Woodinblack

And in a strange twist of fate, I only have 5-string Rics

Another gig tonight, this one local pub 4:30-6:30, really short gig for us, and really well paying. Easy setup (if tricky parking), noone started a fight, so all good. It was a good first half, second half was a bit weird, the guitarist complained to the drummer about always playing so fast, so we did a couple of songs really slow and it was actually pretty hard to do them at that speed. Think the drummer wasn't in the best of moods as the drum lights weren't working. and we were probably still knackered from yesterday Sound was good until half way through the second half when there was an edge of feedback. it was my mic which had somehow got much louder and had a resonant peak in it - no idea what happened, but turned it down and it was fine. My stand was near the PA, maybe something connected. Oh after the request last night of chesney hawkes, another woman came up to us with a request, I said, we can only do requests if it is on our list, expecting something equally as odd, but it was sex on fire so we did that one

The stereo is if you are being fed a stereo signal from an XLR rather than the more normal mono. I don't know if it actually reads stereo from a TRS - haven't tried it. The chapman stick sends stereo down an XLR so it is handy for me The behringer can do the same, but its mono / stereo switch is on the circuit board on a tiny switch that most people dont' notice. The casing is steel and seems like you would have to go out of your way to damage it.

The link I have doesn't go anywhere now, but this is the same thing https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007849338535.html The clip on my P2 is very bent, I dont' know how, as the drummer used it most, it does tend to snag on stuff, the clip on the fake p2 is the same style but doesn't stick out as far, and it has a thumbscrew that tightens it up, which is good. It is good that they took the P2, which is fundamentally pretty good, and made it better - I am not worried about the mono / stereo, never used that but not having to take the case off to replace the batteries (which I did every other gig anyway, with rechargables, is a good idea

`As long as you were facing away from that wallpaper it was probably good!

I didn't find it that hard and as a standalone thing it seems good, its just a pain dealing with the software, but I didn't have to install or anything

More a tribute than a clone - it isn't pretending to be a behringer, but it is sort of a copy. However, not only was it cheap, the volume knob is better and on the clip on the back, you can undo a bolt and put batteries in a holder, rather than sliding the tube out. Also the button which opens the sleve on the behringer is actually a stereo / mono push button. Well, amazon is a proper store, designed to funnel all the money out of the country and peoples livelihoods in the uk and into Jeff Bezos private space fund, whereas aliexpress is a bizzar of cheap cloned tat funneling money out of the country to a whole group of people. Neither is perfect, clearly, but I know what i am buying on aliexpress.

Our drummer ordered one too, because he was using mine - but at the same time I ordered one of the aliexpress copies. So now he doesn't borrow mine I have mine free, and the aliexpress one (which I must say is very good and also £17 inc), but they are handy when I need one!

I was also sporting Solovair 8 holes but mine were greasy leather size 8½ and they broke in some time ago

Yeh, I was happy that ours waited until we finished!

Well, that was a more interesting gig than last week. Despite having my new Ric for less than 24 hours, I decided to gig it, easier to find out what something is like when you gig it, and I am glad I did. It was a gig at a local working mens club, good layout, played many times before. However this time it was harder to load in as there was a 18th birthday party in the back room. We set up fast and for some reason, when we were done I was looking round as it was quicker and the stage was tidier - we had so much more space than usual. but it was all connected. Couldn't get the sound right to start with but I leveled everything off, turned it up and adjusted and got it pretty perfect. Did the first half of the set and really enjoyed it, people were good, the stage sound was good, the ric was great, and everything just seemed to go well. At half time people were coming up saying it sounded great and asking about the bass (which is unusual, noone ever really notices). Also had comments that it was good without the keyboards, which is handy, it is the first giig we did there since our keyboard player left. And well, one woman was insistant we should play 'one and only' by chesney hawkes, and we should do it because it was easy and everyone knows it. Second half all went well, played a bit long stopped before 12, everything went very well. Finished, everyone seemed good, the owner of the club came up saying it was the best bass sound they had had in the club, and how did I get it (bass -> Mod dwarf -> PA) and was impressed with the ric as well (he played in a band). We started packing up, the drummer went to get his stuff and said 'I would leave it a minute, there is a guy in the party that was getting pretty lairy'.. shortly afterwards a guy who was clearly the Lair came out, went up to the woman who seemed to be organising the party and started yelling and trying to strangle her, then a few people dived in and people went flying and it all kicked off. We carried on packing stuff. So then the fight moved to the back room then outside, so after we deemed it safe we went and got the cars and loaded up, just in time for the police car and meat waggon to turn up. So that was all fun. Felt sorry for the 18 year old girl whos party it was, she seemed way younger than 18, really friendly and having a great time with everone unlike most of her too cool friends. At the end of the evening she was in tears being consoled by people - but you know, a few days in perspective, and she had a birthday that was both fun and had an ending she won't forget - who wants a forgettable party?

As seems to be the trend here, I bought a rickenbacker from John, good communications, fast packaging, all went well, thanks!

I had that, and it was annoying me a bit after I connected to the pedal, so I went to the tonex website, logged into that with my ikmultimedia account and then went back to the tonex software and I had everything there. Whatever you think of it seems that IKMultimedia will have though of a way of messing it up before you get there!

I am guessing if you have the feedback it has defaulted to using the microphone or something? I haven't tried to put sounds in yet, there is so much going on, I am hoping to get to it later, but I don't think I will be gigging it just yet So you go into the dwarf and then the output of the dwarf goes to the tonex? That sounds like a good plan, currently I am back to gigging witth he dwarf but I find its switching quite slow (between patches), if the dwarf was doing effects (and keyboards) and the tonex was just doing the amp, that would be good.

Well, see what you mean by the software. Took about 7 attempts to download it last night, where I kept pausing and restarting it and it would just stop, if there was a straight download it would have downloaded in no time. Read the quick start guide - I guess it was a long night as it made no sense, I will give it a try today!

Boss Katana Go dongle with some headphones off my iPhone. Also go the Wazza airs, they are good too. And the spark 40, which I always used to use but it is tied to my iPad which is upstairs, but still use it a bit as it is to the side of me and the only one of the aforementioned devices that makes sound without headphones!

Although I am not one of those 'anything less than a 35" bass and the B doesn't work' people, but Is true to say the 43" B string on the NS:Bass, especially bowed is the nicest sound.

30Hz pff.. talk to the bats, I make sure I have a double octaver on mine, if it is above 7.5Hz I don't want to know

No, not threads, Adverts that were open and had had no activity for over a year were, but I haven't got round to it!

Is that the Haim one or Brittany spears?

Maybe you can scrape some of the black back and see if it is the tracks there that have a problem. or just learn some interesting keys!

As have Andertons for a few months as well, if you want to use a proper company!

Although a heavy flanger timed with the bar does sound pretty good - like the guitar in van halens 'Cradle will rock'

Indeed - makes other things possible too, I was surprised that Leo never brought the stacked volume/tone per pickup thing back on the jazz with an active pickup, most of the early work with pre-amps was him anyway But I suppose quite a few people like the pickup mixing on a jazz where turning both pickups full takes the highs out of the signal

No, active pickups were created so that you could use a smaller magnetic field which would have less drag on the strings, giving you a more pure sound of what the strings were doing, but doing that creates less power from the pickup so you amplify it to bring it up to the output level of a normal pickup with a strong magnet. active preamp (on passive pickups, like most basses) was made so that you could control the output impedance of the bass, without the output and frequency response of the bass being governed by the output cable and whatever you plugged into, to give it more consistency between amps / effects. As a side effect you could then also control EQ better, but that wasn't the point. Ultimately all basses are active if you plug them in, it just depends if you want the amplifier before or after the jack cable.