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I think that beyond a certain (price) point pretty much any amp would stand up to regular gigging. I'd have a slight preference for solid state over tubes if I wanted absolute reliability but plenty of people were using and abusing tube amps on tours years before solid state was popular.* If you like Ashdown then there are plenty of lightweight options from that brand. Something like the Rootmaster head (or some of the older class d heads) with a pair of 1x12" cabinets would likely do a lot of shows for a lot of people but without knowing about your situation it will be hard to recommend stuff. How loud do you need to be? How many guitarists do you have and what amps do they use? Are you playing with Keith Moon or Buddy Rich? Do you always have PA support? * As an aside, one of my other hobbies is watches and that comes up a lot there too. If you want reliable, you simply HAVE to have quartz. Despite the fact that a hand winder was on Edmund Hillary's wrist when he went up Everest. But yeah, if you want a reliable amp you'll HAVE to go solid state. :-P
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Hello everyone, I've ben having a bit of a gear clear out over the past few weeks, the problem is that I keep accidentally buying more and more in the mean time... Time for a clean slate though (to that end, please find trade options below!) and so I'm selling the amps that I've been using for a while now. Everything is located about ten minutes North of Newcastle and it could all be posted for an agreed fee on top of the list prices. Cash is king and I'd really prefer sales to trades however I am on the hunt for a Sunburst (or maybe black) maple neck P Bass, Gallien-Krueger RBII head, a pedal board battery, a decent vocal mic, a Studiospares mono valve preamp, RED250 or DI Box/Preamp. Or anything else, try me! [s]Sold! Kemper Profiler Mission Expression Pedal - £80 Never used (by me, I assume the last owner did), came as a bundle with my Kemper and remote but I have no need for an expression pedal. Sold! GK Microbass Fusion 500 - £400 Ermm, my fault. I had one of these for years and then sold it on here about a month ago. And then I bought another. Crazy fool. I would like to rackmount it though, and the 500 isn't ideal for that as it's got vents on the top, hence the MBF 800 listed in the trades section.[/s] Presonus Studio Channel - £230 Great sounding and very feature packed channel strip. Excellent as a bass preamp for live work and recording. I'm told it sounds great on vocals and acoustic guitar too but I can't confirm this as I most definitely DON'T sound great on vocals or acoustic guitar. Boxed with manuals. QSC PLX1602 - £250 Beastly 2U power amp. Up to 1600W bridged into 4ohms in a 2U, 9.5kgs package. Tour grade, class A/B power. Used in my live rig for ages along with the Presonus in a 3U rack. [s]Sold! Behringer Bass V-Amp Pro - £50 Great little 2U modeller that does a lot of the stuff that the big boys do for not a lot of money. Boxed and in great condidition (the unit, not the box, the box is a little battered)[/s] Dr. Bass 2460 Neo - £300 4R, full range cabinet. This is the neo version so that means 23kgs or so. 2x12", 6.5", tweeter. Great one-cab solution for nearly every situation. It's very full range and you can adjust the mid driver and the tweeter separately. There are a few cosmetic marks but nothing that any gigging cabinet wouldn't pick up. Hartke 'airhead' cab - £30 I think this was a kickback combo at some point. A previous owner saw fit to remove the head though, and so now it's a 150W, 4R 12" kickback cab. It's been my 'left in the rehearsal room' cab for a long time now. Thanks! -
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It's the jack plug being physically in the socket that turns the internal preamp on, so even with the wireless turned off the bass is still on. Battery life will be on the order of several months that way. Fun fact, before they started using the switch early stingrays were always on.
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I ordered a pair of fr800s last week.
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Smooth Hound Innovations Digital Wireless Guitar System
Jack replied to Dood's topic in Accessories and Misc
I use the HB Junior too, you need to use the current addition cable though to provide 240mA (the Smoothhound needs 250mA). -
I've got a smooth hound and love it but I'd quite like a rack mount one. Is the G55 still king? Has anyone tried Thonann's own brand?
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[quote name='Yank' timestamp='1493716276' post='3290041'] or a woman. [/quote] Bah, if only. Once caught I lose interest.
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[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1494601773' post='3297298'] I guess customers breaking stuff and sending it back as faulty must be a common problem for any of these companies (not saying you did that, of course). So I can see them being wary. I've dealt with most of these computer parts companies and found them all to be quite efficient. But I understand your position, and I'm sure I'd be the same. [/quote] It must, and one wonders how that is balanced with the distance selling rules regarding trying it at home or having it arrive damaged. [quote name='ambient' timestamp='1494602502' post='3297306'] This is why I won't have anything bigger than a pedal shipped to me. Even if it requires a day out somewhere, I'd rather that than risk all of this. I recently went from Birmingham to Carlisle to collect my Overwater. I had a nice day out with my mom and dad, and the train fare was only £35. [/quote] The things we do for love, I'm driving to London to see my auntie. I mean, I'm not [i]really[/i]. I'm staying at hers so I can pick up a Kemper from darn sarrfff whilst I'm there.
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[quote name='jimfist' timestamp='1494556428' post='3296972'] Cabinet simulation is nothing more than EQ and filtering that resembles a bass speaker cabinet, either generally (using filters and parametric EQ) or specifically (using digital cabinet Impulse Responses). If you were to analyze the EQ curve of a mic'd bass cab, you'd see that there are usually many, many EQ notches and some complexity that is difficult to capture using traditional EQ...but...you can get close if you know what you're trying to EQ. However, I'm of the opinion that it is the complexity of the EQ response curve that gives a mic'd cabinet its unique character. Whether either one is better than the other is purely subjective. [/quote] Indeed but how much of that eq (how many notches if you like) does one really need? I'd be happy with a set hpf and a variable lpf if necessary. Then you could get all of the colour within that set range by running something like a Sansamp in front of the filters. And to be fair, that would only be with distortion, I regularly run clean through my MXR M80 with nothing other than the 3 band eq on that. Some people would crave the exact response of a greenback. Horses for courses as ever.
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[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1494517977' post='3296696']What's the problem with Scan? I've been dealing with them for over 10 years and they've been fine. The Queen even buys her Pcs from them.[/quote] Not to derail the thread too much, but in short they sent me a defective item and then claimed that I had damaged it upon installation, they kept saying that I should have bought their scansure policy. A whole thread's worth of people on Bit Tech and ultimately the arbitrator at small claims disagreed with them. This was after they lost a hard drive of mine. Everyone gets one chance, nobody gets two. Having said that, they seem to have a great number of happy customers but when there are so many other pc companies out there that I haven't taken to court I won't be going back to Scan.
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Just a +1 for £250 for pubs. Sky's the limit for other bookings though and you play pubs to get other bookings. Take business cards, have a good online presence and talk to punters after shows.
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Driving Active Speakers (Barefaced FR800) with pre-amp
Jack replied to doc40hz's topic in Amps and Cabs
DI from an amp probably has about the same output as a preamp pedal, they both feed line level DI to the desk after all. My gut feeling is that it will certainly work although maybe not quite optimally. Most of the time, you'd have the extra gain stage of the mixer in between the DI and the cabs and I'd guess without that extra stage you'd be a little low on volume. I believe that the input sensitivity on the FR800s can be changed, which may negate this entirely..... -
Hey they should if small claims court makes them. My other hobby is computing and I once had to fight Scan (the pc parts company) this way. I did, I won, I got paid. Incidentally, none of you should ever, ever buy from Scan.com
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Hartke. And lots of lessons.
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You don't sound as though you need any kind of control or switching? If not, [url="https://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_sml_21.htm"]this should do it[/url]. I found it when I was looking for a way to blend the two Dis from the new Geddy Sansamp.
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Forgetting the troll up there.... Don't Fender make something like that already? The Mustang or something?
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[quote name='blank20' timestamp='1494260503' post='3294477'] Check these two [url="https://musicsquare.co.uk/161837_Lag-GLAT70-ACE-Tramontane-electric-acoustic-guitar.html"]https://musicsquare....tic-guitar.html[/url] [url="https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/A1R"]https://www.sweetwat...tore/detail/A1R[/url] I would choose Lag. [/quote] Hmmm, and I've recommended you to the mods. In other news, last week I bought a 2007 Yamaha APX500. Loving it so far, now if only I could master the barre chord.....
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At this point I really can't tell if you're being contrary for the sake of it. I appreciate that it's too much work, it's not ideal. When we play most shows we have a great PA set up, I take my own wedge and I'm happy. But I am after something to replicate this set up on the gigs that I need to provide stage volume for. What you really don't seem to understand is that in these situations the bass is going to sound how the bass is going to sound. You have never played a gig where you don't know the soundman or the system? You've never played a show (or rehearsal, or jam night, or audition with a new band) where the FOH is out of your control? My point is, maybe the bass is going to sound crap FOH, maybe it's going to sound amazing. Maybe Dave Rat will be behind the desk on Saturday night, who knows? But if I'm told to provide stage volume then I do what I'm told. I can't see it going down very well if I say to a venue about their installed or hired system "Hmmmm, this PA system you have seems a little crap. Besides we're not supposed to provide the FOH volume from on stage any more, against best practice these days. You mind if I dismantle yours and put my own up? It's ok, they're RCF!" This derail has perhaps gone on too long. If anyone else can recommend a reasonable alternative to the FR800 or RCF 735A then I'd be keen to hear about it.
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That does an awful lot of things for £83. If it does at least some of them well it'll be a bargain, anyone brave enough?
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Did he think you wanted to just use the di and not the amp? If so, not using the amp's stage volume would put more stress on the PA.
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That's all when and good but when I've got a say over what the foh setup is then we've got a great PA as a band. The problem is we don't always get a say. The unfortunate reality is that, despite what we would like to ideally do, sometimes we need an amp begins us.
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Speaking for myself, any of my tone control and effects come from my pedal board, the amp (such as it is) is usually just for stage monitoring. When we take our own pa (~80% of gigs) then I know that I don't need any stage volume as there'll be a decent wedge. What I want is something to provide that on stage volume for other gigs, gigs with no PA support (FOH from stage amp), jams, rehearsals and situations where I don't know what I'm walking into. Currently that means an 18kg, 3-space rack and a massive, 25kg cab. If I can replace that setup with something like a FR800 then I'm all in.
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Hang around here and read and learn a bit more. Once you've made 10 (useful!) posts you will be able to access our marketplace, where there is loads of choice at your budget. That's the way to go.
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Hmmm, I've just seen that the Barefaced prices have gone up to the tune of £300 or so for a pair of FR800s, that's now a little out of my price range and I can't see a reason for the increase in price. Apart from the RCFs (which don't seems to stack so well) what options are there out there for a (pair of) FRFR cab for live bass use? My current rig is board -> channel strip, power amp, full range 3 way cab. But I'd be keen to move to an all in one solution. EDIT - Have the prices gone up or is it my imagination? I was sure that they were £1899 for a pair, have I made that up?
