Woodinblack

I got something from the (a bass isolation pad) which I ordered last week and it turned up a few days later.

Yeh, mine worked on my iPad fine, which is what I use for music, but I didn't buy it to use on the iPad, I have plenty of things for that. I bought it so I could just play without anything connected. The chinese adapter I was refering to was £1.50 off ebay, I don't have an apple one.

Its one of those facebook links that won't play because it is on facebook

my chinese made lighning to 3.5mm adapter won't record, just noisily plays Apart from another one I got for a few quid, that works on the iPad but not the Xs

So everything was fine, then you bought a Ric, then you had a bad gig, the world got Covid 19 and you got ill for a few weeks. OK, I am not saying that it has to be connected, but, you know, there wasn't illness and global pandemic before you bought the ric was there?

There has never been a bass made with tort that doesn't look like a 70s living room. Apart from the ones that look like a 50s living room.

Anyone know of any kits for dual channel preamps, 2 in, 2 out with a summed mono, volume/bass/treble for both sides? I know, its an easy circuit but those kits are so easy to assemble it is just like buying a new one, but I don't see any new ones other than at crazy prices.

I see it has a 'prog' button on the front. Does that just alter your timing?

Yeh, it's only the same if you are going to play a continuous sine wave through it at full power. In which case you probably should be using a different amp

Yep, mine turned up earlier. Put some batteries in, works fine. Thats great, it can sit on the table for late night practice, less to move around. Very good for the price.

Not according to the figures as posted.

I agree. The completed item actually is the first kay I have seen that I don't want to destroy with fire.

Yep. And if it wasn't for the always on tuner, how is the guitarist supposed to know what chord they are supposed to be playing?

There were some big threads here about it too. I have gone through a few amps but I am still with the 450. Tbh the only problems I had with it were the original knobs.

Well, the burst is the only really relevant thing there, you cannot sustain an rms signal on a bass, so it is twice as high as the 450

I assume you are thinking of the RMS power of the TC RH450 rather than the 750?

Yes, that was what I was commenting on. You are comparing what are very different basses, different preamps, different pickups (well, different pickups anyway, lets assume agular can make a preamp!). YOu would expect different. I am comparing things that should be almost identical, yet they don't even sound similar. In fact, my Maruszczyk sounds more similar to the 1605 than the 2605 does. Its a puzzle!

Noone tried it at all? I might give it a try then as there are no problems!

I have never noticed a difference between maple to rosewood - but then I don't have identical basses other than the neck to try it. This isn't a subtle difference though, strings / pickups / dimensions same. Blows all my theories about what I thought I know out of the window!

Nope. The preamps in the SRs are 'proper' preamps, in that when totally flat you can't tell whether they are on or not. So on or off, they sound the same. Yet they still sound very different.

I found something out this weekend. I decided to do a recording of 'in the end', by linkin park, which i song that my band do but we have only done it twice live before the lockdown, so most people haven't heard it. When I came to do the bass I used the 5005, as it was the bass that was there, but it didn't sound right on the recording, so I went for my normal two, the 1605 and then the Maruszczyk but it still wasnt quite right. So I used the 2605. I don't gig the 2605 too much as it is a bit harsh and middle missing, but I tried it on the recording and it was just perfect. the 2605 and 1605 are the same shape and have the same pickups (and probably very similar preamp). And the same strings, they are even only one number different too, thats how close they are. I have always gone on the basis that it is really just the pickups that make the difference on a bass, but not in this case. I have no idea why they are so different.

Frankly, there are loads of things in the marketplace that are priced well and still not selling, so the chances of selling what I assume you are talking about at the price it is advertised at is so close to zero it is not work worrying about.

We are all connected to the same internet, it is up to people to do their own research before buying. I did once mention to someone in a PM that the speakers that they were selling were £100 cheaper in a GAK sale, so they might not sell so well, which they genuinely didn't know, but ultimately it is up to people what they buy and sell for and not other people to police it.