Chienmortbb

Quality not quantity.

I must admit, living in the far south of England, a trip too far north for me would be a real trek. I do love the South West Bash each year although I had to miss last years due to a rare gig. Even that is a good drive away from me. being close to equidistant from the South East Bash.

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Probably the worldwide shortage of components.

I realise that we have bashes all over the UK but would it be a runner?

No way is a gig going to chip away at my chances of attending this one. I am leaving the gig at home and using the car. I expect to see some nice shiny new kit. I am also trying to arrange a fair amount of caboodle. Anyway that is enough carping on from me.

It seems strange to be admonished, and at the end told you are right. I would argue with some on your list but not your general premise. I was at a BBC event once where there was a band. The BBC sound person had to use the supplied mics, a box full of dynamic mics, a mixture of SM57s and Behringer’s 8500s. The SM58s stayed in the box and he used the Behringers. when asked why he said you cannot easily EQ out the response of the 58, whereas the Behringer has flatter response that is easier to EQ. It should be said that SM58 is a 60-70 year old design. The fact that I think my Sontronics Solo is far superior is nothing to do with the fact that the Sontronics factory is just round the corner from me. Before you ask, I bought it retail after trying several mics. Still as someone from Shure once told me, the SM58 paid for his pension. Back to the wireless systems,

I have to be honest, I have a B in my bonnet about Shure. Its not their fault but the SM58 is not very good by today's standards yet is lauded by all and sundry. It gives me the impression that all Shure stuff is over priced. I must admit that the pedal board wireless stuff looks good but £400+ to replace a cable? I use the Smoothhound Classic. Is it perfect? No. Has it ever let me down? No. The battery level meter is really useful and the "inteference" meter does give you a warning if the area is swamped with 2.4GHz. It can take AAA batteries, Alkaline or rechargeable and will do two gigs on one charge (although I never rely on it).

Yes no problems with the Smoothhound over several years.

Welcome Rib. You will find us friendly in the main with several friends from the USA already here. Will check your YouTube channel soon.

It’s not Biden’s fault that the exchange rate usd-gbp has tanked. The means the drivers that Barefaced use are up just by that with general inflation added on top. Johnson Biden Putin Brexit, take you pick.

Apparently there is a built in mid dip that the mod takes care of as well as a notch filter. I will be doing a sweep of the BDI21 before and after mods to see the difference. The parts are now ordered so I can try it once my other projects are finished or paused.

Thanks for the comment Paul. Incidentally, I will be doing a frequency response sweep before and after to show how well it works.

I am just about to mod my Behringer Bass DI, BDI21 along with one from a friend. The mods designed by Franken P on YouTube is in the form of a video. To make it easier, I screenshot each stage and have put it into a pictorial PDF. Sadly I have run out of space on here so if you want a copy, please sens me a message with your email address. Now I have other projects on the go so will not be starting this for a while, however I thought I would put the PDF here in case anyone else fancied doing it.

I tried a prototype cab some time ago that had on stage dispersion in mind, and the whole band said they have never heard me so well. They then proceeded list all my mistakes but hey, you cannot have everything.

That's democracy and why there are many cabs amps etc. I have used IEMs and to me it is a sterile, lifeless experience. I admit I could hear clearly but I felt I was not in the room. but then that is my attitude to reading music (probably as I am too old and too lazy to learn). I think we have to accept that its different stokes for different folks.

You will hardly hear the difference between 600 and 750 watts, in fact the extra 150 will probably cause more power compression in the drivers. producing heat rather than sound. Add a cabinet to the other side of the 1200 and you are getting much more.

Can you explain you reasoning? I agree that a bass through a HiFi is no good but HiFi speakers and MI speakers are two different things. AS for the expense.in some ways you are correct. The drivers needed are not cheap. A good compression driver/horn combination wills be over £100 on its own and most so called FRFR cabinets do not spend anywhere near that on the mids/top end. I have been using @steviedesigned BC112 MK3 for several years and it is ruler flat and loud. If I want colouration I can dial it in on a pedal or the amp's preamp.

I would worry about putting 800W through a driver in a carbon fibre cab but then I worry about carbon fibre as a material anyway.

Class D is not digital.

When I were lad and still a guitard, I went to a party in London. The road crew for Free were there and one of them was bemoaning the fact that they still used Marshall stacks rather than the more mobile Fender 2x12 combos. I told him what I have often told others. on a guitar, your amp and cab is your soundbox, it is part of your instrument. Paul Kossoff would not have sounded like Paul Kossoff without a 100 watt Marshall and 4x12 and an old Les Paul. Paul Kossoff through a Fender Twin with a Telecaster would have not been Free, more good for nothing. Ditto Hendrix, Clapton* Green et al. Move on a few years and I use an FRFR cabinet and would not use a valve amp, even if I could lift it OR afford a roadie. However part of my enjoyment is that trouser flapping moment from the @stevie designed BC112 MK3. Heft in spades from a solid state class D head. It is clearly now possible to get a good facsimile of your/my sound using a modeller and going straight to the Mixer, with foldback in ears for monitoring and if I were still playing the 6 string cheese slicer, no doubt I would be happy going down that route. However that feeling from the huge port on @stevie's design makes my trousers flap and my heart sing. My rig was used at jams for a while and the response from other bassists was always very positive. *Clapton's Strats are heavily modded to make them sound like a Les Paul.

Try putting one end of a guitar cable into the send socket and one end into the return socket, they often get corroded and the cable trick often proves it one way or another. If that does not work it could be the ICEPower module. They are incredibly reliable but even it the failure rate is 1 in 1000, someone gets that 1. The TH500 uses the 250ASX2 module and if that has gone, it is not cheap.

So are most of the girls that chucked me.