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He posted, he didn't like where the thread went, he pinged a mod to close, mod didn't close, so he removed his initial post himself. Not the best showing to be honest. 👎
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Step one: find a job you love Step two: become very, very good at it, to the point where you're successful, financially worry-free and world-famous Step three: sack it all off and live the quiet life. Sounds bloody marvelous to me. I don't know about you folks, but between Deacon, Taylor and May, I don't think that John is the crazy one here.
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I thought the basschat ones were a diy design rather than commercial products? Seems a bit harsh like.
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I'm not sure that that would be hearty enough to be honest, inbuilt music ducking, the storage space and the power rating all suggest 'children's birthday party entertainer' rather than 'rock band vocals'. I think something like a Soundcraft Notepad and a pair of Alto TX cabs would be a much better bet. I have the notepad 5 (£77 new) and the TX10s (£150 for the pair, open box return) for my tiny system, you'd probably want to go up one model each to the notepad 8fx and the TX12 for your use. Or you could spend the entire budget on one good powered speaker with a mic input and live without a proper mixer for the first few gigs? I've seen RCF 312s go for less than the price of the Behringer. PS - This should probably be in Accessories and Misc.
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UNWITHDRAWN: Barefaced FR800 + Roqsolid Cover (x2)
Jack replied to Jack's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
I've put these up for the same price as the last one on BC went for, but if it's too much then please do feel free to make an offer. -
Hi everybody, I'm selling my Barefaced cabs! I have two of these excellent FRFR cabs, both in mint condition and both with Roqsolid covers. For those not in the know, these are essentially the Big Baby 2 cabs with an inbuilt Hypex 600W amp. 1 of the cabs has covered nearly everything I'd ever ask a cabinet to do, but the correct amount of kill is overkill as you know and I have to say that 2 cabs (1200W, 2 barefaced 12s and 2 horns!) is absolutely amazing to behold. The big thing I've found with the cabs (as they're quite small) is that I use the top hat and a stand at nearly every gig to really get the sound up to head height and out into the audience. PRICE DROP - £1000 NOW £900 each. Official Barefaced Link I'm near Newcastle if anyone wants to come and try them out. I can post a cab quite happily, but I can't imagine that it'll be cheap. I'm also happy to deliver pretty much anywhere in the North East for petrol money. Oh, I'm going up to Edinburgh and Glasgow next month too. Lastly, my brother lives in Northallerton so delivering them around that area isn't a problem. Cash is, as always, preferred but I could be persuaded to trade, let me know what you've got. I'm especially interested in: HX Stomp QSC K12.2 Sire Jazz V2 Fender Rumble Stage 800 Maple/Sunburst P bass Shure GLXD16 try me, I'll take pretty much any bass that will be easy to sell on
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Also very interested, gutted I missed out on the one in the classifieds.
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In general I'd say anything with a 'big' name on it and you'll be fine. If it's going to be for important stuff rather than just for home use I'd stay away from anything chinese and ebay.
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The beauty of the Helix is that you don't need anything bass specific. I have a 'distortion pedal' in one of my presets that's actually a Peavey 5150 preamp and I have plenty of presets that don't have anything bass-specific in them at all. Hell, one of mine is simply a compressor and a generic studio channel strip.
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A whole 17 hours and no-one answered? Shame on us.
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I used to velcro a trs>xlr cable onto my pedal board permanently.
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Some thoughts on the gear you've mentioned. I don't have the BB2 but I do have the FR800 which is the BB2 with a 600W amp in. IMO one of them is probably enough for most gigs, I occasionally use two for outside gigs and such but mainly that's for the height rather than the volume. My previous rig was an older model Midget and Compact, and tbh one of them was normally enough too, I think that most people outside of a metal or doom band would be fine with one of the Barefaced 12s. Before that I had a GK Neo 1x12" and 2x12". I could gig with the 2x12" easily, but not normally the 1x12" by itself. This was an older band and before the pa revolution though, so maybe that would be different now.
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That's exactlly what I'd be doing. Gone are the days of a Pod and a seperate Bass Pod. The new modellers from Line 6, Kemper, Axe FX, Headrush, etc etc are truly multi purpose. If they're too much money then the new HX Stomp is £400, the Mooer and Valeton stuff is even cheaper.
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Basically an external pedal preamp like the ones we're talking about here are all of the controls on the front of your (well, any) amp. Usually at least gain, eq, volume, things like that. What they don't have are the power amp (which makes stuff really loud and drives cabs) or the speaker. Like amps, pedal preamps all have different features (some have more eq, overdrive, whatever) and they all sound different. The Ampeg Scrambler sounds sort of like the Ampeg amps do and the GK Plex sounds very like the GK amps do. Two main uses that I can think of: As an amp replacement - Many gigs these days have big PA system and good monitors, so you don't need to creat any of your own volume. In this case a pedal preamp would give you all of the control over your sound that you need without making you have to carry the power amp and speaker in your combo that you don't need. As an 'effect' in addition to your amp. Your amp is super clean and very high fi. Lets say you join a rock band and you ditch the Rob Allen for a P Bass with rounds, you can put something that sounds 'rocky' like the Sansamp or the Two Notes Le Bass in front of your amp to make your clean amp sound less, well, clean.
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To summarise, it looks as though you kind of want a preamp (because they're useful and because why not?), you want something clean and clear, and you probably don't want to spend that much in case it's not for you. May I suggest the catchily-named Studiospares 458190? Great preamp, super-clean, loads of gain, great DI box, usable eq for bass. It needs a polarity adaptor (it's center positive unlike most boss pedals) and you can see the thing from space, but otherwise it's great preamp. Really useful box.
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Still doesn't, although 2.7 is right around the corner. It struck me as strange too, but then isn't the sansamp supposed to emulate an SVT? 'Cos there's already an SVT in there. I noticed it's absence but I didn't miss it, too scooped for me.
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Hah, I was wondering why peeople were arguing over stereo vs balanced. That makes sense! Yes, to clarify, the HX Stomp has a left and a right output, both of which are balanced TRS jacks and both of which can be set to instrument or line level. Personally, I'd have one that had a 50cm TRX>XLR male cable which would go to FOH and the other would be a TRS>TRS patch lead into a Behringer Mic Preamp to control my FRFR volume. Other people will undoubtedly have different use cases, most of which the stomp should be able to accomodate.
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The Avalon is 2u high by half rack width, so that's fairly standard. The Quilter may have to be custom done.
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Yeah but 99% of the time it'll be dual mono rather than stereo, so you can send the same signal to both something on stage and the mixer. In that case you could use a balanced line level to a power amp and the other line output to a mixer.
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3-hour gig last night with my full-fat rack Helix. I used 2 footswitches, 3 if you include the tuner.
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Considering how much other top-flight bass gear can cost, I don't think it's expensive.
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The GK clip light is also before the gain control, so it's not unheard of.
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Quite. It was a relaly big help for me that one guy in PMT Newcastle is a bass player who gigs with a Helix, he was very informative and very useful. The facebook groups and such are brilliant but not a patch on a hands-on walkthrough from an expert. And PMT felt the benefit of a sale, so they're winners too.
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Hmmm, but it needs phantom power and that can sometimes be a problem. I sold my Triton and don't really use my Countryman because of phantom power issues. FWIW there's a Radial SB2 wired into my Helix.
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Designacable to 50cm ones for £5 on Amazon. I got one for my GK Plex and one for our 'other' mixer's aux output and they're perfectly fine.
