Al Krow

So it's essentially a drive focussed multifx? Just wondering (other than XLR out) what it's offering over some of the more popular multifx's some of which have very usable drive patches? I guess, fingers crossed, it will be nailing the classic sansamp sound better than most!

If you want to try different flavours of sound eg drive, octave down, tremolo, chorus, phaser which can work well with different songs, then a budget multifx can be a very cost effective way to do that. A Zoom B1-4 is an excellent entry-level multifx, offering an excellent built in tuner, plus drums, looper and headphones out for home practice. Other budget multis e.g. the recently released Valeton GP-50 are getting some favourable comments from fellow BC'ers too.

Ah excellent, hadn't appreciated you're a Sei owner! What's your detailed thoughts on how it stacks up against your Ibby SR Premium for tone and playability? That will give me a very decent benchmark for a bass I know well.

Just had a quick look on the Bass Gallery website and the prices of the sold Sei basses seem to range from around £1,800 to £3k. Hard to tell whether they were new when sold or not, but they look pretty mint. So maybe prices aren't a million miles from their old price list?

Thanks! Be great to get a steer from any folk who have ordered one more recently. I need to pop into Bass Gallery at some point to get some work done on my Spector, so I can maybe also catch up with one of the two gents then.

The basses look great! Can any of you excellent Sei owners give me a steer on what they cost new these days, ball park?

Just seen this on a fBook thread: "I was just playing on my studio, as usual, suddenly I hear a few loud pops. a few minutes later, again but much worse and for longer, I look at the CQ-18T screen and it was like all the channels had very loud inputs and the screen was flickering..." Those symptoms seem pretty identical to what I've been getting. Which is kinda worrying that this might be a design flaw. However, he did follow up with this: "Update - I think I've found the issue!! I've moved some cables recently and I left one of the outputs cables running in parallel to a power cable. Once I re-organized the cables it didn't happen again." No idea what he meant by "running in parallel to a power cable" or whether that gives any wiser folk than me a clue as to what might be the cause?

Not connected either to wifi or bluetooth. Inputs: - Stereo in from PC - plus a couple inputs from Zoom (for drums) and bass via GX10. Was coming through both speakers.

@BigRedX how are you liking yourself so far?

Oooh sounds exciting!

The A&H has an external 12V 5Amp DC PSU It seems to go off when unattended rather than in use, although there were a few crackles at the venue last night, which worried me, but our guitarist thought it might have been a loose lead. I managed to take a quick clip of it crackling yesterday (rushed downstairs to get the last few seconds if it), and you can just make out that there are spikes on all the channels when this is occurring. A&H CQ18T crackling.mp4

Would an extension lead with surge or other protection also be a sensible step to take? Any particular type you recommend?

Just seen a GT-1B in the for sale. Hadn't appreciated the similarities between the two in terms of layout (or even that the GT-1B existed!), with the new GX-1B looking like a cool update of the "1B" range.

A little start of the year bump!

Thanks @Woodinblack - super helpful as always! I guess the question is whether we use our own PA which we've been doing for several years there, and augment it with their in-house PA which extends into other rooms, or just try to use their in-house PA. I was thinking the former for the first time so our own PA would be taking the main desk outs as usual, and their in house PA effectively becomes a glorified venue monitor? Given that we don't pan our outputs, I'm assuming that a single "monitor" lead into their house PA from one of our aux outs using their cable should therefore be fine?