Woodinblack

I would have got one of those but there was some comments that it didn't work with some ibanezes and I couldn't find a confirmation whether it was true or not. Just that and the battery thing, although I am pretty sure you could hack them apart for that. I do have slap back delay on every track (as well as the original, just to thicken it up!)

Oh don't mine me, just it has cropped up many times ine the last couple of weeks in all its its disnified forms, and yes It bugs me but I was just being a grumpy derrière about it, don't mine me, as you were!

Which are identical if you are right in front of it, and also not calculable by human ear below certain frequencies. Do we? My speakers are on the floor, or at least below waist hight, so that is at least a meter in height, away, so I would say I almost always am over 1.7M away from my speaker cone. Where is the 3 times thing from? In a live context, using a smoothhound, a helix (based system), and IEM, I have never had an issue. Obviously not saying anyone would but my timing comes from my fingers rather than my ears, and any latency that may exist is almost certainly so trivial in the grand scheme of sound playing live that it has never worried me. Obviously at home it would but then I am not using wireless and IEM often at home, and its nothing compared to Rockband on the PC! So it comes down to, this looks like an interesting device but I find the sender a bit big.

Why does everyone have to do some version of hallelujah?

Depends on your IEM and your setup. A 10ms latency, yes, you could feel that, a low bass frequency? Even the G string takes 10ms to do a whole cycle, and in a live setting, no chance of noticing that. I assume you are refering to the whole band using IEM? Luckily it is just me and the singer that use them and it is for vocals. According to your list not, unless you want slower network. To me a delay is a delay, my ear doesn't know where it is from!

Yes, 5.8ms, or a delay equivilent to moving 1.7 metres away from your cab. I think it is 8ms

Only 1.7M of latency, not so bad.

Antonia (his wife for other peoples reference) got my last group their first gig in a nice pub that we had loads of other gigs (and practices) in. Small world!

Last time I tried, I found the most successful way was to look up the part number in the ibanez catalogue, then search on ebay or the rest of the net.

I am sure when I first looked at thomman, anything less than 135 already had the vat added, maybe it was the first few days or something.

I have, which is why that is what I want.

So they are doing the vat again now on less than 135? I looked and it was just listed with its ex-vat price so I thought maybe they dropped it. I was looking recently as they had a very good price on something, but checking everything on the net, effectively it is a 25% import charge plus a fixed fee on top (still a good price but my wife had one of her items she ordered from the EU take just over 2 months to get here). Certainly if it comes in at £90 its not a bad deal.

Mine are all active - I don't even want the bass / treble, I just want the buffer.

Which is kind of my point, why not have a socket so you can connect to the strap rather than a plug to hang out of the guitar Is it? I don't know how much it would be - I can only see it in thomman, so £69, £8 for vat then who knows how much for UPS delivery - minimum £11.80 brokerage, 20% vat, 4-5% handling charge? - seems like over £100 to me. Certainly interesting if someone in the UK is selling it

Saw that, the bug part looks massive! not sure I would want it hanging out of the bass. Why don't they do it with a socket instead?

I bought a bass from Bax (I know) last month, it was £195 inc vat on the site, it started off in rotterdam and got to me via UPS in a few days, no extra costs. Would like to know how thomman are bearing up now as I would like to order something big from them.

Apart from the experience here, which is as i mentioned unusual, as i have never heard the Mk1 barts to even be in the same ballpark as the big singles (and I have had a few of both), with a good lead and a high input amp, it should sound no different to a preamp (run flat). Also the blend control is wired before the preamp, so again should be no difference passive or active.

Well, if you don't notice it, that is probably good because basses with the bart pickups on are much cheaper, so you can save a bit!

Very odd you don't notice the difference as they are night and day from everything I have used

Doesn't that effectively give you an ABM600? A trace elliot class A/B head and a preamp with a tube.

We don't? What circles do you move in?

Going to need something with wheels!

Same here - although I suspect there isn't much they can do, I assume they have been promised by their provider that they are going to get it fixed any time soon, or they would have probably gone elsewhere There is a lot of that in the UK, but not really any here at the moment, we have a lot of American visitors here, so it isn't an issue. But ultimately coming in and saying 'I am offended at that' is just going to get a quite a few more jokes. Not much is that serious here, unless it is in one of the serious threads.

for me its no #1 or might as well not bother!

The ABM600 isn't a valve head though, so not really the same. I think I would probably use the CTM100 more if it was more powerful, but at the same time, that would make it a CTM300, and I would be even less likely to want to carry it anywhere!