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The RTA together with the parametric EQ makes it soooo easy to tune out feedback frequencies. That function alone is amazing.
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Aha! Indeed, we played a new year's gig there this year. It's funny how a lot of this kind of venues look the same, yet they're distinct enough.
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What's that venue? It looks very familiar, I'm fairly sure I have played there. I recently bought a Behringer X32 Compact to use with my main band, as we manage our own sound quite often. We were using a small 12 channel analog mixer with a single monitor aux, so it was quite a change. Digital mixers take a bit longer to get to grips with, in particular setting up the routing to do exactly what you want it to do, but what a revelation they are. I was a bit wary at first, delaying using the X32 live until I felt confident enough... but there's so much they can do, I was getting a bit overwhelmed. So I went back to basics and just set it up to be able to use it just like our previous mixer, basic functions only. That was pretty easy. Then, for each gig, we'd work out something new, saving each gig 'scene' as we went along... and before you realise it just makes sense. I think that because they can do so much, it's easy to get lost a bit, a bit like when I get a multiFX: I may spend hours just experimenting with the different sounds but not doing anything 'productive' with them.
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A couple of years ago I switched to 5-strings, and it doesn't look like I'm going back to 4. I have a few new string sets that I'm unlikely to use now... All for standard long scale basses. Fender 7350ML *** SOLD *** stainless steel roundwounds gauges 45-65-80-100 new, unopened £22 delivered D'Addario ETB92 black nylon tapewounds: warm tone, brighter than most flats, beautiful on fretless. gauges 50-65-85-105 new, unopened £40 delivered Labella 750T white nylon tapewounds: stainless steel rounds wrapped in white nylon. Very compliant string, brighter than standard black tapes. Covers a good range between deep and thumpy to almost the sound of rounds that have aged a bit. gauges 50-65-85-105 new, unopened £35 delivered DR Neon BLUE NBB-40 Roundwounds with a luminiscent blue coating. They sound just like roundwounds. Blue under normal light, bright neon blue under UV/blue light. gauges 40-60-80-100 new, opened just to see the actual colour properly. £22 delivered Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flat Wound strings JF-344 *** SOLD *** Very nice flats, they can get thumpy like the best of them, but they have a strong low-mid response that I really like. Very compliant strings, not as soft as the Labella white nylons, but probably the most flexible flats I've tried. gauges 43-56-70-100 new, unopened £40 delivered
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The Opera browser has a built-in switchable VPN that comes quite handy. Imgur image not displayed? Click on VPN and refresh. You can manually select a rough location worldwide, but whatever it chooses by default seems to work, so far. Click again the VPN button to turn it off, and you're back in the UK.
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Disappointing new bass day...I would appreciate some opinions.
mcnach replied to N64Lover's topic in Bass Guitars
Doubtful, it seems pretty far fetched. 🤭 -
Disappointing new bass day...I would appreciate some opinions.
mcnach replied to N64Lover's topic in Bass Guitars
I'm not sure. To me it just looks like the neck is *slightly* misaligned, the sort of thing you fix by unscrewing the neck screws a bit, pushing the neck in the right direction and tighten screws again. The bass had issues, but this is getting overly picky now, I think. -
Independently footswitchable clean boost + VLE (low pass filter) and VPF (a bit like a 'contour' control, scooping mids while boosting low/highs). Standard TS output plus balanced DI output (XLR). Original MarkBass power supply included (but it works fine on standard 9V supplies - I used it for years with a T-Rex Junior supply, you just get a bit more headroom if powwered at 12V) Bypass can be buffered or true-bypass (switch at the bottom).
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That's... something! I don't know exactly what it is, but it is something. Not even by accident? 😄
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Johna bought my markBass Octaver pedal. Good chat, a pleasure to deal with
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But... what happened to the 195 ones before you?
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SIRE V7 1st gen(i think) preamp 18v battery sink issue
mcnach replied to izzyhigs's topic in Bass Guitars
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This stereo pedal has three distortion types, can save up to 3 presets as it is without any additional gear. It can, of course, be used with the Neuro hub etc and MIDI for maximum control and maaaany more presets, but I never really explored that, the pedal does all I wanted as it stands. The Neuro app, however, is very handy, as it gives you access to many parameters. The way I used it was to create the basic overdrive/fuzz sounds using the app, and then just rely on the unit's physical controls to adjust drive, blend etc to taste. It's essentially 3 dirt pedals in one, and you can modify each until you are bored . It can run two of the distortion engines simultaneously, and blend them, stack them, or output them in stereo. It can do too many things to mention, so if you're not familiar with the Aftershock it's probably best to have a look at this: https://www.sourceaudio.net/aftershock-bass-distortion.html and this (the demo focus a bit too much on the higher gain sounds, but it's excellend at low gain sounds too): It has heavy duty 3MM velcro on the bottom, which of course can be removed. The original rubber feet were never installed and are included, as well as the cable to connect it to your phone to use the Neuro app, which gives you access to a huge array of parameters.
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Treble is cut+boost on both Z3 and Z7. It's just that the Z7 has an additional passive tone control (which is of course cut only). I prefer the Z3, but that's just my personal preference: the semiparametric mids control on the Z7 can be very useful but in general I find the fixed mids on the Z3 to be just where I want them. If having a Jazz neck pickup is important to you, I'd say go for the Z7. Otherwise, while the Z7 definitely feels more 'premium', I find the Z3 more to my liking. One thing about the Z7 that is worth thinking about, is that some people find the neck J-style pickup to be much quieter than the bridge pickup. Whether this is more for the 5 string than the 4 string versions I don't know. Mine was noticeably weaker and impossible to balance with the bridge no matter how much I tried adjusting the pickup heights. I didn't mind too much because the J alone sounds great, it's just quieter than the MM... which makes it complicated if you wanted to switch sounds live, but you do get a wide range to blended sounds that work very well. Sire is installing a different pickup now (the older one had the small twin poles per string like a Jazz, the new one has big single poles) which seems to fix the issue. I got one of those new pickups from Sire, I just haven't tested it yet.
