Woodinblack

Active. Don't even adjust the tone generally

Did no one mention that? I think it is a very ugly headstock, but it so generic now that noone notices it - if it came out today people would be ranting how bad it was. Especially the 70s one.

I got a set of rotosounds recently while checking out new strings, and they were not very pleasant and didn't stay long. Didn't even think it was the non 4 string thing, the other 4s weren't great either!

Indeed - that would upset the "4 string superiority complex' people and then there would just be a war like there often is! Luckily the 6 and 3 string people stay out of it

Maybe that is why. I started playing a bass in the late 70s, it was a 4 string ibanez rickenbacker copy, which I loved, but it got stolen. I had guitars so I carried on just playing guitars until I just sort of stopped playing anything at all in the late 80s. Bought a bass at a local music shop which was a 5string, and it was all the bass I had until the mid 2000s I loved the bass I got but frankly there was always something missing. Maybe it is because I am coming from the point of view that a 5 string is a normal bass, and a 4 string is a bass with something removed, whereas a lot of people are coming from the point of a 4 string being normal and a 5 string having something added. But there aer a lot of very lovely 4 string basses around, I wish I got on with them better. I guess if I was with the right group, I could. I probably would go with that if I found a pitch shifter that didn't sound like a pitch shifter.

Obviously just a feeling you get - I find it exactly the opposite, i find a 5 more fun, the 4 more work and I am lazy!

Seems like a good idea for my mini pedalboard idea, so I got one, at £118 seems a very good deal if it is of use

I only play 5, but certainly I think slap works better on a 4. Luckily (for me and everyone else) I don't do that so its not an issue. Obviously if you want an old bass or something that only comes in a 4 (mostly a ric and such like), you have to stick with a 4 - I often get them because there are loads that look great and I figure that will be good but ultimately I have songs in the set with the band I have been with almost a decade that need a 5 so I end up not gigging them, and I don't tend to hang on to any non gigging basses.

Didn't have any of that, had it at other places, where it was nice.

I picked up a mini pedal board at the last bass bash, now I have a power supply for it..

Yeh, chalk it up to experience, I agree there are biker clubs we have played for before, who have been great but I guess it isn't going to matter any more, the guitarist has put a 'no biker gig' rule in place now.

Well, last night was was a biker gig, but sadly I had mistaken for that term for several biker gigs we had done around here where it is just a group of people that like riding bikes, it wasn't that sort. Tiny area in some clubhouse in a corner on a concrete floor which was damp so we couldn't stick any of the cables down. Stripped out all of the interesting songs and just played rock and blues numbers, they really didn't want abba, 9-11:30 with a break. It was pretty packed but to be honest, really not sure why we were there, noone was really bothered and I think that the only reason people watched was because it was so wet outside! They paid us £50 less than agreed, but we weren't really in a position to argue about it but in the positive side, for a change everyone helped to break down, so after finishing and breaking down / loading and driving home, I was at home within 40 minutes of the last note. The best part of the evening was that it was empty on the roads and there were some great but manageable puddles on the way home!

haha - I didn't mean peoples playing problems (although I do listen to my own to spot things I need to improve, but stuff you dont' notice in a mix, like i have noticed the bass drum has a sort of double tap to it and things like that.

Its also handy to listen to isolated tracks to spot problems

What I didn't understand was why you said it. I said 'I think it is a bit cheap to not have a wirless hardware, which is pretty cheap to do on an expensive mixer'. you said, because you belived it was because it could be used standalone, which is true and a valid reason, if not a bit cheap, but then mentioned that the XR wasnt standalone. Which is what caused my confusion, as I didn't mention the XR (until asked about it) or see your point. Obviously just a dissagreement, you don't think it is cheap on a £600 mixer to not have a wireless connection, I do, whether you can use it standalone or not. The CQ18 can be used as standalone too, but it has wireless, so I would assume the arguments are the same. I don't really see the CQ12 as a cutdown CQ18, just one with fewer channels. I think it is a shame, there are many more people who could stretch to the CQ12 and only need that number of channels, but couldn't stretch to the CQ18, but wouldn't go for it because it wasn't wireless.

Can't imagine where you could get one, although as it has a belt buckle can't you just put an extension section in with another part? I did manage to get another of the hooks for the end when I was going to make a different type of strap, but never did.

i was literally going to say the same to you. I am sorry if I caused offence by saying that I thought it was a silly commercial decision to not put Wi-Fi on a expensive mixer, I didn't realise you were a shareholder or something

Hardly - the differentiation is obvious. I would pick the 18 over the 12 purely because I want more than 10 jack/xlr inputs. Same as the XR series, you get a 12, but need more channels, get a 16, need multichannel get an 18. With an X-Control which is generally how I use it, but not sure I get the point? Do you mean as to why A&H decided to save money on their £666 mixer by not including a £2 wifi connection?

the A&H is a new device, the XR is a decade old device at this point and the wifi was not uncommon at the time, and available on all the models 12/16 and both 18s. And you don't 'have' to use an external device, I didn't for years and only once had an issue. The point is there is virtually no saving for the company not having a wifi built in and whether you call it 'cut down' or not, is still considerably more expensive than the most expensive of the XR mixers.

how could the montor app work if you don't have some kind of network? I assume that is why it isn't listed. Seems a huge oversite from A&H - wireless network devices cost pennies at manufacturing time, to leave it off the 12 seems crazy.

I think it is quite impressive, seeing as they don't have to add anything but they still do.

If you mean after about 1990, then yes, after that a large amount of them were pretty much the same as all staff!