Woodinblack

Obviously just a feeling you get - I find it exactly the opposite, i find a 5 more fun, the 4 more work and I am lazy!

Seems like a good idea for my mini pedalboard idea, so I got one, at £118 seems a very good deal if it is of use

I only play 5, but certainly I think slap works better on a 4. Luckily (for me and everyone else) I don't do that so its not an issue. Obviously if you want an old bass or something that only comes in a 4 (mostly a ric and such like), you have to stick with a 4 - I often get them because there are loads that look great and I figure that will be good but ultimately I have songs in the set with the band I have been with almost a decade that need a 5 so I end up not gigging them, and I don't tend to hang on to any non gigging basses.

Didn't have any of that, had it at other places, where it was nice.

I picked up a mini pedal board at the last bass bash, now I have a power supply for it..

Yeh, chalk it up to experience, I agree there are biker clubs we have played for before, who have been great but I guess it isn't going to matter any more, the guitarist has put a 'no biker gig' rule in place now.

Well, last night was was a biker gig, but sadly I had mistaken for that term for several biker gigs we had done around here where it is just a group of people that like riding bikes, it wasn't that sort. Tiny area in some clubhouse in a corner on a concrete floor which was damp so we couldn't stick any of the cables down. Stripped out all of the interesting songs and just played rock and blues numbers, they really didn't want abba, 9-11:30 with a break. It was pretty packed but to be honest, really not sure why we were there, noone was really bothered and I think that the only reason people watched was because it was so wet outside! They paid us £50 less than agreed, but we weren't really in a position to argue about it but in the positive side, for a change everyone helped to break down, so after finishing and breaking down / loading and driving home, I was at home within 40 minutes of the last note. The best part of the evening was that it was empty on the roads and there were some great but manageable puddles on the way home!

haha - I didn't mean peoples playing problems (although I do listen to my own to spot things I need to improve, but stuff you dont' notice in a mix, like i have noticed the bass drum has a sort of double tap to it and things like that.

Its also handy to listen to isolated tracks to spot problems

What I didn't understand was why you said it. I said 'I think it is a bit cheap to not have a wirless hardware, which is pretty cheap to do on an expensive mixer'. you said, because you belived it was because it could be used standalone, which is true and a valid reason, if not a bit cheap, but then mentioned that the XR wasnt standalone. Which is what caused my confusion, as I didn't mention the XR (until asked about it) or see your point. Obviously just a dissagreement, you don't think it is cheap on a £600 mixer to not have a wireless connection, I do, whether you can use it standalone or not. The CQ18 can be used as standalone too, but it has wireless, so I would assume the arguments are the same. I don't really see the CQ12 as a cutdown CQ18, just one with fewer channels. I think it is a shame, there are many more people who could stretch to the CQ12 and only need that number of channels, but couldn't stretch to the CQ18, but wouldn't go for it because it wasn't wireless.

Can't imagine where you could get one, although as it has a belt buckle can't you just put an extension section in with another part? I did manage to get another of the hooks for the end when I was going to make a different type of strap, but never did.

i was literally going to say the same to you. I am sorry if I caused offence by saying that I thought it was a silly commercial decision to not put Wi-Fi on a expensive mixer, I didn't realise you were a shareholder or something

Hardly - the differentiation is obvious. I would pick the 18 over the 12 purely because I want more than 10 jack/xlr inputs. Same as the XR series, you get a 12, but need more channels, get a 16, need multichannel get an 18. With an X-Control which is generally how I use it, but not sure I get the point? Do you mean as to why A&H decided to save money on their £666 mixer by not including a £2 wifi connection?

the A&H is a new device, the XR is a decade old device at this point and the wifi was not uncommon at the time, and available on all the models 12/16 and both 18s. And you don't 'have' to use an external device, I didn't for years and only once had an issue. The point is there is virtually no saving for the company not having a wifi built in and whether you call it 'cut down' or not, is still considerably more expensive than the most expensive of the XR mixers.

how could the montor app work if you don't have some kind of network? I assume that is why it isn't listed. Seems a huge oversite from A&H - wireless network devices cost pennies at manufacturing time, to leave it off the 12 seems crazy.

I think it is quite impressive, seeing as they don't have to add anything but they still do.

If you mean after about 1990, then yes, after that a large amount of them were pretty much the same as all staff!

From a conceptial point of view there is no different between wired and wireless IEMs, other than the physical transport of the signal, all the other considerations, channels, routing etc are the same.

Mine is a swamp ash with ultralights. It weighs very little (not spector RST little, but still, no real weight)

Our keyboard player who had joined us this year go himself a girlfriend and a new house, so found he didn't have the time to keyboard anymore, so we are back to a 4 piece. Tonights was the first night after he had gone, although in fairness, a couple of gigs back he wasn't available and we did that one too, so we had to drop some of the new songs and bring back some of the old songs. TBF, we brought back way too many, we had 42 on the set list and ran out of time in the low 30s! This was a private 50th birthday in a hall, which was for a friend of someone we did a 50th birthday for a few years back, and on the strength of that. For the sake of irony, I doubt we have had a bigger stage for years, so plenty of room for a keyboard player! Easy and quick setup, car park straight outside and noone was getting in anyones way setting up, the crowd started dancing from the first song pretty well all the way through, was a joy to play. Luckily to coincide with the keyboard player leaving, Bass direct finally after 33 weeks sent my mod dwarf back to me, which is how I do the keyboards in Brick in the wall with the footpedals, so I was a little nervous about that (and remembering the keys) and bring back the sample pad for "in the end', but it all went flawlessly I almost took my bongo, as a few months back when I went to take my bongo somewhere, the strings were all rattling and it was basically unplayable. I decided on friday to look at it and reset it up, and it was absolutely perfect. But then I remembered it doesn't really fit in my new Thomman gig bag, its too long - need a new gig bag for that! Anyway, all went down well, after half time the singer anounced we had been asked to play a local festival that I had wanted to play before, so that was good, and we had been asked about other parties, which is also nice, especially as this one paid almost double the charge of a pub and was in fairness a lot easier. Great night. Tonight we are off to play a free gig for the dad of the drummer, more of a jam thing as the singer can't be there so we will sing some and we have some guest people doing turns. The drummers parents have been to 95% of all of our gigs in the last decade, including the ones where they were a large part of the audience, so happy to do that.

Love the finish on that, it is almost identical to my Maruszczyk

Maybe it is a pickup issue then if it has changed, or something between the pickup and output. Does the tone affect it, ie, has the capacitor gone funny somehow. For me the first thing would be to disconnect the pickup hot output and connect it straight to a jack plug to see what that sounded like.

That really doesn't sound like the pickup to me - a broken pickup is a broken pickup, it wouldn't make a difference how loud or really what string, it sounds like a volume issue, whch sounds like a 'what you are going into' issue.

Exactly the same as I found it, it went from 'meh, its ok' to one of my favourites very quickly although pretty sad - "and Im outside in the dark, looking at a blood red moon, remembering the hopes and dreams i had and all I had to do, and wondering what became of that boy and the world he called his own, and Im outside in the dark, wondering how I got so old, its all gone". Quite a long way from 'just like heaven'