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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!

If would expect 'first bass specific pedal' means 'we took the two guitar pedals we make that bassists really like and shoved them into one pedal' rather than 'we scoured forums for a handful of negative posts and tweaked these circuits to be even more bass friendly to fix their issues'... but you never know!

Once you get the Orange Al, then get a Sandberg Basic with the single MM pickup (there's a very nice used example currently at Bass Direct) and whack some TI flats on it. Such a great sound. Sell some of those crazy pedals you've acquired and that should more than cover it! Anyway it appears this thread has been hijacked, back to BBs from now on!

Do some reading on passive EQ stacks Al! There are tons of amps with the same setup. Hartke LH500 and Fender Bassman for a start, I think the Mesa 400 pairs a passive cut-only mid EQ along with a more modern cut/boost bass/treble as well. There's no 'neutering' involved, it's just that the bass/treble is boost only and the mid is cut only - so you aren't boosting the mids at all with the knob up full. I'm sure one of your band plays oldies... the Orange Terror is the best thing I've tried for classic RnB/Motown/Funk with a passive bass plugged straight in. Just a slight bit of valve drive, no pedals needed, more heft than you can shake a stick at. Go on, buy one and see!

Look into an app called AudioShare. I don't know it that well but I downloaded it ages ago and it helps to share audio files between apps or to and from cloud storage!

I think it sounds great through a fat warm amp as well as a hi-fi one, I reckon an active hifi bass + hifi amp can often be too bright/sterile sounding. I've used mine with an Orange Terror Bass for a long time but always had to use an extra drive pedal to liven it up a bit. My most recent band outing though I've been converted to the more hifi nature of the M900 as I needed a bit more top end zing. However I have since been a convert to using the Orange using it's 'flat' settings as a starting point (bass and treble all the way off, mids all the way up) and it sounds a lot better, in case you tried one before Al with the knobs set to noon (as most people would)!

Great idea, I'll give it a go if nobody else has. Hopefully most of the tracks are on Spotify too but it's unlikely to have them all. Now that the originals rock band I joined last summer has folded, this is a genre I want to sink myself into for my next bass playing project, so subscribed!

I wouldn’t trust specs from a retailer, here’s something from the Truetone site:

800mA? The CS12 can dish out 3000mA total. I just remembered I emailed their support when considering a CS7 and this is what they had to say: "We have had good responses from customers about the CS7 powering the Le Bass. The Le Bass actually draws between 330 and 460mA depending on what channel is being used. The only thing that is a little tricky is that it has a start up peak of about 800mA. This is more current than the 12V out can provide consistently but it only draws that for a few milliseconds. This may cause the CS7 or CS12 to flash or stutter for a second but then once the peak settles down it should work perfectly. In theory, it’s possible that this start up peak could put the 1 SPOT Pro into thermal protection and shut down but that has not happened with the Le Bass, that we know of. We have been in touch with Two Notes about these and are sending them a power supply to test with their products. So far, we haven’t heard of any issues."

Have you even tried it with the CS12? VisualSound, the manufacturer of the 1 Spot Pro, say each socket is capable of delivering far more than the labels suggest and that you can ignore the labels on the individual outputs as long as you don't exceed the total for the entire brick.

Bought a Grizzly pedal from @Jackemmings, good comms and arrived swiftly. Was wrapped in 3 or 4 distinct individually taped layers of wrapping that made me feel like I was winning a game of pass the parcel when I opened it, which instilled a sense of childhood joy. Recommended.

Just post the regular URL to the video, rather than the html code to embed.