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2 hours ago, Geek99 said:

What do the knobs do ? Just asking, y’know for a friend 

Volume, blend, stacked bass/treble, stacked mid/mid freq, active/passive switch. The lowest peak on the mid freq goes right down to 100hz.

From the eBay listing it looks like the previous owner has lopped the entire top off the cab to serve as an enclosure for the combo head though, would need a bit more work than your usual combo to cab adaption.

Is it this one?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285824368461?

Yeah, I'd be giving that a miss even if it was around the corner, let alone an hour away.

There was someone selling 2 x 8ohm EX112 in the classifieds recently.

Love mine, they crammed so many useful features into a tiny amp. I have a little bluetooth adapter in the aux input which completes it for me.

A lot of those Eden EX cabs were 4ohm, was looking for a used 8ohm EX110 after they'd gone out of production and couldn't find one at the time.

Seems like a reasonable price, good results can be had if you can do the work:

I'd just buy the cab I wanted though, the world isn't exactly short of old, heavy Ashdown cabs going for a song.

Don't have any better pics (did have some zoomed out ones) but this is the sort of outdoor event we could do with the RCF setup

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47 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

Interesting that you found the RCF subs to be noticeably better. Can you remember which model you used? The RCF 705s look like a decent compromise of weight/power but won't be able to compete price wise with the Altos.

Well we had two of them and they were much bigger, heavier and more expensive! I think they were the 705 but the older versions, we got lucky and picked them up for £500 for the pair used. Even in smaller venues we'd use them both, not really for volume but more for the audio quality benefit.

Our current sub is lighter than one of our old RCF 725 tops.

39 minutes ago, Jack said:

That makes a lot of sense. My hard rock bacd has been using Alto TS for over a decade now. 15 tops and 18 subs, one stack each side (yes, yes, center cluster...) and we feel the same. They are certainly over that 'good enough' threshold.

The first gig we did with them I was doing the drum levels and was actually a bit surprised at how clear the kick was, half expected it to be pure mud or fart out. Big room and a single sub as well.

I can still remember the first PA we bought decades ago - Peavey HP400 with two huge subs, a floor standing rack unit with 3 stupidly heavy power amps, a separate crossover and an old Studiomaster (IIRC) desk in it and two heavy (and useless) wooden wedge monitors. Cost a fortune, didn't sound all that great, took an age to set up and was a PITA to load in/out. Our power amps kept breaking so we eventually had to add an additional one as a backup.

3 hours ago, Jack said:

What PA did you end up with?

3 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

Can't let that go, please explain your setup.

Think I've listed it on the last "I love IEMs / I hate IEMs" thread! It's a  Behringer XR18 and 2 x Alto TS210 with a single Alto sub, TS15 or something like that. The rack bag is the G4M 3u shallow.

The two lads that joined already had the speakers from their last band so I assumed we'd be using them on a temporary basis until we had enough for some RCF cabs in the band kitty, was genuinely surprised at how good they sounded in a decent sized room though. Years later and we haven't upgraded yet!

Our old setup was 2 x RCF725 with 2 RCF subs, did some huge outdoor events (playing on a league one football pitch to one of the stands) with that rig and was brilliant, the subs weighed a lot though and were pretty massive. Wouldn't expect anything like that from the Altos but for indoor use they're very capable.

We're a 5 piece with keys (and the keys player won't get a smaller keyboard) so can struggle for stage space, I'm pretty tall so always struggled with hearing myself if I was right on top of my cabs. Don't miss my amps at all but do miss those RCF subs!

Not carrying backline along with having a very compact PA is probably why I can still enjoy gigging properly. My entire bass rig including preamp, cables, IEM setup and tablet fits in a gigbag, our desk (with router, power strip and bluetooth aux adapter) is in a 3u shallow rack bag and all our cables are in one of the Thomann cable bags.

Never been easier or faster to load in, setup and packdown. We had a band member and PA re-shuffle a few years ago and decided to go for the most compact PA as lugging a ton of stuff around was becoming a chore which we just didn't enjoy any more. Had a think about how we transported things and ended up with a tiny setup that sounds great and gives us excellent monitoring on any stage. Wasn't even expensive.

1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said:

That the only problem ive found with low hanging bags. You end up walking along the road looking like you have a full nappy 😀

Perhaps the Reunion Blues Incontinental Voyager would be a good choice in that case?

38 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

That looks really uncomfortable and impractical for wearing any distance other than the short trip between the car and the venue. On the last wearing option you can see the case slapping against the backs of his legs with every step. Nasty!

Yeah I wouldn't walk far with it, if your priority is getting through doors and up stairs easily then it might be good though.

Gruv Gear Gigblade (original version) might be an option?

On 19/04/2024 at 18:19, Woodinblack said:

I am the drummer wear IEMs. The others can do whatever they want, and now we have a new keyboard player join, he has a monitor, so the guitarist is really happy about that, he has been complaining for a while he couldn't hear well, and I kept pointing out we had many monitor out sockets left if he wanted to do anything about it.

Haha this is the best solution, amazing how quickly the problem (and subesquent whining) goes away when the solution is that person buying, carrying and setting up their own piece of equipment.

On 18/04/2024 at 16:53, ProjeKtWEREWOLF said:

As a punter, I hate it. I saw several tribute acts recently at a medium sized venue, who all played direct into the PA. I was stage front, and it was strange and lacking in Energy. 

 

As a musician, I like to feel my clothes flapping in the air coming off the cabs. It's ROCK AND ROLL! 

I'm a recent returnee to playing though and haven't arrived at the point where I need to decide on this approach. I might feel different. 

You can't feel your clothes flapping due to air coming off backline cabs, especially at a decent sized venue. Was probably the air con.

On 11/03/2024 at 19:37, Dan Dare said:

 

We're catching you up pretty quickly, Bill. SUVs are breeding like rabbits here, too. Thankfully, many are not as massive as those favoured over there, probably because many of our roads are so narrow. Many actually have less internal space than an equivalent-sized sedan. Thankfully, bro-dozers are still quite rare, but give it time...

It's a weird thing, everybody going for massive SUVs (which mostly still feel like smaller cars on the inside with little headroom) then moving into cramped new build estates where the roads are just about wide enough for one reasonably sized car.

3 hours ago, Al Krow said:

 

Thanks - I don't trust the "delivery within 8 days" though. Going to wait until they have it in stock.

I paid £104 for a new MS-60B when they first came out in 2013, which would be around £160 in today's money, so this doesn't feel all that bad given that it's saving me getting a Helix Stomp 😄

 

 

I picked up my MS60b for £50not so long ago purely to use as a tuner and preamp for when I take my SInsonido out of the house. I wish it could drive headphones properly. There's a simple mod you can do to make the 2nd output stereo so a basic rechargeable headphone amp would work, can't see a headphone out on the new one unfortunately.

5 hours ago, SamIAm said:

My setup is close ...

 

 

But no red sofas! lol

 

In fact it is my gigging setup for small gigs and I hook up a PJB C4 for more oomph when required.

 

Sam x

I've wanted a C2 since they first announced them, already have a matching red TC head! Don't even remotely need it as I have a little EA 110 with a neo speaker in for home use but just want one, need to stop looking at them.

The Nanobass X4 looks like an incredible bedroom rig as well, just 16cm x 20cm x 20cm with aux in and bluetooth.

Bax have the MS60B+ listed at £143, link to the listing is down but still visible if you look under Zoom bass effects:

https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/bass-multi-effects-pedals/zoom

Bought a cheap AliExpress replacement bridge to replace the bendy baseplate on an old bass, I quite like the patina on the old parts so reused them so have these spare. There's the three posts with inserts, four saddles and saddle screws.

I'd get this setup then buy red leather sofas to match.

3 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

They go for little to nothing. A pal has a couple that he's advertised at silly prices with no interest. He even tried "free if you take it away" with no luck. They're great, but you can get 95% of the sound from something that fits in your pocket.

Yeah I had a mate who did house clearances, could get them for free. Helped him carry one up some stairs once when he did manage to get twenty quid for one of them, not offering to do that again.

1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

It's not a fully parametric EQ unless you can also dial in frequency and Q/Bandwidth for each band, for tonal versatility you would be better off with a filter preamp, like the one I suggested.

 

For a while I've wanted a 3 band preamp with dual concentric pots on each band - a HPF on the bass, a mid sweep (going quite low, like 100hz) and a treble rolloff so I can add highs I like and just nip off the nasty, ice pick in your ears stuff. Volume pot should be an optional plug in module as I never use 'em.

Dunno if one like that exists but it should!