EBS_freak

Stu Clayton's book is a good starting point.

Possibly - if the situation was not resolved suitably.

By the time you've spent 10 minutes getting assaulting by the sound in the main room, you're going to wish that you never had the urge to play bass....

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So it is a myth?

I don't think there is negativity, just statements on what has been witnessed... which are then taken as negative... usually by people that have bought. There's negative comments made all sorts of brands on here (Ashdown most recent)... but people seem to exhibit big amounts of butt hurt when it comes to comments being made about Barefaced. I dunno. Go figure.

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Either that or sharpen the strings.

It's not a myth! You only have to look at pretty much every BF for sale on Facebook to see the evidence.

Handle.

It wouldn't be a bass show if he isn't.

Who'd want to carry a bass around with them across London unless they absolutely had to? Not for me ta!

I agree - with bass, I actually prefer no speaker emulations. Certainly wouldn't say the same for guitar though!

Another big issue is whether your monitor is passive or powered. Alot of venues have passive monitors... so turning up with a powered monitor could be a bit of an issue. So to get around this you are looking at getting a passive monitor and a separate power amp should you need it... like a bass amp and a bass cab. The FRFR story thread will give you some ideas... but ultimately, you still need to have some knowledge of what you are dealing with. A monitor that you can use as a bass amp and put the rest of the band through... well, for me, that's preferable, you've just got to sort out what your real requirements are.

I agree - the top end on most bass cabs are highly attenuated... and additionally, bass cabs are traditionally far from flat response, especially in the mid range.

Unlikely - but I guess we will see. I'm guessing they are bolting their own preamp which that have mated with some pre existing power amp. Not many class D 2 ohm power amps around... certainly not a lot that will sustain high power output with out going into thermal issues. But we shall see.

Is that American Hipshot hardware I see on your basses? - or is it the licensed Chinese stuff?

"so I have a jack/XLR converter which is MONO" - this is your issue. If you use a TRS (e.g. a stereo) to XLR jack from your headphone amp, you'll end up with a stereo feed (of two identical mono signals), that will be unbalanced. Behringer have gone the unbalanced XLR route to avoid having two unwieldily XLR/TRS inputs on the belt pack. As you say, you could also get a mono adapter for the headphone side too.

amp - one to watch.

I'm quite surprised that there's a perceived top end zing as these cabs come out dead flat on a smaart analyser. Guess we are all used to hearing different things - but I know RCF excel at top end reproduction.

Where is JTUK nowadays anyway? Looking at the website, The Crossfire gig calendar seems quite healthy. (Don't know if that's related to his BC and CF absence or not)

We've been speaking about this over at the IEM thread. It's not a new thing - it's just another take on the Subpac and Woojer tech... and arguably less well executed! Having tested the Subpac and owning the Woojer, I can tell you that haptic feedback is a very powerful medium in terms of getting the sensation of loud bass! @ped - they are generally powered by high power batteries as found in phones and bluetooth - which is good enough for listening to music, not so good for IEM use. However, if you are using a wireless pack, you plug the wireless pack into the woojer and then your headphones into the woojer. The woojer has it's own built in amp... so as long as you are wireless in terms of IEM, and wireless from your bass, there is nothing tethering you to the spot. Oh - and in response to the thread title. Genius.. but maybe poorly executed. We shall have to see post the kickstarter campaign. It took Woojer the second release to get to where it is now... the first release was very primitive in comparison!

Tomorrow! And Sunday!

Good point - the college my friend teaches at, actually has a room full of Macs running Logic X/Protools and a dedicated project studio for tracking/mixing and mastering. The bulk of the work can be done on the drop in Macs.

In all honesty, in that price range, they are all comparable.