Al Krow

No issues with latency on the G75? And does it have a decent range?

Nothing as fancy as that! From the blurb... EMG 40TW (or 40CS-TW) The single-coil mode is the JCS pickup built with ceramic magnets and steel pole pieces. The humbucker mode is the ceramic steel dual-coil for a big, aggressive sound with a pronounced mid-range. Push/pull volume pots allows switching from the clarity of the J pickup sound to the fatness of the CS humbucker. This five string bass pickup uses a 40 Extended housing that is 4 inches (102mm).

Euro LX owners - what EQ settings have you got your basses set at? For general use I'm kinda landing on: single J neck + MM bridge, with treble at 7/10 and bass dialled right back. The single J neck is crisper / less full bodied than the double MM setting at the neck and having lower output than the full MM just takes a little of the edge off the bridge MM without diluting the latter's crunchy tone. For a more vintage tone - solo MM neck pup plus treble rolled right off.

For the past 6 years I've not really felt that anything has managed to put my old Markbass AC 121 Lite to shame as a combo, in delivering a combination of portability / weight (39 lbs), overall build and sound quality, and power (delivers 500W through it's solo 12" cab). However @lee650 has just brought these to my attention. On paper, they looks amazing. Can't wait to find out how they sounds. I've moved onto separates more recently and not felt tempted to get another combo, until now... For a comparable weight to my AC 121 Lite, there's a choice of: 800W, 2x12 cab, 40lbs 800W, 2x10 cab, 37lbs There's also a featherweight 112 (32 lbs) but I presume that its single 12" speaker won't be putting out 800W solo (nearer 400W I suspect). None of them are budget offerings, as you might have guessed with the inclusion of the new range GK Legacy heads. Pic of the 212:

Haha! Just spotted that I appear to have stolen someone else breaking story...

...but it turns out they weren't the brightest bass pedals on the board! Band's stolen equipment found in Cash Generator store Image copyrightTOM MORLEY Image captionDo Nothing are from Nottingham Do Nothing, from Nottingham, appealed for help after gear worth £1,000 was taken from an underground car park. The items were recovered a day later from a Cash Generator store. ...and the seamless link to this forum... "Bass is a massive part of what Do Nothing sound like. If you take that away they wouldn't sound like the same band." Now to check out what these guys sound like when they do have their equipment! ...So I guess this unfortunate experience was more than worth it for the £50,000 of free publicity they've just had? I'd never heard of these guys before (and may have gone to my grave not doing so) had it not been for the local good-for-nothings doing their thing.

You'd have thought, wouldn't you! Here's what Toontrack have to say on the matter: "EZdrummer 2 and its demo are built on an older plugin architecture, so they are not resizable. Superior Drummer 3 has a resizable interface." [Aug 2019] https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/is-there-a-limitation-in-ez-drummer-demo-that-prevents-it-from-using-full-screen/ With due respect, that's pants. I'll be going with Ableton Lite which comes free with Focusrite.

Slightly amusing that I'm ending up on this thread very much where I started it! Turns out that the Behringer RD-8 and Roland TR-08 are still the two leading contenders of physical drum machines. (I found the EZ drummer screen interface a bit tiny, if I'm honest, which was off putting). Both are 'tribute' acts to the original Roland TR-808 which was both apparently a commercial failure AND also subsequently became the iconic drum machine! The Behringer is bigger but, on balance, I think that's going to make it less fiddly to use, although compact design is usually something I'm a big fan of The Behringer has sought to keep the analogue circuitry of the original whilst improving on the workflow, and has some useful filtering thrown in e.g. hpf to cut out low end boominess The TR-08 has gone for digital emulation but kept the apparently very annoying quirkiness of the original 808 workflow, including needing to dive into sub menus; my least favourite pastime! They both have song mode which allows chaining of multiple patterns => can easily create sections for verse / chorus, specify repeats, insert fills & endings. (Song mode is not available on the Roland TR-8 or TR-8S, which are intended more as live use kit, rather than for use in the studio). Nice little short comparison review by Andertons. And I agree with their conclusion - one clear winner in my books.

Sympathise a lot with making the transition from 4 to 5! I remember my first gig with a 5er, 18 months or so back, and muscle memory kicking in the middle of a song, great...EXCEPT it was muscle memory for all the 4 string basses I'd ever played up till then, so I was at the right fret but wrong string! Aaargh!! Managed to limp through to the end of that number, but I could feel confidence ebbing. Fortunately no one really notices the bass player too much, right?! Anyway scroll forward, and I'm loving playing my 5s. The only 4 strings left in the herd are one that has 4 octave strings included and an EUB...

Well if you're asking, I use a DG AO900 with my BF SC 😁 Clean, modern, great EQ, with oodles of power and the ability to get dirty. ... but the point is well made. The SC is transparent / uncoloured, with excellent articulation and sound dispersion. It's effectively a blank canvas to add the bass and amp tone that you want.

That does look good! The Fearless F112 is an outstanding cab and drinks power to get the best out of it. The Handbox has a devout BC fan club too. My only hesitation is that the R-400 puts out 200W or so at 8 ohms, so ideally I'd use it with a 4 ohm cab so as not to have to drive it hard, or pair the Fearless with a higher output amp. But I'm guessing you're not finding that an issue? Must admit I would love it if Handbox released a R-750!

Great rig! Those Mesa PH cabs are some of the very best - I loved my PH212. Didn't quite follow the comment about ringing ears, was that due to the IEMs?

Two of the BC'ers most popular filter pedals with small footprints, seem to be the MXR BEF (band pass) and the Fwonkbeta (low pass). The MXR has more tonal variety via it's greater number of adjustable parameters; the Fwonk, to me, had a sweeter tone. The MXR is analogue whereas the Fwonk digital. I'd be happy to recommend either.

Cheers - I'm going to be using Ableton Lite as that comes free with the Focusrite kit I have and seems to be pretty decent. I did check out the trial EZ drummer and I found the interface tiny !! Which was a chore / off-putting. And I'm guessing that having an actual unit will be easier in any live situation than a laptop. I appreciate that the software route is going to be cheaper, but as I'm saving all this money on not getting any bass-gear... 😀

Seems to me that if you're using the footswitch then you need to increase the volume on your clean for balance, and then just use your footswitch and don't jump between switching on the amp and using the footswitch? But agree that's an annoying quirk and seems weird.

As this is a bass-gear only abstinence challenge, I think it could be the year of getting a decent drum machine for me! Very tempted by the Roland TR-08 and / or the Beat Buddy. Although some have said I'm only putting off the inevitable falling of the GAW! Thread derail: any of my fellow abstinence monks already got themselves a decent drum machine that they could recommend?

And there was me thinking that the pups were upside down when in fact that's exactly how they have to be on a left handed bass!

Wot no pedal crutches or stabilisers to stop you falling off? Careful you don't do yourself an injury 😁

Very much what I thought. In other words a bit of a gimmick?

Does the editor require Windows 10 to work, or will it work just fine on earlier versions eg Windows 7?

Spot on. Hard to disagree with ANY of that! (Or certainly at least the bit about Spectors) 😁

PJB gear is very jazzy isn't it? 😁