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However... if in doubt just update/replace the current firmware! This appears to have refreshed it.

Apparently it can/does happen and there doesn't look like an obvious fix. The company I bought from have offered to send it back to A&H under warranty for a repair... but it leaves me with no desk for weeks/months! Hmmmmmm.

I'll try that now.

Oddly I've just been offered a solo gig (me on acoustic guitar as opposed to bass) in a busy pub and the booker wanted loads of 80's and 90's 'bangers' £280 cash in my hand. I politely declined despite knowing 99% of the songs suggested as I just can not be chewed with that kind of gig any more. This to me is success.

I've often said that I'd happily rock up, bass in hand and play to 2,000 people for free... I might even offer to pay but if you want me to hump £4000+ worth of my equipment to a venue/pub miles from home that I have no association with, at a time that inconveniences me, to play to a bunch of ar5eholes who have no respect for the hours/years I've put into getting to the level that I'm at... I want paying! I may have paraphrased the above on occasion!

Does anyone have issues with the Bluetooth interface not refreshing? My phone was connected to the desk months ago so just defaults when I switch on but the desk screen seems to be frozen and I can't pair new devices to it (tried with three or four phones to play audio through the desk).

I play in a Cheap Trick and an INXS tribute. Cheap Trick is meant to be raw but we were still surprised that fellow musicians on a multi-bill gig couldn't believe we had no vox on track or that we were doing things like Dream Police without backing of any sort. INXS has one song where the drummer triggers a tambourine sample (too much to play the drum part and keep that going in real time). However... I am loathed to add a backing track of orchestra type sounds to a suggested new song (Baby Don't Cry), I feel it would be the thin end of the wedge. Several of the band think that if it adds to the audience's experience it is fine; defo thin ice IMHO. LOL

Adee 'popped' up to Northumberland to buy my Sandberg and a thoroughly nice chap he is to! Cheers Adee, enjoy the Lionel.

I occasionally use my preamp pedal into the effects return or 'pre-in' of a (shared) bass amp thereby utilising it purely as a power amp, I can then take out the anomalies of the bass amp preamps... the speakers are a whole other thing! LOL You could try the SB1 like this and see if the impedance differential makes much difference from the Sumo.

It could be the level going to the power amp (Sumo), it might be the output form the Sumo is inefficient, potentially it could be the speaker inefficiency or simply lack of displacement. Personally I'd see if you can trial the replacement of one of the 3 components... possibly try a different preamp/DI first. If the issue isn't the preamp I'd be wondering if the speakers are giving you enough of what you want.

I don't think going through BD will necessarily make getting an identical bass cheaper! They still have to pay the taxes but also need to make a bit of profit themselves... unless Marusz will give them a healthy discount for a custom order?

@wateroftyne any idea on how it stands now?

Not forgetting any song that might include a drone note on an open string; I regularly play rock/pop songs that rely on a drone.

How does the guitarist manage this? Personally if 90% of songs are played as per recorded but the guitar/bass tuned down a 1/2 step (i.e. bass player in the original band plays in the key of G, you play your G but it will sound F#), I'd go with that and then play the 2 or 3 other songs up a semitone (original is G but you are hearing F# when fingering G and they actually want G... play G# and associated notes). That sounds harder to explain than it is to do! LOL

I've got a pup fixed (removable in 30 seconds) to my DB which NEVER sees the light of day, you're more than welcome to take it off/away and play with it for a day/week/month... Coffee always on stand by.

Hmmmm. In what way does that CoA differentiate between 'that' set of strings and the other 42 packs of identical strings he has in his possession? There's a mug born every day but equally there's a chancer born every week!

Bloody great venue/crowd if that is how it is on any other week.

Superb gig at The Bungalow in Paisley (Glasgow) for INXS UK. Great venue, staff who know their stuff (esp the engineer SJ) and 'fans' who were absolutely busting it. WhatsApp Video 2025-03-16 at 12.05.04.mp4

You can buy a footswitch that when depressed cuts the vocal mic to FOH but can still transmit to all/any IE. Not sure what you call them but our band leader had one; he could step on the switch mid song and let us know if we were going to change next song etc.

As @Chienmortbb says you can select a preset and then open it and see what the EQ shape etc is doing. There's generally nothing radical, just obvious cuts/boosts for the given timbre of instrument or voice.

The overall outline is the same... Warwick copied it! I do find that 80's Streamers are slimmer and whenever I play a Spector it feels like a Warwick that has eaten a few pies. <edit> Reread and I see that you mean the bodies ARE the similarity. I find that the Warwick MEC are a bit punchier but tighter / defined than Spector; the Spector Tonepump can go 'BIG' but sometimes a bit too overpowering.

TBH I've never tried flat EQ on my CQ12, I just used the various presets and they've been pretty close to what is needed. I did need to fiddle quite a bit with an acoustic guitar preset as it was far too nasal but that was likely down to that particular electro-acoustic onboard preamp.

Necks are generally fuller than many basses, the Doug Wimbish model is slimmed down. I've owned US and Czech basses and for the money I'd not buy a USA over a Czech bass; preamp can be changed which is essentially the main difference (nicer figured woods on USA). The Warwick Streamer Stage I is a very similar bass, have you considered trying them both?