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Yeah battery, 9vdc and USB C powered from what I’ve read.

Yeah I travelled with one of those until May last year. Don't love it, it’s solid but you can’t get anything but the bass in it and very few decent gig bags fit in it these days. I mean the SKB posted above that I didn’t quote properly. I’ll probably be selling mine soon and get a second Kapsule.

@cetera did you end up going for one?

Trust me, having used the 100BT there is almost no iOS app for it. You are not missing anything by there not being an Android app.

I appreciate the info I’ll be using it in future wars 😂

Yeah I always steer well clear of the Android iOS debate. For some people it’s near religious. The 100BT is a clear money grab, those additional fx were 99p in app purchases. I think it fell flat on its face because if you buy the 60b you likely don’t need other effects, same with the 70cdr etc etc, sure it’s nice to be able to hack the devices but I find I run a near stock 60b with then a few extra verbs. The fx then became free, at which point I imagine all future development was abandoned. Which is why you can load fx but can’t backup presets or settings. The new + models seem like the app will handle this My first hour with the BT I thought this is the best of the bunch but after that hour of slowly loading fx one by one and doing all the free in app purchases, then finding I can’t save anything or load my existing patches I just felt I can have a bunch of 60b’s I can flash with the settings of the others.

Don’t know if the colour change and screen print differences cost so much if they can bulk order the shells. Also I think a lot of people would find the process of doing what you suggest intimidating. It’s basically what the 100BT is and they are the least popular model.

It was never that popular or easy to find. iOS only etc, on one hand it’s great you can add fx over bluetooth but you can’t backup or share settings so as a duplicate pedal to another MS it gets really tedious setting it up. I have a 60B, 70CDR and 100BT. They all just fulfil the need of a misc effect when required or something I can throw down at a jam and be away running on batteries. I have loads of issues with them but they are still the best at what they do.

I had my eye on that over at Bass Bros, let me know if you don’t get on with it they are an acquired taste. Hot af output wise, like a solid 9db louder than everything else I own. I tend to run the volume between 1/2 and 3/4 if I’m using pedals or someone elses amp. I’ve found this is the mustang I really connect best with, if the sound coming out of it is even then leave it as is, I assume the pickup has been lowered to tame the output. Mine is flat so likely running higher and hotter than yours. Anyway my three, for now and a hofner thrown in for good luck. Maybe I’ll go back to playing real basses soon.

I only have the single and the guitar one at that (fits a fender mustang perfectly). I as of yesterday I was added to the Gruv Gear site following this trip from Houston to Istanbul. I travel a lot with basses and I would say so far the Kapsule is the best option but it’s not without its flaws. So firstly trying to take your bass on a plane is an absolute nightmare it’s stressful from start to finish. I did this with a Squier Mustang in a cheap gigbag going Manchester - Istanbul - Bogotá. After that I vowed never again. You’re basically stuck with a small light case where you’re begging to be let on the plane or you have something more robust like a mono m80 and you’re almost certainly going to be forced to check it whilst the case still isn’t ideal for flying. Next I used the skb bass safe, which in terms of keeping the instrument safe is great but very few gig bags fit in it these days and when they do you can get very little in the gigbag. I was shoving a gruvgear edge in there which I believe the bass one will fit and then putting extras down the side. This worked ok but had TSA or similar opened the case and pulled everything out I have no idea how they’d get it all back in and several occasions the side of the case were bulging from me overloading it. Additionally it wheels ok, but it’s got a high centre of gravity and it’s useless on uneven ground, at which point you realise how heavy it is to carry in one hand. Following the chaos of my Istanbul - Bogotá experience I picked up a Gruv Gear Kapsulite in Bogotá. This case is great, sleek, well protected, good weight and I think I made 4-5 flights with it as I bounced around South America. It has a really nice neck pocket bag which is nice to remove from the bass and have with you on stage. But you can fit very very little in it, think a thin strap, cable, di and maybe a pedal. But it’s very solid for flying with. Then the Kapsule which in the video you can see the insane amount of stuff I brought back with me. Everything arrived safe even though half way through the trip I noticed a padlock missing. The bass section has a tsa lock, the top part you need to padlock. The case was a dream to move, lower centre of gravity to the bass safe but then at the end of my journey I could sling it on my back, walk the 1km from the metro and up 3 flights of stairs. Along the way I had handles in all the right places for manoeuvring it through airports. However it was clearly dragged across the floor after its first flight, this meant the grooves where you slide the wheels in were damaged making it quite difficult to get them on and off. I solved this mostly when I landed in Istanbul by running my keys over it to remove the now excess plastic. I’ll have to file or sand these further before my next flight. My concern is if these continue to be damaged and the wheels eventually won’t slide on or stay on that it will render the case useless (I am going to investigate how replaceable these are). I’m probably overly concerned about that because I bought mine second hand and it’s now outside of warranty. Brand new of these break you’re going to get a new case I expect. This leads me on to my next point, I have the single guitar version and it is heavy, fully loaded it is very heavy so if you’re considering the double bass version you need to be fairly confident you’re only going to have to sling it on your back in an emergency. You’ll be able to get an insane amount in the case. I went this route because as great as the kapsulite was I’d still have to check a suitcase so that’s excess baggage every flight even though in combination the 2 cases could be under 20kg. This starts getting expensive if you’re travelling a lot or have additional cases you’re also checking. I absolutely love this case though and think I’ll be getting more, if only as a storage solution where I can keep everything together in one place. So I may very well end up with a bass duo for this purpose. But currently flying with shortscale basses just makes life about 10% easier. So in summary I think it’s the best case available but it is a tool, if you’re expecting it to stay nice then you shouldn’t be flying with it, I’ve flat out had suitcases ripped in half 😂 The only other considerations are Enki which if I was touring and just going in and out of a van or definitely had additional baggage whilst needing 2 basses I’d consider. Gator also make a guitar mini vault which will fit 2 shortscale basses. But neither fit anything else in them so it gets costly with excess baggage fees. I think I just like they can go straight on stage and function as stands. Final point, (assuming you have an iPhone) put an AirTag in whatever you go for, best travel purchase I’ve ever made.

It is and we’re now in a committed relationship

For the past two years since I took on a life of travelling most of my musical output has been jam nights and let me say they are categorically the most difficult and least rewarding musical endeavours one can do. Your points and takeaways are all valid but I would suggest you look at a different output. Since my last jam in Houston, Texas playing 12 bar blues for over an hour (keep that in mind as that’s the output, playing the same 3 chord shape in different places for over an hour), I got loads of compliments, but I absolutely fluffed a slow blues because it was that slow I thought something more complex was going on than just going to the 4th for the 2nd bar instead of a standard arrangement 🙄, drummer just crushed me afterwards by saying “I guess you don’t play the blues very much” Let me tell you, that stung, even though not 10 minutes earlier I had a an old proper bluesman tearing it up on hammond tell me those were some tasty licks, fist bumps from the drummer, lapsteel player come up between songs to tell me how great it sounded, yadda yadda And I’d nailed a more complex song earlier because the guitarist told me oh this has a flattened 5th in the turn around, whereas slow blues guitarist just half arsed counted off some of the changes occasionally. My outcome from that is I’m not doing jam nights anymore, I prefer a more controlled environments but my lifestyle doesn’t suit playing in a band. So I’m going to ‘hire’ some session musician friends and jam in a studio, this solves all my issues with jams and quite honestly gigs. Because everything you’ve mentioned for the night going wrong I’ve experienced. My biggest pet hate is we somehow seem to accept hearing ourselves or the band a luxury in the gigging world. Every pro musician will tell you the best was to learn is go out there and play with lots of people, but we assume that has to be in front of people, it doesn’t. You can go have a lesson with a drum teacher, guitar teacher, piano etc etc and basically pay to play with them for the hour. You don’t NEED a band and you don’t NEED to be going to jam nights but you do NEED to be playing with people, lots of ways to do that though 😉 My favourite thing to tell people from my Open Mic experiences (because you can imagine how many people want to play with you when you turn up with a double bass) Me: What key are we in Singer Songwriter: Erm well this string is down 2, this string up 4, these two doubled, then I’m capo’d 11 Me: Right What followed was a number of chord changes that would embarrass a prog musician as overplaying. The expectation that we can just follow this song they’ve been perfecting in their bedroom for the past 7 months when they don’t even know what they’re playing 👍🙄 Finally, don’t forget you’ll never struggle to find a gig as a bass player 😇

First just for fun fx I’ve got in a long time. Can’t even begin to explain how they sound. Burned 2 hours making noises this afternoon, weekend will be destroyed by these 😂

Yeah we’ll just miss each other I’m there in a month. Both places are great and really friendly crowds

https://jamboreejazz.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/marulacafe/?hl=en https://marulacafe.com/bcn/ Been to both, both have killer jam nights, musicians get in free for jam nights assuming you have an instrument on your back or your Spanish is good enough. Marula is more cutthroat than Jamboree but if you can get on stage the class of musicians is top notch. When do you go? I’m in Barcelona for a week in March (bass in hand ready for these jams)

Also would reduce the time it runs on AA batteries for, one of the main reasons I have 3 of the older model is the fact I can just throw it on the floor and play. As long as these still allow you to move fx between units I’ll be happy with them. I fgot a MS100BT yesterday and I’m starting to think all I want over the stock bass unit is the Particle Reverb.

https://ctmusicshop.com/product/mooer-prime-s1-intelligent-pedal-floor/

God knows what this is Prime S1

Oh and you’ll note it has a headphone volume control