LukeFRC

probably yes. I mean cultures where shoes aren't a thing, they aren't a thing. I think our society probably pressured my parents into thinking that shoes are something a young lad should wear when he starts walking. I used to play barefoot for a few years. Goodness knows why. But the average audience member did notice that

see bit OT as it's a question about your setup rather than photos of mine... Why not just take the HX stomp out live? Reason I ask is I'm thinking changing my B3n for a stomp. But you've had both and then gone for the B1x live... I'm confused

As one of those who doesn't really use effects and is slowly adding them to what I'm doing.... I like this thread

Cool!

Couple coming up secondhand hand as well... even more tempting

IEM= in ear monitors, headphones, @EBS_freak has a mammoth thread on them, but safe to say there’s some Chinese ones folk are getting for about £30 so you don’t need to spend big. B3n = Zoom B3n multi effects pedal and very good bang for buck

advantages: no stage spill, cleaner sound for FOH, mix what you need, you don't wreck your hearing. disadvantages: sometimes it's a bit like playing in a bubble as to get the bottom end you need reasonable isolation, what you hear and what the FOH sounds like may not be the same, it takes a bit of getting used too, you realise how bad some backing singers at church can be.

you have a digital desk or a spare feed from the desk? all sorts of cleverness if so. I play at church, no amp or cab.. I use my IEM and the setup means I can do my own mix via my smart phone. Sometimes I use my b3n as a amp/cab sim buy to be honest, that's optional

When will we all realise that the link between how good the instrument is and the amount you spent on it is, at most, only tangentially linked?

Yeah that’s the one. Lets not bring up the spilled coffee again ... 😢

https://ritter-instruments.com/video.php?i=29 In fact this one

There’s an interesting video you might have seen where Jens Ritter gives a tour of his workshop and talks about using the thickness of the wood to tune the sustain which I meant to ask you if you had seen

I decided a day or so back I’ve got too many instruments for what I need - so thinking I could sell this totted up what it had cost me.... painfully large amount

What’s the speaker? Porting should be mathematically worked out for best results - you risk damaging stuff if you’re not careful.

I was more wondering how @Geek99 was adding the glitter sparkle dust

One for @Ashdown Engineering?

Lots of good stuff but My top basses I tried... @Frank Blank‘s Rob Allen Mouse @owen‘s headless MPU thing with the graphite neck @MoJoKe‘s JV Squier (And that Casa head just sounded decent)

Four things out of the ten tickets I bought... including first choice! (I passed on the bass and went for the flatwounds that I had been wanting to try and had already had in an online shopping basket) thanks to @bassmansam for donating

My mum was raised a Methodist so I also was taught when growing up not to gamble ... so that might have been the first or second raffle I’ve entered in my life... jammy begger I am

If it were me, which it’s not, I would have an always-on HPF designed to fit this cabs excersion limits. That way you are custom designing a solution for this specific cab. In my mind A general frequency selectable HPF is a different bit of kit to solve different problems and better suited to the preamp stage. ... mind you I’ve read this and if you’re using DSP for the crossover maybe the fixed HPF is just a natural thing that “of course we would do that”

Reason I though my B3n would be useful

Wait reduction?

If I were accepting my own mortality in the way you are I would be looking at a little valve amp, like one of these 30w ashdown @sifi2112 is selling. For small size a vertical 210 optimised for efficiency would be good. If I were going the clean bass amp sound I would probably get a preamp of some kind (Zoom B3n) and a QSC K2 ... and then jamming can amplify more than the bass...

I just dug out the cases for the basses - I'm actually excited pretty excited about this. Will see what fits into the car (coming down that way with the wife and child as it's pretty close to the inlaws) For @owen I'll try and fit 4 basses and an amp in there! The odd bitsa I've got is worth bringing as I reread the first post and realised Jon Shuker will be there and he sold me the ash for the body. Not that I play it much mind I probably would have sold it if it had any value!

Firstly thanks for the post.... That trend is problem for you guys in the US where you're in the same territory as the manufacturing factory ... for us in the UK our problem is that we've a wide range of stuff available... from internet cheapies, to US companies such as Mesa which are supported via a distributer and repair network, but off the top of my head not many UK based companies (Ashdown being the only one I can think of off the top of my head), Markbass in Italy and Eich, Glockenklang in Germany.