Jack

One of the many ways in which I hold myself to higher standards than biblical characters.

Urgh I forgot how old everyone is on BC. If you are reading this site via ticker tape then I am 0.000319 leagues (5'9") and our singer is almost 20 hands (6'7").

Last week out was a rare outing for my hard rock band as booked to play a 50th wedding anniversary. I'm not quite sure we were the correct booking but plenty of people danced so whatever. Plagued by some technical issues from the electric kit though, specifically the kick drum trigger. I wouldn't care however we only took the electric kit as we were worried about being too loud, it certainly would have been better with an acoustic kit. Bass: Spector Pulse (G&L L2000 as backup) Rig: Wireless>Quad Cortex plus a QSC wedge beside the drum kit to make some 'stage' sound for us all, especially the electric drummer. Footwear: Black hiking boots. Partly because I hurt my ankle doing some DIY, partly as the load in involved some questionably slippery slopes and mainly because I am a perfectly respectable height but our singer is over 2m tall and I'll take whatever heel I can get.

I bricked my stomp whilst updating so I bought another. I finally got around to selling the old one and that point there was new firmware. I updated it and it worked. Don't give up just yet.

I think I have fewer requirements than most as mine is just for the mixer, no chord sheets or anything. Having said that, I spent £40 on a refurbished Amazon Kindle Fire 10. It works great and I can recommend it for running Mixing Station.

Hi. I haven't resolved it but in fairness I haven't done the due diligence to find out exactly what's wrong, it might be something simple like a loose connection. This thread was spurred on by @Raslee's Corvette that was for sale which came with an extra pair of MEC pickups. I was just looking for an excuse really. I'll take a proper look and update the thread when I get a second.

Oh come on, 'most'? You think we all have nothing better to do than check the classifieds here twelve time a day? Well. Fine. But that's not the point either.

It is. We're just being nice.

Uh-huh. The bestest.

I liked my Spector Pulse so much that I recently sold my Spector Euro. Whenever I fancied playing a Spector it was always the Pulse and never the Euro. They really are excellent basses. So too was the Euro mind, just that I liked the P/J over the MM. FWIW I paid £500 for my Pulse in the correct ultra violet and I sold my Euro for £750, so there are Spectors out there in your price range.

I was tempted to pile up loads of pedals on top of the qc and take a photo. I mean, fair enough though.

Always been curious about those parametric eqs, specifically that one or the slightly larger one he makes. I'd probably also get the tiny DI he makes too ... How are you finding it? Great pedals but have to ask, what are the connectors/cables? In other news I finally got around to putting my QC on a board. I have been using my Stomp-based board through essentially inertia as everything was already set up, but as I find myself not actually in a band, but depping for 3 bands and rehearsing with a fourth, it's all getting a bit messy. Decided to start from scratch, and now with 267% more buttons!

Hi guys. I have a '91 Thumb where the back pickup is crazy quiet. 10-15dB down from the neck. I know bridge pickups are quieter and I know it's right over the bridge, but no amount of adjustment can fix this. I'm going to work with a tech, but if it does need a replacement then which mec pickups are the right ones? Are they just normal 94mm Js? Don't want to change the sound at all. Would the MECs from an early nineties Corvette be the same ones?

IME the Kemper lives or dies on the profile. I remember downloading a vintage SVT profile from some high end studio and standing in front of my stack turned up loud. If you closed your eyes it honestly could be a real (and excellent) tube amp. I profiled my own GK heads from the DI output. The results were less than stellar . There is no reason that the Kemper can't be the best sounding modelling unit out there. The problem, not that it's a problem at all really, is that the same is true for pretty much any of them. I've got a Valeton GP100 that stays set up in my office all the time for when my 'good' gear is setup elsewhere or in the car or whatever, it sounds brilliant.

For what is worth I had a Kemper, bought a Helix, then sold the Kemper. The Kemper seemed hyper focused on exactly capturing the sounds of 'proper' rigs and I just wasn't that interested. I just wanted good sounds, didn't really care about how authentic they were. Both units sounded great, so I picked the Helix as the effects and the ui were much better.

I have the twin, awesome bass. Enjoy it!

Urgh. I'm a total convert and I kind of agree but like, dude, I almost want to disagree on principle. Richard Dawkins. He's right. But he's an ass.

You're right, the threads on basses are a paradigm of restraint, humility and advice without ego.

Definitely good advice. I usually went line array as it was a wider surface to put the rack on, but it didn't really matter. One upside down looked silly. Horns weren't worth rotating as I nearly always used them singly and dispersion and detail didn't matter as it was only ever just for me. For me this kind of stuff is like the 'never have two subs on opposite side of the stage' thing. I get why, but there are other considerations than just acoustics.

My Barefaced FR800s had feet on the bottom, but then when you stacked two it went horn>woofer>horn>woofer which I never really liked. I preferred to stack them sideways so you had a column of horns and a column of woofers next to each other, but they didn't have feet on the sides. Anyway, I bought a 4 pack of black hockey pucks for next to nothing online and they worked a treat. Tough, lights, black, rubber so a little vibration-absorbing, great. EDIT - It's been bothering me that I would have needed 8 pucks for 2 cabs so I dug through some old photos and they did have feet on the sides, it's just that they weren't tall enough to clear the handle on the below cabinet.

Enjoy the rig, looks awesome.

We had a 905ii for ages with either 932s or 910s and it was a hell of a rig.

Ground loop? Wouldn't explain the lack of output though.

I mix our gigs with a tablet. A tablet that uses 5.8. There's some truth to that. There are more non-overlapping channels in the space, meaning that it should be easier to carve out 'your' space in the range. However, support for simultaneous devices is again one of those things that's great for wifi generally but of no use to us in this application. A wireless guitar kit might have two transmitters at the very most. I think the record for my mixer was 4, one tablet/phone per band member on IEMs. It's not that one doesn't have to think about this stuff, it's just that it's more complicated than "four legs good, two legs bad" that is spoken in these parts a lot. FWIW I have a few strategies that have always helped. Firstly, have a backup. When I play the kind of venue that's likely to be problematic from a wifi point of view I will always take my laptop. Hotel ballrooms, that kind of place. The laptop can be plugged into the router with an ethernet cable and I can mix a show either way. Fortunately, and not coincidentally, the kinds of places that have problematic wifi environments also tend to be the higher paying gigs. Continuity is more important and the justification for lugging backup stuff is easier. In the same way I always take a cable to use if my bass wireless fails. I have used this twice. Once was in a venue where my Line 6 G55 just would not work for some reason and once was when, 2 minutes before downbeat, I could not turn my wireless on. I used a cable and at the set break realised that the power cable had been knocked loose, if not entirely out. Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, I use a nice router. My mixer rack has a Mikrotik hap ac2 that has about 5-10 times the broadcast power of a typical home router like you get for free from your ISP. If I have to enter a wifi arms race I will win. Scan with my phone, pick the least busy channel and set the router to that. Not that it matters, it's always 7 anyway. Once that has been turned on then the instrument wireless systems will work around that.

It's the TS range that I have gigging experience with. 2 1x15" tops and two 1x18" subs. I briefly owned a pair of the TX110 cabs but they never saw gigging action.