EBS_freak

I saw the Studiospares one in a rehearsal room this week. They look to be the ticket - thanks for the heads up, 6 ordered! Thanks for the link markstuk!

It sounds like it's not a volume thing that you are having problems, more of a "fatness" thing. Have you tried to make the jazz bass "bloom" more, via something like a compressor or overdrive (when I say overdrive, I don't mean distortion, I mean more like the soft drive you'd get from tubes - it thickens the sound before hitting that audible distortion)?

I love a good DI - I'm now running a Kemper straight out of the PA... and having that in your inears is bliss.

The trouble is with these things, is that you can never really test them out in anger to see how well they are going to work for you. A grand is a lot of money to pot luck on.

Utterly disgraceful. I've never ordered from them because of all the horror stories.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1486142144' post='3229630'] I'm very pleased with a K&M boom stand I bought a couple of years back. [/quote] But which one? K&M can get very pricey indeed!

As the topic title... I'm looking to buy a few boom stands to mic up a percussionist that will be on some gigs with me... but don't want to spend a load of money... but don't want to buy complete crap!

[quote name='bassjim' timestamp='1486123913' post='3229389'] On the Markbass website there looks like something is possibly going on. Are we all about to start selling our beloved EBS equipment ? ( thats a joke BTW) [/quote] Marcus was still using EBS when he was endorsed by SWR. I wouldn't read too much into the whole endorsement thing in this case!

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1486002147' post='3228477'] ^ Nice! ^ Never played a kemper live but have recorded with one (no, I don't own it) - I shouuld get the chap who owns it to profile the V4.. [/quote] It's a very impressive piece of kit - I've only just started to delve deep into it. It certainly seems that it delivers everything it promises to. Just hooking it up to the remote and editing the fx to taste. So far there seems to no difference in my HD350 and the Kemper take on it.

Finally went for it, after years of hesitance.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1485775649' post='3226512'] And there's that lot of players that use passive P and J's and say they don't want anything to do with active basses but add a Sansamp (or similar) in the signal chain, thus making their basses "active". [/quote] You could route your bass and stick the Sansamp in your bass. Probably wouldn't be much wood left in your bass... But then of course, routing for batteries and circuits obviously takes away from everything that a passive has on the "tone wood" front.

You may/may not find this interesting. Think we've covered most of it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3CDoE1jaWQ

Looking forward to both of your guys opinions on your respective toys - maybe stick them in the big in ear monitor post to try and keep everything together?

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1485466887' post='3224243'] you're a bad man [1] [/quote]

Should be worth stating that a DI mix will sound really bright and harsh as you'd normally expect a speaker on the end of it - even for monitor feeds - what is mixed for a monitor wedge won't necessarily sound right for inears, so the speaker emulation could be a good addition. I suspect this is where the UE tap may fall down... unless they've put decent speaker emulation eq into the box.

Here you go - [url="https://www.eglobalcentral.co.uk/logitech-ultimate-ears-ue900s-headphone-en.html"]https://www.eglobalc...adphone-en.html[/url] I have had a number of friends order from here, they've come and they are the real deal. Just order with a credit card and you'll be fine. Can't complain at that price. And if they really work for you, you can have them converted to customs for circa £200 quid. As a benchmark, a quad custom is currently riding around £750 now.

IEMs on a tight budget - I fear you aren't going to get the lows out of any of the IEMs that you have mentioned. Save you money and save up... seriously. You'll have a miserable IEM experience otherwise. You aren't going to get the performance you are looking for. I've spent more on headphones than I care to admit... and for bass in an IEM environment, I would say do not got anything less than a quad driver with UE900s being a good bet. Dual lows, mid and high. Probably looking around the 175ish mark but this isn't me being snobby - it's me saying, you are asking a lot from anything less because you are dealing with raw, uncompressed input with huge transients. Looks at the last few pages of the big IEM post for other people's views on them.

Hmm, well the latest posts seem to echo what I worry about it with these things. It struck as a bit of an electronics project from the finish point... and the tracking is still something that I worry about. Still yet to try one in anger though.

On paper - that ART looks good. The Z doesn't do speaker, the X appears to do so. If uncoloured as possible is what you are interested in, check [url="http://shop.kempermusic.com/int-en/kemper/accessories/298/profiler-di-box"]http://shop.kempermu...profiler-di-box[/url] - but I bet it's essentially the same inside but just in a pretty box.

Hmm. Interesting read - doesn't specifically mention speaker loads though. I'll have a read.