mcnach

I've bought the MiPro58 from Thomann a week ago, and yes, that's the full cost, no extras.

Indeed, it sounds a bit... obtuse not to let you have those tracks now. It's NOW that they would really be useful, not later on when you've already familiar with how they play them 🤷

This. Forget the tuning, make sure you know what key they're going to play those songs in, and then play the right notes using whatever tuning you find convenient. After years of trying and not telling with 5 string basses, I finally switched for good when I started depping for a band and found they gave me the wrong keys to a few. A 5 string bass makes transposing quite straight forward.

You didn't open the accordion case by mistake, did you?

The usual: gigbag, allen keys for truss rod and saddles... I think that was it, plus paperwork. Nothing special. I wouldn't care about that.

So he wires things in different ways until one works? 🤔 Seriously, don't go back to that guy for any wiring issue. 🙈

The Zoom H2 works well at high volume levels, just need to set the gain accordingly.

It seems to be some kind of secret! I haven't seen the spacing at the bridge specs anywhere :shrug: I only know the Z7-5 because I have one. It's true, Sire seems to go for 18mm generally, but I think here they've chosen the same spacing as a Stingray 5 since that's the general vibe of the bass... that's just my guess.

The Z7 is definitely 17.5mm. Are you sure the Z3 is the same? The polepiece spacing looks more like those found on 16-16.5mm basses 🤔 Do I have to buy one to find out? 😄

I have no idea what you're talking about 😇

Well, after saying I found the knobs ok... I've ordered some replacements. The stacked ones just were not grabbing the shaft properly and it got a bit annoying.

They can vary a lot. My Z7-5 is only 8.0 lbs

There is a typo on the third hieroglyph, though.

It's definitely more "faff" than the old tape multitrack recorders (more capable too, there's that). While I don't mind learning new stuff (I just got a Behringer X32 mixer to work as our IEM center, and main mixer when there isn't one at the venue) I don't particularly like clicking on menus etc. I have a couple of Zoom R16 units that work pretty much like the old tape ones. It has built-in FX, metronome, tuner... But to use it as a simple recorder, you can almost plug and play, it's very intuitive. It also can run on batteries, has built-in stereo mics (great to quickly record an idea), 16 tracks (can record 8 at once, and you can link two units to double all that) and unlimited saving of alternative takes as long as the SD card it records onto has room. The R16 is no longer being made but you can find them used for £125-175 typically. I then moved the tracks to the PC and mix with Reaper (which, for the basics, is also intuitive and a couple of short videos was all I needed to get on with it). Simple. Newer units, such as the R20 have even pretty colour screens, touch sensitive, and you can edit directly... It might be worth considering that route.

This. Yes, there's a period of adjustment but afterwards it's actually easier to play with 5 strings than with 4, for the above reasons. I started playing 5 string basses when I was being a dep for a couple of bands and got caught a couple of times when they gave me the wrong key. Transposing is easier with a 5 string bass (I also avoid open strings in general, unless I want to play a riff that pivots on one).