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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.

In Logic, I spend a lot of time with EQs and my personal fave seems to be the API take on it. Very simple but very musical EQ. With regards to the EQs found on bass amps, I generally find them particularly frustrating because they aren't as useful as I think they should be. For a lot of people, EQ is about drawing shapes whilst shifting sliders or thinking "I need more bass, or low mids..." and then just tweaking the appropriate knob. Amazingly, alot of people don't appreciate the frequencies that they are dealing with - and bass guitar frequencies are not as low as they think - because it's the harmonics and not the fundamentals which are produced at volume through bass rigs. In reality, without understanding the impact that the room is having on the sound and the fact that a lot of tweaking with narrow notches is the answer to many troublesome rooms. If in doubt, leave it flat... because it is bound to sound better than an ill configured EQ. Swamping bass and nasal boosts are going to do your band no favours.

I concur with the above. I wish I had gone Mac years ago. It would have prevented my burning through a load of mid priced PCs for years. To echo what has already been said, buy the best that you can afford and expect a long time of trouble free computing. My bro's macbook is 11 years old now... and still going strong and is plenty fast enough for what he uses it for. For Logic though, get as good a processor and as much RAM as you can afford. With regard to the screen real estate, a cheap external monitor will solve that (appreciate that it's an extra outlay). My 4 year old Mac 13" is great for on the move although I do wish I still had the bigger screen that i had for a while.

Its a loud box, it's going to be quite sizeable... although I think @stingrayPete1977 sent me a pic of his 735 (same box as 745) sat next to the SRM450 it was replacing. There wasn't that much to be in it to be fair - and the 450 was a 12" driver cab. Good luck with the tweaking - its always easier to take away frequencies than add - so I suspect that you will have no issues on that front. Eager to hear your reports, especially after the gigs.

Yeah, that'll all change as soon as you put a bass in her hands. Always dug Haim to be honest, good old fashioned no BS music. The Wire still remains probably my fave track of theirs.

@BigRedX - any updates on the purchase?

Its a good little sounding practice combo. Remember is's a 30, 1x8 - and costs as much as an fx pedal... which is pretty remarkable value for money. It's a great practice/bedroom amp but don't expect it to be a powerhouse. I dug it anyway.

Ahem, your "stinky poo list".

Well, there you go!

The velcro solution will work just fine. the guitar show is at Bingley hall - http://www.theguitarshow.co.uk/ On Birmingham, mainly guitar stuff but good for a few hours browsing - there's usually a few bass bits around.

Nice effort!

@Osiris - The G55 comes in at under 3ms latency. I seem to recall that the specs are <2.9ms. So certainly up there with pro level wireless analogue to analogue. (ULXD for example, is 2.9ms) - so you have nothing to worry about on that front. Funnily enough, even on small stages I tend to use wireless just so that I have no cables under my feet. Use it - there's certainly no reason in your setup why you shouldn't. If you were telling me you were running a Smooth Hound, I certainly would be urging your edge on the side of caution as you would be within the realms of trouble with that (in fact, it annoys me that people keep banding around that it has no audible latency and is much better than the line 6 equivalents - when in reality, when using it in an IEM setup, it is useless.) Ha - my setup - yeah, overkill for most - but for me it's the result of somebody who probably cares about IEM monitoring for all gigs a little too much. I've used this setup in front of a few thousand... and a few tens down the local I think as soon as you have experienced a great monitor mix - which no doubt you will with your planned setup - you are reluctant to give it up. For me, the more I have pushed the dual desks and external plugins, the less I want to give it up. It all comes down to the final point - I just want the best monitor mix I can have within reason. My setup is actually pretty quick to set up - it's all racked and ready to go... so no real difference to plugging in just one desk! But yeah, people are probably going to be satisfied with far less! @jrixn1 is right - the 215s will enable you to do a job - but I would urge both of you to try and get into the world of quad drivers. It's the difference between running a single 10 behind you and a four ten. Just far more headroom, control, authority... and bass! I had a brief exchange with @thommydonutsabout driver count. He's just bought some high driver count IEMs - I think he concludes with me, there's a big jump from a single to a quad... and then as you go up in driver count, the returns do diminish... however, some of these 6, 8, 12+ driver count earpieces really are nirvana. Defo worth checking out if you can stomach the cost - but as I say to people, you need to stop seeing your IEMs as headphones but as a replacement for speaker cabs. If you have the FoH doing all your amplification FoH, then see your IEM as Bergantinos (or whatever) for your ears - afterall, they are doing the same job - your personal monitor on stage. Then, the cost makes more sense. Put it like this, I'm yet to see anybody who has invested in the higher end IEMs regret doing so. I think @dood and @tonyf would agree wholeheartedly with me. And both of them have been through some serious rigs. Ask them which rig has been their fave - their 64 V8s... or their cabs. I don't know if you are about to come to LBGS or Bingley Hall at the weekend but hunt me down and I'll get some top end stuff in your ears if you want to hear the difference.