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What bass was he playing?

Audere https://www.audereaudio.com/index.htm and John East's J Retro http://www.east-uk.com/index.php/bass/j-retro/j-retro-01.html spring to mind. You can mount pretty much any preamp to a jazz bass (most come with stack pot variations) but some will require additional routing as putting a battery in the cavity takes up the lion's share of the space. Also worth noting the a stack pot takes up more room under the plate than a single pot. The two above are designed to fit in the cavity with no routing.

Its not open till the 5 April. People who have seen this is going to be very limited.

Oops :-/

"You should be ashamed of your behaviour and your playing. Cover your face with a hood, son."

Wiki - clearly written by himself. Didn't Janek write a load of his wiki himself... only for it to be cleansed within an inch of it's life...?

[quote name='police squad' timestamp='1459260501' post='3014871'] Actually, it's the Hole in the Roof [/quote] Oh roe it's not! Does somebody want to fill him in...?

I may or may not have had a hand in sunburstjazz1967's setup. Those RCF 735/745s really are great, you never struggle for vocal volume and the woofers are beefy enough to take a fair amount of punishment, including some pushed kick drum. All in a package which really are quite portable and in most situations, are great even without subs. These things really kick out far more bass than most tops in plastic cases that I have ever used. They will easily keep up with your standard 12 tops/15 sub set up. Easily. Those mini array systems? In comparison, rubbish. I did the sound for a band I depped for a couple of weeks back - with Mackie 450 tops and a couple of RCF 705s. Nothing particularly exciting about the front of house but I did take my smaller digital mixer with me. Being able to gate and compress the kick drum for starters makes a massive difference... suddenly turns a floppy flap into a proper kick thump that gives the band some energy. Again, compressed vocals and powerful EQ makes the vocals sound light and airy as opposed to boxy and flat, with compressed mixes going to my inear rack that I let the band use... it was a big revelation to them as to how their PA could sound. In fact, even with a PA like that - which isn't super money by comparison, you can put the whole band through and have a much, much better sound out front. Everything just sits right and there's no fighting in the mix... And as mentioned before, the 31 band EQ is a Godsend. The ultimate tool to have built into a digital mixer to help fend off feedback in even the most difficult venues. I don't think, given the price that the Behringer units are going for, there is a reason for anybody not to be using a digital mixer. Hopefully it's landed me a few more deps too

Gosh, the Tickled Trout really is upping it's game.

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1459255512' post='3014779'] if he's the bloke with his own wiki page... [/quote] Just read the wiki page. What a tool. His home country may explain a lot of the drinking problems though...

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1458896343' post='3011869'] No coil tap switch? [/quote] No - different circuit altogether. New circuit.

Noddy Holder did worse to get a break...

As a descendent from a family insurance brokers business, Id say don't do it. The bottom has dropped out the market with the big boys concentrating on putting all the small fish out of business. As a niche market, musicians can't pay to put petrol in their cars to get to gigs, so why are they going to bother with insurance?

But what about the boxing that followed...?

Hiscox. Strong as to keep your bass safe...but not unwieldy and not too heavy to carry around when not being transported.

I would wager you could buy a new one from Thomanns cheaper than sourcing the covering and paying for the labour to fit it... I would wager it would have more value as a tatty original 60s case over a restored non-accurate example anyway.

http://www.tubeampdoctor.com/en/shop_Coverings_Coverings_Tolex/ http://www.allparts.uk.com/collections/fender-style-tolex-and-tweed

Try searching for tolex. I'd imagine thats the sort of thing that it's going to be covered in.

[quote name='Pestie' timestamp='1458836747' post='3011413'] Sorry, I did the last two replies and it kept getting it wrong. Mackie 1608. I think they are great ! [/quote] They are! Although I have to say, the fx (or "outboard") section of the Behringers are currently blowing it away in that department. These small format digital mixers though, incredible value for money. You'd be mad to use anything else... Worth it for the 31 band eqs alone!

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1458670978' post='3009726'] The Audio Nasties=new band name! [/quote] I'll put it on my "worth considering" list...

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1458819126' post='3011156'] How's the cascading going? I had serious desk overkill at the weekend. Little acoustic show in the small front bar of a multi room venue I tech at. The middle sized room had a gig on, tying up our M32, so I had to hoof the Avid Profile and it's mix rack through from our 1000ish cap main room to mix an acoustic gig for 40 people. Used six whole inputs. Sounded bloody good though! [/quote] Desk overkill is grand. I've used a GLD80 for an an acoustic singer/songwriter. 2 whole inputs. Im wanting to know if there are people slaving cheapo 4 channel mixers to create a 32 channel desk... Probably not... but would probably go viral if you instagrammed/tweeted/facebook etc it.

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Get one of these. Take off the boot and the cable clamp, you won't need them. Drill a hole in the side of the plug where you need the cable to exit. Pass your cable through the hole and solder the cable to the pins as appropriate. You may want to put some heat shrink around the exiting cable to give it a bit of extra strength. Drop some hot glue over the terminals and to seal the edges of the internal assembly. Fill the rest with epoxy for the a pro finish. (The glue in the previous step prevents the epoxy from running down the edges from inside the assembly to where the pins are) If you've done it right, it'll look a bit like this.

[quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1458667867' post='3009693'] Back to your original question to which I don't know the answer to - why not turn it off when it's not being used? Sorry, not trying to be a smart arse just curious why you would leave it left on when it's not being used? [/quote] Just for information and the benefit of others using other wireless systems (as opposed to anything really), if you are are running in an environment with a lot of RF, for analogue systems, it's preferable to leave the transmitter on if the receiver is left on, otherwise, with the transmitter off and the receiver on, rogue RF can be picked up and send some pretty nasty spikes to the PA. This can be somewhat helped with a squelch circuit - this turns off the receiver when the signal being received isn't high enough to sustain a clean signal... however, this can be sometimes fooled with rogue RF to unmute and cause those nasties. You may have heard of a pilot tone - this uses a high frequency transmission which is inaudible but serves to connect the transmitter to the receiver. So if the pilot tone is not picked up and rogue RF that would otherwise fool the squelch circuit is experienced, you would not get the audio nasties. As for digital, this is different - the system basically receives data in a digital (think 1s and 0s) format and even with RF interference, is able to decipher the transmission payload, except in exceptional circumstances where the RF is getting completely mangled, or the transmitter is out of range. With additional error correction data being sent with the data stream, the receiver knows if the signal is valid or not... and if the latter, will drop the connection but not put out any audible artefacts. So as to echo mr zeds comment, with digital, you could just turn the transmitter off, with analogue, you'd be prudent to leave both transmitter and receiver on, or transmitter and receiver off when not in use. In the interests of keeping RF environments clean however, transmitters should be turned off when not in use. Digital systems can have a negative impact on wireless routers for example. Also, it's prudent to use as little transmission power as possible as it helps prevent interference with other radio devices... but it also means your batteries last longer. For you Line 6 guys that only stand a metre or so away from your amp, drop the power on your transmitters and experience much longer battery life! (Sorry, don't think the stage clix offers variable transmission powers!)

[quote name='lowregisterhead' timestamp='1458468139' post='3007741'] Thanks for a very comprehensive explanation! I've already got one of OBBM's double-feed cables, which works very well, but I can dream, can't I? [/quote] To be honest, if you are wired, taking an IEM feed up alongside your bass lead, is always going to give you a better performance than a radio pack, assuming that is, that you don't need to run around. Like anything, your IEM feed is only as good as what you put in to transmit to your ears...