Al Krow

I literally can't think of a better way of settling the issue! 😅

Not sure what we are in disagreement about? 😅

Best wishes to you both, Woody, during what is undoubtedly a scary and worrying time

Well I've risked it on over a hundred gigs since I bought it a couple of years back! Not been tempted to upgrade just yet particularly as my first, much posher, tablet got trashed on its first outing by a drunken punter at a fancy function gig when he fell and knocked over my mic stand! But you'll get better quality from an iPad, for sure. Plus you're purely reliant on a tablet whereas the CQ12 & 18T have excellent screens which makes using the tablet optional. I've not needed to use it wired, fingers crossed, as I make sure my tablet is fully charged before leaving the house. The key tip for connectivity has been to switch the CQ from 2.4 GHz to 5GHz - made a massive difference.

I bought a 2023 model of this with less RAM and for nearly double the price, back then. Has performed really well since. It's not the fastest chipset in terms of booting up, but that's a non issue when you have so much else to be getting on with setting up pre gig! Now ridiculously good value at under £60 on Amazon. DOOGEE U10 (2025) Android 15 Tablet 10 inch, 16GB RAM+128GB ROM(1TB TF)

I've always really liked these guys' lighting set up for a 3/4 piece band: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR7JilxjEMB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Nice pic Mickey! Do you have any video clips of this 5 piece in action?

@LawrenceH, @Rexel Matador, @Merton - exciting stuff gents! Could you share a bit more about your bands (I think Rexel has provided quite a bit of this already) in terms of: - band line up (e.g. 4 piece, instrumentation etc), when you guys formed, and whereabouts you're based? - plans for 2026 in terms of gigs & material?

A shame the octaver is so poor - given how good the Valeton OC10 was. But I guess that was an analogue version (rip-off?) of the Boss OC2 rather than being digital. Multi-fx always seem to struggle with pitch-shift, some doing it better than others, so I guess no real surprise?

@Jean-Luc Pickguard - I've got a fair few pedals I need to put up for sale at some point! A pretty mint Boss OC5 amongst them. Very happy to give you first dibs!

Amazing thanks! Looking forward to having a listen, as I'm sure others are! Exactly the sort of post that makes BC such a great forum - thanks Carl!

Have any of you GP-5 owners been able to record some of the fx and amp and cab sims to give us a sense of how decent the GP-5 is as a multi-fx?

Anything expected from Santa that's accidentally arrived early and turned out to be great?

Little end of year Dec bump, to see if we can get to discover a few more of our BC'er bands!

Ok if you really want to know... maybe it's because: (i) just being expected to play root notes with the occasional 5th thrown in, gives us the headspace to think about other things, like gear, and to spend hours discussing it on Bass Gearchat? (ii) if someone else did it instead of us, the rest of the band would almost certainly find a better bass player who had the time to put into practising (instead of doing the damn PA, lights, bookings and promo), and (iii) the likely end result is that no-one in the band would have any gigs to play at! ...now can we get back to discussing DMX please? 😅