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Rather handily the trim pots for the pickups (and also the three jog wheels for the bass/treble frequencies) are accessible when the pre is installed so should be realtively pain free. Should just need a screwdriver to adjust them. I've just put an East Uni in my backup bass, it's pretty transformative but unfortunately I want one in every bass now.

Check the trim pots for the pickups aren't all the way down

Reminds me of the old Behringer Xenyx 302USB but with a mic preamp on the 2nd channel rather than just a line in, looks very handy. Can it be configured to use the second channel for audio playback over USB?

Probably the one nice bass tbh. I only use active basses with a mid sweep (and it needs to go pretty low) live and AFAIK the HB don't cater for that. I'd most likely pick 3 Harley Bentons with my choice of pickups and preamp over any standard passive USA Fender though, as long I got to play them first obviously. I love cheap basses, as long as an instrument has a neck/board profile I like and is well put together we're 90% of the way there, everything else can be changed.

I don't understand that mentality of not having a spare, everybody knows it's just a thinly veiled ruse to buy another bass.

When I first got my ZS10 the supplied large tips were really good, don't know if they've softened over time but they do tend to be a lot more difficult to get properly seated and sealed. The cheap Spinfit tips I got yesterday (mentioned in the main IEM thread) seem much better. Seal straight away and stay put.

We use a regular kit, no backline and everybody on IEMs, never had an issue with it. Our drummer doesn't want to use an electric kit which I fully understand that as the rest of us just get to use our normal instruments and ditch our amps.

Just got some cheap Spinfit CP100 tips for my KZ ZS10, on sale at £9.49 for two pairs delivered (large size) here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325357841077? Much better fit than stock tips, instant seal and don't fall out or work loose. Although they're for a smaller 4mm (ZS10 are 5mm I think?) diameter IEMs they push on fine with a little bit of encouragement and feel very secure.

I can barely get our keys player to veer away from stock patches let alone buy any equipment, it's only this year he's started plugging his keyboard into the PA without any prompting. This is one of the reasons I went with the XR18 as all cables are XLR and every input/aux is labelled on the big tablet, so no more "what cable do I use?" or "where do I plug this in?" questions directed at me! If you have keys, drums and bass guitar then you'll all be using the sub, the whole band benefits really as everything just sounds better. It's also a good audio learning experience for drummers if they can here someone else play their kit acoustically with the desk channels muted and then with everything going FoH, hopefully they realise spending a fortune on a new snare that sounds exactly the same as the old one but even louder is a fruitless exercise. They don't, but it's a nice thing to fantasise about.

We don't have a van, in fact nobody has a big car. I think the biggest car in our band is mine, a Fiat Qubo! Most gigs now we travel in 3 cars due to all living further away from each other than we used to. Not really doing high level gigs either, we still have to work around bingo and open the box. There's probably a ton of bands with medium to large PA flight cases, bulky boxes of cables/accessories and oversized tops which only ever get used for vocals, all needless bulk which takes up space and is a PITA to transport. We saved space on this stuff and can easily transport a compact active sub which one person can carry, the Thomann cable bag and G4M shallow rack bag have been great for reducing the physical size of our old kit.

I don't understand why bands aren't using a sub or full range tops regardless of their monitoring situation or whether they put bass through the PA. It's worth getting a sub purely to make the kick drum thump like a kick drum should. Doesn't matter how expensive the drum kit is or how good the drummer is, the acoustic kit still sounds like a wet fart compared to being properly eq'd and put through a half decent sub.

First port of call would be to send it back for repair if you like the pre I would think, he has quite a good repuatation for customer service.

I sold my Gen1 V7 5er after a shoulder injury, that thing was 11.6lb! Great bass though, a couple of mates have more recent ones which are much lighter than mine was. EDIT: The bass didn't cause the injury btw!

Spotted this the other day, stick a shirt on pal!

Would be a bushing for 3/8" tuners wouldn't it? They usually have a hole size of around 14mm and a post size of 11-12mm. Are they press fit?

Leo nicked the design off Paul Bigsby as well, the HB guys could just say they were doing a close approximation of a Bigsby headstock and it unintentionally turned out looking exactly like a Fender one.

I have just bought a bass, I do not need another one. https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_mv_5jb_burgundy_mist.htm

So would an E serial be Young Chang and an S serial always be Samick then?

Bought an East UniPre from Gaf, pleasure to deal with.

It looked incredible with the Dimarzio chrome covered pickups in here:

Looks much better now, nice little home setup.

They had some made in the Cortek factory under the Lite Ash series, the E serial number would indicate a Samick (I think) who made some Squiers.

Valeton Dapper Bass for £80 with the same code as well: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315072941931?