I asked Aguilar about the grey wire & they was as helpful as going to the chippy & asking. But from what info I could find, it seems to be another earth, which seems a little odd.

Yes, I usually do some scores with a Stanley like a # or rub it with a little sandpaper.

Ahhh, I never thought about that! My soldering iron is a Blue Point gas iron that I got back at the turn of the century when I was installing car security & multimedia. It’s a decent iron for a gas iron, but it did take a bit of time to heat the pots enough to put the earths on. I’ll try a new iron & get 2 new pots (I can pop em out to see the values). It’ll probably be next month, but I’ll report back once done. Thanks all. Really appreciated.

If you don’t have any issues, could you take a pic of your pots?

The pots came with it as a bundle.

Would someone be able to help me see where I’ve gone wrong with my wiring. the pickups are Aguilar AG4 P & J HC & the preamp is an OBP-2. I installed them a few months back & it sounds great. However, I’ve just discovered that the volumes are doing funny things. You can roll either pick-up on or off, but if you roll one right back, then the other, it doesn’t fade down like expected & the sound cuts off a good bit before it’s turned fully down. I’m stumped as to where I’ve went wrong. I’ve tried to follow this diagram, but I’m at a loss. Here’s some pics of my mess in the cavity. I can get more pics if needed. Any help would be massively appreciated.