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Brian held a bass for me while I tried to gather the funds.. He's a top and understanding chap.

As little as possible... I've discovered lowering tension via detuning and having a good rubbing up and down the length with a wonder wipe... So far so good 😀

Wow.. what can I say.. The sort of member that makes you trust in the bass chat community 👍

Was this a long process.. do you have to sit down with one of these plugged into your computer and tweak stuff?

I've got the power, snap

Is this just to have a physical mixer then and not use the phone / tablet method or is there another benefit?

But everyone is going on about the helix stuff so I'm very curious 😅

Another question for you chaps with experience.. Do you have a pa set up that allows each band member to have an individual mix for their respective iem? We are possibly about to pull the trigger on doing this... I'm wondering if this alone would allow me to feel happier with setting up my tone and keeping my board as is. With a bit of retrospective thought, I'm wondering if I prefer the bass with active on board EQ because I can bump up the mids and actually hear myself in a busy overall band mix 🤔

Can the hx stomp do the things people are describing here? Is it a slimmed down version of the helix?

Ah... I was sort of wondering if anyone would mention the helix.. So do you have presets for each bass?

Hi all . Anyone here that uses iem and goes out through the pa alone do you use a passive or active bass to do this? I have used my trusty limelight p bass and also my Yamaha BB 615 also. Both go out through a small pedalboard with a tc electronic spectradrive handling the EQ and di duties. I have started to prefer using the active bass as it gives me much better tone shaping quickly for this ampless set up (Cover band through the ages)

That's a lot of knobs ☝️

I had a 90s Warwick thumb 2 band I used to do this with and just run the front pickup

I've noticed on a couple of basses I've had that pushing the active eq (bass, mid, and maybe a bit less treble) to near max and then adjusting the input gain down on the amp can result in a nice fat tone. I watched a video of rich brown on YouTube and he said that he does this on his active basses with bass and mids and then knocks out all the treble. Anyone else doing this to achieve their tone?

If it helps.. Got a 615 and the be is very good 👍 Better than a at least few other basses I've had at higher price points including a German Warwick 😳

Yeah I'd be interested to hear any info on this too. I've recently acquired a bb615. It's a really good bass but I'd agree with other opinions floating around that the pre amp could definitely be better. I've seen some talk on talkbass about the Delano Sonar 3. I've also been wondering if the Glockenklang mights be a good shout. I personally want this bass to have active / passive switching as most of the time in a live setting I run a bass passive 99% of the time and then have a tone dialled in on the active circuit for slap. 👍

I had this issue with a sire p7 bass on the p pickup.. it turned out to be a bad solder connection.. bit of soldering fixed it.. However it's now developed the same thing on the j pickup 🙄 Haven't got round to sorting it yet. Maybe try (very carefully) wiggling some bits like pickup wires in the control cavity while playing 🤔 I take no responsibility for "over" wiggling

Just ordered a set of Rotosound RS665LB Stainless Steel Medium Light Gauge Roundwound Bass Strings (35 55 70 90 120) Yet to try them