Woodinblack

Indeed I don't get it - weddings pay way more than playing the same songs in a pub gig, simply because of a bit of extra fuss and hassle, and frankly, this wasn't much hassle.

It is smaller, which was your complaint! Although having used some of the MVave stuff, I doubt it would sound as good as the ME-90B

I would say contrary to above that if you want something to put into a daw, there is no harm playing it on the bass and then doing the pitch to note conversion afterwards, because latency then doesn't matter, and you can manually tidy it up afterwards as there are no real time constraints. There is no harm using midi bass live if the latency isn't an issue ie, you are not playing fast lines or you can preplay which is fairly easy, or you are using slow synth sounds such as pads for sweeping notes. For any kind of fast stuff, it doesn't really make any sense as it is far easier to use a keyboard.

I willl also say that I have now noticed that in 8 years of gigging I have had 3 sets of comments about my basses 1) Does your bass have 5 strings? How does that work then - had that twice 2) Is that a bongo bass (it was the wrongo, ironically not mentioned since i had a real bongo) - once 3) Oh thats a fancy bass - it was my checkerboard fireman bass - once 4) Oh your playing a rickenbacker, they sound so good - now at 7 times, including 2 at the day gig. I have had the rick since december. In fact, there have now been only 4 or 5 gigs with the ric when noone commented about it

Actually probably one of the reasons I wasn't so keen on the outdoor gig is that I didn't have IEMs, it wasn't as much fun

Busy day yesterday. We had the first gig from 2-3 at an outdoor 'festival' like thing in dorset, that we had done 3 years in a row. They had this thing where there were electric bands on the truck in the garden and acoustic bands in the teepee thing next to it between, so 1 hour for each - but it was exactly 1 hour for each, so you got on the stage, set up, plugged in, they did a line check and then you waited for your time to go and there was no gap, so obviously sound wasn't good on stage, and not so great outside as there was no time to setup. But it went down ok - it was raining a little when we were setting up, but by the time we played it was very sunny and well attended. All in all there was a nice atmosphere there and it was a good afternoon. I would have stayed longer but in the evening we had to be back nearer home for a wedding. The wedding we got to at 6 but they were doing speeches so we had to wait outside and not make noise. We waited for a while, they had finished the speeches but the staff wanted to move all the tables, we waited another half an hour, so finally it was closer to 7 by the time we set up to be ready by 8, for some reason it took a while to get ready as everyone was in each others way. Did the first hour, there was noone in the building, they were all outside in the sun, which sort of makes sense, way of weddings. Then it was time for food so everyone came back in and I put music on on the ipad, we went back on at half 9 to play to 11:15, the guitarist was very grumpy to go past 11. But the second half was dancing all the way through and we went down a storm so that was good. We couldn't play the last encore as it was 11:16 so the guitarist wouldn't play, and he had to be home in 5 minutes after that, so he went, but the singer stayed to help me with the PA Very profitable day all in all and got all the gigs for the weekend over and done with in a day

Actually very good. But only because we did a multiband outdoor gig where someone else was doing the sound earlier in the day, so to get back to using my PC felt like coming home, I could hear everything and we sounded good!

Agree with the practice. You cant think about two things at once, so at least one of those things has to be automatic. I have no trouble doing it until I get lost on the vocals and then everything falls apart.

It looks exactly the same on the PC and Mac. Never actually thought about it, or accidently clicked the choose files thing, but I can look into options there if it is enough of a hassle for people.

Wow - the previous owner must have spent a lot of time soloing around the 20th fret to get that kind of wear!

Yeh, I replaced mine and it has been fine but mostly I am using the MS-1s these days, I keep them with me though. I got a bit spoiled after joining another group that had a spare P-16, and now mono IEMs seem a lot harder work.

Thats what mine did

Yeh, I just have an OLP

So can't they turn the noise gate down?

Its all just electronics as soon as you put a pickup there. If you want to know how much is your bass, lean the bass against a big box, then you will hear what it sounds like! That was how the original dolby stuff worked, boost the treble so that the treble loss wouldn't be as bad.

that was 400W per channel. But what rating is this for the 2kw class D?

Certainly interested on the narrowest nut that people are happy to go for

Its tempting to me too, but I already have the Lekato (and the XVive) so I don't need to. But I do like the multiples on a charger thing.

Another easy way to look at it is to look at your diagrams above where you have the two tones. In the first one, the wires that go from the centre position of the pots are joined at the jack socket. Effectively that is one piece of wire, which means you could show it as one wire joined at the pots, that goes to the jack with two switches connected to it. The second one is better for isolation, but again, if both volumes are fully up it is the same as the outside and centre being connected, which means as both centres are connected, both pickups are connected, so both switches are connected, and effectively inline. This is unavoidable with a passive circuit.

Nothing. If you turn both volumes up the tones will do the same thing. However, on the LP, the way you would use it is by switching between the front and back and at that point the position of the tone control would matter on that pickup. Not only that, on an LP the volumes also can kill each other - turn the volume of one pickup to zero, and then put the switch to both pickups, you won't get any sound. But the easy way to show, if you have an LP, try it. Turn one tone full down and one up, switch betwen them, you will see one is muffled, one isn't, switch to both and it will be muffled.

Unfortunately due to the nature of passive electronics (and this is on all things - this is ultimately why fender got rid of the dual tones on the jazz), if you put them before the volume then the tone will work independently all the time the volume of one side or the other isn't full up. However, when the volume is all the way up, both tones are effectively wired together, and there isn't much you can do about it, without introducing active electronics.

Is there no upgrade? If it needs rosetta it must be a pretty old plugin?

Because it isn't tracking at all, it is putting a wah on the signal then doing a sort of bitcrush distortion thing to make the 'synth like' effect. The easiest way to track a signal is to not try!

My comment would be why you have two tone switches? You would have no tone cut with both off, the same tone cut if you have either of the switches on and double the cut if you put both on? If that is the effect you might as well have a centre off switch and do it all on one switch, rather than have the two redundant one on / one off modes?