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  1. Al Krow
    What makes one gig truly memorable and another dull or ropey for you?
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    Thanks gents. My current 9V are 1,300 mAh And I have found some on Amazon that look realistic at 1,500 mAh (ie 13,500 mWh) - I'll go with those.
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    SSCYHT 9V Lithium Battery High Capacity 28000mAh Rechargeable 9 V Anyone come across these? No reviews and little online about them as far as I can see. But 28,000 mAh seems huge - it's 20x the capacity of my rechargeable 9V batteries
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    Oh nice, that's high praise from you, indeed! There was some mention that only 15 each of the 4 and 5 string Premium editions were made available in the USA, so no idea what that number would have been in the UK? Guess I just struck lucky to find one, particularly in such good condition!
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    If you like a broad strap - these 4" Minotaur bass straps were recommended to me by Mark at Talking Bass and I'd happily recommend them.
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    I landed a replacement Ibanez SR Premium bass, which arrived today. I do remember not being able to get my old Smoothhound wireless transmitter into the recessed jack socket on my previous Ibby. The Nux however slots in a treat - that's an additional unexpected bonus!
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    NBD - Ibanez 30TH5PE Just arrived via an ex band mate now living up in Edinburgh - was collection only from there, which would have ruled it out for me, but a stroke of luck that I had a former bandmate who has relocated to that same city, and is also often back down in London with work.
  8. Al Krow
    Sure thing, here you go: NUX C-5RC Rechargeable Wireless Guitar Bug Set 5.8GHz (includes the recharge pack/case)
  9. Al Krow
    Useful to know, thanks @ped Are you tempted to give the Nux with its ability to angle the transmitter/receiver a try?
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    How old is your set up? Is it now out of warranty? (1 year or maybe up to 3 years?)
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    Sadly its arrival is too soon for a function gig on Wed and then I've got a bit of annual leave coming up when I won't be gigging, so we will need to be sticking to the old analogue desk for a little while yet. You may have a bit more immediate joy from the chaps over on @warwickhunt's CQ desk thread 😊
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    I get what you're saying, but you also then need a neutral venue to make it a fair comparison? A boomy venue/stage is not going to favour a set up with subs and a lack of bodies in the audience is also going to have a big impact, both of which @Dan Dare is correctly getting at needing to adjust for with his post above? So maybe it makes sense to correct for these factors and then simply share what adjustments have been made (and also remember your Zoom recorders too 😊?) But totally appreciate lack of time to get that all done on the day. I think the key takeaway for me is that all 3 set ups can potentially work really well, which is worth knowing in any event!
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    Thanks Dave - are you panning just the IEM mix or are you also then having to pan FoH e.g. because of the limitations on your desk?
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    Thanks @Jack and @Chienmortbb. That's kinda been my sense from other comments from fellow bassplayers who are looking after the sound i.e. stereo IEMs are a nice to have, but not necessarily worth the extra effort? That's pretty much what we do, also. I'm assuming that FoH won't usually be panned i.e. the panning is done for the benefit of the band to give them more instrument separation as @MichaelDean was saying. So to be able to do that just for the IEM monitor outs is going need to a pretty sophisticated desk, if you don't have a sound engineer separately looking after FoH? Am I correct that stereo IEMs can also end up taking up a lot of the monitor outs if the latter are mono and not stereo - which I think is the more common set up? In which case, again getting back to having quite a capable desk?
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    Gotcha, thanks! Be also interesting to hear what folk are doing in terms of stereo IEMs if, like us, they don't have a sound engineer looking after the FoH set up?
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    Sounds good! Were you panning just for the monitors i.e. FoH was unpanned / fully mixed? I guess you'd need a fairly sophisticated digital desk to deliver that?
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    Yes, the Xvives (like quite a lot of wireless IEMs) are in the 2.4 GHz spectrum, but we've not had any noticeable drop outs with mine since switching to 5.8 Ghz for my bass wireless bugs (I was actually getting drop outs on bass rather than IEMs as it happens). I can appreciate that he might enjoy stereo on guitar and the Xvives are definitely mono, in terms of gigging experience. I think of all musicians, guitarists seem to hate going through FoH and IEMs vs getting their full uncluttered sound from their stage amps, more than the rest of the band in my experience - dunno if that's a common experience? As we're not panning our desk mix and FoH is effectively mono for the audience (which would therefore seem to be what we would want to also be hearing?), I've often wondered what the benefit of going stereo for us bass players is, but I'm aware that quite a few BC'ers swear by it! I guess I'd need to try it at some point, although not with my mono Xvives!
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    Thanks for sharing this about your wireless, very useful feedback. I'd be really be interested to see how the Sennheiser wireless A/Bs vs the Xvive U4s we've got and whether they are any better or worse on this, but suspect not going to be straightforward to arrange that, unless they're a product that might be on your shortlist to check out!
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    You make a fair point Pete in the context of the gigs I've been doing (and, yeah, they're all decently paying), and...confession time - I did briefly own a Shure GLXD16+ for a few months back in 2021 but wasn't particularly impressed: I just couldn't see what the fuss was about given the cost vs the Smooth Hound I'd had, and wasn't enamoured with the size and weight of the set up. Sorry! Horses for courses? (Aside: Shure do have a really good reputation - but it seems they sometimes premium price off that? An obvious case in point is their IEMs which can be both more expensive and actually not as good as some of the competition). I switched to Boss WL-20 instead for it's compact size which seemed to be just as good for my needs, and stuck with that for quite a while until I was finding that the 2.4 GHz set up was getting drop outs at certain venues, almost certainly due to the other in house PA kit there plus the fact that our own wireless IEMs were 2.4 Ghz. Obviously drop outs are not something that working musicians and their bandmates are going to want mid-set! The switch to Nux 5.8 GHz set has fixed that for me. It's also got a ridiculously good range - I wandered off towards the end of a set at an outdoor gig recently to test its range capability and must have got maybe 100m before turning back with no drop out, whereas my wireless IEMs had given up a long way before then in delivering a signal! Be very interested to see how you get on with the Nux. This thread has made me do a bit more investigation into it (e.g. the battery life and the recharger pack, which I've shared above) and which has actually left me feeling even more positive about it as a very good wireless option. Fingers crossed you find the same.
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    On a more serious note, I personally don't have an issue with folk getting the best kit they can comfortably afford, that works for them. (I mean a double bass can easily cost north of £10k by itself, which is more than all my herd of basses cost together!) Personally I'm really happy with my Nux bugs having tried Smoothhound, Boss WL-20 and Lekato WL-50. Those were all decent, but the Nux is the best of that bunch for me and cost <£100 second hand. But if you're getting paid a decent sum to do a gig (or even if you're not, but I guess there's maybe more at stake for you and your bandmates if you are?) and you're finding that the better more expensive Shures are the right answer for you to give you peace of mind, particularly when you've tried a bunch of alternatives as you have, I don't think it's for the rest of us to quibble? Just my tuppence worth.
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    Was the reason for the double post @Jack because you've got two Shure GLXD16s - one for each of the units? I guess you're not of the school of thought that says they're over-priced then! 😅
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    Nux 5.8GHz - Battery Life Test I fully charged the Nux 5.8GHz and set it up so that the transmitter was connected to the output of my Zoom B1-4 with drum machine playing (in place of my bass output), and receiver into the input of a preamp pedal (both pedals loose and powered up) to try to give it a realistic set up, rather than simply switch the transmitter and receiver on next to each other in isolation. The manual suggests "around 4 hours" of battery life. My 2-3 year old ones, which I bought used and have gigged 100+ times over the past 18 months managed pretty much exactly 5 hours before the transmitter gave out (receiver had a little bit of battery life left in still, but was on "red") Actually that's better than I was expecting! So I think I can be pretty relaxed for most gigging situations, other than some function gigs where there's quite a gap between set up / sound check and finishing the second set, where I'll just need to remember to switch the units off. In addition, the storage case doubles up as a battery recharger which gives another back-up, if needed. @Lozz196 @BigRedX - hopefully that ties in with your experience and provides all 3 of us with some reassurance when playing live with the Nux wireless?
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    Just spotted the brand on the ruler (which I'd never clocked in the many years of owning it!) 😅 The XR18 seems to be a hugely well regarded piece of kit by a lot of BC'ers. Must admit having a built in interface on the CQ is going to be a bit of a comfort blanket for me, just in case there's an issue with my tablet for whatever reason. Btw are they still selling the basic XR18 model - seems that the XAir version with the built in router (and its router doesn't seem to get great press tbf) is the only one now available?
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    Drop-outs were the exact same reason I also moved on from the Boss WL-20, which otherwise was a really good bit of kit. It operates in the crowded 2.4 GHz space and experiencing drop outs mid-gig was not great. 5.8 GHz kit does seem to work much better from that perspective. Be interested to see how you get on with the Joyo, clearly there's a few fans of that set up on this thread already. They seem to have adopted quite a few features of the Nux (other than the ability to angle the transmitter and receiver, which sounds like you might have valued @ped?), particularly the recharge pack set up. And at £75 new, they are 40% cheaper than the Nux.
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    Seems that my thinking that these could come in very handy wasn't a bad shout, if you've taken a liking to that feature? Together with the router (and B stock price!) persuaded me to go for the CQ18T rather than its baby brother. It seems solidly built, but whether it's as tank like as the CQ20 only time will tell...
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