la bam

Yes, it's the small pubs etc where I think iems would be great, reasons being:

1. No need to squeeze past every punter who stands in the doorways with your amps on load in and load out. Twist, turn, get injured.

2. As i mentioned before - i genuinely believe it's the amps on stage that cause the issue. They're usually firing directionally at the back of someone's legs, facing the wrong way, and trying to do two jobs (be a monitor and add to FOH sound) and not succeeding efficiently for their intended purpose.

For anyone who hasn't tried it, and wants to without the expense, forget iems and just try putting everything through your desk using pedals not amps. I'd be amazed if you couldnt just gig like that as the sound will be so much clearer and balanced through your pa.

Then add in your iems in time for your own personal mix if needed.

To be clear though, I dont use my iems fully in and sealed like some do (I think that's what puts some people off at first) as I do find I like the ambient noise of the crowd as well. But I get a nice mix of my choosing, fully controllable at any time and FOH sound is much better.

With a bit of forethought and planning the whole band can be set up and sound checked in 15 mins too.

It just depends what you as a band like. For me, my last band was so loud it was awful. It was literally so loud you couldnt hear the guitarist on stage despite him being 10ft away, yet on his own his sound was so loud it could bend peoples legs. It was just a horrible frequency and volume mess.

So it was very hard to play and enjoy and there was hearing damage too.

Iems would have sorted that in a day. I'd have been able to sort my own mix and hear everyone and be happy and let the guy worry about the foh sound. Guitarist could have had his own mix of ear splitting mids and guitar twoddle of just him and it wouldnt have affected anyone.

As it was because of that awful stage sound the band split.

16 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

One of the bands I play with ditched on-stage amplification last year, and although we haven't gone for IEM yet, simply getting rid of lots of conflicting sound sources on stage has done wonders for both what we and our audience hears. Admittedly with a line up of vocals, synths and bass VI live with drums and additional synths on the backing it's been easier for us than the typical band. We played a small "festival" (in a pub) last year where the foldback was a single tiny wedge monitor - no problem - we just angled the main PA cabs slightly back so we could hear them and ended up playing one of the best gigs we have done. 

Yes, works great. 

I've gone this route after years of thinking about it. However.... the biggest revelation wasnt that iems are better in themselves or anything else, it was the fact that it's the amps that have been the problem for listening to everyone all these years. Get rid of the amps off stage and I reckon you can even play without iems if you can hear the pa.

Hi all, so I've gone and done it. Completely by fluke too.

After years and years of valve amps, ss amps, class d, helix, pedals, sansamps, stacks - everything - I've found a great great di live sound.

And it's cheap. And light.

It's a behringer bdi21 (around £35) and a nux mld (around £130).

So, the bdi21- your think it's because I didnt have a sansamp, but I've had plenty and bizarrely this one beats them.

But, the secret sauce is to couple this with the 8x10 ampeg cab sim on the nux pedal. No preamp, no drive, just the 8x10.

The sound is fantastic!! Straight into our PA it has depth, tone for days and that valve 3d harmonics.

Honestly it's a great fluke combo but the sound is lush.

In fairness it's probably what these types of pedals have been missing.

Simple for me......

Cancelling rehersal on day of rehersal is completely unacceptable.

One off fair enough. Twice, no. Third time they're out. What's the point of trying anymore?

Not learning songs? Unacceptable. As above.

If they're committed they will learn the songs and turn up.

If they're not ,then .......

Chauvet LFS75 dmx gobo projector.

Superb led projector - high end, not the cheap ones.

You have gobos made that display what you want - band name, logos etc.

2 available. £195 each.

Pick up Leyland Lancashire 

Simplest way is to gig at 3/4 volume on your bass. Then you can go louder or quieter easily depending on requirement. Other simpler ways are digging in harder and rolling up the tone control. It's not really about being louder, more being more prominent in the mix.

More costly alternatives are a mid boost pedal, compressor, boost pedal etc.

I grew up listening to my mums endless albums of roxy music. Obviously as a kid you rebel against it, but once I got old enough to appreciate they're absolutely fantastic!!

On a side note though, they make me a little sad as I genuinely dont ever see any young band coming out with music like that ever again. It had maturity, technicality, skill, superb sound, hooks, melodies, numerous instruments and just fantastic all round sound.

Wow! £299. 

I'd say that's the best bargain on a new bass for years. 

Used to love mine. In all honesty I liked my lb100 tribute better than my clf l2000.

I had one and loved it. Great sound, quality, everything. Just a slight shielding hum as mentioned.

9 hours ago, Paul S said:

Strange.  I've had the Boss WL-50 since it came out, used it at various venues and never had an issue apart from one bass that had a recessed jack socket, which was the fault of the bass not the bug. 

 

My guitarist bought an expensive Sennheiser unit but the last two gigs has had to switch to a lead.

 

Funny old things, these wireless.

Yeh, done loads of gigs, loads of stages, then just a little pub and it went bananas. Got me thinking I've done something wrong. So I'll have to double check it.

They do look great amps those. Such a shame swr, warwick etc have disappeared. They did some cracking stuff.

16 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

As far as i know and at £550 it had better. Not seen any negative reviews or comments on it or its predecessor.

It has a gain value you can adjust for each bass you use but until i get it i wont know for shure 😂

 

What was happening with your boss WD50 when using an active bass. Could you not flick the bass onto passive mode see if it made a difference. ?

Dave

Was just a really weird one. Its work perfectly before at practice, but last night at soundcheck it was just like a broken microphone. Thatbwas in passive too. Dont know what it was. I'll give it a look over this week.

5 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

From what i can gather the GLXD16+ transmits on 3 different frequencies at same time and if one sees interference its automatically switches to the next stronger channel. Until i get the unit and the manual i'm kinda assuming some of this from what i've seen in youtube clips and read in reviews.

Dave 

Does the shure work with active basses? My flippin boss wd50 hated mine tonight. Had to use a cable for the first time in 5 years.

16 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Not sure what you mean ?

I have a Smooth Hound for yrs and just fire it up and away it goes. Are the Shure systems different. I thought you just pressed a button and it auto scanned ?

Dave

No, with the boss there is no manual scanning at all. Everytime you plug it in to the receiver it auto checks and finds the best possible signal.

This stops it finding a good signal when the room is empty, then that freq being busier later on when the crowd is in.

It's literally, plug in, let its light stop flashing and you should be good.

Still using my boss wd50. Still doing well. Just remember with any systems like these that auto scan, to put back in the transmitter before starting so it can reach for the best frequency now the room is full.

£395 for a quick sale?

18 minutes ago, bloke_zero said:

 

I loved the build, concept, neck shape, flexibility and loudness, but I didn't get on with it either - tried for about a year gigging and recording - never could quite get a sound I really wanted. US L2000 - horses for courses!

Yes, it was really strange.

My trib l100 used to slam and cut through a mix great, but I just couldnt get any punch out of the l2000 at all. No matter what configuration or amp settings. Some people make them sound great, but it just didnt work for me.

£445?

Still available.

1 hour ago, dub_junkie said:

Which one do you have? 

 

I've started playing mine again a bit more this last week or so. It has one of the easiest five string neck shapes to get along with imo. 

It's the 4 string san dimas in blue.

So versatile and quality.

13 minutes ago, la bam said:

I think I'm going to go for the john east uni 5. I love the idea of it having pretty much everything:

 

Passive/active.

Passive tone.

Pickup blend.

Bass (adjustable band)

Treble (adjustable band)

Mids (parametric).

Flat or shape option.

 

 

I think I'm going to go for the john east uni 5. I love the idea of it having pretty much everything:

Passive/active.

Passive tone.

Bass (adjustable band)

Treble (adjustable band)

Mids (parametric).

Flat or shape option.

On 25/03/2023 at 21:34, BillyBass said:

Oh and....pictures please😃

20 minutes ago, edstraker123 said:

I was just considering selling mine as I'm a bit overloaded with basses currently but then I played it again and the neck is absolutely to die for . If only they did it in a short scale.

Love mine!