Jack

I prefer to get into bands on the quality of my playing. Which is why I've been bandless for almost two years.

Good points. I don't want to hijack the thread but I got the 12s because their primary use case was/is to be a 'bass wedge' on stage. However, even for that I overbought and I would absolutely go for the 10s if I was to do it all again. The Mauis are 3x8" speaker per sub (so six drivers in total) and then all the tiny mids, so maybe they would be more capable than I think. Needs some testing for sure.

That's what I was thinking. No I've got an XR18, a pair of QSC K12.2 and a KS118. But then the guitarist has the Mauis. I know what would look better and be easier to carry for a gentle country band, but then I also know what would be significantly louder.

Subbed as I am curious where this goes. My new country band has access to a pair of LD Maui 11 arrays, we'll test them out at a technical rehearsal but I am a little dubious. It's not just that they're column arrays, it's that they are 'sensibly priced' column arrays.

2002 Squier Affinity Precision, my very first bass! I got this as a Christmas present along with a Fender Rumble amp, best Christmas ever. Stock aside from some copper shielding and the pickup is the one from my USA P as that now has a Di Marzio. Fender flats.

It's just the way things are going my friend. You can subscribe to a HP laptop now. I've been a Linux user since 2007 and there always an alternative. If anything foss has got better as companies have got more greedy because more people are seeking alternatives. I can't pretend to be a recoding expert but when I have done it I've only ever used Ardour and free (price) software plugins. The results have been good enough, and it certainly wasn't the software that was holding me back it was talent.

I wonder if hardware VST players are going to back into vogue. I know that there's still the small pedal one (the Dwarf or something) but I think that things like the Muse Receptor are due a resurgence. They stopped selling when people realised you could use a laptop, but then a laptop has 3.5mm jacks, OS updates and bleepy notifications...

Wild? I was bloody livid.

The majority of people probably won't care either way, some people will be put right off. Honestly, I think less of anyone who uses AI anything.

I didn't read the notes first so I was shocked at how much difference the Super Fifteen was making but that's probably because it's 'to taste'. It sounds by far the best there IMO, but then it might be possible to get somewhere near (or different, or better) with the eq on any of the other boxes that have it. My takeaway is that the Super Fifteen and the Noble consistently sound the best and the Caveman sounds consistently the worst, with all the rest being somewhere in the middle, very similar and moving depending on the bass used. What was immediately obvious though is how they all sound WAY more the same than different. Aint none of these a Sansamp or a Darkglass are they? Caveat: Youtube compression.

How are you measuring strings? Digital calipers?

My brother's manager at work has a saying. We've all been there, somebody suggests something and nobody else in the room cares enough to either say yes, say no, or offer another solution. Ambivalence in the meeting. So my brother's boss will say "silence is consent" and wrap up the meeting. I kind of get what he means in a work context, but also maybe we could change that phrasing a little here man.

My use case is three songs of the set, and even then only if I have a catastrophic failure. I'd say that was more than acceptable. Thank you so much for taking the time. Oh yeah when you're at home and you can still hear the strings they all sound terrible.