dannybuoy

I mean it sounds good. The only way you can have the speaker sim off going to your rig is to run dual Sansamps, or maybe go for a Two Notes Le Bass which only applies its speaker sim to the XLR only. But then that's a totally different sound. I understand not wanting to run a speaker sim into an actual cab, as I felt the same way, but in reality it just sounds good so it's no big deal!

It affects both, but I've not found it to be a problem with a speaker sim going into a real speaker. The parallel out is totally unaffected.

From the chart looks like it is better suited to cutting out audible lows than being a sharp rolloff at 30Hz Thumpinator kind of filter. But that's probably just what Al needs if he doesn't want to fix his cab!

I'm sure the person who said the Zoom could be used as an LPF was using the model of the Fishman preamp rather than the generic para EQ?

Not much mention of this one, but it's the original specialist HPF for bassists: https://sites.google.com/site/hpftechllc/home/hpf-pre

As I said, check with Dougie Darkglass but I think the M900 is already rolling off those subsonics. You probably want to roll off a bit higher than you think, which makes the Broughton a good candidate with its adjustable frequency. But also try some other solutions. How and where are the cabs situated? If you’re getting this at home and haven’t tried it out at a rehearsal or gig yet, are you sure there’s not something else in the room resonating that sounds like it’s coming from the cab? Try repositioning the cab or putting some isolation under it (a pillow will do if you don’t have a gramma pad to hand!).

Why not?! There are plenty of great musicians out there who also have careers / families and don’t want to play full time. These guys are obviously at a reasonably competent level and just want someone to fit in.

I think you sometimes have trouble seeing things from other peoples perspectives, not everyone wants or needs to play bass to make a living. Just having a reason to get out and play every now and then around their busy lives is all some people are looking for. Being a family man myself, any band project would be a hobby for me, I could handle 5-6 gigs a year but any more would become a chore. Sounds like they are in the same boat, and are up front and honest about it. I don’t think their requirements are over the top at all, they obviously have little free time so don’t want to waste any more of it than necessary by auditioning people that aren’t up to scratch.

Indeed a lot of amps feature one but just don't mention it, as some designers consider it a standard thing rather than a selling point! Hence @Al Krow might not need one at all with the Darkglass head! Same goes for anything Genz Benz / Genzler, not sure about other makes.

Another thing to realise regarding the eternal oddity of Barefaced 10s... Say you have two generic drivers in a cab, of 8 ohms each. You have a choice of wiring them in parallel (4 ohms) or series (16 ohms). You build a similar cab but with the 10" Barefaced speakers. The One10 is 8 ohms so we assume that is the rating for this speaker also. But this time our end results are either 4 ohms in parallel or 12 ohms in series. However in theory you would only be able to get 12 ohms total if the drivers were in fact 6 ohms each. So it's likely that your One10 might actually be closer 6 ohms rather then 8. In any case, when trying to calculate your total load, try both values out and realise it might be somewhere in the middle!

A few more vids!

Assuming the drivers are wired serial in the 12-ohm cab (and parallel in the 4-ohm cab), you could get the power distributed evenly among the speakers with a serial cable or switchbox (which OBBM knows all about as he builds them!) but then with 20-ish-ohms on the amp your output power will be lowered significantly!

If you're using the M900 as your main amp, check in with Doug first. Pretty sure he said there was no need to use a HPF with his amp as it had one built in.

Not many para-EQ pedals have the flexibilty to offer LPF/HPF. Usually they are high/low shelving with notch/peak for the mids. According to the marketing at least, the Thumpinator has a more complex filter purposely designed to have as steep a roll off as possible without having a peak around the cutoff frequency or affecting the audible range. There's not many out there Al, the FDeck and Thumpinator units were the original only two you could really get in pedal form, then you have Broughton and the Tech21 Q-Strip which you know about. Not aware of any others but I did hear the Zoom units could be set up as an HPF from one of the users around here.

Uniformly? Plenty of happy users on the various iOS threads here and Talkbass. I assume you're talking about the older cheaper iRig versions that just route the bass through to the phone's built in mic input. The newer HD models have a built in audio interface so quality is miles better. I've not tried an iRig HD but do know it is similarly classed to the Sonic Port which I do have - which when combined with a decent amp sim app sounds better (IMHO) than the ones on offer in the Zoom B1on. The free Garageband app has Ampeg models in it which sound great. The Zoom does win on a few other factors though, you can add it to your pedalboard for one, you won't have to further invest in apps to get your sounds, and it'll still be useful if you ever decide to ditch Apple. The headphone output wasn't loud enough for me though and the master volume control is buried within a menu which I found a pain.

Which Polytune do you have, the clip on? Sounds like it's faulty, so if it's still in warranty, send it back. If it's out of warranty, sell it to a left handed player (assuming you're a righty)!

You would end up with almost double the power (it would be double for a 16ohm cab, but only Alex himself knows how they manage to get either 12 or 4 ohms from these cabs!) going to the One10 than going to the Two10... Then since the Two10 splits that between 2 drivers, the speaker in the little cab is doing up to 4 times as much work as the other two! My maths are probably out a bit but it doesn't sound like a good idea.

I have a Line 6 Sonic Port, and have managed to get the latency down so it’s not an issue (and I’m sensitive to it like you). Most audio apps have latency settings in the menus but they usually adjust have fairly generic descriptions like high, medium and low. I discovered a trick however where you can drop it as low as 64 samples (1.5ms at 44.1kHz) if you run Audiobus with your chosen app inside it! You adjust the latency within Audiobus then everything gets locked to that setting. The Zoom is much less faffing about though, but the iOS route is worth considering if you hadn’t thought of it before, especially since you’ll be able to record with it.

Nice one @knickknack, saved me a job! Were all the tracks mentioned so far available on Spotify?

Another option if you have an iPad / iPhone is to get an iRig or similar.

Well then there’s hope!

I want a compact dual band Sansamp but all the demos I've heard seem way too scooped so I'd like to see a few different settings to see if it can do anything other than sound like Dug. I prefer the more midrangey tone of this demo of the Geddy pre for example: Same dude with a Dug bass + Dug pre!

I'm keen as a cucumber as it looks as cool as mustard. But I would like to hear some more demos before committing!

I have a Thumpinator. I can't say I can tell any difference in tone apart from less cone movement but it makes me less afraid to crank my amp up! You already mentioned the amp aspect but worth noting that plenty of amps such as Genz Benz already feature a fixed HPF so a separate one would be unnecessary. If you typically push your amp/cab to its limits to get enough volume then you may find one beneficial. Plus it gives you an excuse to get a pedal board and find more pedals to connect to that power supply!