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Tone Hammer 210 combo.... Looks nice. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Jack replied to spyder's topic in Amps and Cabs
Yeah it would be an awesome practice amp, as furniture it would blend into my office decor way better than the qsc wedge does. Unfortunately it is shaped, sized and featured like a home amp but priced like a stage amp. -
Tone Hammer 210 combo.... Looks nice. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Jack replied to spyder's topic in Amps and Cabs
Adore the look. Will pass on feature set for the price. -
I normally have a rule about just buying gear that I like and not buying gear for a particular project and once again I have proven to myself why I should stick to that rule. 😔 In summer 2024 my main band decided to go entirely IEM. In autumn 2024 I was fired by that very band. In that time I did somewhere between 5-10 gigs with it. As such, my over £1000 of IEM rack has sat unused for the past year. I have held on to it for a while now but none of my current bands show any interest in going IEM and to be honest I have a hearing defect in one ear caused by a botched surgery when I was a kid that makes wearing headphones a little uncomfortable so that suits me just fine. I don't do things by halves and I put a lot of research into this before I bought it. Obviously you can spend car or even house money on the kinds of IEM systems that the pros use on big tours and this isn't that, but then it's not some budget Aliexpress dongle either. Think RCF pa speakers that sit in the goldilocks zone between Mackie and L'Acoustics. It's a nice prosumer system that works exceptionally well in a very neat 2u rack. I do have some IEMs but they are not the kind of thing that I would be comfortable selling (and expecially buying) second hand because they have been inside of me. For the record I was using this system with the very decent Shure SE215 but it's a standard output that will work pretty much anything out there. As it stands this is a stereo system so youi can have different mixes in each ear, but it can also be run mono. Anyone who has ever seen my gear will tell you that I am super-annoying with organisation and neatness. This rack has strain relief buit into the cables, everything is cable tied down to the shelf. The input loom coils up into the back of the rack. The power cables are tidied away. You get to a gig, take the lids of the rack, plug it into the wall and plug it into the mixer. 60 seconds, tops. When you do it will light up and you'll have a few spare sockets to plug the rest of your stuff into. Please note this is not the (c. £500 new) 'EW 100' series, this is the full-fat 'EW' series. I'm selling the whole rack as a complete system for £650. If you wanted just the IEM system (transmitter, receiver, power supply and rack ears) with none of the accessories that would be £550. I would however encourage anyone new to IEM to go for the whole system as if you do that then it's a turn key solution with all of the hard work done for you. Add headphones of your choice and go. Even if you're not in a brightly lit pop punk band and you turn the light bars off! Pickup from between Wylam and Newcastle. I can deliver locally or I can post. Please get in touch with any questions. Sennheiser EW IEM G4-E Wireless IEM - New from Andertons in June 2024 at a cost of £859 Gator GR-2S - I have three of these cases, two 4u and this 2u and they're the best portable racks I've ever seen Dynamode rack power unit Neewer rack shelf Pulse 1u vent panel Ferswe led bars RCH Audio Engineering 10m stereo loom -
Selling Quite A Few Pedals - Tech 21, HX Stomp, Brightonion, etc.
Jack replied to Jack's topic in Effects For Sale
HB Tuner sold. -
The 'poly capo' block in the helix is about as good of an octaver as you'll find and the model of the oc2 is appropriately and authentically terrible, so you'll be well covered. Much obliged! That might mean it fits on a pedaltrain nano without any overhang.
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Can anyone confirm the dimensions please? The website says 122mm wide but I assume that's actually the 'length' from the top of the screen to down where the footswitches are?
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What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...
Jack replied to kwmlondon's topic in General Discussion
Same. Tort looks great, when it looks great. Sunburst, black, white. They're pretty much the only finishes that work IMO. It's like wearing tan leather loafers with a tracksuit, both of which are sensible fashion choices in the right circumstances but those circumstances should never align. -
Is that two different types of Tolex as well?
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I've just watched the videos and it certainly does sound great, although as mentioned it would have been nice to have a pedal on/off comparison because the signal chain seems to involve one of the best bassists of our generation, a beautiful custom Lull bass and apparently a proper recording studio's worth of other gear. I'll bet it sounded ok without the pedal too. The price is outrageous but this is clearly being positioned at the top of the market alongside things like custom basses and other boutique pieces so I'm not sure how much rational thought can be applied to the price tag. It's easy enough to think that you could probably get that kind of range of sounds by putting a nice eq pedal in front of any normal transformer DI. Or you could even get most of the way there with a cheap multi effects. Hell if somebody buys one who also owns a NAM profiler then anyone can have access to all of the sounds of this new gadget for the princely sum of £60 or however much the GP5 costs these days. But then that takes all of the fun out of it, doesn't it?
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Many have gone from casa del Jack but only one is missed. Pleased you're happy man.
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The only reason I recognised it is because I knew I'd seen him play one. I googled 'Krist Novoselic bass -gibson' and it was the second image.
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That is some high quality rock tone going on there my friend.
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Very blurry, Ibanez Black Eagle?
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Is there any logo on the headstock? -
It's only been two months, did you forget?
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When this thread was new I was a current Barefaced user but now I'm one of these modern weirdos who doesn't have any backline most of the time. I've had 2x midgets, a compact, and 2x FR800s, all of which are exceptional and the fr800s were easily the best cabs I've ever used. If I need stage volume these days, which used to be pretty much never then I use a QSC k12.2. However both of my new bands look like they might be stage volume bands, so I am considering a big twin to amplify my quad cortex. Who knows what the future holds eh?
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After a whole year with no gigs and auditioning for nine bands, joining six, only to quit four of them, I started 2026 with a gig! New years day at Tynemouth squash club. My new brit pop project Rewind played our first gig to sadly mixed reviews, we knew we weren't at gigging level but the club had been let down by another band and 3/4 of the band (not me, I'm fat) are members so we were drafted. Some major blunders (me shouting chords at the guitarist during a disastrous 'I predict a riot' was a highlight) but overall I'm not too beaten up about it. We knew we weren't really ready and there were more good moments than bad, there's definitely the bones of a good band there. Rig: G&L tribute sb2, shure wireless, quad cortex, pair of qsc k12.2. Hpf: 130hz Shoes: hiking boots Rating: 4/10.
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Oh that's a given but ideally for snagging rather than expecting to have problems. It would be nice to have a plan going into that.
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Yeah I will once again be taking on the role of soundman in this group and when we do it will be with my nice digital mixer that has a lot of control, through nice speakers, in nice rooms. Unfortunately the rehearsal rooms we use tend to have crummy analogue mixers with '3 band at best' eq per channel and nothing else. It's not that I don't know how to use a DI, it's that I don't know if the lackluster sound we've had over the past few weeks has been because the DI solution inherently isn't working for us, or if it's actually a perfectly fine solution being hampered by the crummy pa in a crummy room.
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Oh no I've done a few photo shoots.
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Certainly not... 😁
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Thanks all. We've had a few runs through now with a very basic DI box into the desk (I've been loaning a Thomann one) and we all agree that it's a little lacking, but for the moment we don't know if that's because the guitar/di combo needs some extra tone sweetening or if it actually sounds fine and is being held back by crappy rehearsal room PA systems. We have plenty of options and ideas thanks to you guys though.
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I built my home practice Valeton into a board. Most of the time I use the Valeton but it needs a wall wart and uses jacks, whereas the quad cortex gig rig that I sometimes use at home for setting patches etc needs a power cable and xlrs. I hate getting on my hands and knees behind the chair to mess with the cables! Korg pitchblack custom, Valeton gp100, Thomann DI. Pedaltrain nano, Cooks Adam. Occasional wireless bugs.
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I'm not familiar with that specific A&H but, aside from the compressor that you say it doesn't have, is there anything else in that post that's out of the question? Personally I am not a fan of using, or even starting with, in built presets on digital mixers. I find that they really tend to over egg the pudding and I spend the first bit of any soundcheck just undoing what they all did. I just find myself wondering how awful the source has to be to need that much doing to it? In fairness the only mixers I really have experience of are my Behringer XR18 and several local venues that use the A&H Qu/SQ stuff so I am not an expert on multiple desks and perhaps other presets are better.
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Don't worry about the mixing app, it's essentially agnostic about how it connects over the network. Connect the tablet using the inbuilt settings app. Mixing station should still be set on wireless. Not that this matters if you can't connect to your home router and browse the web though, it seems as though the adapter itself either doesn't work or isn't configured properly.
