Downunderwonder

On 29/04/2024 at 00:00, Mickeyboro said:

Glamping site in deepest Dorset. 

Cocaine being dispensed at the bar perhaps.

On 26/04/2024 at 18:25, dmccombe7 said:

Might be worth looking at how to tidy up the stage when playing. Recipe for problems there. 

Dave

How very diplomatic!

An all tube 200w amp, no hiss, pops or squeaks, for around about 70 quid because nobody else wanted to give it a home.

No love for homegrown John East?

On 01/05/2024 at 10:59, Marty Forrer said:

? If I crank the knob I don't notice any distortion and the clip light does not come on, but I don't want to blow them

Congrats. You have learned how to operate gear.

23 hours ago, HP BASS said:

Good to know, thank you. I guess this is a problem with lots of Class Ds that you don't find out til you actually gig with them.

The other thing to do should already have been SOP. Loop your cable through the cab handle before inserting in the amp input. Very much harder to do any damage.

15 hours ago, warwickhunt said:

 

I don't like the tone/sound.

 

You should try one out with a pedal or three or four. What you put in comes out so unless you go to town on processing it you get vanilla.

What's wrong with a BF BigBaby?

I am more a flavour of last century kind of buyer.

I think with the class D stuff you mostly have to eat the fact amps aren't that fixable anymore. That's not to say they can't be fixed but it often involves spending more than they are worth.

Even more reason to buy a lightly used one and hope for the best. Save some more for a spare you can leave in your glovebox.

9 hours ago, asingardenof said:

secondhand

Gets you way much more for your money!

People are always trading in on the next new thing.

A working band has "consumer" rights? Not likely.

If a store buys a TV to use to play video and it dies prematurely that's tough luck.

3 hours ago, Al Krow said:

 

Makes a lot of sense. Human hearing doesn't typically go below 20Hz so anything below that is just subsonic high-energy crud! High passing / low cutting those sub sonic frequencies will leave the subs free to focus on the 30Hz+ range which is as low as a 5 string bass goes anyway. 

It seems to me that would always make sense in a pub venue which is what this thread is about.

Just wondering whether it would also hold true in a larger dance club situation where the punters are enjoying "feeling" the bass?

Right idea, but shift it all up an octave. The punter chest cavity resonates around 80hz. That's the centre of "thump".

10 hours ago, TRBboy said:

Funny you say that, I had actually thought about changing the speaker on the Ashdown cab at some point too, it's not the original one in there, and whilst it sounds okay I did get to wondering.... 😅

I actually meant taking on the other ampless combo and making it like your one. Then treating yourself to two new drivers and flipping the rest.

It's obvious how this is going to pan out....

Fully refurbed stack of doom with two new drivers and the old good driver flipped for 20 quid.

I may have missed it but have you tried a different bass and amp before condemning the cab?

If there's jamming involved I prefer the right side for a righty guitarist and left for lefty so I can see what the chording hand is doing. I can't actually read guitar chords I do it by osmosis.

I have a problem. Technically my Omni bass IS an electric cello, strung as a bass. Dammit.

Tempo problems can be very much more subtle than "player X is rushing causing everyone to speed up".

In anything that has a swing to it there only needs to be a slight disagreement over how much swing is the right amount. If the lead swings in ahead too much for the drummer's liking they may 'catch up' to correct the amount of perceived swing. The bass hears that as "everyone speeding up" and all of sudden the next swung note has done the same and you're off to the races.

Don't carry your 210 cabs. Put them on a hand cart.

I took to indicating the tempo with my foot and swaying so the drummer can pick up on it subliminally.

It seems to be working. He used to be all over the place but since I started my little routine he almost never gets it wrong.

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12 hours ago, Paddy515 said:

The two B-112s running together produce higher volume than your 8 ohm 212 as they are each 8 ohm cabs so stacked would run at 4 ohms utilising the full 500 watts.

Big call.

How do you know the 212 isn't loaded with some higher sensitivity drivers that lay waste to your 2 112's regardless of the wattage difference?

Yamaha used to make a blue cone thing with the LED at the peak iirc. A little bit retro vintage for good measure?

Don't point the mic at the speakers. Don't have the speakers too close and aim them across the room to opposite sides so you catch enough to get by. Small guitar amps mic'd into the PA.

No monitors makes life so easy. If you can't hear x or y, too bad!

Only works when everyone is on the same less is more page.