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I use the Fishman Platinum Pro for a multitude of uses, not just straight preamp or DI and they are very versatile; find one 2nd hand (I did and a 'wanted' advert on BC can be useful) and you won't regret it.  

14 minutes ago, javi_bassist said:

Last weekend I played with IEM in a very small club. My signal chain was:
Bass-->Pedalboard-->Rolls PM351-->Sennheiser XSW. The thing is that my in ears don't isolate that much which hadn't bothered me until last Saturday. I put foam plugs already and I have tried a lot. Do you guys have any tips to improve isolation? The in ears are Sennheiser IE100 in case it helps.

It could well be that the only answer is custom molded plugs.  I had the KZ10, used and liked by many (as the budget option) and I could NOT get used to the fit/isolation, including trying many of the recommended buds/plugs.  I moved to Sennheiser IE100 (your IE) and they were a perfect fit with great isolation, even using the silicone buds that came with it, I had excellent isolation.  I even tried swapping the IE100 silicone buds onto the KZ10 and they were no good (perfect on the Sennheiser).  

In short, the shape and ergonomics of 'some' IE will not fit with some people and it could take lot of experimentation to find the right ones, unless you go custom.  I was lucky that the 2nd pair I tried fit my ear canal shape great. 

Just read about this; I have to say it hit me.  Live life the way you want, when you can... or not if that is your bag but you never know what shyte is coming your way.    

If it is just a body (not attached to a neck) then a courier can get it to anywhere in the UK fairly cheaply.  Dave Wilson in the NE/NW is top draw, worked at Overwater and among others he finishes for Sobell acoustic guitars and Mark Knopfler.

39 minutes ago, Pirellithecat said:

My (limited) experience with Sound Engineers is that they "want" a pre EQ DI feed so that what you do by way of changing settings on the amp during the set doesn't affect their settings on the mixer.   So generally they prefer a straight DI from your bass.   This is beneficial in some ways as it leaves you more freedom to adjust your amp to get the stage sound you want should the need arise.  So that's a very simple arrangement and if its a passive DI needs no power supply etc and can be relatively inexpensive (check out Behringer).  The DI box matches the output impedence to that required by the mixer so it's not quite the same as just plugging your bass into the mixer. 
Another option is the Behringer BDI21 which is an pre-amp/DI - one went on here for £20 recently.  Good Luck!!

I agree this is what many in-house engineers would like and not an issue for a lot of folk... only problem is when the sound you are trying to create is integral to the band's overall sound. 

I play in a band where my bass/amp sound needs to try and replicate a particular tone (12 string sounding with a bit of drive on the top end).  I specifically split my signal with the 'dry' signal going to the front end of my amp (to give a nice big bass tone), with the split signal going to a HPF > drive pedal > chorus/octave > to the rear attenuated input on my amp; I then blend in the effected signal to suit.  This can then be easily sent premixed from my amps DI to a PA desk.  Except when you get an engineer who is trying to insist he wants the DI before any of that stuff so that he can get a nice clean signal and get a traditional bass tone FOH.  No thanks mate you've missed the point!   

37 minutes ago, SH73 said:

What if it comes with a nice 7 figure bonus?

Those ships sailed a long time ago!  

More chance of a 7 figure advance that requires payback within 5 years at 5% interest!   LOL

I had 3 of the 310s and sold 2 after buying a pair of QSC K10s.  I had the chance to try the cabs side by side and there was not a lot of real world difference in volume between them; 400w RCF / 1000w QSC.  However, you could buy x3 new RCFs for x1 QSC!  

Many might be surprised at just how big a touring band The Dave Matthews Band are; they sold over 23,700,000 tickets in 2022 and grossed $1,080,000,000 (yes that is the correct number of zeros... billion +) from touring along.  

It's not a competition and it doesn't make them 'good' but that's impressive!

3 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

Lovely. Why would someone put a bit of card under a just-a-nut, though?

You occasionally get one where the nut is so low that you end up with the string adjuster nuts virtually popping out of their respective seats; a shim (no idea why they used card, that is ridiculous) can get you a couple of mm so that the screws are at least threaded in and secure.

Which does raise the question why random Warwick basses are higher/lower than others!  LOL

Nice one!  

I've said it on many occasions that I've had and sold Pro I instruments (inc first year of issue and Custom Shop) whilst still retaining my Pro II bass... it just feels and plays better!  

3 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

If turning off the vocal mic cures the feedback problem then that’s what is giving you the problem. Unsurprisingly as his voice is a lot quieter than the drums so that mic will have more gain. 
 

If you have a digital desk then you should apply a gate to his vocal mic. It switches the mic off when he isn’t using it. Find out what pattern of mic he is using. If it’s a cardioid like the SM57 then the dead spot for the mic is at the back end which should be pointed at the monitor. If it’s a super cardioid then the dead spot is at the side. Your drummer needs to get as close to the mic as possible to get his volume up so the gain can be reduced ie he needs to ‘eat the mic’.

 

Could he use one of those sensor optogate type devices that turns off the mic unless he is in range of the sensor?  

Just now, ToLo said:

Yes. I have massively overthought this 😅

thank you

The only thing you can't achieve is 2 sounds, one of which is solely the Sansamp, which you can only do by having the pedal into the return of the effects loop, thereby bypassing the amps preamp.  

I might be missing something but you could be over thinking it. 

If you go bass into the Sansamp and then out to your amp, you have two sounds available; Sansamp off and you have your amp tone, Sansamp on and you have Sansamp + bass amp

Alternatively plug your bass into your amp, put the preamp into your amp effects loop and you have 2 sounds.

Either of these options give you the same outcome that you were trying to achieve in your OP... yes/no? 

3 minutes ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

I've just been thinking about when I first saw them . It was in 2001 . They did a show a night playing each album in order. ( Monday , 1st album , Tuesday 2nd album etc)  . I cannot remember if the last time I saw them was at the Shepherd's Bush empire, or Royal Albert Hall. That was from approx 2022 onwards . 
The only song that seemed to be a bit 'moody', was when Tom Peterson sung on one song . It'll probably work for you if you do it .

Anyway, good luck with it . 
 

On a slight relevant tangent , one of my mates from that bunch found slayer too much . However  after begging/ persuading him to see them , he saw them twice and thinks they're a great live band . 🙂

Yes, that's the one song that I do lead vocal.    They actually have a lot of 'dark' brooding material, which is the stuff I love! 

Just now, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

Not a fan of cheap trick on record . However, I went to see them at the Islington academy ( iirc) in the '90s as my mates are big fans of theirs . I ended up seeing them on a few more occasions . Great live band . 

Still going today; 50 years with 1 non original member (Daxx a son of a band member)... not bad considering.  I was never the greatest fan in the late 80's-90's but I had to do the tribute thing as a fan.    

I've been trying to get the idea of a tribute to Cheap Trick off the ground for years (who?).  Absolutely it is a niche market but Cheap Trick have been MY band for almost 46 years and I had to create this tribute as they were never going to call me!  Long story short (it started 12 years ago LOL), I finalised the line up of CHEAT TRICK this year with 3 other guys who were massive CT fans... and it fell apart again within 2 months due to issues with the guitarist.  In stepped the guitarist from my other covers band who is a technically brilliant player and he got us off the ground, mainly due to the fact he could write out and read the main song structures and was ready for a debut gig in 4 weeks.  Sadly he wasn't a fan of the band we were trying to recreate and after a year of waiting for him to actually cop the style of Rick Nielsen, we had to let him go as he just couldn't understand that a tribute should at least be playing in a similar style (he's more Paul Gilbert/Steve Vai), a 1000 notes a minute isn't Cheap Trick!  

This week, we organised to audition a guy who we knew to be a Cheap Trick fan... BOOM!  He walked into the studio and proceeded to run through 30 songs with us, emulating Rick Nielsen's style and chord/note choice to a 'T'.  Not only that but songs we hadn't even asked him to look at, that he'd never tried to play, were handled like he wrote them.  

I have to say that I left the studio space with a grin a mile wide and buzzing to be chasing gigs this year to get out and about.  

Has anyone else had that Eureka moment or conversely that dread that someone in the band just wasn't the right person and you can't progress? 

8 minutes ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

Ask them what the speed of sound is. Every acoustical engineer, pro or amateur, knows that number as well as they know their own name, as it's the prime factor in calculating wavelengths. If they don't know that number and don't know what the importance of wavelengths is they don't get to offer an opinion. They may have one, but they should keep it to themselves.

 

 

Indeed but it is essentially 3 other musicians who are preprogramed to think that the only place for bass bins is in 'that' wrong place!    

Cheers @Bill Fitzmaurice & @Phil Starr.  I've been doing onstage mixing for small/medium venues for 40 years and I know a lot of the nuances of a fair few venues (shared dimensions).  I've rarely used bass bins in the past but then again I generally ran my bass through backline and in 50% of venues didn't use it through the PA; more frequently I'm going ampless and 100% through PA (to monitor or IEM), with a bass bin (or 2) being supplied by another band member.  For the last year I've tried to convince the band that 2 bass bins directly under the tops (15" RCF) isn't the best place but I'm battling 3 other opinions with all of their ingrained habits and it isn't easy.  The worst situations are the 300-400 seater 'clubs' where subs with poles and tops are placed 7-10m apart at the front of the stage area.  I'm trying to show that placing them together off to one side near a wall will improve matters but I don't want to scupper my best informed ideas by making things worse, hence the question re. how close is too close! 

13 minutes ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

+1. Against the wall is the equivalent of doubling the sub count, in a corner the equivalent of quadrupling it, compared to well out. It also eliminates boundary cancellations that occur when not tight to a wall or corner. But 'adjacent to the drum kit' is a no go. Not only will you have low frequency feedback into the drum mics but you'll also have acoustical coupling of the sub and drums that creates another feedback loop.

How close is adjacent?  We sometimes have to set up in fairly tight spaces (inc long skinny rooms) and I've only just convinced our PA owner/operator/guitarist, to move the sub(s) from directly under the FOH main speakers... just to the rear and side of the drummer is sometimes the only position available that is near a rear wall or corner.  

22 minutes ago, SimonK said:

The saying used to be that there are Watts, and there are Trace Elliot Watts...

Part of this was down to the fact that the output control was such that you had most of the output delivered in the first 1/3 of travel (or less).  The first time you used a TE, you'd go to turn up the output (after setting the input) and 'BOOM' before you were past #2 you had volume enough to scare the beejeesus out of other band members. 

44 minutes ago, police squad said:

forgive me for this request

 

Somewhere in this thread there is someting about using an ambient mic so that band members could converse between songs

 

It was some sort of Behringer, could someone let me know which one please

 

thanks

When you say 'talk between songs', I realise you mean in a quiet ambient kind of way, to overcome having plugs in your ears but you can also get a talkback foot switch which allows the use (band leader/main singer) to talk into their FOH mic and it will only be heard through the aux channels not FOH.  We find it useful as we often change song selection on the fly to suit the mood... only downside is if someone in the band isn't using IEM, they then don't hear the instruction (though it could be equally fed to a monitor but you might get bleed through to the audience)! 

4 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

OP is already at full power with the one cab!!!

I'm always sceptical when terms like 'full power' are used; is full power when the output gain/volume/dial is on max rotation and the input gain/volume/dial is turned sufficient to get a clip light indication or till it starts to distort?  I know of clip lights that are set to come on before any clipping and some that vary colour (green, amber, red) depending on how close to clipping but would you only be full power if in the red, if not how can a musician at a gig/rehearsal tell when full power is achieved without taking multi-meter readings? 

Genuine question not any form of dig.  

I like purple.  I like JJ pups in a P bass body.  I like light weight... is trade a possibility?  

Obviously message me if need be.    

3 minutes ago, TRBboy said:

 

I'm not completely sure what you mean by the single and double pole designs, do you have a link or pics?

 

Single as per Delano (1 large pole per string 4 in total for a P pup).

Double as per Fender et al (2 small poles per string 8 in total per P pup)