fretmeister

I've just looked at my basket - it's gone down to £566.36. Probably due exchange rate alterations. Until UK tariffs are done in retaliation it shouldn't affect us. USA tariffs don't affect us buying USA goods. We'll need our own tariffs for that.

I love my Sandbergs. Very pleased with them.

It’s a Sterling not a stingray. And it’s actually inspired by an old passive copy of one that Vulfpeck had, that they particularly liked for recording. So other than things like EVH’s frankenstrat it’s about the first signature model based on something dirt cheap.

Might not be as easy as I thought. The proper USA ones are usually between 7lb and 7.5lb, but it seems that the Sterlings are much closer to 9lb, and unfortunately that's too much for me these days. All but 1 of my basses are under 7lb. aaarrrrgggghhhhhh

I have wifely permission! Bow before my negotiation skills! (Also, I have to do a lot of DIY round the house).

I am in serious negotiations with MrsF. Just the single bucker in natural will do for me.

Classical Thump. I spent about a year on that and I just couldn't get the parts to work together. I hardly ever slap now, and when I do it's 1970s disco type rather than Mr Wooten style.

I like it, and I really like her signature model Fender. It actually makes such an old thing look fresh.

I'm generally not a fan, but if a band has 1 or 2 tunes that needs a cello or a 6 man horn section it's just not going to be practical to pay those additional temporary guys for 7 minutes work - and getting amateurs for fun won't happen for 7 minutes either. So for me, it's all about context. I saw Devin Townsend once and his main Macbook crashed and had to be restarted. He told everyone that was happening and that the lappie basically contained a complete orchestra as well as the lighting rig sequence. The venue wasn't big enough to fit an entire orchestra even without an audience so no problem there. Queen used to have large choirs in backing tracks too for the odd song... but then when they needed Piano while Fred was running about Spike would come out and play piano instead.

This might be the answer. It has audio routing options and even remote control and monitoring from another iOS device https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera

I've found a free camera app with audio routing options! It's the Blackmagic Camera https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera I haven't tried it with my Audient yet as I've only just found it, but it has controls for mono, dual mono, stereo etc etc so I'm hoping this will make things easier. It also has a nice feature, that as I have 2 iOS devices I can use one as the camera and the other as a monitor and control unit. My iPad is a lot newer than my phone and has a much better main camera but of course it points the wrong way if I need to see the screen. Now I can use the better camera, and use the iPhone to control it and check framing. Going to plug it all in after work as see how it goes.

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Bax website is now not taking orders and apparently their physical stores in the EU are closed!

That would give you 2.67ohms so set the amp to 2 ohms. 2 cables from the amp or daisy chaining will be fine.

Why do people post this sort of question without saying what the amp is?

More small venues are likely to be upset at the "ridiculously loud" bit these days. The guitarists will be triggering the noise meter power cut off thingy before they know it. If your mixer is doing individual mixes then just cut the drums out of their mix and tell them it's fine for everyone else... if they want to hear the drums they'll have to turn down. Obviously if they are smarter than a sea cucumber they won't believe you but with 2 guitarists it has to be worth a try...

https://www.andertons.co.uk/markbass-advanced-series-ss-soft-touch-bass-strings-045--105/ They are very flexible. £20.99 + postage.

The blend thing sounds like 2 because of different decay rates of each side. The drive part is being compressed a lot, and the clean isn't. Before clean blends on pedals were a thing I used the LS-2 and always had a compressor on the clean side and fiddled with the settings to get the decay of both sides to be the same. That being said, if you have a super clean low and really driven top then it will always sound like 2 sounds. They need to be closer in tonality really. I don't use a lot of drive these days, but I often found that the punch would stay with quite a nasal, almost farty drive with tons of mids. This sort of sound is horrible at home or on its own, but works great with other instruments. The Catalinbread SFT does it very nicely, (I should not have sold mine), and currently I have a £35 clone of the Fairfield Barbershop (mk2) that adds a similar thing. Generally I'm not a fan of turning bass drive on and off during a song as with a bass it always seems to need pretty big EQ changes at the same time, so I prefer to leave it on for the whole song of it needs it.

There's a guy on another forum who needs a return! Hopefully it's just something he doesn't like rather than something broken. And / Or that he paid with credit card.

I have one of those performance stands - I got it for when I was waiting for surgery. It was very useful as it meant I could keep playing. I don't use it at the moment but they are so hard to find that I'm carefully storing it, just in case.

I have the Boss ones and they are ace. Not had a problem with my active basses - they are all EMG so I suppose other types might. The charging on the dongle is via Micro USB as well. I got the guitar ones rather than bass just because I play both instruments and the guitar version can do a good enough bass sound with a clean amp, compressor and some EQ. It does annoy me though that Boss decided to do different versions when the only difference is the firmware. Now that there is some competition I hope they change that. The Boss bass version has a drum machine which would be nice to have. Amazing that Boss decided that guitarists don't want to play with a drummer... eijits. I use them a lot though, I practice far more now that I have them. My apprehension at spending that much on a practice tool went in about 5 mins.

Yeah, but I doubt they’ll make the cab sim defeatable if they are sticking with that plan.