Bigwan

Easily done this sort of thing...

I got lucky - was only on the hunt for 3 days when mine appeared on Ebay... and the guy was only 30 miles up the road!

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1470748445' post='3108121'] A mixer with at least an aux. From that aux you send everything you want to hear to a headphone amp with your in ear monitors plugged into. When mixing, take the stance that you can only hear what you put into your mix. So if you want bass - you'll have to at least DI to the mixer. If you want drums you'll at least need a single overhead... If you want to hear guitars, you'll have to put a mic in front of the guitar cab. Of course, you can use as little or as many mics as your mixer allows for - but this all adds to set up time - but enables you finer control over your mix. So in short, yes, you could get away with a single mic to capture the ambient sound of the band and a DI feed - but your mix could be so much better. [/quote] Makes total sense!

[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1470750335' post='3108141'] As we are playing small venues I'm going to try having the EV Subs behind me or one of them turned sideways & just use the monitors for top end . Ill let you know when I've blown everything [/quote] No point doing that. Sub frequencies are omnidirectional so which way the sub is facing will make no difference.

Say the rest of the band are dead against IEMs but I want to give it a shot for myself, what sort of setup would I need? Guessing an ambient mic and bass DI to a little mixer would do it?

Paul and Rob's Masterclasses are just jaw-droppingly good...

I was on the lookout for one of these for recording downtuned guitar, but an Ibanez RGIB6 turned up instead (28" scale). Also excellent!

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1470398869' post='3105737'] Scratch that, the genius eBay store had their stock levels wrong. [/quote] That's not even slightly annoying!

Err...no. If you have to DIY, start from scratch. You can't polish a turd. All you'll be doing it rolling said turd in glitter...

Nice!

I've owned the Studio 110 and was very impressed with it. I briefly played the 1x15" version, can't remember if it was 150 or 300w. I would say they do a lot of things well, just aren't outstanding at anything! Perfectly acceptable as a monitor I would say.

It's like the Monster Speaker Cable vs wire coathanger test all over again...

My "old faithful" is an Aria Pro MAB 20/5 string - it would match what you're after too. The neck is more substantial than an Ibanez SR series, but not by much. Really light (mine is about 8 - 8 1/2lbs I would guess - and that's with a heavy Schaller 3D roller bridge). Mine sounds great after nearly 25 years of playing it. Really resonant and a better B string than any bass of it's price has a right to have! Cheap as chips when they come up too.

Dood's Dingwall Combustion 5 is pretty close to ticking all your boxes. 45.5mm nut, 4.1kgs, a rather keen price and a bit of a looker...

[quote name='Gottastopbuyinggear' timestamp='1469172051' post='3096240'] These are the ones: [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OJXVDAU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1"]https://www.amazon.c...0?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/url] [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B011LO5KOO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1"]https://www.amazon.c...0?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/url] [/quote] Thanks!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1469036095' post='3095301'] I just asked him - there are no plans for it to go into production. He says there's not enough demand for the bigger, pricier heads. :-( [/quote] That's a pity. Great set of features. I suppose he's unlikely to consider a similar preamp arrangement with lower output power either...

[quote name='Gottastopbuyinggear' timestamp='1469014362' post='3095060'] You can buy USB power packs and USB to 9v converters on Amazon. I spent £20 on a 16,000mAh power pack (which is knocking on 3 times the capacity of the old PedalTrain Volto) and £10 on the converter and it's been great. It was more a convenience thing for me - one less mains socket to find and lead to trip over, and quicker to set up/tear down. The only thing I found was that if there was no current draw then the power pack would power off, so if you're using a pedal that is truly off when it's off (if you see what I mean) or only draws a very small amount of power then you might have problems. I found a BDDI or VT Bass don't draw enough, but having a TU-3 in the chain is fine, presumably because it's buffered and the buffer's drawing enough power. [/quote] Do you have links to the stuff on amazon by any chance? I know I could search myself but it's always nice to have somebody's say so that a thing works rather than finding something random and discovering for yourself that it doesn't!

Hotness! Would love to try a Dingwall with a wenge neck at some point.

Status Energy, S3000 or Washburn Status would be my suggestion. You might get an abused S2000 for that money. Or there's a few Westones...

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1468970835' post='3094851'] After a fair old while without a fixed setup, here's my current, messy, and now largely DIY setup - [/quote] Come now, you can't say they're mostly DIY and not tell us what they all are!

It will be draining your other batteries too I bet, just slower... Thought of a power supply for your board? Cheaper in the long run. For the price of 2 sets of Duracells you could get a wee Harley Benton isolated supply...

Any idea if the Fortec 700T (the twin channel Ampeg/Fender mashup) that you showed pics of is likely to make production WoT? Interested to see a price on that one...