Dad3353

Here's the manual, for starters ... x1204 Manual ...

Mmm... Tea..!

Good evening, Alister , and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share. Here, take this dry towel; you must be exhausted. A cup of tea, maybe..?

That's a 'no-brainer' for me, as I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Casady fan..! Most of my guitars and basses are already semi-acoustic or arch-top, so... The Thunderbird is a fine bass, of course, but wouldn't suit the stuff I play, sitting down in an armchair, mostly. (Yes, I'm old ...). The 'standard' answer, of course, will come shortly, so I'll anticipate... Get both..!

Good evening, BB, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Rob, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Eko, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Bar..? We have tea (Earl Grey, twist of lemon...); any good..?

Good evening, CE, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

I have an ART pedal board, for guitar, too..! (And others, naturally ...)

If only you'd explained that to me in 1984..! D'oh..! ...

We're on it; just a few little kinks and details to sort out ...

My point exactly (but for how long has the Helix been on the market..?) The Kemper is around £1500. One needs to play a fair amount of gigs with adequate PA's to get that back.

Not suitable for a pub-band budget, though, and all that investment in SVT magic is for nought.

I doubt that much mic'ed bass was fed to many FOH PA systems back then, excepting 'Woodstock'-type gigs. Most clubs had a pair of WEM columns, and struggled already with just the vocals in there. Not sure about the US scene, but mixing consoles were rare in those dark days (yes, I was there...). I didn't get my drums mic'ed up, even in the '80s. The bass amp was all there was on stage, for the hall. Recording a 'live' act would be different, of course, but FOH was brute bass horsepower, back then.

Either these are big 'stadium' venues, in which case mic'ing is fine, or more modest venues, in which case there's no need for bass in the PA at all. There'll be a DI feed to FOH just so that the sound tech can balance a little for the hall, but such an amp, oozing tubey power-amp goodness, is going to be heard for quite some distance.

Good evening, NB, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

For 'live' recording, the best bass tone from a cab is usually a few feet away in front, or off-axis (not always, but usually...). Unfortunately, on the kinds of stages most of us are playing, it's either not physically possible to but a mic there, or, if there's room, it'll be picking up everything else..! Most sound techs, if they're micing at all, will use the DI principally, and blend in a spot of the mic strip if it really adds something. As often as not, it doesn't. Not quite the same with festival-type arrangements, where there's a much greater spacial separation, pretty good equipment and mics available, a decent sound tech with enough Fx racks to get an adequate sound for the occasion. It may not sound good, however, when solo'd from the console, as we know from listening to some top band's 'live' takes. It can be done, but is rarely really worth the trouble and expense.

'Busted'.

Simple coincidence and Good Luck. Just imagine : a cloud obscures the bright sunlight, to reveal the truth ... 'You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht/Your hat strategically dipped below one eye, your scarf it was mustard'. Shock horror, eh..?

I could just about manage to scrape up funds for a 13€ 'Vienna' key, and probably find use for some 'Big Bang' pyrotechnics, but for the rest, it'll have to wait until The Lottery start dishing out funds to those who don't buy tickets..! Doubtless Good Stuff, but I'll have to content myself with what is, after all, simply a modest hobby, and for which I've already a rather rich panoply of excellent free, or modestly priced, instruments. I'll note for the future, though; one never knows if there's not a Rich Uncle from America lurking somewhere.

This ^^ may be a slight simplification.

My work here is done.

Zealandia, a scientifically accepted continent that is now 94% submerged under the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the areas of New Zealand and New Caledonia, and quite Atlantisy, except that it's real..