stingrayPete1977

How you getting on with it mate?

"Hoshino Gakki began importing Salvador Ibáñez guitars from Spain"

I'd have it but it's a German pattern!

She looked thrilled, lol

We had a Canadian at the double bass bash in Bicester last week!

Pedant alert, although I'd never say it in a guitar shop it would be pronounced Eebaneth in Spanish.

All joking apart if one should wish then an FRFR setup would work just fine to amplify a lute.

Do you eat the beans first, does that give you extra heft?

Even at small venues I go through the pa these days, if the venue is big enough for a sound engineer you should be aiming to keep your amp volume lower than the pa. The bigger the venue the quieter the stage

I'd happily put my bass straight into the desk with a decent monitor wedge pointing back at me.

Where do you draw the line, if someone doesn't gig then a decent practice amp is fine for them. Comparing apples with pears

This is a bass forum, I'd imagine a pa sales site would yield better results plus that's a totally different issue and the fact no one has sold them on tells you something doesn't it?

What amp and cab is that? Comparable in range and volume.

As I said I still light weight cab and class D head but the amp and cab new are nearly £2000, the RCF cab is actually easier to move than the bass cab too.

How much cost and combined weight is a comparable amp and cabinet?

As I said before I wouldn't suggest anyone changes a perfectly good rig for one, I haven't either, I've got a Genz 212T for bigger backline gigs but I'd advise against a rig to anyone upgrading from a practice amp or requiring their first gig ready amp. The dinosaurs will keep buying a bass rig as big as they can because it's ingrained.

Yeah but at least I'd have the desk to sort it out, lol

If you mic a Barefaced bass rig and put that through the RCF it would faithfully recreate that, and many variations on that plus vocals, guitar, keys etc etc etc. It costs less too.

An RCF cab costs less than a comparable bass rig yet can handle just as much bottom end but with a more nuanced sound if you want it, I can't see how that's not better? Would I change my existing rig, no, would I buy an extra RCF735 instead of a bass rig if mine broke or was stolen, 100% yes.

Yep.

I think a lot of people are thinking these FRFR cabs are just like the crappy old tops they've got lying around.

I think you are under estimating what the RCF speakers can do, massively! I've got a pair of RCF 735s, they'd demolish the Barefaced without breaking a sweat. It's s fairly simple to understand that a pair of cabs we use to amplify, drums, guitars, three vocal mics and my bass without the need for a sub or backline are going to have no trouble against a conventional bass amp if used purely as a bass amp monitor, there is no situation where a pair of RCF cabs should be maxed out when used as stage monitors anyway!

I think you are in the wrong thread!

So is mine but it's still a pair of connections I don't need.

I always use a polytune wired into the tuner out, it's there then no matter what bass I'm using.