warwickhunt

All power supplies are not created equal. My X5 Plethora happily runs off my 400Ma rated Arion pedalboard (has been for nearly a year and plenty of gigs) and my Fishman Plat Pro is running off the same power at the same time. However, my X5 hooked up to a 500Ma 'newer' supply doesn't like it even when hooked up by itself and switches itself off and on... well it did it a couple of times before I thought 'S0d that'.

Going off the recent comments all of the strings bought following the OP link seem to be legit at £13. I didn't carry out much due diligence when I ordered mine off Amazon but they arrived today and are legit. I'm sure you get lots of knock offs sold via Amazon but in this instance the D'Addario strings seem fine.

Travis Bean didn't crack it.

Do you play purely acoustic instruments with no means of electronic amplification?

Mine are due for delivery on Monday, we'll see what turns up. Anyone got actual photos of the ball ends etc of genuine strings?

I once joined a new band and vividly remember the guitarist mocking me for my ear plugs... 2 minutes later he asked if we could swap stage sides as he was deaf in one ear from years of playing on that side with a loud drummer! The irony wasn't lost on me.

Meh, I'm done trying to help others and offering insight when it is asked for!

Are you saying that the student played the drums 'less hard' when wearing IEMs as opposed to having music played back through monitors? Yep that seems obvious and not a great surprise at all. We've experimented going silent stage using IEM and our drummer confessed to it being easier as he didn't have to play harder to hear over the backline. It didn't work for us using IEM however as I was never comfortable (physically) with them and didn't like the sound etc (ditto the drummer). The guitarist singer continues IEM but the drummer and I are happier with me using no backline to carry bass to FOH (it goes DI to PA) but I do use a 10" powered monitor mounted on a pole off to the side of stage; both drummer and I have worn hearing protection for 25 years plus. One size doesn't suit all but SOME form of hearing protection is a must.

Indeed. You'd not get EQ on a power amp which does ring a (very) small alarm bell that the unit may have been measured as 100w @ 8 ohms with the EQ turned to maximum: is it boost only or cut/boost, maybe even cut only? Ergo with EQ off/turned down you may get a reduction in output, easily remedied by turning pots to 100% but that could be inducing a tonal characteristic based on the frequencies that it boosts/cuts. Totally anecdotal as I've no idea how the amp is configured but it is possibly worth investigation... saying that it isn't a great deal of money!

Yes, that's what I meant. Often the 'bass' frequency for a guitar is centred higher than a bass player might like; ditto there seems to be no info as to what frequency the mid and high are affecting.

No reason for it not to work. The frequencies might not be geared up to suit bass but that's navigable. 100w @ 8 ohms 'might' be a struggle against a drummer and/or loud guitarist but everyone's circumstances are different.

SWR Behemoth?

I've never worried about the top end but take out everything below about 45hz. I'm even going in and amending the profiles in the Kemper to filter below 45.

Progress is being made, I've even loaded a profile/capture onto the Kemper site! Never too old to... now where's my glasses gone?

After watching 'most' of that preamp video it makes me happy with the capture/profiles I've made of my amps with the Kemper! LOL

I tried the NuX MLD as a preamp as I thought the cab sims in that would help in getting me a good sound via IEM or a monitor cab... nope, not to my ears and I had no qualms about selling it. The preamp wasn't that bad but I couldn't get it to do what I wanted.

I'm posting my own answers in case anyone searches in the future with the same issues! I have been mistakenly setting the input gain in performances (via rig manager) to what I would approximate I'd have an amp input set for my bass (maybe 4 or 5 of 10); this is not necessary! In rig manager when creating your performances you set the amplifier gain to zero and that is a universal clean setting (ideal for 'most' bass players), setting it any higher at all, even by 3 or 4, induces distortion gain levels. Let's see what problems I can create for myself next. LOL

Just when I thought I had it... I have rigs all set up etc and all sounding fine and dandy through headphones but I've gone to use the Kemper Profiler hooked up (via main out) to my QSC monitor and it's immediately apparent that the input sensitivity is all to pot! When I load any rig/profile (I'll get used to terminology), I have to turn down the input gain dial otherwise all/any of the rigs I dial up are overdriven. Turning them right down to about 1 or 2 sorts it but I can't imaging you'd have a range of 0 - 10 if everything had to be used on '1'. Having typed this I'm off to see if swapping to the monitor out remedies this or if there is a global setting on the input soft button.

Bass Tech Blackcat + TKS15 - 2023-11-11 14-49-28.kperformance Oh and yes, I did use my TKS 1x15 cab.

Just as an aside! I profiled my Tech Soundsystems Blackcat today... I'd really appreciate some feedback as to the overall tone. Is it as simple as exporting that tiny file and attaching on this thread? I'll not say what settings or method I used as I didn't EQ or manipulate it to get 'my' tone. I just set it up, pressed 'go' and let it do its thang.

You absolute star. When I clicked on the output soft button I was unaware there were 9 pages/screens, I was just viewing whatever was viewed last. I paged back and found the main out was configured to something odd, as soon as I scrolled through to another option it pinged up. Many thanks!

Kemper users... I am getting no output from the 1/4" main outputs, any obvious rookie mistakes? I am getting output from the monitor and direct out sends and I've checked using the output soft button that the volumes are linked and display showing as being up. Off to post on the Kemper site as well.

First 'revelation' for me was knocking the cab sim off many of the sounds improved it massively! With cab engaged many of the stock bass tones seemed compressed to heck or they sounded like I was listening to them through a wooly blanket. I selected a couple of 'standard' captures (Tech Amp among them) from Tech 21, Eden etc, though it took some getting used to the fact they were all labelled with an oblique name to ensure no copyright issues. After loading those onto profiles I went in and tweaked EQ/drive a little but tbh if I didn't like the core sound I passed over it. Just getting my head around the way to use it live, luckily I only use a couple of core sounds and I put effects on only a couple of songs... which leads me to wonder if it is overkill having a Kemper but it seems to be doing what I want.

As I age disgracefully, I've decided to move away from backline/amps etc and go down the route of Kemper Profiler into PA and either a split feed to my personal QSX K10 monitor or to my QSC from the PA Aux send. I realise it is a (very) steep learning curve but I'm finding instruction/guidance on the basics to be thin on the ground. I assume the average user of kit like this won't be a mature person like myself and they'll be diving straight in at the deep end but if anyone has any good resources/sites where the basics gets covered it'd be great to know. I'm aware Kemper do tutorials but they are for things like capturing etc and not the mundane stuff like how you'd use this on a basic level.