Roger2611

Solved...sort of! It turns out the cable is correct as is the output from the phone and the IPad, annoyingly the mini jack was not fully inserting into the headphone socket on either the phone or the IPad so was shorting between tip and ring hence the click and backing tracks out of both channels, I have trimmed a little bit of the plastic surround from the mini jack and with a firm shove we get click on one side and backing tracks on the other, so it was either the plastic surround or a crap mini jack but at least I now know what the issue is!

I need a bit of help if possible, sorry if it becomes a bit of a long post, I will try to be as brief as I can.... I have recently brought a Soundcraft UI24R mixer mainly to use as an enclosed in ear monitor system, we tried the set up last night with disappointing results, the in ear bit worked ok but did show the limitations of the cheap in ear systems, however, I could not get the backing tracks and the click to separate, the idea was click to right channel and just to the aux sends and backing tracks to the left channel and to both the aux sends and FOH. The backing tracks are recorded correctly, I double checked them today and they are all click on one side backing tracks on the other, I then tested the MP3's we are using and other than a tiny bit of cross bleed (caused by the use of side chain compression in the conversion to MP3) again the click in on one side and the music on the other, so I then sent it to my phone and played it back through my main mixing desk via a stereo mini jack to duel mono XLR's but at that point I end up with music and click out of both channels....so either the cable is wrong or the way the phone is outputting the sound is wrong, we used the same cable last night but with the backing tracks on an Ipad with the same outcome which suggests the cable is wrong so I checked the XLR wiring....one plug has a white wire and an earth and the other a red wire and earth.....which surely suggests duel mono, which should be what I need? Any ideas? Cheers Rog

I got the first two right but the last two wrong, overall I preferred the Sandberg and in second place the Harley Benton, sadly the Fender came last for me

It was so sad to lose Mark Hollis last year, Talk Talk were one of the few bands that I would have loved to know what made them tick, what made Mark write the way he did, such clever and beautiful music.

Dakota? Mr Brightside?

I agree but 99% of "fake" Fender's will have glaring errors which is likely why we do tend to spot them pretty easily on here, although I am sure there will be some seriously good fakes that only a real expert will spot and that will slip through, even here, unnoticed. Instruments like Fenders which are, at the end of the day just a collection of parts will always undergo changes during their lifetime, usually not for nefarious reasons, I have a 79 Olly white Precision which, as far as I am aware is 100% original with the exception of the black scratch plate which I swapped from my old 79 Precision to this bass, so mine is still a 79 Precision throughout but it is not 100% original anymore, I would mention that fact if I sold it but I doubt it would, or should, have an impact on its value? This thread shows the value of this site in that the bass has been seen and flagged to anyone who watches the Ebay market place regularly and likes to check whether a bass is as described!

To be fair there doesn't appear to be many fakes that make it through unreported on here, we are pretty good at spotting a dodgy Fender, I had a look at this one over Christmas and thought it looked like a bitsa bass, I had picked up on the decal being wrong for a 72 bass but hadn't gone as far as the patent numbers!

It's great to read that Blue, at 53 it gives me hope I can get back to regular gigging, I am slowly going out of my mind sitting around weekend after weekend doing nothing yet still apparently being in 2 bands! Between the two I have one single festival in August in the diary, yet I was pressured by both bands to give up the covers band because they had too many dates which meant the originals bands couldn't gig.....something that clearly worked out well then!! I am starting to go through the Join My Band experience again looking at hundreds of adds from dreamers, wasters and bands full of 17 year olds that want to play doom metal (whatever that is!) but hopefully "the one" I need will appear at some point Despite working full time in a stressful job the getting on stage and all that goes with it brings a balance to life that at the moment is sadly missing.

I respectfully disagree, Jazz basses sound crap when I play them because their sound just doesn't work for me on stage but seem to sound fine when you are in the audience, so, in theory, the further you get from a Jazz bass the better it sounds?

I guess some unfortunate guitars and basses fall into the hands of "improvers" or so called luthiers and are sadly butchered to the point of no return.....mentioning no names!

I loved my Bass Collection's back in the 80's / 90's, I had an 801 and a 602 fretless, but I guess times change, in recent years I have managed to replace both but they are not my go to basses. TBH I have never found the perfect bass and, as a long time sufferer of the dreaded GAS, I somehow doubt I ever will! The perfect bass is always just around the next corner!

My worst was Edwards Number 8 in Birmingham many years back, we were putting in a 20K PA for a Banghra festival, we were promised 8 burly roadies to get the gear in and down (or up) two flights of stairs, either way we had no help in or out at the end of the night, so it was down to 3 of us to man handle the entire rig in and out, that damn near killed me!

I still love Elites if I can find them

There was a battered pearl white one on last week, had it not been so battered I would have brought it to match my Thunder IIa guitar in pearl white

10 lbs max for me, I am happy with the lighter basses but if it's over 10 lbs it will just end up sitting in the rack not getting played

Can I be the voice of sanity here please? Do you really need it? Will not having it spoil Christmas? Will not having it eat away at your very soul, knowing it could, no, should have been yours and now it is residing in the arms of someone who clearly doesn't deserve it? Do you have just enough space for it (even if it means a child must sleep in the garage going forward)? Then I think you have answered your own question!

This one still works for me, what doesn't work for me is that the generation that wrote and lived this originally are now the ones in power...wrote great protest songs...yes......learnt anything from them....sadly no!

To be fair Ceremony by New Order is pretty simple but a very effective bass line

I had a Eastcoast White Falcon bass copy, I gigged it once but it was so badly built I never felt I could rely on it, the electrics were not wired up correctly from new, one of the pots was already partly sheered and fell off during said gig and action wise it took a fair bit of work to get it to a playable, and nothing more than playable condition....apart from that it looked absolutely brilliant! Would I recommend one....yes if you want to hang it on the wall and look at it admiringly

How very odd, when I click the original link it takes me to a car battery jumper pack!

Friends, in all my bands both past and present we used to get together socially (and still do in some cases) to me, a band works better if the members can socialise outside the band environment?

With walk out music of "Bring Your Daughter's to the Slaughter" it could make the London stadium a place other teams fear to come, I guess if it doesn't work and they get beat "Run to the Hills" would work as the team was booed off at the end of the game

Many years ago there was a very short lived punk band in Northampton called "Kipper Trench" who then changed their name to "By Order of the Seven Fat Pigs"

Beaver Patrol?