Monckyman

Thanks for any feedback left, MM

Well I think it`s a great idea and the Mag coming back to stage idea was for the other members of the band rather than you. The phase manipulation will be dead useful too. I`m presuming any treatment of the Piezo will be left to the FOH engineer? I`ve sort of used this idea on other instruments where I needed different treatment for different members of the band. Basically I split for instance the bass D.I into two chans and dedicate one for the band and one for the bassist. This way the band can have a cleaner sharper EQ and a good bit of compression chosen by me, and the bassist gets to hear it like [i]he[/i] specifically wants without my compression. Used this on metal drummer kiks, deaf vocalists who need loads of midrange,etc So, this takes that technique a step further with diff pickups for different jobs. I like. Would love to hear how it works out. MM

Please keep all experiences and comments on this amp coming, I`m half way through raising the cash for one and enjoy hearing about them being used. Ta MM

I think you could get away with a fair bit of Mag in the monitors without any problems but you then have three different aspects of sound, Backline, FOH and monitors. Just need to be on top of it is all.

Erm.No, can`t think of one really.. Your Piezo will be picking up stage noise anyway, and monitors etc, you might want to be able to play around with the phase onstage in case there`s any cancellation with what FOH is doing. Not having done this I can`t really say but, won`t your playing suit the Mag pickups responses more than the piezo? Do you play differently when the Piezo is your onstage sound(apart from hiding behind the singer to avoid low end feedback)? What signal would FOH send back to monitors,if any? IE maybe worth taking the MAG to FOH anyway so it can be delivered to the drummer etc, or (shock horror) blend it in out front also. Worth experimenting. Please let us know how you got on, it`s a good`un.

Why does nobody ever "Lamb" up their cabs?

Birraglue you`ll never notice. And get your OWN bloody glue! Don`t be nicking your Da`s.

Great vid+song. How long before you all start singing jesus I need a piss?

[quote name='FlatEric' post='1258077' date='Jun 6 2011, 09:07 AM']Tom, look away now!! That is even worse than this. . . . . . OUCH! Who in their right mind. . . . . .[/quote] Ferkinell that`s appalling. A perfect example of the word "axe". ie: it`s been axed. Just stopped too soon.

I thought the stones only wrote one song? And if they didn`t surely there was only one bassline?

Lo. I have a DBX266, but I don`t use it for gating. This is primarily a compressor with the gate as a bonus. Though the gate works fine, and has a threshold control, the only other pot is a ratio pot, because it`s more of a Gate/expander affair.The ratio determines the amount of expander used and turned right up it gates completely. However there are no envelope pots,so you don`t get to choose how quickly it starts gating, or how slowly it stops gating. The auto timing on the unit is pretty good though, not too clicky or jerky. Section from the manual [i]"Expander/Gate THRESHOLD Control and LEDs (BELOW/ABOVE) Adjusting this control sets the level at which the gate will open and allow the signal at the input to pass through to the output. Turning the knob fully counterclockwise (to OFF) allows the gate to pass all signals unattenuated, effectively bypassing the gate. Turning the knob fully clockwise causes the gate to attenuate input signals below +15dBu. The depth of attenuation depends on the setting of the Expander/Gate RATIO control. The two Expander/Gate LEDs indicate the relationship of the input signal level to the threshold setting. The red LED lights when the signal is BELOW threshold, the green LED lights when the signal is ABOVE threshold."[/i] The compressor is fully featured and in my opinion well worth having if you have rack space as it gives far more control over your compression than the average on off gain you get on a pedal. The metering allows you to see exactly what`s going in, and what`s coming out, plus the extra lights will be attractive to females. If you`re cunning you can use the two sides for different basses so you can compensate for different pickup outputs on different instruments and compress accordingly. I`ve had to make a patch up for my backup Jazz bass as it`s pickups are a lot hotter than the Nordys in my main bass and my standard compressor setting was choking it down. Borrow one and try before ye buy but I reckon £50 should secure one from the El Bey [url="ftp://ftp.dbxpro.com/pub/PDFs/Manuals/English/dbx266XLManualA2.pdf"][color="#FF0000"]DBX266xl manual[/color][/url] MM