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I have a MM Sub4, it’s a great bass for the money. The sub5 was definitely on my radar and I was thinking of posting an ad to see if anyone wanted to swap a 5 for my sub4 I’m also a Yamaha fan, my first bass was an RBX270. The sires look like great value.

Thanks guys! I’ll take a look.

I keep thinking about trying a 5 string, but I’ve been a bit reluctant up until now in case I like it and it makes my 4 strings redundant. Ideally I’d like a 34” scale length so it doesn’t affect my muscle memory switching to my 4 strings. Also I don’t get on too well with narrow string spacing - prefer a pbass neck to a J, though not sure if it is the spacing or the thickness/width. Any suggestions? I don’t want to spend loads in case it’s not for me, ideally under £500 but might go higher if needed.

I think I’ve come to realise I’m not really a pedal person. The one thing I couldn’t live without however is the pitch shift on my HXFX. I use it for Eb, D and C tunings for various songs we do in the band. I’ve finally updated my hxfx to 3.0 and the new poly capo tune does sound a bit better (less warble but at the expense of a bit more latency). You can get away with it in the mix however solo’d at home it’s a bit unnatural. As this is pretty much all I need I wondered if I’d be better served by a £80 digitech drop rather than the HXFX. Has anyone tried one vs. the helix?

Hi, Just got my first set of labella low tension flats and they have little numbered cubes on each string at the ball end. A quick google brought up some suggestions from the talkbass forum that you take these off, however when I put them in the ferrule and apply tension the cubes allow the string to rotate freely. When I take them off they don’t rotate easily, so I’m thinking that actually leaving them on may help prevent the strings getting twisted when I wind them onto the tuning pegs. Any thoughts on this?

Surely this should be one the list......🤣

Mine is around 8lb10

You can get a 50m outdoor, waterproof cable for £25 on amazon. It says you can bury it too.

Our guitarist setup a server in his laptop, but to be honest it had more latency than some of the public ones. When I looked into it to get a low latency private server you need to setup a cloud based one. The other key thing is WiFi has too much jitter, so you must wire in direct with an Ethernet cable to your router. I bought a cheap 20M Ethernet cable from Amazon so I could route to my music room without moving the router.

Just done the toilet roll mod on mine (dt770). https://diyaudioheaven.wordpress.com/headphones/taming-the-treble/ Two sheets of Andrew behind the foam next to the driver. Much improved, the treble no longer hurts my ears. The bass still isn’t as full as my Sony’s but I’ve found a mod for that too!

Just bought some DT770 pro's too and agree, weak midrange and a harsh top end, they are supposed to be fairly bass heavy, but these sound pretty tinny. My Sony XM1000xm2s sound a lot better. I'm wondering if they were defective then saw your post @dave_bass5 . Out of interest where did you return yours to? I wondered if I got your returned set! I got them to go with some edrums I'm getting for xmas, and from what I've read on drumming forums they are highly recommended, so I might wait till Christmas to see if they are any better with them.

Looking to add a powered cab to my MB212. The 115 powered cab is a fair bit cheaper than the 212 powered cab has anyone tried that combination?

That’s the way I’m reading it, but the wording is somewhat vague.

I’ve tried jamkazam and jamulus. Jamkazam has more features like being able to play a backing track etc., however I’d probably go with jamulus in the first instance as it’s simpler, easier to setup and is open source/free. Jamkazam have just started charging for all but a limited service.

That’s a pretty sobering read gafbass, I hope you start feeling better soon. I don’t think I’ll be getting in a rehearsal room until I’ve been vaccinated.

I’ve now moved up from tier 1 to 2, so what’s the general feeling on rehearsals for tier 2/3 (for amateur pub bands). I’m personally not that keen anyway, both from the risk and the fact there are no gigs to brush up for anyway, but some of the others are still keen and think we are exempt from the rules as we get paid. It’s certainly not my livelihood and the occasional £50 I get for a gig really doesn’t make me a professional musician (in my opinion). Interested to hear what others are doing or if anyone has found any guidance for pub bands.

Thanks Bilbo, Interestingly I was looking at some of your transcriptions and noticed you don’t indicate the key signature on most of them but add the sharps/flats as accidentals throughout the transcription. I find this easier to sight read as you don’t need to remember which notes need to be sharpened/flattened but I guess it’s not the way most music is written unfortunately.

Thanks Doddy, It’s the extra layer of brain processing of flattening or sharpening the notes which Is slowing me down, so this will certainly help. Still wondering if an alternative method is to visualise the notes of the scale/key all over the neck and think in terms of the intervals between the notes rather than thinking in c major and sharpening or flattening the appropriate notes. Either way, it’s hard work!

I’m trying to get my sight reading skills up to scratch. I’m Okish in Cmaj/Am or if there are are only 1 or 2 flats/sharps but I really start to struggle once there are lots of flats/sharps. Does anyone has a strategy for this, I’m basically just try to remember which notes I need to flatten/sharpen but should I be trying to think more in terms of scales?

Yeah, it was a lot easier than I thought - just added a return block at the end of the chain and that was it!

Pretty impressed with Jamulus. I found logging into the router and turning WiFi off improved things much to the annoyance of my kids. I’m interested to know what delays people are getting? Best case I’m at around 30mS overall going on the fastest 9-10mS public server - so presume about 20mS Introduced by my interface/software. Are any others getting better than this? Did wonder if a better interface would help.

Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible to use the HX effects as a mixer? I’ve bought a 2ch audio interface to use with Jamulus for band practice, but I need 3 inputs , bass, microphone and a mono output from my phone for a backing track. I thought I might be able to use the HX effects to mix the bass and the mono backing track into one output then send to the interface - Is that possible? I’m guessing something to do with the send return inputs? Thanks!

Mmm, it might not be possible to setup after he shaved half the neck away, it’s probably bowing like a banana with any string tension on it.

That looks ideal! Does your drummer fancy renting out to other bands? Think there would be a decent demand!

Out of interest has anyone managed to organize outdoor rehearsals. I’m thinking of contacting local farmers to see if any of them would allow us to use a field (ideally away from residential areas). Better still would be an open sided barn with power, but I’d take a field right now.