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I was going to say put it at the end of the song!

always interested

Outdoor gig, normally enjoyable. It was a bit more overcast than last week so audience was down a bit but still more than I expected. We had dragged a lot of pre-pandemic forgotten songs back, and also brought another 3 new songs forward as we had played this venue a few months ago. First half was good, good reaction, did one of the new songs and a few of the old songs, nothing really bad. Played my Maruschyck, that I had stopped playing as I had put coated strings on and it had messed the setup so much that it was lifeless and buzzy - I put it on a hanger for a few months, and took it off the hanger last week and it was fine - no idea how that happens., Second half did the other new songs, one seemed to go down well, one less so. BUt there were quite a few mistakes in common songs we do, left a verse out of one song, then about half an hour messed up one song so bad it couldn't be recovered, so the confidence was completely gone. Got through the rest of the songs, and it wasn't pleasant. Afterwards the drummer decided to quit at christmas so the guitarist decided to quit then and there. So that looked like it for the group. However, this morning, things are back on track, but we have to make sure that this doesn't happen. I mean it shouldn't happen, the new songs and the recovered songs were fine, this was a song we had been doing for 4 years or so and had done it loads of times.

Congrats on the new bass - don't have to worry about saving the green one for you any more!

Who did you request - there aren't any support requests connected to this that I can see?

I used to use an XR16 (still have it), it was actually enough, but the 18 lets you do multichannel recording so you can postmix, and I really wanted to do that!

Also full graphic equaliser on any channel and overall channel, 4 effect slots with loads of choices (that are actually good). The 5GHz router (which you don't absolutely need) is about £30 and usb powered. And the main useful thing is you can just stick it at the back where its easier for everyone to plug in, rather than have it where you can access it during the gig, and when you go to set up, you can wander out into the crowd and adjust it from the FOH.

You need a tablet. doesn't actually have to be separate, mine also does lyrics and runs soft synths. But I also have a XControl, which gives me sliders and stuff

I did the sound for my old drummer a few months back and he had a soundcraft signature, I am not sure what model, but it was pretty big. it was ok for an old school mixer, although being an X18 user there was a limited number of outputs and its a little harder going back to that sort of mixer, but in the end I got a reasonable sound and they seemed happy enough on stage (there were 6 of them, sharing monitors). The mixer actually worked fine and was more flexible than the old alto my old group used to use, although made me realise how I couldn't actually go back to that style!

US prices are never quoted with taxes, because it makes it more fun that way. Also you pay different taxes in different places, however you can buy them without taxes in the right places and even when you do, the taxes aren't that high.

Almost certainly - it has been kicked and thrown around by a lot of people between poland and the UK!

For the clarification of any doubt here, couldn't @Clarky, who I belive has one of those amps, replicate the settings that @dmccombe7 used and see if his sounds in the same ballpark? I could get my ashdown to make that completely overloaded noise, and I could get it to make the smooth noise, but there was no setting where it could do both.

But if I was to be actually serious, the one that really shined when my wife used it was my mic, which is a TC-Electroncs MP75. She had a shure 58, but never really liked it.

Some already listed: Pearl Jam - Ten Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast Pink Floyd - wish you were here Hawkwind - Levitation Fields of the Nephilim - Fields of the Nephilim Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate Hard Corps - Def before dishonour Sade - Diamond Life Genesis - Trick of the tail Camel - Moonmadness Kate Bush - Everything she did before Aerial Rush - Everything they did after caress of steel and before Hold your fire. But if it was going to be one album, genesis is the one that has stayed with me longer, but there is one.. hmm.. track, so it would have to be Fields of the Nephilim.

What you go to all that extra effort? Clearly noone here in marketing, you just have to take whatever microphone you have and make a pink version. Or add some glitter. Job done!

That is the point of active pickups (not active basses), where the actual pickup is too weak on its own, and it is amplified at source to make it up to normal level output. Some people certainly prefer the sounds, although 'more musical' is an asthetic choice, not an absolute value. Certainly with a weaker magnet or lower coil winding, there is a physical measurable reduction on impact on the strings (not in carole kayes case, turning the volume down just makes it quieter, which you just amplify more later, the pickup still has the same impact), whether this makes it better or not depends on what you like.

Agreed, it is a very good cover, but not quite as good as the original.

I don't think it looks bad on him - an amp has been sent from poland to the UK, there are plenty of things that can go wrong in that process. Seemed a reasonable question. And then we see that he is responding well to the issue, I would only read that as a plus on the company. You really can. Maybe not with this amp, but you certainly can with 'a valve amp'. If it is not the correct way to use this amp, maybe future builds should get rid of the master volume?

The Ashdown CTM100 was good at home levels with things wound down. Obviously better flat out.

Funny things on specs. Although I suspect the specs of one manufacturer make more sense than the specs of different ones, so in your case, comparing a 310 and 910 should be pretty simple as they are from the same place. I was comparing the specs of my RCF Evox 8 with the Alto 212. Spec wise they are similar, except the RCF has 150 watts more, and apparently 2dB more flat out. And it is heavier (that much is certainly true). Did a gig on saturday, the second on with a mixed setup of 212 and behringer sub on one side and the evox 8 on the other, did the set up then both me and the singer independantly went back to stick our heads in the 212 to see if it was on. It was. I am not sure it is bringing anything to the party!

I would certainly imagine if it failed there would't be much you could do. I have never had a problem witht he buttons being in the way (but obviously I don't have one that comes out the back like the OP - mine are all normal end ones), although I have had a schaller fail and another almost fail. I like the new end of the new shallers, but don't like the new spike of the the new shallers, luckily the one I had fitted fine in the guitar I was putting it in, so it has that. It would be nice to just have one type, so that I dind' thave to worry about the straps, even though each bass has its own strap. Was trying to decide about the new spector what to put on it, maybe the d'addario clip things are enough?

The dunlop button is as people say, more or less flush to the strap, although it does start further out than the strap button, if that is an issue. Didn't know about the lubrication thing, and never had any failures, so interesting to note.

Nothing new under the sun!

They would read the Short Scale Bass Appreciation thread on basschat Actually the fender website gets the scale of the strings wrong too (I have long scale fender flats on mine). The only place that seems to make sense is the strings direct website, where it tells you that you need strings that measure at least 33" https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/blog/fender-mustang-bass-strings/

I know. Well, he was, you just had to put his head back on, the rest of him was stretchy!