Woodinblack

Why would you need to tune? Just buy a bass that is in tune in the first place! At the risk of falling into a 4 yorkshireman sketch, my dads parents always had an outside loo until my gran died in 1987, and my grandad got a flat (with an inside loo). Not only that, they had a tin bath that they used in the kitchen (which was tiny, both the bath and the kitchen). As a kid, I was not a great fan of going there!

I am talking about what the thread has been talking about for the thread has been about for the last few pages, I have literally no clue what you are talking about with the deaf and blind people.

Yes, sometimes their estimates are way out!

I doubt it was a consideration, they couldn't keep doing the same, the songwriter wasn't there any more, so they just continued. They almost certainly lost fans and they gained more. I honestly think the whole argument is just a misunderstand in the words, not the concepts. When I go and buy a bass, I play it and I either enjoy playing it or I don't. I listen to the sound and not once have I ever thought 'I bet an audience would like the sound of this', and I seriously doubt anyone has. It is all 'about me' when selecting equipment, which is why we are getting different stuff, apart from those people who get some instrument because it matches, and I guess that is restricted mostly to people in tribute groups or very specific genres of music (and here I am aware that I played motown on a shuker uberhorn). Learning music can be either incredibly selfish if you are self taught or very public if you are classically trained, where you learn to play the right way for exams, and have to learn what people want to hear and play it in the right way. I remember my mum getting annoyed I was playing the same thing over and over, becuase i liked the sound of it. What I mean is that I think there is less distance from the two extremes of this thread than it would seem. I play cover band stuff in public because my own stuff wouldn't be interesting to anyone. I think both are valid.

I have gigged with my mustang, my Ibanez Talman 35 which are both 30" and my 27" JR. I seriously doubt that anyone noticed any difference. I wouldn't normally do a full gig with the first and last as they are 4 strings, but I would have no hesitation doing the whole gig with the TM35.

I use a 12 step and an iPad to run synths for my setup, but ironically also use a Jam Man to trigger individual sounds. Every so often I look for a decent one shot looper on the iPad, but the only ones I can ever find are fantastically clever complicated things, rather than just the one shot samples I want.

And I guess this is android, there isn't anything on the iPad list, other than the old Mixing Station Pro. I find it handy in emergency but not a fan of things moving round, so I just stick to the normal channels.

Ah, can't help with that, i didn't know there was a new app. I used the old app a few times but never really bothered to set it up, so just use the default X-Air application.

So what is it specifically that you don't like or can't do easily? I did a gig for a friend the other day, doing the sound. They had an old mixer with knobs, really not much fun to go back that way!

If you don't mind the word 'super', the behringer video is pretty good:

No, I have another little wifi / ethernet box that is powered by the USB port in the X-Touch. It can pretty well replace all the functions of the tablet, although it isn't an and / or situation. Some things are easier to see on the tablet but do on the X-Touch. Obviously all the level functions are easy on the X-Touch, so channel volumes, bus volumes effects levels and all those sort of thing, pan, adjusting basic stuff like input levels, compressor, etc. But the EQ although you can set it on the X-Touch it is easier to see on the tablet, such as Q etc. But I can't think of anything you can't actually do on a tablet that you would want to do in a show, so everything except changing which bus went to which channel and USB playback functions. Also naming channels and the colour of them needs to be done on the iPad. The sort of thing you don't normally need to edit in a show. I have both and happy to use both, its just that I am always getting asked to change things while I have my lyrics on the iPad, or I am playing so jabbing the iPad is hard.

Oh sorry, I always get the name wrong, an X-Touch https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0B1X I had been waiting for one to appear on the behringer outlet for a while as I decided that to do the mixing live, and unlike you lucky people with someone out the front to do it, this is just me, I wanted the actual sliders on top of my amp, so when I am busy playing I don't have to try and grab a virtual slider. So now the X18 is on the floor where everyone plugs in, I still have the XAir app on my iPad (never really got on with mixing station), and also the X-Touch wirelessly connecting sitting on top of my amp.

The increase in price is purely down to the markup at the bottom. So you have a squier which costs £50 in parts at pure cost level, once you add labour and markup you end up at £300, whereas the american professional you use £120 of parts, and by the time you have more labour and markup it ends up in the £1000s. The main difference in the American vs Mexican vs Indonesians is the cost of the premises and the workforce. Very small price differences in the parts make quite huge differences by the time it is hanging in the shop

Is there any reason why the aesthetic isn't important? Or maybe there is something. I love the look of maple, but looking around me, I haven't got one maple fingerboarded instrument. I have had several but haven't kept them for reasons that probably aren't anything to do with the fingerboard (or maybe they are but I don't notice?)

No experience of that, but do you mean the XAir software or the third party mixer amp? People always seem to complain about the XAir software and recommend mixing station, although I quite like XAir. I do have mixing station on my phone as it is a handy backup. I just got a X-Control for my X18, so looking forward greatly to the next gig to see how that goes,.

Donnar have been advertising heavily on facebook. They have a buy 2, get one free offer at the moment they are pushing. I have a donnar ABY switch, which works fine (although I can't think of any way an ABY switch could not work), and their effects are cheap. I was getting fairly tempted and even considering getting the effects to replace my line6 effects to see if I could have a smaller board.

When I am doing a practice I often dont' bother to take the pedalboard, because the sound isn't so important. Plus the ABM600 has EQ / overdrive / octave / Compressor, not that I use the last two in any meaningful way. Live I am in a cover band so yes, pedalboard, overdrive, chorus, octave (up), echo, sample playback and synth. Though not at the same time!

I would say 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. The end position is convenient for going along the strap, but a lot of people have trouble with it pulling out, so would presumably prefer it there.

I agree - in one of my own gig the drummers dad complained that the drums and bass were too loud. He clearly didn't realise that if we turned it down he would have had to listen to the guitar! I would say to that that he is not wasting the audiences time, in this case it is the audience wasting their own time. And noone really has the right to tell someone not to waste their own time, even the person wasting it. Indeed - I liked doing the slap part at the end of 'Run' by snow patrol!

Drum solos are good, gives you the oportunity to have a pee and get to the bar

I had one until recently, I liked it, even with the stock pickups, although I can see why people think they were a bit weak, although not noisy. I tried it with black beuties too, although I didn't like the feel of the strings, but the colour was great! Great neck on them and would have used it a lot more if it had just had another string!

Ian bought my Future Impact, super fast payment and transaction really smooth from start to finish, thanks and have fun with it!

Amazon don't care about other people, and any change that is done won't help them (in fact, almost certainly amazon will avoid that), this is purely pressure from Amazon to get Visa UK to give them a lower cut (which you can bet is already percentages lower than anyone elses), which presumably they will do, so Amazon will have yet one more advantage over everyone else.

Are the schallers any lighter?

Yes, the apple camera connection kit, which is just a USB to lighning connector.