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Thanks but you're about a week too late for me as I picked up my new bass last Monday. Cheers

I just spent a wonderful couple of hours at Ben's (the double bass room). He pre-picked out a collection of basses that met my requirements and I've come away with a lovely Hungarian bass. (And a tummy full of chocolate digestives) It just goes to show how useful it is to try loads of basses out, since it is not in a million years what I expect to get! I thought I was going to get a slightly battered, old, dark wood bass to cherish into it's old age but came away with a much more modern lighter coloured bass. Very very happy.

Good points,I currently run my Eminence through an EBS Stanley Clark into GR amp and Barefaced Cab so will be keeping all that! I was assuming I would get the standard Realist as pickup since it works will through my Stanley Clark on my current small bodied bass. (Although lifeline as opposed to copperhead to avoid damage to the wood?) I had noticed similar with other bass shops which had basses set up for orchestral playing - or no "setup" until the buyer chose how they wanted it set up. It makes it very difficult to differentiate between a bass that isn't right for you and a bass that isn't setup right for you?? Adjustable bridge was on my list - a did see a recent-ish thread about getting this fitter I'm Lincolnshire so that's much closer

I'm in the market to upgrade my Eminence (small bodied) double bass to a fully carved 3/4 size double bass, for use in Big Band and Jazz Quartets. I've been saving for a long time and lucky enough to have a budget of £3k-£5k. Having done lots of research, visited a couple of shops (mainly with crazy valued basses of £8k+ which I can't afford), my next stop is likely to be "The Double Bass Room" in Battle, East Sussex. Having spoken to the owner on the phone he is confident he has a fair few suitable basses in my price range and that it is worth me making the multi-hour drive to go and see them. Questions: 1. Any experience buying basses in this price range from 'The Double Bass Room'? 2. Most of his basses state they come 'professionally set up by Kentish luthier' - anyone know what sort of a "set up" I should expect? Should I budget to pay for my own setup for my specific genre needs (having not had a standard size double bass before I would find it hard to request any personal setup requirements beyond - "I want it to sound great for Pizz Jazz") 3. Any recommendations for places to get 'new to me, old bass' set up done (including potentially adding an adjustable bridge) 4. Any other recommendations for places to try multiple fully carved basses in this price range? (obviously I'm keeping my eye on the forums 'for sales' but really need somewhere I can try multiple instruments to get a real feel for what I like) Any thoughts appreciated

Testing results for using the FX in parallel as a second output: It does technically work BUT only if you have a Y-Type insert cable to seperate the send from the return. If you plug a normal unbalanced jack cable into the FX socket, the entire pedal has no outputs whether in Paralell or Serial. I don't have a balanced jack to jack to hand to check but I assuming using a balanced Jack-to-Jack would have the same result if plugged into an unbalanced socket (amp input) since the Ring and Tip would be connected at the amp and and again disable all pedal outputs By plugging my insert cable in and then only plugging the "ring" side into another source, I successfully got 2 outputs simultaneasly. As expected the FX send was uneffected by the mute or master volume, you get what ever volume the gain sets. I had to have my second source very close due to the length of cable but this sort of cable would work better to plug a standard unbalanced Jack-to-Jack into if you need more length: 6.35mm Stereo Jack to 2x 6.35 Mono Jack Sockets Hope that helps, it sounds like if this is a permanent set up then the tuner 'switch' is a better solution

I could test this evening when I'm home but my guess is that it would work (FX loop on parallel mode) although it's worth considering I'm pretty sure the Mute button would only mute the main out, not the FX out?

Another one for IEM with ambient mic here. Stood between a loud drummer, trumpets and trombones in a 19 piece big band, I'm also very grateful for the ear defense this brings. Loads of info in the "IEM bible thread" (Using an Eminence small bodied bass I don't have feedback issues but this works well for me)

This has not been touched since my rehearsal on Thursday: Channel A is active jazz bass (volume at about 60% on the bass) Channel B is Realist Pickup on double bass (so piezo with no volume control) Coincidentally the 60% on my bass guitar means both input gains are pretty much the same. Master Volume out is at about 11 o'clock.

I've tried loads of basses and never had the issue, definitley check your 'A+B' switch as you can see the signal will go through 2 gain pre amps as per their circuit diagram.

I've been using mine with DB and various basses (active and passive) and once had a similar situation. It turned out the cause was not the bass but that I had inadvertently knocked the (A+B) button between the inputs when pluging in. This can have the effect of running input A through Channel A and B in series, and therefore applying 2 gains. So you can turn down Channel A gain as much as you want but if Channel B gain is still turned up (from low signal double bass in my case) then you are still getting way to much signal coming through and "flash flashy LED clipping". Might not be the situation in your case, but defininetly worth checking. From the manual:

For a bit of long term feedback on the 32 bit float recording I've been using a Tsacam Portacapture x8 for nearly a year now after my Zoom H6 fell of a mic stand. The Portacapture is basically the same as the H6 except rather than the minimal approach of the new "essential" it goes the opposite way with a big touch screen interference. Whilst I love the interface (although you pay a premium for it). It is the ease of the 32 bit float recording that I love. It's just so easy. I was using it on Saturday evening (as ambient mic for in ears but also to record) and half way through the gig realised the monitor feed I had as an extra input was coming in red hot and blasting the input. Listen back afterwards and no issues. Just throw it into he DAW and hit "normalise" on the audio track and it's as if you set the most perfect gain.... love it. And from my experience with products from Zoom, I'm sure they'll be great, although really very ugly?