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Things like this aren't insurmountable though. You close mic the full range half and then boost the bass on the channel sightly until it sounds vaguely similar. Or just use a mic with some proximity effect to have a bass boosted start. A lot of people seem to think that the point of micing the cab is to perfectly convey some ideal cab sound into the room but I mean, the cab sounds different in every room anyway. To me at least the point of micing the cab is more about chopping some of the harsh edges off of a DI signal and having a slightly more old school starting sound in the PA, but any engineer is still going to modify that sound however they see fit to match the mix, the pa system and the room.

I've never miced my own cabinet on stage but when I was working at a secondary school I got very involved with their live sound and we bought some of the Thomann BD 200 and they are surprisingly good for bass and guitar amps, as well as drums. Not many people have a bad word to say about Thomann's own brand stuff and these are good by any metric and amazing for the money you pay. Maybe check those out if you were just thinking of dipping your toes in. However, my lasting legacy at that school has been removing mics from loud stages and encouraging DI use, so take that for what you will.

Some power supplies (like my excellent Cioks DC7) have a usb built in. For those that don't there's the Rock Stock Bright Switch. I would offer you mine that I don't need any more, but I don't remember where it is...

If you only have occasional dep work on bass does that mean you play other instruments? If so the HX Stomp as mentioned above is the one to go for here. That sounds killer on bass but also anything else with a 1/4" output. If you want the Sansamp but with less boom and more mid then try the Paradriver. Those are actually my two preamps and I couldn't be happier.

Ah but I don't think you've noticed the porting under the speaker, which pumps out those low frequencies.

No photos but there is a dodgy phone camera recording, does that count? The White Line in Newcastle.

As an entitled millennial I can tell you that plenty of people do! Seriously (and rather pathetically if I'm honest) I have often spent ages shopping for something, convincing myself that I really need it, feeling elated when buying it, and then having regrets when it actually turns up. I'm genuinely a little worried about my excessive consumerism and it's something I try and stop myself from doing.

I've posted this before, but unfortunately my setup has settled into something that is exceedingly capable, if a little boring and I just haven't changed anything in years. Either digital or analogue, depending on mood.

It's not even just vintage or rare guitars. In the past 5-6 years I struggled to sell a Bongo HH for £750 and Stingray H 2eq for £700. Both would be almost double now, certainly £500 more.

In fairness to Quincy Jones, he's never heard me.

I couldn't play this, I certainly couldn't sing it. To do both at once?

Those projector screens are amazing, you'd swear there was a real drum kit on the stage.

Plenty of us here build our own, I'm certainly a much better computerer than I am bass player. Stick a post up when you need to.

Yes but the issue with that is that 'sound engineer' can mean 'multiple person crew at a large festival where both the monitor engineer and the foh techs have large format consoles with line and mic inputs' and 'dude with broken 20 year old Mackie who isn't even really paying attention and doesn't know how to work it when he is'.

There are a few inline attenuators that you can get if you don't want to mess about with specific cables. Like this cheaper one or this more expensive one.

Well it occurs to me that the jack cables you were using aren't balanced, so you might be able to replace the cable>di>cable rig with a trs to xlr cable, but I'm not sure what's causing the noise, so I'm not sure if that would fix it. I'd be tempted to try hooking everything up to one power strip that is plugged in to one socket and see if that helps.

Argh, where abouts in Newcastle did you play?

You can get the Bill Fitzmaurice SLA with two 4" drivers I think. But, I mean, Presonus Eris.

Let me guess, 1 penny more?

New from Didier... 50w, 12ax7, 6l6wgb. DI from the transformer. "Sounds somewhat like an early 50s Portaflex, but one of the two inputs has a more balanced / neutral sound." Edit- link now appears broken...

My favourite rig ever was a rack helix into (one, sometimes two) FR800, which is essentially a BB2 with an inbuilt power amp. Your rig must sound similarly immense. Keep a hold of it! Of course, the helix (including the stomp) have the option for line level, balanced output, making them slightly more appropriate for this than most pedal preamps which tend to have a choice of either balanced/mic level or unbalanced/instrument, neither of which are ideal for a proper pa power amp, although both can work just fine.

So the original is a little over half the price, looks better and has the advantage of being made by robots? Seems like he's ruined at least one perfectly good bass to make that monstrosity.

My first attempt at frfr, long before that term was coined, was my pedalboard (topped with an MXR preamp) into a rack and then a Dr Bass cab. I didn't have quite enough juice to push the QSC without a little help and so I used a Presonus channel strip. 1600W, 2x12" subs, a 6" mid and 1" tweeter. Sounded immense. Please excuse the photo quality, this was the good old days.

The ebs are the smallest I've ever found.