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You may be surprised how much easier it is to play a bass with a flat board. Leo only put a radius on his creations to mimic classical instruments that were played with bows. Electric stringed instruments are not so the concept is actually redundant even though we've become accustomed to them. Leo as you may know wasn't actually a player.Flat boards are part of the reason I favour Warwicks. Never owned an ACG as of yet but tried a few used examples in Bass Direct. They are something else ☺️

Essex's own Martin Newell in Shepherds Bush Hall last night, Two sets, one solo and then another with backing band The Cleaners from Venus for the first time in over 30 years for this two night run at Bush Hall; though it was support act The Gardeners stepping into that role (my friend Tiv played guitar alongside Captain Sensible and Dave Gregory for what had previously been the Cleaners' final excursion in Japan in 1994) Quite a few famous faces were in the crowd... Thoroughly entertaining, when he goofed up a riff on the piano, he remarked "At least you know now it's not AI" 😆

We've been preparing for a jazz gig in the centre of Oxford at the beginning of June. The set is pretty much sorted out now, and other than a few wrong notes (this is jazz, though) and a flying drumstick everything was sounding good. Some effort has been spent trying to find varied arrangements, with different structure and number/order of solos, which is something we usually do for gigs - see https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/324449-jam-nights-cliquey/page/8/#comment-5458986 for why I mention that...

I am in no rush for another multi effects unit, but this looks good. Once they begin to appear second hand and after the RRP has dropped, I'll be interested

I'm going to guess that with a female vocalist you won't be going for silly volumes or an over heavy bass sound. The DXR's are good speakers that will go really loud and are also well protected against abuse so you are unlikely to damage them in normal use. Honestly I don't think you will have a problem though that depends upon how big a venue you will normally be playing. Certinly until you are established I'd be prepared to go out with just the Yamahas and save your money until you are absolutely sure there is something lacking. If you do find you are lacking at a larger venue then applying HPF to the mix will allow you a little extra headroom and probably a cleaner sound but in all probability Yamaha wil have some sort of dynamic speaker management in place already which will get the best out of the speakers and be almost unnoticed by you and the audience. Subs are a nice addition but not an absolute necessity in most UK pubs and clubs.

I saw a video on YT at the time I was looking, that somehow demonstrated that 1 driver can be better in certain situations. It wasn't scientific, but IIR his singer was slightly more in tune when using single driver Sen than with multi driver. Possibly something to do with brand and poor phase cancelation putting him off somehow. Im not backing this up, just going by what a random You Tuber posted, but I have seen mention of it on other sites over time, but more a throw away thing than any testing. I must admit at the start 'more was better' in my eyes (ears), but after trying the MEE pro range, that went from 1 to 4 drivers, I found 3 to be optimal for my use. I could certainly hear a difference between all of them, but it was more like different Eq than anything else. I certainly didnt like the KZ tone signature, and those quite a few I believe.

I have always found it much easier to play on a flatter fingerboard. In regards to the filter pre it was something that took me a short while to grasp but now I really prefer the filter preamp 👍🏻

Leave the first one out? A popular trick.

Luxury, I couldn’t make it past the first bar.

I was thinking about getting a second set, but I guess that would be too much money. A friend of mine has used the IE400 for years and never had an issue, so I hope they last. I don't know if this is the reason why they disscontinued them, but they only have one driver. The friend I mentioned before had a podcast and he talked to Sennheiser and they explained why they use only one driver. But people really look at how many drivers IE have so, maybe they were not selling that much.

To be fair though, those 40w rumble amps are a bit miraculous. Not very nice sounding but they do get the notes audible which is incredible for what they are. That was at an open mic setup though and from that point onwards I made a point of bringing my own rig to those sessions, even though I carted it on the underground! This is why portability is really very important for me.

Interesting point of issue. Erik Arko's video mentioned right at the end: "It will get Bluetooth eventually - they're stuff implementing stuff..." Does this mean the hardware is Bluetooth ready - the specs on the Darklass produce page don't mention Bluetooth at all.

I don't think that's come out too bad for a first attempt Now time to start making the neck........👍🏻🤟🏻

I've just noticed they've added the list since yesterday 😁 The link is here. Block List (v1.1) Amps & Cabs Preamps Harmonic Booster Leo Bass Jim Bass Gentle Amps Peggy Bass Super California Kallinen Kruukkeri Neural Amp loader Bass Cabinets All cabinets have 6 microphone options with 6 position options each Microphones: Condenser 103, 414, 67 + Dynamic 112, 421, 52, 7 Black and Yellow 4×10 California Bass 4×10 Darkglass Neo 2×12 Darkglass Neo 4×10 Fruity Bass 1×15 Fruity Bass 4×10 Fruity Bass 8×10 Garden of 1×18 Garden of 4×10 Modern Bass 1×15 Modern Bass 2×10 Modern Bass 4×10 Modern Bass 8×10 Mountainino 6×10 Peggy 1×15 Peggy 4×10 Peggy 8×10 SWIRL 1×15 SWIRL 4×10 SWIRL 8×10 Vintage Peggy 8×1 Guitar cabinets All cabinets have 6 microphone options with 3 position options each Microphones: Condenser 184 + Dynamic 421, 57, 906 + Ribbon 121, 160 California combo 2×12 Fashionista 4×12 Modern 4×12 Panzer 4×12 Topper 2×12 combo Vintage London 4×12 Artist cabinets Dave – Beta52A Dave – D12e Dave – MD421 Dave – MD441 Forrester – Bitey Forrester – Clear Forrester – Monster Forrester – Punch Forrester – Thick Jon – 2×12 Jon – 4×10 Jon – 8×10 Nolly – Blend Nolly – AllTheMids Nolly – ScoopyDoo Nolly – RolledOff Nolly – VintageStack Nolly – Mega-Meld-IR User cabinet IR loader Overdrive & Distortion Microtubes B3K Vintage Microtubes Alpha Omicron Duality Fuzz Chinchilla Microtubes X Neural Pedal Loader EQs, Filters & Dynamics Amp EQ Darkglass 6-Band EQ Generic 6-Band EQ Hi-Pass Filter Lo-Pass Filter Gravitron (Envelope filter) mo**erf***r (Envelope filter) Noise Suppressor FET Compressor BUS Compressor Compressor / Limiter Modulation & Pitch Mint Chocolate Chorus (Mono/Stereo) Flamingo Flanger (Mono/Stereo) Sublime Octaver (Monophonic) Sublemon Octaver (Monophonic) Subcitri Octaver (Polyphonic) Pitch Shifter (Polyphonic) Delay & Reverbs Digital Delay Analog Delay Modulation Delay Room Reverb (Mono/Stereo) Plate Reverb (Mono/Stereo) Hall Reverb (Mono/Stereo) Shimmer Reverb (Mono/Stereo)

While I agree with the oasis comments, I also have the same issues getting upbeat songs in, or at the moment, any songs! It seems to take forever, I am not sure why most songs cant be done in a week, or maybe two if it is a really tricky one.