SimonK

20 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

From @SimonK, not the OP.

Yeah - sorry - but given the OP expanded to include IEM I thought the thread was fair game!

2 hours ago, Jack said:

That's a much harder question to answer I'm afraid, and it's much more dependent on other gear and members of the band as well. Are you in control of this mix? If not, who is? Do you have a spare aux mix or two on the mixer? Every mixer? How will the rest of the band hear your bass?

 

To get you started I have a band member who uses and likes the Xvive system (which is a good budget option), I use a Sennheiser G4, something more mid-range in price. 

I've recently been thinking along similar lines albeit making use of a 4u rack case I have lying about and filling it with goodies for a "silent" stage rig. So far three spaces would be used with a sansamp RBI, tuner, and compressor, but then I would like an in ear system to complete the rack. But this is where I am faltering as what I would like to do is to be able to mix in my own bass level with whatever the desk is sending me so that I am not reliant on the PA operator to give me my own level. The closest I can find to this functionality is systems that take a L and R feed in, but then allow you to be in "mono" mode and mix the L and R to your own liking.

But I'd be interested to know if anyone knows of a specific IEM system that has it's own mixer built in specifically.

11 minutes ago, three said:

Good luck with the study but as with many, I'm pretty wary of clicking links.  

 

It might be a good idea to provide some details of the institution at which you're studying (including department), your supervisor, and a link to your research ethics statement/data control protocols.

....I suppose one conclusion from your study might be that bass players are ornery old gits! Along with also wanting to know your institution and ethics review details before I fill this out, I'm also wary of studies that ask for gender and then give sex options - if you want gender the options are man, woman, other, prefer not to say. Male and Female are sex (chromosome) categories.

3 possible reason:

🙂

1. They stop gigging

Looking at the pedalboard thread on this forum I don't think gigging has anything to do with owning an extravagant pedal board!

2. They realized how practical multi effect units are

Ironically, and possibly in contradiction to your point 1, it seems a lot of people who do the most gigs use multi fx - certainly the last few stage shows and big tribute bands I have seen have all used Line6 Helix's (Helices?).

3. They are in separation from their partner and forgot the pedal board when they moved out

They lost their lover, not their love!!

4. (Bonus) They realized tone is in the fingers

What????

5. (Extra bonus) They grew up and started playing upright

....yes I see the point, although evidence from many years gigging suggests that most of us think we play better when legless!

Thing is, in even the best case, I'd only really want the board, power supply and maybe two thirds of the pedals, so it would have to be a pretty awesome price to make up for the faff of subsequently selling a few things. None of the prices I've seen so far make it worth it - £1000 goes a hell of a long way designing ones own board!

I've started noticing an up-tick in people trying to sell already completed pedal boards on eBay. These used to be quite rare, I think because the draw of pedal boards is creating a custom collection of pedals so no one will ever quite like exactly the same things as the next person. I've certainly always swapped pedals in and out one at a time, and occasionally updated the board itself or power supply. So why would anyone buy someone else's complete pedalboard - surely it's better value to buy/sell pedals one at a time?

The only thing I can think is maybe something has happened in the digital effects world in the last year or so that I missed, meaning that more people are making the transition to multi-fxs (and yes I know one of the below is a guitar board)?

Anyone in Blackburn - this is a bite their hand off good deal even if it may not be working (search Trace Elliot on Gumtree):

My bass and acoustic pedal boards are pretty linear, but for my electric guitar pedalboard I use a 4-cable multi-core and a Bright Onion patch box so that I can easily switch pedals before and after the preamp.

When I wrote the above I decided to say "no-nonsense reliability" to describe boss. But I just read a review for a different boss pedal that I thought had a better description: "They seldom break, and are both ugly and elegant in all the right ways." Hopefully this pedal will keep up the tradition (although I would have preferred a choice of colours, albeit white is generally what they use for utility pedals!).

15 minutes ago, NoirBass said:

I still don’t like the micro transaction aspect of this pedal, but I am interested to see where Boss takes it, will we end up with new pedals that you can only have via the PX-1 platform? Things could get very interesting then.

I think Boss would be crazy to do this. The strength of their brand is in their no-nonsense reliability. They will lose a fight with the likes of Line6/Yamaha or the other big digital modelling companies.

Is there a 2025 thread?

Sorry to hear about your amp - I seem to recall it was someone like Surrey Amps who are the authorised repairers in the UK?

30 minutes ago, Richard R said:

Sadly I am out for this one. It's Rememberance Sunday.  I'm in the band for the church service and we're playing one of my songs to close.

 

Hope the venue survives the LF onslaught!

 

I got rota'ed out of remembrance Sunday because I wanted to come to this!

6 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

 

...and there's a guy works down the chip shop, swears he's Elvis...

 

I don't do online purchases and I seldom look at eBay or Gumtree other than to add to my knowledge of what's out there.  There are people on BC who could do (and have done) 3D prints for me if I supply the detailed spec or an original part for scanning.

 

The 1818x that you referred to has a ten inch driver.  Mine has just the 18inch cone with two front facing reflex ports.  I was told it was an 1818.  I must check the data plate at some point but it's too heavy for me to be arsed moving it.

 

Wow that's restrictive - I get most things online and rarely have a problem - indeed that's where all my Trace Elliot finds come from! The chap who 3D prints the ports is active on the facebook trace elliot group which was where the idea for someone with the ability to print them came from. He also does the red and green caps for the gain and volume pots which I have got from him before.

The 1818 is the normal single 18" speaker (plus two tuning ports), whereas the 1818x denotes "special application" and was a Mark V and before thing - there was a discussion about them a few months back on the following (the thread itself is 15 years old but someone nercro-bumped!): 

Someone asked me on the thread below about seeing some of the Trace Elliot cabs I've been collecting and fixing. I'd be happy to see how much I can squeeze in the car, although if there are thoughts of a cab comparisons I could probably bring a 1x15, 1x18, 2x10 and 4x10, and maybe also the classic 2x10 + 2x5 cab favoured by Mark King, albeit space may prevent this!

48 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

One of the reflex port liners on my cab is visibly damaged with a piece missing from its flange.  I suppose TE could find me a new one.  The cost and the newness against a rich patina on the rest of the cab plus the fact that I am a notorious skinflint prevents me.

 

If you are breaking a similar cab for parts, I would be interested in getting hold of a replacement, used, port liner or two for mine.  Let's talk should this be on the cards at any point.

 

RE port liners, yes thet do break frequently so I don't have any not in use, but there is a guy on ebay who 3D prints them: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/167033823085

42 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

 

Do you come across any 18 inch cabs?

 

I have one that I love, even though I might never get the chance to play with it at significant volume.  I have a workshop/practice room at the back of the house with an Ashdown 15" combo (Toneman 300) and the 18 inch TE as an extension.  They haven't been used at all since I had to stop practising there.  I was supervising a vulnerable adult indoors, full-time, and needed to be ready to drop everything with little or no notice.

 

In the main house, I used a Laney RB3 because less Watts meant that I could turn it up to where the amp was nearer to its most efficient output.  I could then continue to practise, whilst being readily available to deliver care as required.  The household benefited* from the lower volumes generally.  Since I have been on my own in the house, I've been lax about going back out to practise.  I'd like to get back to being able to go through a set list in the workshop without undue distraction.

 

'Nuff waffle, else you'll be wanting maple syrup or summat with it.  I wanted to ask you to keep an eye out for me.

 

One of the reflex port liners on my cab is visibly damaged with a piece missing from its flange.  I suppose TE could find me a new one.  The cost and the newness against a rich patina on the rest of the cab plus the fact that I am a notorious skinflint prevents me.

 

If you are breaking a similar cab for parts, I would be interested in getting hold of a replacement, used, port liner or two for mine.  Let's talk should this be on the cards at any point.

 

I am impressed by your "hobby" if I may call it that.  I would love to see your collection.

 

 

*I say benefited but it would be more truthful to say tolerated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes I have a few 18" things lying around including the 1818x cab on the first page of this thread that I got for £20. These coming up every now and again, although TE cabs with 15" speakers are far more common. Annoyingly I've just seen the following listing and was in Littlehampton earlier today (although I think it is 2x15").

I'm planning to bring five or six cabs along to the SE Bass bash on the 9th November if you want a look (and would probably happily part with any of them for £50 or so as I have quite a few at the moment!).

I'd forgotten the above went for £120 as just grabbed the following today for the same price, which I think is still OK. This GP12 SMX is probably my favourite trace head especially with the dual compressor. It used to be a combo but for presumably weight reasons was separated into a head (with home-made case) and the cab.

Very very crackly pots but other than that seems to work. Will give it a good clean and then probably re-mount the head into my 4x10 combo (in my thumbnail) that currently has a GP7 head in it. Then strip everything out of the cab to go into a carpeted but empty TE combo case that I stripped the parts out for fixing something else. Will post pictures of the two amps once they are (re)done. 

42 minutes ago, Count Bassie said:

Yep, this set goes back to the Mk V, and there are some significant differences between it and the Mk IV.

Thank you for sending those though! I've downloaded them and I'll bet there will be another old tank added to the pile within the year, 😁. 👍

Yes - sorry I don't have anything prior to Mk V but I thought there could be some similarities.

Trace-Elliot GP11 schematics+parts list.pdf

If you are wanting to split a signal may be worth getting something with a phase switch on it. Doesn't matter so much if half the signal is going into a computer, but if you are using two amps (or more precisely mic'ing speakers) it is essential.

It's a nice sentiment that social media makes people sound more extreme, but I made the mistake of listening to a LBC radio phone in yesterday while driving... breathtaking both the views of the presenter and the people who called in. If anyone needs an argument against democracy a radio phone in provides it.

Enjoyed that - the musical he's on is very gospel sounding but without the crap you have to put up with in a church!

1 hour ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Was going to reply to add to this the obvious reasons why these platforms are not being regulated as much as they should but think it’s going down the politics rabbit hole which will end up with the thread locked.
 

Luckily we can still enjoy watching SBL invite other YouTubers onto their channel for challengers and have the cheek to call them professionals! 

The thing that ruined facebook for me was when they switched to more "intelligent" algorithms rather than just putting in sequence whatever your friends happened to be posting. Straight away this destroyed what originally made facebook a good idea, which for me was getting in touch with people I hadn't seen or heard from for ages. Now it's just bland rubbish (albeit quite bass focussed for me). Sadly most people I found interesting to be in touch with left facebook many years ago.