Frank Blank

I don’t know why but just this last week of two I’ve been wondering how a Fender P would feel to play, never liked the look of them, always preferred a jazz or even an Aerodyne. I’m a five minute walk from PMT, it’s lunch break...

Squeeee deluxe.

Damn. I’m still kicking myself for forgetting those pieces of wood. Need to get them to you soon!

*waves*

Anyone..?

I am considering replacing my Fishman Platinum Pro preamp with the Grace Designs Alix. Now my usual MO is to just buy the thing I want without doing any comparison but not this time, well, not if at all possible that is. So, does anyone out there own a Grace Designs Alix, Felix or Bix that I can try or does anyone have experience of the Grace Designs preamps in comparison with the Fishman? Also, if I do go for the Alix, this will mean getting a separate compressor as the Fishman has one built in (already talking myself out of the Alix). I have no complaints about the Fishman, I’m just wondering if the Alix is really going to be noticeably superior? Any thoughts or opinions welcome.

Welcome! Your carpet/wallpaper combo is giving me acid flashbacks man. Keep playing, whatever you do, just keep playing.

Rubbish, your builds are just glorious.

I am so jealous, I wanted one of their European car ID stickers so much.

Obviously I’m going to say yes to your question but on that budget I think it’ll be difficult to source a decent one. Where are you based @Dennis1971? You are welcome to try mine out.

Me too, proper bonkers.

Just noticed @CameronJ has already answered, as he says, bass straight in is plenty good.

What was I thinking, omitting one of my longest standing always there albums..? Sparks - Kimono My House

Oh god that’s gorgeous...

Sound advice, I have thought about just trying the bass > Fishman through all the inputs I just didn’t have the confidence to do it n case I blew something!

It’s one he can liver with.

Layperson also. I think this is it, I suppose I don’t really know what level the output of the Fishman should be considered as. You the Fishman manual gives output info in Ohmns and dB but I cannot translate that into mic, line or whatnow!

Loud in the house but outside in comparison to traditional amps and cabs it seems quiet to me. Really? I assumed that mic on input A was solely for microphone input? Thanks for responding btw.

Months on from my purchase of the QSC K12.2 and I am still in a bit of a quandary. As you probably know I am using bass > Fishman Platinum Pro preamp > QSC. I was unsure which input to use on the back of the QSC so in the end I emailed Fishman and QSC asking which input / setting I should use. Both came back saying the Fishman should be connected to the QSC at line level so I use input B on the rear of the QSC at line level. Now the volume at line level is absolutely fine for rehearsing with my duo at home, I only have the gain 4 notches up when there are twenty available but I have recently attended two Bass Bashes with the QSC and in that environment it suddenly seems very, very quiet. I realise that it’s dwarfed in such surroundings but reading back through this thread I’ve noticed that some people are going through the QSC at instrument level, this is much louder but I thought it was for directly plugging in passive instruments? Should / could I be using instrument level for more volume or should I stick with the QSC / Fishman advice? Also I’ve tried using the Fishman’s XLR out into the QSC and I just get a hum, again I’m unsure which input setting I should use for this Fishman > QSC XLR connection. Generally I just don’t think I’m getting the volume I feel I ought to be getting when I crank it up when I use line level. The outputs from the Fishman are... Amp Output: Level: -∞ to +6dBV Output Impedance: 1k Ohms XLR D.I. Output: Level (pre EQ): -10 dB relative to input Level (post EQ): 0 dB relative to input Output Impedance: 600 Ohms

Public Image Ltd - Metal Box Crass - Feeding The 5,000 / Stations of the Crass Simple Minds - Empires and Dance Human League - Reproduction / Travelogue John Foxx - Metamatic Killing Joke - what’s THIS for? / Revelations Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids / Tin Drum Þeyr - As Above... Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

a) good luck with that. b) there is a rapidly increasing queue!

I’m sitting in my car as I’m a bit early for my lesson, was thinking about transcribing an MK baseline this evening just to see how difficult it’ll be, don’t think I’ll start with this!

@jebroad‘s gear was so cool, reminded me of stuff I used to use back in the punk days, I was a tad jealous! Sorry we didn’t get to chat @SpondonBassed, can’t imagine what I was busy doing apart from plugging @Jabba_the_gut‘s basses. No doubt we’ll chat another time, it was excellent that you both made it though.