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I had a miserable experience with a Status neck. It's put me off Status for life. Which is a bit of a shame as I'd probably have commissioned a bass from them otherwise. I understand that things can slip through - but it's how that its handled that is the important bit. It took the input of another luthier to call them to help change their minds. Also, being told "if it's good enough for Pino, it's good enough for you", isn't going to win you any business is it?

Oh totally agree. For it's use - for TV, it would seem to hit the spot perfectly. If you can cope with the latency for bass monitoring... well, that's a nice brucie bonus!

I hate when manufacturers do this - Whispered revelations. Car chases. Or crystal-clear conference calls. Whether you're relaxing with your favourite show or working from home, these wireless over-ear TV headphones let you hear perfectly. In clear, latency-free sound. Then - A super-stable, low-latency Bluetooth connection ensures that you won't have the syncing issues that can occur when watching TV with wireless headphones. Which is it? These statements are not equal. If they are confident that they are low latency, publish the figures. I don't want to be told they are low latency, I want the actual figures. I don't want somebody elses idea of "low-latency" The bluetooth specs tells me that that the codec is SBC, which typically has latency of circa 220ms. That's enough to throw out sync with the TV. So that's standard bluetooth. What's "TV mode" entail? Lower quality sound? Some googling suggests <20ms. Which is still not great for audio applications - but I guess would be less than 1 frame in a 30fps situation... which is a lot better than nearly 7 frames with standard bluetooth. (you tend to notice syncing issues when things deviate by more than 3 frames. So in this context, Id say that they're pretty good. For reference, 7ms end to end latency is the target standard for live audio monitoring purposes. I'd imagine that you'd feel the 20ms when playing, especially if there is anything else digital in your signal path. Thanks for posting, it's made for quite an interesting google whilst munching on my lunch!

This was from the original release of cabs. They also did a squat 15 (ebs300) plus one with a tweeter. They weigh like the sun.

Mine didn't. I always thought it was a bit duff that the neck was held be a mm or so of CF.

That is not the industry standard of doing a monitor mix. Generally, you ARE taking a direct feed from a mix bus on the mixer. That aux will then go into a headphone amplifier to drive your IEMs, whether that be a wired solution or a wireless solution. There is a volume control on this - however, it's the change of level on the input that is of concern... whether that be changes of gains on the desk, or spikes caused by idiots shouting down mics or onset of feedback. To combat this, there are a number of options - brickwall limter on the desk that heavily compresses (eg 20:1) to limit the output, limiter on the headphone amp - very few have this and the implementations can be dubious (e.g. they can implement a proper brick wall limiter... or just limit the amount that the volume can be turned up on the device but won't actively compress any spikes that get sent through). The other option of course is go around and break the legs of anybody that dares misbehaves. If you have a competent sound engineer, there's no real reason why the risk should be high... and certainly a lot smaller than prolonged exposure to loud bands.

Because they generally don’t have an incompetent in the chain that loves pushing things until they feedback.

With the entry point of decent IEMs being so cheap, I don’t know why people would entertain not using them.

I dont know what kinda of money you have to spend but the Boss EQ200 is a good, 10 band, stereo, small pedal solution that may be right up your street. (I'm guessing you aren't in stereo off the analogue mixer - but splitting into the EQ200 may be able to compensate for both of you ears (assuming your hearing loss profile is not identical in both ears). EDIT: this is quite a good topic of conversation, I'll write some extra stuff for the bible thread.

If you are on a digital desk, check the global EQ for that channel. You should be able to carve in some EQ. You could also feed your aux into a separate 31 band EQ (eg stand-alone unit) to make your fine adjustments before going into your headphone amp. Ideally you want to run in stereo with a 31 band EQ on each side to have the appropriate EQ for each ear. Hope this helps. 🙂 Hit me up if you need some guidance.

Totally! Unlike a lot of people, I would actually encourage a year out between school and university (but not one of those gap year jollies to Ghana to find yourself or whatever nonsense it's dressed up as) to get used to the pattern of getting up, going to work and having a bit of responsibility about it all, away from the safety of the parents safety net. When I was at university, I would wager that the majority of students could have done better and actually learned more if they treated it with a job mindset... instead of getting whizzed up, living off Pot Noodle (a guy that I lived with ended up getting scurvy from his beer and pot noodle diet) and sleeping.

X32 is about 1ms (actually 0.83ms but lets call it 1) Narrow band Sony, 3ms. Xvive 5ms. Cumulative 9ms. Pro world, 7ms is the target upper limit. You'd have to try to see if you can "feel" the delay. Of course, the other thing that I don't particularly like, is that it's on the 2.4 ghz range, which means it could be prone to interference in areas where there's quite a high presence of wifi services. If you are on the want and want to go digital... it may be worth investigating the MI-58 - https://www.mipro.com.tw/webls-en-us/iem.html - it's got sub 3 milisecond latency. I've not tried one of these yet - but it could be a better recommendation than the EW300 if you have that kind of money to spend. Stereo, digital, low-ish latency, great dynamic range (plus Dante on the pro version - which I know most people here won't be interested in) - and on 5.8Ghz. Build quality reputably great too. On paper, it's wicked. I just haven't been able to get to try one. Only thing I don't like, is battery choice... but at least it's replaceable. Yes. I want one.

Oh it's gone. I haven't got time for that. My Barefaced comments aren't opinions. They are tangible observations - unless of course, your eyes are deceiving you and the tolex isn't peeling.

Go to university. Yeah, you may be one of those "sad peeps" that hang out at the library - but that's because you have lived in the real world and got acclimatised to the idea of work and maybe the 9 to 5. You are there because you want to be there for the qualification, not the lifestyle... like a lot of students do. Treat it like a job and you'll come out on top. Get equipped with the qualifications and you'll stand out at in interview as somebody that has shown willingness to learn and improve. Although it does sadden me that to be a burger flipper nowadays requires a degree

The advert from Scott which riled me is when he started dissing on Youtube. Not too long ago he was singing the praises of Youtube and the wealth of information available to you for free.

Try some Mark King tape.

What I'd do, is get something from here - https://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/power-supplies-transformers/power-supplies-psus/desktop-power-supplies/?applied-dimensions=4292047580,4293173709 This will do you - https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/desktop-power-supplies/7212109 (Ashdown pedal requires 300mA so it's 830mA capacity is more than enough) And get a DC polarity converter cable (as Ashdown pedal requires centre negative and all these will be centre positive). Then you can get as long a IEC mains cable as you need.

Ah, that would explain why some bass players wear gloves. Leave no prints and all that.

Sounds like Santa!

Are you using just this pedal, or a number? I’d say a block PSU next to the pedal with a long trailing mains cable would be the way to go?

Fieldy. (Sounds goddam awful)

Seems a shame to run in mono if you have a X32…. You could always run two… with each half doing one side of each of your IEMs. If you are already running mono, no great shakes. The gotchas are obviously the cumulative latency. With your wireless bass (what are you using nowadays?) helix (or whatever digital pedals you currently have on your board), x32 and xvive, you could be hitting some high latency figures. You may feel the delay in your playing to what you are hearing. You probably have heard the improvement that the P1 gives you over the LD… and going digital will give you that more wired sound for cheaper than the ew300 and psm900 but it’s all academic if there’s too much latency there. Let’s figure out what you got - tell me your signal chain.

Whats the use case. 3m is unlikely on thin DC (presumably) lead as it will be subject to voltage drop.

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You're not trying hard enough then.