Phil Adams

Regards my hearing, I don’t think it’s too bad. Clearly a lifetime of working with machinery, listening to music and riding motorbike has chipped away some of it. I just fing the hearing aids simply make everything a bit louder. Yes, you can adjust them on the app, but I’m simply not convinced that they will ever really benefit me, and the same applies to the thought of spending money on more exotic hearing aids, though it might be worth trying. Mrs Phil is Dutch, and speaks perfect English, but with an accent, and the aids haven’t helped me understand a flipping word she says, even when she shouts (often) 😂

Thanks again folks. I will see how I get on with the monitors boosted with the DI box, if not then I will just have to keep trying different things. the question of frequencies is interesting though, as I have been prescribed NHS hearing aids because I have trouble understanding people’s speech, though I don’t really find they help.

Thanks agin folks. Mr Amazon will be rushing me a cheap Behringer active preamp, and some cables tomorrow. That should get me going in the right direction.

Thanks again chaps, I’m digesting all these views. I did consider swapping out the 2x10 for a 4x10. What really opened my eyes, and ears, was a gig in a stall venue before Christmas, where a couple of ladies from the audience wanted to sing, so I sat on a stool in front of my rig and played, the difference in what I could hear was pleasantly staggering. I remember watching a band playing outdoors in Holland a few years ago. The bass player had his rig so his top speaker was at head height, and he had his ear against it. I’ve tried running a bass through the ME50B and into the monitor, and it hasn’t made much if any difference. I think perhaps a DI box could be the answer.

Thanks for the replies folks. Some interesting food for thought. I will try to answer some of the points raised. the pair of monitors are both active. I haven’t run them as a pair yet as I don’t have the correct cables. I tried each of them as a bass amp, ie bass plugged into the line in via jack. I can certainly try going though the mic input but will need an xlr to Jack lead which I don’t have atm. my backline is nothing spectacular, a 400 watt solid state amp into a 2x10, and a 1x15 firing straight at my bum! I thought the monitors would help me hear myself without the need to have the backline too loud. I was intending to split the signal from the guitar between the bass amp and the monitors by using the two jack outputs on my Boss ME 50B.

Hi folks, I wonder if I could pick your brains please? I’ve just thrown some money at a pair of Subzero floor monitors active monitors. They’re only 10”, but I though a pair might be just the job, at something like 12kg each they’re kinder to my old back than a single 15 would be. They are both active, I don’t have the cables to drive then both yet as I need XLRs so I’ve tried one on it’s own, with everything on “11” it’s not loud enough to scare a mouse. I’ve tried my acoustic bass which has a preamp in it, and it’s VERY LOUD, but I shouldn’t have to buy an active electric bass to get them to be usable, or should I? They might be loud enough for guitar or vocal, but I can’t believe they will do what I want them to without a pre amp. Any thought please? only talking pubs and clubs, just, I have a quite loud backline and I find that if I’m loud enough to head the rig behind me, them I’m loud enough out front to stop women going in the ladies because the walls are rattling, (apparently true). as fun as it would be to clear out my passive basses, and get active ones, I somehow think that’s not the right answer. to try to define it properly, my front room, monitor with everything on max, passive bass on max, nice full sound, but Mrs Phil upstairs couldn’t hear it! thanks 👍🏻

This is none GONE.

Thanks Fleabag, that looks like the chappie.

This is in the back of my garage and needs digging out, which I will do if there is any interest. Bought it cheaply from eBay about 3 years ago and it was old then. Free to good home, obviously I will check it out, it worked last time I tried it. Only stipulation is that it MUST be collected from Maidenhead SL6 I'm sure I bought it because it was 4 ohm, but need to check and confirm. Being and older Peavey its a touch on the weighty side......

Mikan bought my Line6 wireless kit. I couldn't have asked for an easier or more pleasant transaction. Immediate payment and great communication. Wholeheartedly recommended.

Didn't know Russell Bland was a bass player.

Motown all through that period was just amazing. Listening to Tears of a Clown on Radio 2 right now. Bought the 7" with my first pay packet in 1970.

Did anyone have a Linear 30?

Gosh!

I only have one, but I love it

I'll take that recommendation thanks Karl. They were around during my formative years and I think they were local to me, Reading IIRC. Didn't take too much notice at the time, though they were very well regarded.

Any of them look fab imo

Niiiiiice.... Mind you, that might be lost on our cousins from the other side of the pond.

[quote name='radiophonic' timestamp='1508485292' post='3392456'] Following another thread on here, I realised I'd never actually listened to Bebop Deluxe, so I picked up a 5CD box for 13 quid on Amazon. Axe Victim is this week's commute soundtrack. Pretty great really. [/quote] Same here, bought the box set a couple of years ago. Nearly worn out now. Particularly love "Surreal Estate", but it's all good.

Something I'm warming to having seen them on the repeated TOTP, never paid much attention to them before.

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1508317372' post='3391253'] That's the one I wish I hadn't sold [/quote] Bought on impulse as I had decided to devote my remaining years to 5 strings, and DV has wrongly priced it making it irresistable. Scared me half to death, it was so beautiful, and everything that I wasn't. The weight was a surprise, after the comparative lightness of the SR series, and I soon realised it was better to man up and admit that I'm useless on 5's than to waste time trying to get properly used to it. Traded it for one of the last Fender US Precisions, and haven't looked back (after swearing I'd never have another Fender!)

Ibanez BTB1605.

Good for you Bob. keep on rocking

It is a bit of a concern how quickly they ditch old models in favour of new. But I have no axe to grind here. I have an Electric Blue 130 which I bought from Basschat sales section about 5 years ago and it's good as gold. However, I really would think twice about buying the "latest model" Ashdown.