Woodinblack

I am 25 miles from taunton if that helps.

Most of it is just practice. Obviously within the confines of what you have you have limits but it is just muscles, they need to work to get good. And frankly a lot of it is just confidence It does to some extent but not to the same level as the voice lives. Pitch correction is one of those things that needs to be practiced with.

I use a voice live play, and so does the singer (after using mine). Good echos, good harmonizing if you set it up well (certainly worth you making presets for songs knowing what the key is). Had a few glitches with mine though, but it is underpowered on a pedalboard, so probably why. My wife has the Mic Mechanic, it adds a bit of warmth, but more an individual singer thing, as it doesn't do much that you couldn't do with the mixer (or it does, but probably not enough to warrant). I have just got a TC Critical mass as I realised that for mostly backing vocals, all I really need is the gang vocal and backing singer stuff. Its also smaller and space on the pedal board is a big thing for me.

Certainly wouldn't go above that

I must admit I do love the spacing on this but I know I would once again fail to get to grips with a 6, in the way I always have!

Might as well stick with a 10 string then

And you are just going to leave the other 2 strings off or put them as BEADGC? I will take a grand stick in standard tuning. And a private tutor!

Agreed that is silly. While it can be tricky to work out who shot someone, it is not often that complicated to work out who was shot. And if it is, then maybe it doesn't matter so much?

Carl? Is that you?? - edit Ha, beat me to it!

Yes, how to do these repairs is to replace the neck with one that isn't broken! So yes, its cheaper at full price

Seems sometimes that things that need work or things that look like they are going to be cheap end up much more expensive than a good example of the same thing. I guess people think it is going to go cheap and end up invested in it. I have certainly sold something broken on ebay for more than a working example (via auction).

Yeh, either it is in the next set or if they have just come in 'oh sorry, you missed it, we have already done that one'

And of course "Play oasis!" "No sorry, the bass player won't do it"

"No, I have never heard it" - "Oh come on, its easy!" Almost always, apart from once. "Oh get her to sing with you, shes great" "oh god another one, go on then" <starts singing> Wow.. can we keep her?!

haha - exactly the opposite of what people have been saying here. So not a signature at all, just a artist tie in, like the fender signature model 'what colour would you like your signature P bass to be, you can have black white or sunburst'

Sorry, I didn't realise you only knew how to use presets!

Well, at least they want to discuss your equipment not some other totally random thing, that is sort of a bonus. He missed out the person who wants to have a discussion with you while you are singing, and the person who wants to shake your hand while you are playing

I don't think we could even tune at 86dB!

So you did! Well, he officially announced his new Ibanez signature today, so I am guessing his trusty Wilma gets to retire

Haven't played mine for a while, need to start applying some guitar stuff to it

Certainly if it was broken you would. Or not designed to run at 18v. I am talking about flat. If you turn the bass up to +18dB or something then yes, you would benifit from the headroom, although probably your amp would be probably be clipping it anyway.

No, well if you only have a short lead you are only using the lead from the bass to the floor in your tone circuit and probably not getting too much noise, especialy if you have a good cable. Having a preamp means you don't have to worry about the cable (well, obviously, doens't help if the lead is actually faulty!). It is uncontroversial that some gain circuits work with more voltage, if you are below a certain point. If you are 9v with a decent preamp that would give you +/- 4v swing and without maxing out a bass control, your bass never gets even close to that, so having a +/- 8.5v swing on an 18v preamp isn't going to help. For reference, the original preamp in my Ibanez SR5005 prestige was 2 AA batteries, and you couldn't tell the difference between active and passive with the controls flat. Now replaced, but not for that reason (the mid sweep and treble were non functional) But yeh, it is just one of my bugbears. Many people like the sound of the RC network created by a guitar lead and the input you have plugged your bass into fine, and yes, it will generally be a bit softer, and that is fine. A decent preamp (used as a buffer) will give you the actual tone of your pickups, and without the filtering they can be too harsh. That is why many wireless systems give you a 'lead simulator' as they will give the same output as an active bass as they don't have the loading.

If so, why would it have a preamp? Tone shaping, yes, agreed, I don't tend to use mine, preamp? never. I don't want to hear what the tone circuit created by my lead is, I want to hear what the pickups are doing. If I don't want that much treble I will take it down in the amplifier, not just accept whatever my lead wants to do. And genuinely, if you can tell the difference between an 18v and a 9v preamp, one of your preamps is broken.

Don't see it mentioned on here, although I am sure I wrote about it, I notice in previous posts on here I mentioned that my smoothhound jack plug was loose. Well, it fell apart leaving a gig when I was tearing down. The side of the plug came out. Talked to chris at smoothound and for £20 he replaced all the metalwork and sent it back to me. it is perfect now.

I think I mention mine somewhere around here, it was a Vitos 8 or something? has 6 9v, and a 12/18v switchable. It is pretty good, but what I woudl really like is a mains powered one, rather than a 'wall wart' power supply, I have already lost one of those by the singer jumping on it. I have a separate box where I took the power supply apart and embedded it under the case so now it is fed by an IEC cable, but now I also have to plug the helix in too, as after a couple of hours if I power it from any power supply i have, it dies. Is it too much ask to have a mains powered isolated 4-6 9v 300ma, 9v 1a, 1 12v 1a, one 12v 2a power supply for less than £100? Seems it is!