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  1. Jack
    They're great units. Just like BigRedX I've a history of trying to make a bass amp more like a pa system. I've had racks with channel strips and pa power amps, as well as Kempers, Helicies and a few others. I had an original rack bass pod pro! The only frfr cabs I ever used with my Kemper were a pair (well, usually just one) Barefaced FR800. Sadly discontinued and something that I really regret selling, but just awesome. 800 watts into what was essentially a Barefaced Big Baby. My Kemper never crossed over with any of my other attempts at frfr stage amplification but I have no reason to believe it wouldn't work just fine with any of the usual contenders from RCF, QSC, etc. Sorry about the crap photo. Camera phones weren't so good in eons passed
  2. Jack
    Yeah of course man, I know me and you have been on thread before extolling the virtues of the guitar amp models in Helix, or just not using any amps/cabs at all. I just wouldn't want someone new to digital fakery thinking that amp models were just an eq block is all. Funnily enough I've joined a pop punk band. I attacked the Helix the way I normally would and never quite got it right, until I had to make a patch really quickly and so I just faked a normal rig and set up a patch using an SVT/810 model with a compressor after it. Stuck with it, it's the right sound for this band. I mean, yawn, but it works!
  3. Jack
    I disagree with a lot of that mind. I agree with you that, a lot of the time, you don't need an amp or cab model to achieve great tones, or even the tone you want. A lot of my helix patches don't have amp and cab sims. The 'artistry' or whether or not one should use an amp model, cab model, or IR is up to personal choice. However, factually speaking the amp and cab models in the helix (and especially in the kemper) are much much more than just eq filters. They're an interactive, deep, musical, piece of code that can do things to a sound that no amount of eq could ever do. Except maybe a constantly adjusted, instant real time eq along with compression and distortion. But if we're doing that, then isn't everything that we do (including note choice) just eq?
  4. Jack
    The Harley Benton ones are great yeah. Much bigger than the average though. I know you said you don't need anything and so they aren't worth it, but I mean are you really really sure you don't need anything else from Thomann? You've been very good this year. The BC ones were a limited run unfortunately. Although maybe @ped still has some behind the sofa or in an old pair of pants?
  5. Jack
    I have some of the Harley Benton ones. To be honest I don't use them much as my basses all have staplocks, but that has caught me out a few times as my strap now can't really be used with any other basses. I always make sure to have some rubber washers in my gig bag, 'cos you never know. The Harley Benton ones seem just fine and I was already putting an order in, so for like £2 for 4 they weren't bad. Might be tempted to sort a bulk bag on ebay or aliexpress if I used them all the time though. I know you said you aren't bothered about the branding, but could these convince you?
  6. Jack
    I would do this with a second hand bass I bought from somewhere/someone trusted but the person who deps for me in my indie once apparently (I wasn't there obviously) showed up to the gig with a sealed cardboard box. He used a pen knife to take the staples out, pulled the plastic wrap off and unleashed his new Sire V7. It had been delivered as he was packing the car. That's commitment, have you seen the way some delivery basses arrive new from warehouses? That Nash is GORGEOUS. I have been on the lookout for just such a vintage-looking super p. If you don't bond with it, let me know first?
  7. Jack
    That's the proper way, right? That's the way my two Spectors are done. That's the way I've done any 2+2.
  8. Jack
    It's the strings yeah!
  9. Jack
    Yeah if you're using the filter in the subs then run the tops full range.
  10. Jack
    If you're ever gigging anywhere near Newcastle (you're not a million miles away) then happy to loan you my mixer or I'll soundman for a gig if that helps? I've had my XR18 for something like 9 years now and there's no way I would go back to a desk desk.
  11. Jack
    Tell me about it. Our drummer (otherwise a very restrained, softly-spoken, low-ego, plays-quietly type) insists on micing every drum at every gig. I mean, I don't mind, they're his mics and it's his time, but in The Spanner and Mallet to an audience of 4 people and 3 teeth I've not got any of them turned on. Maybe a bit of kick but even that's to make the drum sound bigger, not louder.
  12. Jack
    It really wouldn't surprise me, the power of of the mind to affect things that it shouldn't is super, super strong. Not like in a woo-woo, you only use 10% of your brain type thing, just in terms of expectation, bias and placebo.
  13. Jack
    Cheers man. That showreel was only February but it's already a bit cringe. You can tell we're trying really hard to remember the songs and not really enjoying ourselves. The mistakes, the fretboard looking, the song choice, my hair! It got us a year of gigs so it served us well, and there'll be a better one soon. I'm a LOT more proud of my video editing skills than I am my bass playing skills, that's for sure.
  14. Jack
    Thanks! I actually am running in stereo, I was just abbreviating as I was on my tablet and it's a pain to type. The stereo bus on my mixer is running through a (virtual) stereo eq to balance out the volume and tone difference between my ears (about 10dB down across the whole range and about 15dB down below 250Hz in my right ear). I'm just worried that if I have the volume "correct" in my good ear, then it's secretly 10-15dB louder than it seems in my bad ear. However, I am trying to run the whole thing really quietly anyway, so hopefully it won't be too bad. 18 years and I'm still a medical marvel. No one seems to know why I'm deaf.
  15. Jack
    Oh good. I was wondering if I'd somehow been playing bass for over 20 years and not noticed people doing this on the regular.
  16. Jack
    Is this common? Or is it as unusual as I think?
  17. Jack
    My beloved G&L SB2 Tribute in suitably pop punk seafoam green into a Shure glxd and a hx stomp. It looks and sounds like this.
  18. Jack
    Indeed. Last weekend was my unofficial first gig with the iems, I'd kept the box and all the little plastic screen protectors, just in case. Over the week though I decided I was committed and got everything sorted. I hate fiddly setup stuff so I put the iem transmitter in a rack with a power strip and a 10m xlr loom. Half the connections to plug in and out, better protection, more power sockets on stage and a nifty light. Had my first gig with it on Saturday. I'm a little worried about the volume though, with my deafness in one ear I've got the stereo balanced panned to my deaf side, and I'm concerned that I'm hitting my deafer ear with too much volume. More experiments to follow, although I'm loving the clarity and the freedom to move more on stage. Sorry for the bad in situ photo, the drummer's ego light blew out the shot.
  19. Jack
    Pop Punk Prty's 4th ever gig. A nice, small affair in Ushaw Moor. Don't know how backline bands would squeeze on the stage but hey. First gig we've done that I'm happy with without qualifiers. No "it was OK but..." or "well, for our second gig..." we just nailed it.
  20. Jack
    Ashdown, Stoneham and Handbox all do small tube amps. Barefaced 10" cabs are voiced very old school. Some if the suggestions above aren't in the same tonal ballpark as your current rig. Sorry @BassAdder60 the Eich you mention is fantastic, I would prefer it to the Fender Bassman all day, but if you want something close to the Fender it's miles out. Is it really getting you close to your V4B?
  21. Jack
    Well also valve amps tend to run the same power into any load. They don't change with the load like solid state amps.
  22. Jack
    If you want the sound of the amp in your headphones then you can use the effects send or the preamp out on the head into any headphone amp. I bet thomann do a very usable one cheap.
  23. Jack
    See? The markets not slow, the prices are high. Guarantee that if I put a Wal up for £20 it'd be gone in minutes.
  24. Jack
    Do you think maybe the ridiculous prices that people are asking and the fact that the market is slow might be linked? 😁
  25. Jack
    2016 I sold a black and maple, 2 band, single humbucker (so about as wide appeal as they get) for £750.
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