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Downunderwonder

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  1. Some things to consider. To go zero you need a very well supervised border. The UK and Ireland could yet go that way. If the UK petrie dish experiment goes pear shaped you could get a new even gnarlier variant than Delta with a sufficiently modded spike that evades all the vaccines. That would effectively be a groundhog day for Covid but on a different continent. New South Wales is in the kaka no doubt. They won't be out of some kind of lockdown any time soon for sure. Too much non compliance, and leaving it all very late at each stage of concern. The rest of Aus stands a chance of getting back to zero and only gets one chance to try. I'll take prospect of lockdowns now over the misery the rest of the world has already suffered! Here has been pretty much all go since July last year. NZ only has to keep it out for a few more months to get everyone vaccinated.
  2. Downunderwonder

    DI box

    I see. Scratch that then. The output of the pedals doesn't upset the input of the bass amp so it's not going to upset the mixer either. Except the mixer is getting upset! Something has gone awry in the levels somewhere in the shift from rig to PA.
  3. Only because he's a master of looping his own beats and 'bass'.
  4. Downunderwonder

    DI box

    Without looking up that particular Eurodesk... Whatever pad is on the input, engage it. Lower the input gain to 9 o'clock. If that doesn't work you are sending too much out of your pedal chain somewhere. Easiest way to find a culprit is take away stuff from the chain. That's not really the proper way to do it but a quick and dirty one. It may be that unit A is overdriving unit B or could be C is spazzing even before your signal hits the desk. It would be helpful if you could find a bass rig. Plug into the fx return and see what that sounds like. If it's a mess you know it's nothing to do with the desk. I fully expect that's the case. Another possibility is a flattening battery in an active bass.
  5. I'd say find a drum tutor who is versed in Alexander Technique. Or an Alexander teacher who is experienced with musicians. Alexander was a struggling opera singer back in the day when they sang over orchestras with no amplification. He developed an acute awareness of 'use' and 'the means whereby' of the body to accomplish tasks without extraneous effort making it harder than it has to be. His cure was so popular he had to train 'teachers' of his methods.
  6. Another option is the NXT omni which can be had in 5 strings and is cello scale length having originally been conceived as an electric cello. Slap some skinny strings on and crank them up.
  7. Ed Sheeran only turned 30 this year.
  8. Memo missed.
  9. Downunderwonder

    DI box

    Yeah, something's not right, you shouldn't need any more gear.
  10. I thought it was already determined the heist was on the US end?
  11. You either need a backpack for the amp or a gig bag for the bass and you're the next one trip wonder.
  12. To get the best from it you should first return your amp's bass control to the neutral position ie no boost or cut. Then play loudly and bring up the HPF from the 'no effect' position to where it starts to sound like there is something missing. Then turn it back to where it sounds good again. Leave it there. Experiment with the new change in reaction from your EQ on your amp. Maybe another round of bringing up and back the HPF. Put a blob of blutac on it so it stays put.
  13. Going from 5ths on violin to 4ths on bass did my head in for a long time. Picking up a violin now feels very strange, like I feel I should be able to play it, but the residual muscle memory isn't near enough. I learned to read bass clef some years on from switching to bass. That took a lot of effort to forget treble clef too.
  14. Any half competent cop should be able to get to the original heist with three hits!
  15. Depends on your local market and your marketing skills, available patience to deal with time wasters vs BD's marketing on the shop floor. If say BD can get 10% more than you can privately a lot of people would consider that money well spent in savings on aggravation.
  16. A 100w Rumble was provided backline on a gig I did last year. I was not expecting anything like the volume that came our of it. It kept up fine with 18 piece jazz orchestra. Tone wise it was nothing like the muddy mess I experienced a couple of years previous from older versions. If playing with a PA supported rock band it would do fine for a monitor for me. On a pub gig not trying to blow the doors out it might even do fine. Very good value for money.
  17. What was so difficult about checking from your end? And without checking from your end would you have trusted any payment notice anyway?
  18. The cab and amp I use on less secure locations might fetch 150gbp each. One time I had to leave old faithful at the stage door all afternoon. I was betting nobody would go get a truck to take her away. Nobody did.
  19. Nothing ironic about it. The law says prices can't be fixed, that is all. The manufacturers sell to distributors who sell to merchants who sell to consumers. Each layer under law is free to take whatever margin they need. The end.
  20. You are an interesting cat. Obviously not a bassist at present but that's by the by. I am curious what strain you previously caught and when? Also what your vaccine history has been. You are very exposed to whatever is going around in the gig environment ie Delta, Lambda..... Xray Zulu.... this thing is going to be around for a while yet. In my case I think I got the original back in March. Although I tested negative I was definitely exposed to a positive case and I had a full set of mild symptoms. Looking at the timings I think the guy I was exposed to was likely patient zero in one of our March 2020 outbreaks, before we knocked it down. There was a Brazilian village that got smashed in the original outbreak. Just about everyone got Covid with some dying and the rest recovered. Then months later they got the UK version iirc. It was seven shades of stinky poo again. Keep in touch!
  21. You're a trouper. Being somewhat too old for that chit I might have bunked down in the van but I would have found a motel for the night once the boom boom started.
  22. Being Antipodean I am immune from the siren calls of Bass Direct. Those guys at Golihur Bass in the US however...
  23. The place was built as a holiday home so it may have had the fridge and freezer on the same run as our amps.
  24. Looks like all your amps bar the Marshall are class D. That makes a huge difference in draw, still sounds a bit dodgy with that long list all running off the one lead, as much for the lead and your multibox as the outlet. In our case we had to run a cord from another room on a different fuse circuit.
  25. Doubtful unless your gear is all LED lights and class D amps. Back in the day: 1 50w Marshall 1 Trace 250 1 Fender 30w SS combo 1 Peavey PA and a mixer No lights. Enough to blow the fuse on a 10A circuit if we got too loud!
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