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I recently joined a newly-formed band (female vocals; 2 guitars; bass & drums), planning to play pubs and social clubs etc First gig is mid-June. We want to go through the desk so we can IEM. The guitarist just bought a pair of Yamaha DXR15s. If the speakers go on poles, will I (and drummer) need a sub on the floor? If so, would I get away with a 15” powered sub, or does it need to be 18” because the tops are 15”? (Else would it be an option to have one DXR speaker on a pole and the other on the floor, or is that just silly?!) Thanks

I love how understated and elegant that looks! And I'm an absolute sucker for olive wood. I always drool at those cutting boards they sell at Xenos and Dille & Kamille here (Dutch people will understand ). Beautiful bass! I'm a bit put off by the lack of a fingerboard radius and the filter pre - but I guess mostly due to never having tried either of those! I'd love to have a go on one some day.

This town ain’t big enough for t’both of us. Sparks

If you are combining two tweetered cabs then it is better to stack them vertically with the tweeters as close together as possible, so as you say horn>woofer>horn>woofer is not good. There are two approaches, simply invert the top speaker so the horn is now on the bottom and in some cabs very close to the horn on the bottom cab, this approximates to a D'Appolito configuration giving a fairly coherent wavefront but you'll get some phase issues in the vertical plane due to the spacing between the horns. You've now moved the two mid bass drivers further apart so you'll lower the point where the mids become directional and start beaming so this works best in speakers where the crossover is lower like the LFSys. Radiation in the horizontal plane should be good and a lot beter than a side by side arrangement. The second method is to stack the speakers but on their sides with woofer above woofer and horn above horn in a classic line array. The problem with this is that the horns are on their side and typically they are designed to radiate a wide horizontal beam which will now be narrow and high. The audence may hear less detail in the bass guitar if they are off axis but the player will benefit from the extra height which will be giving more upper mids to their ears. If you were doing this regularly then you could rotate the horns. LFSys have the horns rotated already though to direct the mids to the bassists ears whilst in the conventional position. Sometimes I bore myself

Spoilin' For A Fight - AC/DC

Similar to others on here, including the OP, the truss rod setting was excellent with just a small amount of relief from the factory. The bridge saddles needed about three [plus] turns each to get a nice low action. There are no real dead spots on the neck, or buzzes that I can find. In single coil mode with the three-position switch in the middle, you have a nice bright 70's Jazz bass sound with a fair scoop. The neck pickup solo'd in single coil mode is very P-alike - you can take about 40% of the tone off before it gets muddy. The bridge pickup with 50% tone produces a fair to middling Jaco sound. The humbucker setting can be overpowering. Not in terms of physical output, but due to how the pickups are wound. The front pickup in humbucker mode solo'd gives you something like an EB-0 with lots of gain style gritty tone. Run the instrument as a single coil at the neck and a humbucker at the bridge and it does a very reasonable HS impression. Build quality is great. No blemishes or chips in the finish, fretwork is good overall and the neck profile (fingers to thumb) is again very Jazz-like. Hugely playable and comfortable. Okay, so what's not to like for £150? Thanks Andertons

Ack, I was just looking at the pretty pictures, not the specifics! You couldn't do any worse than signing onto the Hamer Fan Club group if you haven't already! https://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/

Can't get behind that at all. It looks like quite a thick refin. The whole thing looks like a MIM Classic '50s Precision bass. Why dress a 1963 body up like a 1957 bass? Apart from the skid marks in the neck pocket everything that ties this instrument to 1963 is gone.

That is super lush

That's good to hear. I find the default settings on many Helix blocks, even the bass-specific blocks, less than ideal for bass. I assume the default Anagram block settings are more useful "out of the box."

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Absurd, and smells not like Tesco's official let's-drive-our-customers-away policy, but more like youthful staff having a larf. Me, I'd be happy with a Barilla substitute for Garofalo, but would be willing to make lotsa noise when 3XL is changed into S. Is this system designed so you can deny taking the nonsense without making lotsa noise? In case: do they then fetch it, or do you need to go to a shop?

Thank you @LiverpoolBassPlayer, but @chris_b has the bass seat for the evening. Appreciate the help from both of you!

Absolutely beautiful mate 👍🏻👍🏻

Very, very nice! I met Alan & his wife at the Bass Show and they were lovely. Tried a 32” 5er and it was superb! Enjoy!

My Barefaced FR800s had feet on the bottom, but then when you stacked two it went horn>woofer>horn>woofer which I never really liked. I preferred to stack them sideways so you had a column of horns and a column of woofers next to each other, but they didn't have feet on the sides. Anyway, I bought a 4 pack of black hockey pucks for next to nothing online and they worked a treat. Tough, lights, black, rubber so a little vibration-absorbing, great.