Downunderwonder

No hurry then.

Amen. Get a roster together to go round the block a few times each night pumping out the bass at 10.30pm. Then when you have gigs they will be used to it.

IEM scare me to death for the potential for a system out of my control to blow out my ears with one mistake.

I mixed brands 115 210. It sounded great. I tried biamping with crossover using the 115 to cover something like 60hz to 120hz and the 210 120 up. There was an extra bit of clarity to be had, loud enough but not as loud if silly loud was required. I reckon two of the 210 would have covered all bases with one amp.

I was comparing what you would call integrated bass amplifiers.

My point was that both hands have plenty to do so handedness doesn't come into the musical learning process. I don't believe I would have found it any more difficult to graduate from squawks to listenable, eventually to toneful, on a lefty violin. Maybe there's some advantage to righties to doing the bowing of strings with the dominant hand and arm, but I reckon it has to be tiny because the fingering is so mightily complex also. Advantage to the band of having everyone in neat rows not banging into each other, overwhelming!

Mine has no preamp, pure piezo. Trace 1Mohm input impedance doesn't bat an eyelid, just pumps out bass. Mixing desks, fogedaboudit!

Actually I believe lefthandedness is a leading indicator of musicality so would be higher than the gen pop rate.

Methinks you forgot about your fretting the bass? I started on violin. From memory had it been the convention to do it ^lefty^ it would have been no less difficult. Both hands have a lot to do in the way of fine motor control. I tried bowing my acoustic bass the other day. Did not compute thanks to the action being 'anticlockwise' from the violin. One day I will have to spend a whole weekend getting to grips with it. If you don't believe me try getting your violin playing mate to play it reversed in their lap. Not many would produce any song.

And still the misconception lives. Fundamental frequencies are seldom produced by the subs in professional application. The -10dB sensitivity point on the RCF might be 30hz. To make 30hz as loud as 80hz would take 10x the amount of power. So no point in trying, either the whole system has to be throttled back or the subs get given death by the low EQ being goosed. I have given a club owner a proper fright with my highpassed system being sound checked with a keyboard powering up on 11. Oops. I don't remember if he didn't want the synth psychedelic metal band anywhere near his PA or the band knew mine was better for purpose but I got the call. The club had more subs than me but maybe they hadn't been properly high passed. Put the big energy into 60 to 90hz. WHOMP! Sure gave the guy a fright.

Thanks, explains how come my piezo Ubass requires less gain than my regular pickup basses on my Trace amp but it couldn't get an Ashdown going with everything on 11.

Clean, or fully saturated, or somewhere in between? Big differences.

Something a bit similar minus the self flagellation when I sing BV. It 'sounds' like some other dude is nailing the bass line but no outside vision.

WOT not phantom power protection on a Helix, Shirley!?

I think you are going to need a tech to take a look. Very hazardous to go looking inside yourself. Most amps the first thing to check would be an fx loop fault. MB are mostly a bit different but some people mod them to work like most amps by changing the wiring over from parallel to series. So that could have failed or it might be one of the few that come with a series loop and gone faulty. You can see if plugging a cable between send and return gets you sound.

Iirc the Handbox uses toroidal transformers which keeps the weight down compared with the trad iron core boat anchors. See also Traynor amps.

You gave it a good nudge.

That's something special, thanks.

I went to the pub and a band of 30 somethings were playing a lot of tunes recorded before some of their parents were born to a crowd of 25 to 30 somethings, and me. The crowd knew the words better than me. Everything old is new again.

is obviously the common denominator, along with his lead and him. You could have him stand in a wire cage or use a humbucker pickup.

A lot of sound jockeys will try to insist on putting your instrument straight to their DI. Yeah, nah.

Good luck. If it was me I'd make a snake for it. Even if you remote switched it you'd still have two cables, one multi strand for your remote and one for your bass.

No logic. An original band with no PA in my hood would be a mere studio project not a gigging band. Did they need to be gigging? No. But man that's the only logic in not needing a PA.

There was a Commando on the stage for me at one gig. I think it may have been a 15 but not sure, it didn't say. Defo an older version of the OP's. Iirc there was a line out going to FOH DI box or it might have been the amp DI. We did a few numbers for a sound check shake down and then left for dinner. Kid band had the slot before us at the gig. I was afraid he had blown it up as bass was coming over distorted to hell. Kids. Their band wasn't as loud as ours by a long shot. Thankfully there was no distortion coming out of it when I plugged in.