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I watched it on iPad using the link in NickD’s original post and I didn’t get any adverts 🤷‍♂️

Calling @Blartfactor10 a man with the necessary skills to rebuild him

When I was working in Holland I had a black Harley Benton 5 string acoustic out there and it was a very good instrument especially for the price. A few rough fret ends and a high saddle but easy fixes that made for a really playable squeeze.

Right, straight off I should say I love acoustic basses. I currently own two, although one - my Tanglewood 4 string is currently for sale on here, as my recently defretted Warwick Rock Bass Alien 5 string is my main acoustic squeeze and having recently moved into double bass ownership, I need the space. Acoustic basses vary greatly. At the lower end of the market you are getting basically an acoustic guitar with a longer neck so don’t be surprised if it can’t keep up with a couple of aggressively strummed acoustic guitars. The more you pay, the better they become. There will always be those happy exceptions and I remember playing and being very impressed by a parlour sized short scale Ibanez a few years ago. Most come with an adequate pickup and/or preamp. Higher end models like the German-built Warwicks and the legendary Takamine B10 are a thing of musical beauty and something I aspire to. Strings-wise, I cannot abide those phosphor bronze strings that acoustic bass manufacturers use. I have always swapped these out for flat wounds as soon as I could and I find that the La Bella low tension flats work great on acoustic bass. Don’t be put off by the neigh-sayers, acoustic bass guitars have their place. Buy one and enjoy it.

I think it’s more of an issue when manufacturers do not keep their software up to date for current products. There have been a few instances of Behringer’s native apps for the X-Air series mixers not working on the latest versions of iOS that have taken Behringer way too long to address (yes I know, Mixing Station, Android etc etc).

Thanks for sharing, as a relative newby to the world of double bass I found this fascinating 🙏

Don’t forget, if you go Behringer you have the option of using Ultranet for your monitor mixes saving all those aux outs for other uses. Yes it means more outlay to buy the P16 personal mixers but it gives each band member a physical control of their IEM stereo mix.

I use the TC Electronics BG250 208 combo with acoustic bass guitar, EUB, and double bass. Very competent little combo that’s more than giggable and they pop up on here cheap as chips.

Those of you mixing live sound will have no doubt heard of or used the Abbey Road technique when applying reverb. If you haven’t, the technique is basically to use both an hpf and and lpf on the signal sent to the reverb to chop off the low and high ends and then blend the reverb back in with the original full range signal. This stops the reverb becoming muddy or shrill and works really well with bass guitar, sounding much more natural. As I have a penchant for a bit of reverb, especially on fretless bass, is there a pedal out there that allows you to replicate the Abbey Road technique?

I’m really not sure. My Original is 36”, I’ve never been clear whether the Original and C names aren’t interchangeable

My understanding is mainly body shape, neck through vs bolt on, wood specs, and hardware. For example the Progress and the Perception are very similar body shapes but the Progress is neck through, and the Perception bolt-on. The Original series body shape is the blend of a Thunderbird with a Precision originally designed for one John Entwistle. Early models of all basses used various pickups such as Kent Armstrong and John East electronics, whereas the later series have Overwater branded pickups, circuits, bridges etc.

My original series 5’er has the XLR out. As @snorkie635 says, the XLR is only active when there is a jack plug in the jack socket. For live work, you just run a jack lead like normal. If you want to take the bass straight to FOH you can, but that means two cables. But having chatted with Chris May, the XLR is intended for studio work rather than live, so in the studio, you plug a jack into the jack socket and take the XLR to the desk. In this scenario, the jack lead doesn’t have to be connected to anything at the other end.