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JPJ
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I must have been lucky because my ZX10 Pro’s came fully assembled. Hopefully this photo helps, this is the orientation they go in my ears. -
Interesting one, went to see Bruce Springsteen at BST Hyde Park on Saturday night and he was not using IEM’s but relying on monitors both at his main stage and lower stage positions. Interestingly every instrument on stage was wireless including the horn section with the exception of drums and percussion. Given the number of instruments in the E Street Band that is an awful lot of wireless channels!
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So, at rehearsals the other night I had difficulty tightening the bolt that holds the vertical section of the stand. A quick investigation showed this Given that this bolt is used frequently, I’ve replaced it with a bicycle seat post quick release which is working better than the original imho. Just sharing here in case anyone else encounters the same issue 😎
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I’ll just chuck in another vote for the Snark, which works great with both regular bass and EUB
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Wood butchery started in earnest today before a rain shower and thunderstorm stopped play. Despite my plan to get all the panels pre-cut to size I somehow managed to over specify a couple of dimensions so it was out with the table saw 🙈 Deviating slightly from Phil’s original design, I’ve decided to have the port between the two speakers. This will help with the overall rigidity of the box as I’m making the port as a sort of hybrid of brace ‘L’ from the Mk3 1x12 design. It will also allow me to radius the edges to make a pseudo ‘horn’ look.
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Personally, I’ve never managed to get the beaming function to work with an active bass. I just plug the usb cable between my BG250 and my computer and use the TonePrint software to download whatever effect I’m after.
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Last nights gig was at the Quakerhouse, a fantastic real ale pub and live music venue in Darlington. Played my Lakland passive P bass through my little Ashdown ABM 1x15 Neo combo. Place was full from the start through to the end, happy punters = happy band 😎
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Compact budget PA set-up to put bass through (without back-line).
JPJ replied to Al Krow's topic in PA set up and use
You’re not wrong Phil. Last nights gig was a smallish pub, good stage area facing a long thin room with the bar on one side. No need or room for bass bins so I stuck the ZX15’s on stands and pushed everything (2 x vocal, 2 x guitars, fiddle, bass, and drums through them). Spent a little bit of time dialling in the EQ (got to love the RTA on the X-Air for this) and they did a great job. Got compliments on the mix from a couple of musicians in the audience too. Ok we are not the loudest band but this setup was perfect for this gig. -
Just to follow up on this, new musical projects brought an EUB into play and as I am switching regularly between fretless P bass and EUB, I bought the rather superb EBS Stanley Clarke preamp. I’m now running the EBS as my front end, with the X3 and SansAmp in the loop of the EBS. I’ve had an issue with levels on the EBS with both the pre and post clip lights illuminating seeming randomly, to the point where I was beginning to think the EBS was defective until I messed around in the settings of the X3, specifically the bypass modes. By default, the unit has the ‘with trails’ option enabled and this seemed to be the source of my issues with the EBS, because changing this to the true bypass option has eliminated the clipping on the EBS.
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So last nights gig had in-house PA & engineer (a treat for me as I’m the one tasked with running sound in both my bands). The venue was using the Soundcraft Ui16 and the engineer was suffering WiFi dropouts all night which he said he experienced a lot when bands use wireless gear (I was using a Line6 G30 and one guitarist was using a Lekato wireless). I checked and he was using the built-in WiFi so I guess the in-built WiFi problems are not limited to Behringer?
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There’s a fairly helpful X-Air user group on Facebook “Behringer X-Air Group v2” and a few folk on there have mentioned newer mixers being sent out with firmware 1.19. Consensus appears to be newer models have a slightly different chipset (following the shortage of chips) hence the different firmware.
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Billy Bootleggers in Newcastle tonight. Great venue, bijou and compact stage area but in-house PA with engineer is always welcome. Six pm kick off and two strict 45 minute sets meant I was home, gear away and sitting down by 9pm. We’ve played better, but it was still a great gig 😎
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@silverfoxnik you complete and utter barsteward you! 😤 Fancy putting this up for sale at such a tempting price in the same week the last of the parts arrived for my basschat 2x12 cab build. I used to own the carpet covered version of this cab before redundancy forced the sale some ten years ago. This cab punches way way way above its weight, and has the best dispersion of any cab I’ve played through and the only cab I can genuinely say I regret selling. Good luck with the sale but I’m warning you now, you’ll regret it later!- 15 replies
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For any Newcastle upon Tyne basschatters who are not going to St James Park to watch Leo’s offspring and local lad Sam Fender, we’ll be playing our eclectic mix of country and americana at the rather marvellous Billy Bootleggers on Stepney Bank in the Ouseburn tomorrow (Saturday 10th) kicking off at 6pm. I shall be murdering a selection of bass lines on both fretless bass and NS EUB.
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So, keeping this thread alive, the fourth and final (for now) parcel arrived today containing the pre-cut plywood panels. And I guess construction has technically started as I drilled the holes for the speakon socket in the dish plate the other night 😎
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So the Thomann bag turned up today and first impressions are very positive. Good quality material and I like the way the internal dividers are fully sown in, so none of the stuff in one pocket can slide under into another. Three good external zipped pockets too, along with a couple of strong looking handles and a padded shoulder strap 😎
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There are a couple of apps out there specifically for this not that I’ve used either. I think it’s MXMix on iPhone and Qmix on android.
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So one week in to life with the Traditional strings and I’m pleased to say they are in my opinion a huge improvement over the contemporary strings that were on the NXT when I bought her. I’m sure the biggest change is the heavier gauge which sound and feel more acoustic double bass like. Much shorter sustain (still measured in minutes though 😂) where the decay is less linear and more natural. At last nights rehearsal the bass also seemed to sit better in the mix (through the same setup/settings). Yes they were a significant investment but so far that investment is paying off for me 😎
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You have a couple of methods. You can save scene files to your control device, or you can save snapshots in the XAir itself. I do both, just in case something gets corrupted. I have two snapshots saved on the XAir (one for each band) which are my starting points for every new venue, however if we’ve played that venue before I’ll have a scene saved with venue specific eq, delays, reverbs etc.
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That all makes sense to me, I hadn’t thought about the left/right hand thing. Only one question, if you are a keyboard player why are you hanging out here with a bunch of bassists or is it just your left hand hanging out here? 🤣
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So the other two parcels containing handles, tilt back wheels, speakon connector, corners, feet, dish tray for speakon etc arrived today. Whilst I am a fairly experienced wood butcher, I do not have either the space or the equipment for handling large sheets of ply so I have gone down the route of having all my panels pre-cut to size and delivered. More expensive than just buying a sheet of 15mm voidless birch ply but it will save me considerable amount of stress and time and the end result will undoubtedly be better. And I’ve also totalled up spend to date (with just finishing materials to go) and the number is £577.28, which isn’t too bad for what will hopefully be a high end cab that will stay with me for a long time.
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With the XR18 you choose what to route to the headphone out but you do not get an extra bus. So for our drummer who uses wired IEM with no amplifier (Behringer P1 I think which is just a passive volume control) I map bus 4 to the monitor out (headphone) instead of aux 4. In your situation, you would be using four input channels for your keyboards (2 keyboards with a left and right) but only two aux outputs to give you stereo left and right in-ears. This leaves you the possibility for four more mono mixes or another stereo mix and two mono mixes etc etc. I must confess I really do not see the need for a stereo IEM mix unless your doing some really weird prog style side-to-side sweeps with your keys.
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Over the years, I’ve basically bought and traded my way up into higher end basses. My ‘collection’ now features three Overwater basses which, as good as they are, will never recover the initial purchase value if I was to sell. Fortunately, I’ve hit a stage where I am happy with my arsenal and not looking to add any more anytime soon, so no chance of sellers remorse.
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So today is delivery day for the hardware for this project, and first to arrive is the speaker grill material. This has always been the downside of my previous builds, the lack of a good quality metal speaker grill at an affordable price. So this time I’ve taken a punt on eBay and ordered this material from eBay seller “baby.m2009”. 1.2mm pre-painted steel 600x521mm at the cost of £18.99 a piece. Obviously one sheet isn’t big enough for the full cab but I have a cunning plan (actually two cunning plans) but more of that later 😎
