Downunderwonder

Can anyone hear the difference between a Deluxe P solo on the P pickup preamp off passive mode, and regular P bass?

This, and this for sure. Dude is a guitard holding up a sign for bass lessons on the side. Find another teacher. Reading is something you teach yourself for the most part. Not sure where you are at, coming back to music on bass not reading. Were you previously a bass player?

My gruntiest bass by far is passive piezo yet can't punch its way out of a wet paper bag without a good solid input impedance.

That's the one.

I like the sentiment but I would put a thick layer of super competent players between me and the exhibitionists.

Find a good value case of the solidity you require. Make board to fit.

There is also Vong kit if you are handy with a soldering iron.

Back up the thread there's someone selling sharply priced units on ebay. Build to order for the most part iirc.

They should have taken it back and refunded you, even if it was on commission. Misrepresentation pure and simple.

A BF Big Baby meets your criteria and you can use it to make a real racket as well. You might get one used for not too much moolah, considering a BigTwin took several days to sell for £700.

Needs merging.

There may be more than one standard. Obviously you were WRONG to label your desk, with sticky labels that could be peeled off to boot, not considering that someone else might need to come along and mix your band. Or not, guitard mate 'n'all...

You meant HPF I think as you used the correct term later. My HPF was set at around 70hz on a recent gig. Sound monkey must have boosted the bejesus out of it to get his subs pumping some obnoxious sub bass. I wound up turning him off as the stage amp was plenty big enough for my little band in his little bar of a Sunday afternoon.

You must have been doing it all wrong for him to do that.

This is me at the moment! Our new guitarist is a fair to middling bassist and he is way better than me! There have probably been others in the band over the years that were too kind to say anything.

People are always telling me what a great bassist I am. They are wrong. I am the lint under a great bassist's toenail but I am here and they wouldn't be bothered with my gigs even if they were here too. Still, it's nice to be appreciated for holding down the low end. The trick is to always play in time even if you have to ghost a note once in awhile to catch up.

Two pedals is about my limit for wanting to plug in a bunch of stuff. Three = a board. Life is so much easier. Then I made a bigger board and had issues with the aforementioned power noises. More lately I made another smaller board. Boards are great! You don't need to spend sfa on them just tie the pedals down any old how. Spend the money on a really good true iso power supply first. There are cheap ones that are not true iso even though they claim to be. You're probably going to ignore me and then you will come to remember when you get your first buzz.

Can even play it at left/right out.

Need to be careful with terminology here. What you are mixing to his monitor may or may not be the cause of your remaining f.b. Everyone points at the bass player when there is something howling down low. 99/100 it's not the bass guitar. The first thing is to be absolutely sure which circuit is doing the feedback. Make sure it isn't the drummer's monitor that is getting back into a drum mic with vocal frequency.

There was one of the Ashdown combos with the sub generator left on when I plugged in at rehearsal. I thought it was broken. Switching it off restored it.

What about the older Landmark, RBI/RPM flavour? 600w of either, or blend.

Depends what you want to hear, what the synth likes for an input and what comes put of it. No easy answer. You might need 2 compressors, you might not need any. Best way to find out is plug in and play at gig volume.

Easier to relieve yourself of gas by swapping preamps.

I look at the size of the speaker and the price and divide by 10. Someone could come up with a formula with fudge factors built in so High St Price = P £ Claimed max SPL = C Speaker size = S in inches for the main one. Actual maintainable SPL = CxP/BxS/15×F Where B and F are fudge factors to arrive at real world numbers. They could be variable by brand.