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An ad for this just popped up in my facebook feed. Interestingly enough, I might be in the market for a new octave pedal. Anyone tried one yet? https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0EAE

TBH, I just bought a new MacBook Pro M3 pro because my 2015 MBP was failing to cope with what I was wanting Logic to do. I use is to send midi to the Jupiter X from Live Loops & get the audio back as individual audio tracks (all via USB) & then I put whatever fx I need onto those tracks, but at the same time I’ve got other loops playing various VSTis & also using my Roli to play another VSTi (usually Equator 2). Then have another usb coming in for the edrummer’s tracks & processing them, sending it all out to a mixer & record the performance too. The old MBP stopped playing the moment I ran 2 loops to the Jp X & hit a note on the Roli. The new MBP cost about the same as the Jp X, but it’s going to be the centre of our performance.

I don’t know if it’s changed in the last 15 years or so, but as good as Reaper is, it had a very steep learning curve. It’s still good value for money, but if you’re a Mac user, Logic is better value than just about anything else out there.

You’re getting the original band mixed up with the tribute act - Ian Jury and the Blackheads. Im sure they covered a couple of songs by Squeeze too.

I joined a jazz/triphop band a little over a year ago. Drummer has both acoustic & electronic drums. Most of the time he could do everything on his SPDX pads with a couple of pedals added. His stuff sounds amazing & I preferred it to the acoustic kit. Me & the drummer have just started a side project doing chillout electronica. His kit is going to be the SPDX, his Vdrum module with just a couple of pads, a control surface to trigger loops & a monosynth. Probably the only instance where the bassist has more kit than the drummer! 🤣

If you need a better DAW for the same price (free), then go look at cakewalk.

Focusrite is doing a little bit off their FAST Bundle. It’s reduced from £330 to £275. However, I got an email from Novation a few days ago with a code. So I tried it last night & got the FAST Bundle for £40. Here’s the code. FASTBUNDLEBF2023

I had one for about 5-6 years. Bought it about 15 years ago IIRC. Great combo & sounds best put on its side. I never played a 5 string through it, but my rig was synth/dubstep focused & went lower than the low B on a 5er.

Gonna suggest a Roli Seaboard block. They’re midi over Bluetooth (which works lovely on my Rise25).

That would be very easy on a Roli Rise. Another option would be to just turn on portamento for that bend/slide & then back off once you hit the last note.

I get you. I was a Christian for a long time. When I played in worship bands, there were some good sessions. Unfortunately though, there were more haphazard, disorganised times than there were good times. In spite of this, I always remained a caring, professional musician & played to the best of my ability (which to me, means keeping in time & not messing things up). Now I’m an exvangelical/deconstructionist & see the bible very differently. However, I’m not going to say that you should too. It’s your life & I think as long as you’re not hurting anyone, etc, then a person should be who they want to.

I enjoy coming back & reading this thread from time to time. So many folk seem to have the same issues as the churches that I’ve been part of (or even tried being part of, but was just used for my skills & nothing else). It’s a shame there’s so much hassle with playing in a worship team, but at the same time, it makes me glad that I’m no longer part of a church or any religious organisation.

Just the same as DIing straight from your preamp (or back of your bass amp head) to the FOH, except you get to hear it like the audience does.

Where ever it sounds best in relation to your other pedals & your preference is the best place for it.

Sorry, I’m missing another month. ☹️

The advantage for me is aurally rather than physically. I play synth as well as bass. Most often it’s synth bass, but for a few songs, I split the keyboard & have the right hand playing something like synth pads, keys or a brass sound. So the bass goes through my board with a preamp on it & then to a small mixer & the synth goes straight to the mixer. Then they both go to the PA cab. Di can come from the mixer, but can also be taken from the preamp for bass only.

Yes, that’s what I meant by TCE, I remember their “but it’s a loud 236 watts”. 🤣 But only a couple of makers do that in the bass rig world. They do this in the budget sound system market, but even better. E.g. a 2:1 system could be advertised as having 3600 watts & breaks it down as 30w+30w satellites x 60w sub. 😂

Haha, that’s a very good point. But then, wouldn’t a sound engineer want to go with a company that shows more realistic numbers?

The thing is though, when the product is already really good, sounds great & is loud enough, why? I can understand the cheap crappers such as KAM, QTX, etc doing it, as they need to have something that looks good, but QSC & RCF? Other than TCE, bass rig manufacturers don’t use “peak”. Are soundies less technically inquisitive than bassists?

When discussing PA a few months back with a chap I know who’s a computing science professor, I asked the same question (but more of a statement) “Why just give peak” & his response was along the lines of “it’s relevant to any spikes in volume”. I suppose “if” the manufacturer measured peak using voltage swing, then it would be relevant?

Thanks guys. RCF do at least put the SPL for their cabs, but you have to go to the back of the user manual to find out that “2100 watts” is a bi amp with 350 watts for anything above 1.8 kHz & 700 for anything below. I would have thought that the non budget PA cabs would have come with some decent specs & would have thought that it would have been demanded by sound engineers, but obvs I was wrong. 😂

It might seem like a silly question… Why do PA manufacturers advertise the cabs peak power & not RMS? Is it just marketing, or is there a good reason behind it?

If you want a freebie that’ll do what you want, then Cakewalk is a great DAW that comes bundled with some extra instruments & fx.

Cheers. I’ll get a decent lekky soldering iron, check the pot values & order 2 replacement volume pots & try that. The other 2 smaller pots are for treble & bass. Those 2 work perfectly. One thing that I was really unsure of, is the grey wire coming from the J pickup. the P has a black & a white wire, but the J has a black, a white & a grey. I asked Aguilar about the grey wire & they was as helpful as going to the chippy & asking. But from what info I could find, it seems to be another earth, which seems a little odd.