Woodinblack

As previously mentioned, a pickup can't be dirty as such, it can just be coloured in sound. EMGs are very clean and hifi because they aren't wound that much and the magnets aren't strong, so they don't intefere with the string much or the signal. As a result they are very weak, but that is ok as they have preamps in the pickup to boost that weak signal. So they sound strong and hifi. At the other end of the scale, you get like the dimarzio super distortions, were designed to have such a high output that they distort your gain circuit and thus come up wtih a dirty sound - its the amp that makes the dirt there. As a result of a lot of winding and a strong magnetic field the eq is very coloured, so they sound quite distinctive Pickups do sound inherently different to each other. The eq curve, level and impedance of a pickup depends on its magnetic strength, the size and amount of wiring and the style of wiring, so plugged into a non ideal amplifier, as they all all, they will sound different. Obviously any EQ that a pickup has, you could correct for afterwards so it is possible to make them sound similar (for a single coil) although for multicoils on the same string (humbucker or two pickups at the same time) probably never the same.

Wise is just like transferring money, there is no sting there, other than how you make the payment - if you pay in canadian dollars there is nothing for him to lose, unless his bank take a charge for money.

They were both the same RMS sustained wattage, however, no bass amp runs like that as a bass doesn't produce a sustained signal. The 750 has a bigger power supply so can supply more instantaneous current than the 450 and a higher voltage, so has more transient power.

I have tried one, wanted to buy one but the price went up so I didn't get round to it, although that was a 5. Would still like one.

Looks actually a lot like the prestige ones

I was refering to Adrian Maruszczyk - are you refering to Jon Shuker?

His responses lose something in translation, he often comes across as being very short with people but he is actually fine

I think it is a shame they didn't make an aux out on the spark when they realised that it was proving popular (and lots of people are hacking them on). If they had the cab would be easier

That looks nice!

Sounds like there is a compressor working there - is this not connected to the spark, or connected to the spark with no effects?

THe knobs certainly weren 't good. Back originally you could just write to them to ask for new ones, but then behringer stopped that.

236 long term RMS, different peak. They have the same amplifier but the 750 has a bigger power supply so can supply more instantaneous current

Well, I don't think there are many keyboards out there that don't have a mono out, I certainly don't have any, so why would you use the stereo out if you were going to mix in mono? you wouldn't. Obviously some people in the audience can here stereo, the people in the middle. The people on one side or the other hear one side of a stereo signal, which is why you generally don't use stereo. Our keyboard player has a twin out, but that is because the nord has a number of channels, so the lead sounds come out of a different socket to the background sounds.I do use a bit of panning, but only slight just to make sure that everything appears in both speakers.

I thought that went without saying - maybe flat is a bad choice of words. I mean the same signal going to all systems without changing the eq for each system. But as Al says, it isn't an ideal environment for certain systems but if you started to make it ideal for the systems, you aren't really showing what they do, you are just showing what they can be set to do - and maybe with enough time, that is also a valid test, but it isn't the test that was being run. Maybe if we had a large concrete empty parking lot to test them in it would have been easier!

Yes, adding EQ to the sound, although you could then tune everything to the strengths is not really the point, if anything the opposite of the point, it is to show where you start and how they compare flat.

I saw steve hackets genesis revisited and it was great, same year I saw the musical box which I didn't enjoy as much.

Yeh, but if you want to see a tribute band and are prepared to pay £100 to hear them, you know what you are paying for, and I assume agree to it.

I think probably even if they didn't have pink floyd members, there aren't many groups that do pre-dark side floyd material.

Would be good, but no often you get access to some hall and a lot of speakers!

Well, an iPad mini fits in the front, as do I am sure, lots of android things too (like the fire), if you wanted to use it for that. If not, it is a great place to put your keys so you remember where you put them.

The X18 (which is what I have) is functionaly identical to the XR18 with a few connector differences (and when i bought it, quite a sizeable price difference). It just has a tray on the front that is presumably meant to hold a tablet but never actually did if you wanted to plug it in. The differences that the X18 has vs XR18 are that the 17-18 sockets are RCA vs Jack, the 6 aux outputs are TRS instead of XLR, and the X18 aerial is internal instead of sticking out. One was designed for the desk, and one for the floor. There was never an X/XR without a wifi

I must admit that having a HXFX which was way more powerful than the ME90B, I explore the 90b more, it is much more immediate, like separate effects without all the faff, but also much more restrictive, which concentrates the mind on what you actually want. I mean I would still like to use my Mod Dwarf if bass direct ever return it (to be fair they have only had it since march), but I think when I get that back I will probably stick with the 90b.

The preamp you have, is it designed for the 4 inputs? The £235 per pickup doesn't sound bad (especially if you only want one) but then you have to have a preamp that can take those inputs (and maybe adjust their relative levels)

I use the first and 4th default preset in my presets almost as they were as they were very close to what I wanted. To be fair, the first preset is almost entirely straight through with just a bit of an amp model (as I go into the DI of the PA), and the 4th worked well for 1 song. The only change I made to it was adding an overdrive to the ctrl mode.

If you store your current setup as a preset (even if you are not using it as a preset), when you switch it in pedal mode, no matter what the current position of the knobs, it will be whatever you had set, even when you turn sections on or off, until you actually move the knobs themselves, and if you do, you can work out what they were by holding edit and turning the knob until its right