Mottlefeeder
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Have you got room for one more? Yamaha RBX765: 5-string '80s solid body. Ibanez EW205: 5-string ABG. Ibanez EHB1265MS: 5-string fanned fret, headless. Hohner B2AV: 5-string active cricket bat. Home-brewed briefcase - battery/mains 175 Watts through twin 5 inch speakers. Eminence Basslite 10 in home-brewed cab *2 Ashdown Mybass Mk I (500w) Warwick Gnome Vong HPF/LPF pedal
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I'm interested in adding a reverb module between the mixer and the amp of our back up PA system amp. Can anyone point me at a kit that gives a clean sound, and has a front end gain stage that can be modified/adjusted to takes line level signal? An off the shelf solution might be a Behringer DR600 pedal, so £35-ish would be good, unless the kit was significantly better sounding. David
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I've been carrying a spare mixer for our band for several years, but it has no built-in FX. A new band member is very keen on reverb so I am looking for solutions to fit between the back up mixer and the back up amp. My outline spec is: Dc and/or battery powered Clean sounding Small Cheap? Would something like a Behringer DR600 reverb pedal work, or a kit based on the PT2399, or should I be looking at something completely different? David
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Some set up guides use a credit card thickness as a measure of relief. David
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I tried BEAD as a stepping stone to going 5-string. I bought a 5-string set for the trial and put them on the 5-string bass I eventually bought. David
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Lack of shielding is a possibility, but also poor earthing practice. Wire has a small but significant resistance, and if you daisy-chain the earth connection from the input socket through the amp to the power supply, those small resistances can cause problems. Better practice is to pick one earth point, eg the power input socket, and run a separate wire from the amp, the input socket and the output socket to that point. It's known as star point earthing. David
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The Onyx Go is about the size of a 9v battery, but contains a microphone, headphone amplifier, rechargeable Li-ion battery, signal processing (5-band EQ, Reverb and noise reduction) and it sends its mono signal to your phone by Bluetooth as an MP3, Wav, etc. It's controlled by an app for Apple or Android phones. The Apple app can be downloaded from the Apple store, but the equivalent app does not appear in the Google Play Store. I downloaded it from here, and works fine - https://apkpure.com/mackie-onyxgo/com.mackie.onyxgo I've just seen that you can also download it direct from the Mackie website in the downloads section for this product. I've used it as the ambience mic for an IEM, but it can also be used for blogging, recording phone calls etc. Using the app, you can simultaneously record voices whilst playing background music or sound effects from a file on your phone. You could also use it as a Bluetooth adaptor to connect wired phones to a phone with no headphone socket. The mic on its own may give the quoted 5 hours of battery life, but when used as a headphone monitor with noise isolation earpieces, I only got 3 hours - OK for a gig, but not for a day of busking, so I'm moving it on. The price includes postage to UK mainland destinations. It is shipped with basic earphones with a selection of tips, and windshield. It is recharged using a USB-C connector (not supplied). Mackie's website information is here -https://mackie.com/en/products/microphones/onyxgo/onyxgo_mic.html?srsltid=AfmBOooRHn-OUI4CS7hGhmtwWT0yCaVDuy_kXvSFQoURHu9Ohf0HiiJ_-
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If the clearcoat is spirit based, is there a risk that the sharpie line will bleed? David
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No experience that helps you, but it sound similar to the ebay requirements that leads to the tax office tracking your 'income' from selling. David
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I had a combo which had a speaker capable of taking more power, so I took it to a gig to use as a second speaker connected to the head and main speaker. Connecting them up in a hurry on a dark stage, I managed to connect the main amp output to the combo amp output. The bigger amp fried the smaller one, and I ended up playing through another bassist's rig because I could not work out where the burning electronics smell was coming from. David
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Warwick corvette conundrum
Mottlefeeder replied to RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE's topic in General Discussion
It had the adjust-a-nut-1 on it, and when I asked on the Warwick forum about detuning it, I was told that one of the screws would need to be replaced to accommodate the thicker string, so Warwick sent me one at no charge. Once it was set up for the lower tension of the new strings, it played very well and sounded very good, so I tried to stay with Warwick for the 5-string upgrade. David -
Warwick corvette conundrum
Mottlefeeder replied to RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE's topic in General Discussion
I had a bubinga/wenge 4-string Corvette which I restrung BEAD as a trial and decided to go for a swamp-ash/ovankol 5-string Corvette tuned BEADG. With a lighter body and a wider/heavier neck, the 5-string had serious neck dive and I eventually sold it on as I couldn't work with it. Try before you buy. David -
I think it's a prop like the Marshall ones. A local music venue also has one. David
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Depending on the level of sophistication that you need, a plug-in wired headphone amp would probably be the simplest option. However, going wireless at the cheaper end of the market may give you distortion and latency problems. Going upmarket to a small mixer would give you the option of mixing in a backing track from you phone/pc etc. (I have a Behringer XENYX 302USB doing just this, and it is versatile enough to remove most of the bass from the track I want to play along to.) Some of the multi-fx pedals will also allow you to mix in an Aux signal, and include a tuner. The output jack socket doubles as a stereo headphone out and a mono line out. A dedicated bass trainer will do much the same, but probably with the option to slow down the track, or change its key. David
