Woodinblack

Guess you got lucky then. For anyone else out there, this is the costs. £238 when paid with paypal (with fees and exchange) and £58.68 for taxes and UPS fees

I can't either but to him it is probably just a bass he used because that is what he had. Think how many basses you have gone through. Sometimes you just get a bass that is better than the others and you lose interest in the others. To everyone else who is a fan it is an important iconic instrument.

Why not? To a lot of people its the bass that made all those records and is worth a fortune, to him, its just some bass he used a lot that is worth a fortune!

I have two Neutrik speakon connectors (for why I got them, I can't remember), and about 4 speakon - speakon leads, and one Speakon to Jack lead (the ashdown CTM has jack socket outputs). Oddly enough, I have never made a speakon lead. Probably because before the TC cabs, all my cabs were jack.

Plus £58 taxes to UPS, so closer to 300 (as it is nearer £240 with exchange rates.

he wasn't proposing that I don't think, he is saying one amp with a 4 ohm and one amp with the 8 ohm, and one bass feeding both

it is but he is using an external. well, you wouldn't notice it playing up when you didn't care! different networking I guess. if you quit the XAir when it is searching and try again does it work? On my iPad (which does the lyrics, mixer and synths), if the mixer doesn't show in 10 second I quit the app and start again.

What is the external router - that seems more of the issue. Presumably the external router is connected to the socket via ethernet and the x18 is set to external, and the router is providing DHCP and the router is using something other than WEP security? (correct if any of that is wrong - this is how mine connects). So when you are at home, are you connecting to it still through the external router (I ask as I tend to use the internal one at home)? It sounds very much like your X18 isn't connecting properly to the router, or isn't getting an address (the search is actually poor on X-air) from the router. Ultimately if you are connecting the same way at home and live, the only thing that could be difference could be interference.

Ooh - one of the musicman types?

We did a gig in an outdoor area a couple of years ago, about the time we were going from using the old PA which was passive speakers and a 4 channel amp, and my mixer and the active speakers. Because of the location around a corner the singer decided to put a speaker round the corner to get to the crowd there. Because they had already used the speaker cables so using a monitor as an extension I just managed to catch him just about to use my 1990 whirlwind cable as a speaker cable!

But not keen on an open output, who is to say how it would melt.

Absolutely not - I have seen it (and done it) at many times over the last 40 years. Easier with a bass it must be said, an old vox ac30 flat out is pushing 2 amps, whereas a 400w bass cab flat out is 7A. Signal cable isn't rated for anything like that. Obviously it will do it for a length of time (and nothing is ever totally flat out) but it will be pushing out a lot of heat. The longer your cable is the more it is going to heat, the more likely it is to go. It really isn't (and there is nothing new to this). Its one of those things you can get away with often for a while, but like in the victorian days when they wired their houses without insulation and from the light socket, eventually you are going to burn the house down

Some way to split your bass signal from one plug to two. Either an AB->Y switch, or a stereo effects pedal, or a preamp or something. Or a rickenbacker with rickosound Or a chapman stick. Probably easier to go send->return between the amps, unless you already have effects

You can go from the send of one to the return of the other, yes. Or even just put the same signal into both of them if you want and use them as separate amps with a splitter.

Not going to be a huge size difference. I use 2 x TC112s, stacked on top of each other and either a TC450 or a ABM600. The whole thing has the same footprint as the ABM600 (sideways)

You will probably find that the guitar cable is no longer a guitar cable, but a plastic tube full of pools of copper. That is the point of Speakons, to stop people using guitar cables.

At our saturday gig, it was a pub that isn't often that busy but it was heaving. I commented on it and she said, "You could be the sh*test band in the world and people would still come, we are so desparate for music" so I said, "Excelent, we are your band!". They seemed to love it anyway!

Agreed. The only real reason for suspecting the speakons was because the signal on the x18 that came from the ashdown di was showing as fine. The only new part of this puzzle is the ABM600. The leads, speakers etc all have done the best part of 100 gigs with me without issues, even the helix has done a good 40 or so. The abm600 I got in lockdown as a refurb for half price in Pmt. I am not sure why it was refurb as it was close to immaculate, maybe there was an issue. Although it had done some practices, this was its 3rd gig, the first one was just a preamp out on a truck. The night before the bass wasn't in the PA and there were no real issues (I didnt Like the sound but I think that was unrelated). The first gig, the truck, I had to take it apart because the di socket was loose. I think I might need to test it out at a few more practices and use the TC450 for gigs until I am sure

They are a pain to test as I don't have the proper equipment! Or in this case, just a speakon socket, I thought I had a spare, can't find it. But clearly there is some difference between my speakon connectors as a couple of them do different things. In future though, I will wire socket to socket, rather than chain them through the speakers, as there would be fewer single points of failure. However, I dont' think this is the issue (although I want to test it) as it was fine at sound check. Anyway, don't have any gigs for a few weeks so i will take it out and test everything. All the leads that weren't speakons I tested the week before last, and threw everything that wasn't perfect in a pile to be reworked.

they arent all the same as some of them only work one way round. Speak on cables are a pain to test! I have suspicions about the helix as it keeps accidentally engaging footswitches. the irony is that at every gig I put a guitar cable on top of the amp in case something happens with the wireless. Was just panicking so much I didn't think of it!

The SG3000 was the one past the SG2000 (and a little later). It is the one with everything, neck through, binding, weight. They go for quite a lot but unlike most things that go for quite a lot just because they are old, they are actually very good.

Is that not what is commonly refered to as 'a gig'?

To be fair, one is a lot better than the other, so the other sings instead! Plus the drummer already does deps for other bands.

Did two gigs at the weekend, wasn't happy with the sound at either of them. I think the first one was because my cabs were in front of me, rather than behind, and I accidently knocked my bass middle control flat out! However, I am not totally convinced all is well with the ABM600. So it is bass -> backbeat ->wireless -> Effects and Helix HX -> Ashdown -> 2x TC112 speakers. Also a DI from Ashdown to X18 mostly for monitoring, but also a little into the subs as I have just got one. Last night, we did a sound check and set up and all seemed fine. in the second half I couldn't really hear the bass and going out the front, although it was there it seemed lifeless and quiet. The VU meter on the ashdown was hardly moving, but turning up the gain made little difference. However, the meter in the X-Air app for the mixer which was connected to the DI out was moving fine up to just before the red on heavy notes. Sticking my head into the speakers I wasn't entirely sure something was coming out, couldn't see the speakers move. The Sub was next to the speakers, and bass coming out of that. Turning the main volume up made little difference too. I quickly (this was mid set) swapped the direction of the speakon leads as I had trouble before with leads, no difference, swapped the way round (they went from amp to speaker to speaker). Checked helix (I have a direct in from another pedal and that was really loud). Flipped the bass between passive and active, no real difference. Unfortunately hard to tell what was going on because although I am good at trouble shooting I was panicking a bit. Something happened, not sure what but I put the distortion on on the helix and almost knocked the first row of tables over! Turned it down and all was good. So, has anyone had trouble with speakons before, or their ashdown. I realise a few of things here. One, the ashdown has 2 speakons so it would make sense to use both to go individualy to speakers. 2, if the effect into the helix was loud, maybe the problem was before the amp, but that makes no sense with turning the amp up and nothing happening. 3, absolutely noone can really say what was happening as I didn't use much logic as I was flailing! I think I will get a speakon - speakon with a bargraph led meter so I can see how much power is actually going into the speakers as it is just too hard to tell any other way!

We have two in our band