Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

Woodinblack

Administrator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    14,665

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    8

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Woodinblack

  1. Woodinblack
    Maybe they weren't quick enough to turn the offer off!
  2. Woodinblack
    I would assume they were left and right inputs to the PA, and would be expecting to ignore their cable and connect our left and right main output from the desk. However, I would also assume that someone somewhere had probably done something stupid and be prepared for that to be wrong and ask if they know what they are. I wouldn't be using that cable either way. It could be a mains issue in your house. Do you have other monitors you could try? You can try leaving it with the other ones to see if it still does it to rule out your RCF monitors.
  3. Woodinblack
    Just got an email that my delivery is pushed back to the 5th week!
  4. Woodinblack
    You could play Alright now up around the 25th fret on the D string?
  5. Woodinblack
    As well as a stereo XLR. For two you mean?
  6. Woodinblack
    I guess it is, although maybe I didn't consider it as I have much better effects in very small pedals on a pedalboard, but I can see they could be of use to some. I have a 12 step on my pedalboard that connects for synth effects. I can't see how an XY controller would work well on a screen on a remote device when playing the bass, but interesting to watch someone do it!
  7. Woodinblack
    I certainly don't see that with the Akai (I have a Live 2) - all the jack sockets (it has quite a few) are full size and it is pretty solid (ie, you could injure yourself on it), and although it does have a 2 pin power connector, it does have an internal battery with > 4 hour life so its good for a gig. It has full size USBs and normal protected SD slots, and 5 pin midi sockets. I would have no problem using it live (and thats what I have it for), and I would note that Akai MPCs are used very routinely by touring groups. Ultimately I am not sure what you would do for it from a bass point of view, I can't see what that brings, even if I can plug my bass into it (which obviously I can), mine is there for triggering samples, sequences, even whole sections of music, which i would do either by midi for a sequence of by hand on the pads.
  8. Woodinblack
    Tonight at practice my IEM cut out breifly a couple of times, so I was a bit concerned after saying how reliable it has been (and it has). Then it occured to me that the receiver was clipped to the top of my right pocket, and my XVive wireless bass transmitter was right next to it because of that. I swapped it to my left pocket and it didn't cut out again. So it seems it doesn't like touching another transmitter!
  9. Woodinblack
    That makes sense. Surprised they didn't do it earlier really, I would have certainly looked at it when I was replacing my broken U4, and later when looking for a replacement for the MS-2.
  10. Woodinblack
    Good holder for a kay!
  11. Woodinblack
    When I get a chance I will test that to see what it is. Cetainly doesn't sound dull (and I have bright strings) and I haven't noticed a distortion, although honestly when gigging I am not going to be that concerned about a 6khz roll off, this doesn't have to be hifi
  12. Woodinblack
    Only the intro. Tool songs use the other strings too!
  13. Woodinblack
    Theres another one
  14. Woodinblack
    Oh sorry - couldn't read that that said SR500. That makes no sense, SR500s are brown with pretend barts, a blue one should be a different model.
  15. Woodinblack
    Well, that isn't a new new finish is it? the SR500 has always been brown. I always viewed that as their actual base serious model, if you want nords you go up the number range.
  16. Woodinblack
    How about the status-alike one?
  17. Woodinblack
    I'd get one of those. Although to be fair, my main bass is a Maruszczyk which has a P and J pickup and an ibby soundgear profile neck
  18. Woodinblack
    Yes. indeed - that's what mine are (as I have balanced TRS outs on the X18) For normal mono outs, I have TRS to XLR adapters, and I do have a dual XLR mono to XLR stereo cable (or a few of them) that I could use, they usually are with the chapman stick that has a stereo out. - edit - I note that this is now actually OTT, as I could go from the stereo ¼" jack to the ¼" jack on the IEMs - its just I have these cables anyway as I was using the MS-2 before hand, and that only had a 3.5mm jack
  19. Woodinblack
    It would be exactly the same as the sound coming entirely from one side, ie 90° to you, but somehow being as loud on the back side What is a TRS to TRS adapter? Why would you need to adapt that? if you plug a mono lead in, it would be fine, its only with a stereo lead. Thats one advantage of a balanced output, it would give you a fine mono output if you use a TS jack.
  20. Woodinblack
    I don't think so. I am in a general cover band and a metal band. The metal band almost never go past the first 2 strings, the cover band does all of them. I guess metal just stays in the mud!
  21. Woodinblack
    Absolutely not. If you connect to a TRS you have a balanced output, and a ground. The signal (a mono one) is amplified in some IEM amplifier, the ground maybe connected to the hardware ground, or isn't, it doesn't matter. that is the correct way. If you connect a mono source to a stereo output, you need to sum both stereo lines to that mono line. The way you are doing if you are putting a mono source into a stereo headphone, both sides are 180 degrees out of phase with each other. I have an X18, not an XR18, they are all TRS (and a headphone out). But they are aux line level out so it would have never occured to me to put them into a headphone! (and the normal aux I used was a TRS plug to an XLR socket. Absolutely. In fact any 'normal'* IEM system would expect a balanced mono, the same as most other XLR use in gigging Maybe you don't notice the phase or there is that thing that people mentioned on the CQ settings that lets you set it as a headphone out (or maybe headphone stereo). * the P2 has a stereo switch and allows you to use it as a stereo.
  22. Woodinblack
    Yep, I have one of those (for my Boss XE1), sounds like a plan, but still leaves that horrible connector which you know is going to be the first thing to break. I have one but would be reluctant to gig it unless I had physically secured something to that power adapter. Oh thats a good idea. Could glue that to the case!
  23. Woodinblack
    Because they forgot they didn't do it at the same time as the guitar!
  24. Woodinblack
    Well, one thing, if it is not designed for it, if (for instance) I plugged some headphones into the TRS aux output of the X18 ihave, and it could drive it (and I have never tried, so can't say for definite), the ears would be inverted from each other - the tip and ring of a TRS aux are the positive and negative of the output, and the ground is just the cable ground. Headphones are tip to ground and ring to ground per ear, so in headphones when your left ear was pushing, your right ear would be pulling and viceversa. But irrelevant if the QC18 is designed to also run a headphone, I assume it fixes that.
  25. Woodinblack
    The flow is great. It would be fantastic if it had a better power connector, but its still pretty good!
×
×
  • Create New...