Woodinblack

1 hour ago, SweetWilliam said:

I am new to the xr18 and am having trouble with monitor volume control.  I have viewed a number of vids and do not have the screen needed to click on "utility" icon and there I am stopped. Surely it's an easy fix...., what am I  missing?

What monitor do you mean? I am not sure I have ever pressed or noticed a utility icon

On 09/06/2025 at 09:24, MNY said:

At the moment I am listening to and enjoying Butcher Brown, the new album by Monkey House called Crashbox if you like Steely Dan you will probably like them too,  The Big Galoot by King Baby with Kevin Scott on bass and the fabulous Men I Trust from Canada. 
 

 

Thanks for that, been listening to them a lot since this

Not the page reference, just the image link, like this

If there is a direct link to the image, post that

I would have thought that most of the reasons would cause the other strings to be out too, unless there is something actually wrong wiht that string. I would certainly swap it with another one before looking for any other permenant change. What sort of level of flat are we talking?

In the bristol one, pre-move, the bass guy was pretty helpful, although they didn't really have anything other than the Ibanez like I already had, a large number of fenders I wasn't interested in and the occasional rickenbacker at rickenbacker prices. They had a lot of guitars.

I bought serveral things from them, I got my ME90B from them as it was available and accessible, several leads, strings, microphone stand, etc.

They failed to sell me an Argon8 that I wanted and they had because I couldn't get to try it due to a lack of interest on their part, and a Yamaha DX which they had but didn't have a price so I assumed it was more expensive.

Its a shame they have gone, but tbh, since they moved in bristol I have only visited once as its not somewhere I generally would be.

18 hours ago, BigRedX said:

For me fretted bass fingerboards are chosen for looks and nothing else.

Agreed - I didnt' think it was a great looking wood for that, but certainly not something I thought about other than the first glance. I mean I prefer ebony because its black, then wenge as it has nice markings.

So the string layout on the top photo is what you would expect, but then in the 2nd and 3rd, the top sets of strings are reversed (the 4th one you can't really see).

11 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

I love it, still laughing. 😂

Well, my practice tonight was way better!

2 minutes ago, markorbit said:

£2099 for the Vintage Sunburst. Not sure if that's a mistake.

 

Once I saw the GuitarGuitar prices (£2299) and after speaking to Andertons I didn't think they would stay under £2k for very long.

Bargain, so only a few hundred quid more than a handmade british P-Bass then!

31 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

If you look at it one way, Isn’t it v2 of a MOD dwarf with added Darkglass? 

Well, that wasn't their product so it doesn't count!

Just now, dmccombe7 said:

Can't say i've been there but i think over the years i've been close but not left the house yet when i realised what day it was. 😂

Worse still, I got home and my wife said 'I did wonder why you were practicing on a wednesday', but obviously didn't feel like asking!

And I still have two days of work to the weekend

Not great. I loaded the car and headed to the practice place, which is luckily not particularly far. As I drove in their car park was half used for some event, they had a food truck and loads of people sat outside, there was hardly anywhere to park and I was the first there, it was going to be difficult getting the equipment past them. I went to message the guys to say that it looked like it might be an issue and to ask the singer if he had cleared it with the pub owner, then had a sudden though, and looked at my watch. Sadly my watch said Wednesday, which is unfortunate as we practice on thursdays. So I drove home!

1 hour ago, bottomfeed said:

Just wanted to revive this to show the thing in action!

 

Gravity Wave Riders - Child of the Aviator

Love that (acrylic bass aside)

5 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Mine got used at a few gigs, notably at a Christmas one - it's a bit heavy to lug around though.

I think I last took mine out at christmas too - they are heavy things.

2 hours ago, Linus27 said:

PMT, Bax and Gak all gone. These are not good times.

Bax are back

35 minutes ago, NigeJ said:

Just heard the whole chain has gone bump......

That doesn't sound good - they still seem to be taking orders on the web?

3 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Maybe my ears are puny or I'm easy to please, but I don't get these problems despite switching between wildly different basses.

I don't - but then I am convinced that a lot of people listen with their eyes!

44 minutes ago, kiat said:

Could you post a link to your Lekato model?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404205416058

On 06/06/2025 at 11:39, SteveFate said:

Sold

Please edit your first post and put sold in the title then please

Yes, I got my first advert from them for a while.

I think they might be doing themselves a disservice by not saying in the email or anywhere in the website 'yes, we know we had a very public 3 month break but now we are back and are operating normally' rather than just not mentioning it and hoping everyone forgets!

19 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

The Mipro ones have a short delay of approx 1mS from memory, whereas the Lekatos are 5mS. Not an issue in most situations, but the Mipros really are pro bits of kit. 

Clearly, they are 10 times the price I would expect them to be a lot better, and I wasn't expecting much if anything from the lekatos (in fact I didn't use them for a year or so as I figured they would be poor) but they work really well, so they will do for me - I am not in the MiPros price bracket!

28 minutes ago, bigthumb said:

I had to rehearse and gig sitting down with my foot (in a cast) on a chair which was a bit awkward but it was doable. 

 

I did a gig sitting down as I had a knee replacement, that was ok, other than it being the hottest day of the year!

Gig last night, a wedding.

I am not generally a great fan of weddings, but they do pay well and many of them have been great. Normally it is a pain to load in and out while they are doing speeches etc. This one we had a little flap at the back of the tent to load in, but luckily it was just me and the drummer so loading in wasn't too bad, the guitarist came later once we had everything in. Quietly got everything loaded through the various speeches. 

For some reason the X-Control wasn't working - I know it wasnt the X18 or the router as I had wireless, but swapping cables didn't work. In the end the singer found if he started it holding the ethernet cable up, it worked. Time for some new ethernet cables!

They had changed their mind about the first dance song, and wanted something to dance with everyone with, but didn't have an opinion what, so we went for 'saw her standing there' as it is generally love based and we can't normally play it as the drummers dad always wants to sing it, and he is at all of our public gigs, it went down a storm. So everyone danced for 5 or 6 songs and then went out of the tent - it had been raining for a while and suddenly got nice. So it was largely an empty tent for most of the first half until obviously 2 songs before the half time, when everyone came back in and danced. we extended a few songs then had a break. Came back in and everyone had gone off again, half into the pub the marque was in the garden of and half outside, so we did half the set to one woman, who to be fair was enjoying it, and her other half came in later so there were two of them.

Towards about half an hour before the end, a large group came in and started dancing and enjoying it and then inevitably everyone was in for the last 2 songs and  after the landlord gave us a hard '1 more song' and we did that song, were all shouting for more songs. As usual.

Then as we broke down, or trying to, a couple of the guys were trying to set up a silent disco, which involved lots of them standing in the way while we were trying to break down and making it really slow. 

It was ok but I am not a fan of weddings!

Well, I will do two, although the first one was last saturday, just hadn't got round to it.

Last week was a local 'pub on a beauty spot' event - they play gigs on sunday afternoons through the summer, and they are well attended. They don't pay well, the landlord is tight and he knows that people really want that gig, they do, only certain bands are allowed in. The venue is a semi-permenant marque over a fixed shed/stage, its made at the start of the season and taken down at the end. Parking in general is a nightmare, but the band have access to an area at the back, getting to it is another issue due to the traffic trying to park, took 10 minutes to get past the car parks!

This was the first of the summer gigs, so looking forward to it. 

Luckily got there before the guitarist so it was an easy setup, I took my BC12 speaker and a TC450 as I was a little concerned about the Evox8 not starting when we were at the last gig, and didn't want to be doing an ourdoor gig with everything through one Evox8, turned out nothing to worry about, it was fine.

Busy as usual, sound was clear and good, crowd were good, although the bass (the rick) sounded lifeless. Midway through the third song realised that the compressor on the 450 was nearly flat out, which was the issue, dialed it out, all sounded good. 

First half went ok, but seemed a bit flat for some reason. At half time people were doing their usual complaints about the sound, although not usual, in that noone complained about the vocals, I took the mixer in during the week a few weeks back and spent some time eq'ing the vocalist from a multitrack and since then he has been gushing about how it sounds, and noone has complained. People complained the guitar was too quiet, I didn't think it was, they also complained the bass was too quiet, well, not having that, so that went up a bit.

switched the Maruszczyk at half time (for no particular reason) and the second half the crowd were more into it and it went down a storm - the second half songs are more poppy than the first - also the new tracks 'A little less conversation',  'staceys mom' and 'all the small things' went down well. 

In the end we must have been going too fast or had too short a break as we started to get really close to the running out of 44 track setlist time!

Later someone posted some grainy videos of us on facebook, the bass was pretty loud in the first half!

12 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I won't be gigging for a while. Turns out I broke my ankle. I'm scheduled for surgery Friday morning. 

Is that from the fall at the gig the other day?