mcnach
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No, I've never tried them. I'll keep that in mind, your description sounds very appealing thank you 🙂
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Same. I once broke a G-string in a well used stainless steel roundwound set, and quickly installed a fresh G string. It wasn't a good sound. That's when I started saving a previously used set for this kind of situations.
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Tell me where I can get flats that sound like TI Jazz Flats after a year or so of playing I'll save you time: you can't. That's just one example I have experience of. Sometimes people look for ways to accelerate the process and get to that sweet spot faster, makes sense to me. I just use them and eventually they'll get there, between the bass' tone controls and/or a bridge mute I get close 'enough for rock'n'roll', but I see why someone would just want to get there.
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That's not a bad idea!
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IEM's, new desk. Who then owns the equipment?
mcnach replied to solo4652's topic in General Discussion
It's literally just a cable from the amp's DI to the mixer, you don't need to do anything else if you don't want to go IEM. You carry on as normal, but they can get your bass in their IEMs, nothing more complicated or sinister than that.. -
Hi Greg! You are right, it seems like the built-in router is not reliable and I've heard similar stories about some other mixers (not all!). However an external router doesn't cost much and it'll all be in a rack case. That A&H mixer looks really cool! It's a bit more expensive but it has a touch screen already and it looks like it can record each channel in a separate track for processing later, directly on the mixer rather than having to plug in a laptop to it... Hmmm... Something to think about, it definitely seems more user friendly. Thank you for the heads up, I would not have thought of this one if you hadn't mentioned it!
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Somehow I missed the replies to my post... and guess what? I've got a Nokia T21 now Refurbished from Nokia directly, £107 total. It would be rude to pass it I don't have the XR18 yet but I have been playing a bit with the apps. Mix Station looks great, and when I found it wasn't free I was "of course, here we go" but it was something like a fiver or so, well worth it, although it's going to take me a while to figure things out. The XAir app seems a bit simpler at least for the basic functions, it would be perfect for each person to adjust their own monitor mix with it.
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As long as you do!
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Personally, I'd be looking for different sounds from those different types of instrument... so I don't see a reason why the strings should be of similar construction. They're independent.
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Hmm, growing inequality in the form of the top % earning more, relatively, means that the average will be pushed up a bit, but the median will likely remain similar or even decrease, no?
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Little Mark Bass III Line Out Static
mcnach replied to JazzBassGirl's topic in Repairs and Technical
Seems logical, that's the input gain control, if you turn it to zero... -
To me a decent bass is one that works the way it's supposed to, reliably. Just that: a bass I would be happy to gig/record with.
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Indeed. Yes, prices have gone up a lot in the past few years, but at the same time I don't think there's been a better time than now to buy a cheap instrument that is also decent.
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I'm going to get an XR18 mixer for our monitoring purposes. I have a question with regards to what tabled to use for this. I have no clue what specs I would need. I gather that to run the app controlling the XR18 we don't need much, but I don't know what is enough. This would be purely to be used with the XR18, nothing else. I'd prefer Android, but not set in stone. I guess at the very least I need it to be dual band wifi... and I would like to be able to connect the tablet to the XR18 with a cable (using a USB-ethernet adapter) as a 'just in case' option, so it has to be able to do that. Any hints/recommendations?
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You're missing my ability to misread things
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I misread... see post above.
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It turns out it's me who can't count... I read it as 8 basses sent for sale, and 7 out of the 9 sold within x weeks... I missed that it was 8 basses PLUS 1 amp, so sum =9. It wasn't a great joke to start with, but now it's also meaningless... And I had to explain it!!! Time to get my coat...
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I hope both of you can count better than that...
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I think people have lost the plot as to how much they'd pay...
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Re: "vintage" Well, it's been 47 years and a bit since the Stingray was released into the wild...
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Ooooh, I like your thinking!
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This. As a part of an arrangement where various band members' skills are reshuffled to achieve a goal, why not. As a 'fun thing' that she wants to do... Don't even open that door a crack. It'll be hard to close it.
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She can want from here until the moon. It doesn't mean she'll get it Obviously I don't know your band's dynamics. In any of mine if someone wanted to play bass on a song, really wanted it, sure, we're the accommodating type. But she sounds like she wants to do more than that. What does the rest of the band say?
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Those MM pickups sound just fine without a preamp, despite what many say (makes me wonder if they tried them). You just won't have the tonal diversity that the preamp's built in EQ will give you. My 2002 EBMM Stingray has now a bypass switch, so I can play it passively (just a little 'get me home' switch, in case I mess up my battery replacement schedule). Plenty of output (of course, if you normally boost the crap out of the preamp controls, it'll be a bit quieter than that!) and if at the right spot for a Stingray, it has plenty of Stingrayness (just one of the many flavours available if you had the preamp too). If it's not at the Stingray position, then it'll never sound like a Stingray anyway, but it'll sound good.
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Hmm, looking at the relative dimensions of the pickup and polepiece arrangement... it looks like it'll be 16mm spacing. Boooh. I guess it won't tempt me anymore, then.
