Owen

If I was going out to buy a PA system for a band, I would be going IEM for monitors. You can spend gazillions and it will sound lush, but you will also get properly workable solutions with a pair of hard wired multidriver non moulded jobs earphones with a Behringer headphone amp. This means that each member can carry their own foldback. Shifting wedges around just adds to the schlepp factor and is really not great. It also means that you can limit stage volume so that your FOH just has to fight Guitarmaggedon rather than overcoming the combined output of 2 or wedges as well as backline. It is a MUCH better outcome for the audience.

Whatever I was playing at the time. It was that or an ACME 1x12. Completely excessive, but what a sound.

Yep. Straight in. No preamp needed to buffer the piezo. Really easy. I ran it through a Bergantino 6x10 which could be seen as excessive, but what a sound!

My experience of piezo pickups is that unless it is under quite a lot of pressure, you are not going to get the result you are hoping for.

I am 89% certain this is the high powered one. I used to run one and it was a lovely piece of kit.

I bought an ACME 1x12 a long time ago. The cab was appreciably bigger than the "standard" 1x12. For me, the box "breathed" all the way down to bottom B and it was joyful. Is there any milage in making a bigger box? While I am asking speaker questions, the RCF 745 cabs get a lot of love. I believe that they have the mother of all compression drivers and cross over at 600hz to a 15". Obviously, bi-amping is going to help and that turns it into a whole different thing. Would it be something which would work with a passive crossover? I have NO plans to do anything of the sort, it is just a question I have been pondering.

It is not going to happen to me in the near future, but I can feel the gravitational pull.

Makes it look very lush more like.

To be fair, the ones who are doing the business in those situations will have been doing at the very least 2 hours a day for several years before conservetoire o'clock. Add that into the several hours per week they will have been doing youth orchestra stuff and sitting in with their local Uni orchestra and summer courses. They will have put a LOT of hours in. Of course there are exceptions which prove the rule. But I watch videos of "the latest thing" and they are playing at technique levels which are everyday for any number of 16 year old Grade 8 classical players. Am I saying that classical is better than pop/rock/jazz/whatever? In no way, shape or form. I am saying that dedicated and focussed long term practice makes you better than not dedicated and long term practice. I am living proof of that. But not in a good way. I was around plenty of monster players when I was younger but I had zero interest in putting the work in that they were. Lots of good practice makes you way better. 10K hours? Who knows? Lots more than most of us do? Absolutely.

There goes a solid 66% of my repertoire.

That should keep you busy.

The CLF L2500 750 in Tangerine Metallic is the bomb!

I am now away and cannot weigh my bass, but I am certain that when I did it was sub 9lbs. I recall 8lbs 8ozs, but I recall many things which turn out to be hazy. What I do know is that it is properly nice and I am very pleased with it. I might even look into 3D printing a cream pickup cover. One day.

It is Fender USA J5 which I have had painted in a mildly reliced CAR.

I use a QSC 10.2 with a Sadowsky pedal in front of it. But there are a gazillion preamp pedals out there.

In fact, I am certain that I am

It is possible that I am wrong about the wood.

I bought a MM SUB 5 becuase I fancied a bit of single pickup Leo. I do like a FSO. I had it painted all lovely. I went to a bass bash and for the 2nd time had my head turned by an L1000. People who really care will tell me that the original L1000 and the CLF design L1000 are subtly different. I like both of them. Luke and Keir, you are both to blame. Of course, I was safe because the L1000 was not available as a 5er. You cannot spell bass without a B (come at me, haters). And then they went and announced one with a B. I was weak in the face of beauty. And it has a subtler 4+1 headstock that I find easier on the eye. And then this kind of teal colour. If it came with a white pickup it would be better still. 36 year old Owen in 2002 would be horrified, but hey ho. I am really enjoying it. The body is a bit more compact than the US J5 I have also picked up. It all fits me really nicely and that excessive chromage is really floating my boat. It is made of some lightweight wood (Empress aka Pauolina. Sp?) but is still sonically plenty hefty. It weighs in at 8.8lbs. I have never owned a brand new bass in my life. It is not something I intend to make a habit of, but I thought the chances of one of these in this colour combo appearing on here were pretty remote so I went for it. I know that everything comes through if you wait long enough. But life is short. Share my joy.

At the risk of repeating myself, I have never played a Yamaha which did not work very well.

Nice and thorough. I like it. Thanks.