Woodinblack

BTW- in the original post I wasn't talking about the bose L1 system - that is either out of my price range or not powerful enough, I only mentioned the bose as I have an S1, as a standalone thing, I just use that as a personal amp for the stick and my wife uses it as a monitor.

So you would recommend getting the 212s rather than the 312s because they match better? edit - do you have a link for that? I only see the TS312s and the TX212

Turns out I have 212s not 312s, although the rest is the same. Seems to be just a bit of a power difference. So a sub, that is where I started ages ago thinking about that. So would a TS312S make that much of a difference to the clarity of vocals - I presume removing the lower frequencies lets the tops work better. Is there much between a TS312 or 315?

You can write what you want on an eBay listing - doesn't make it the rules though, so if you refused to sell to someone who paid you are still a non shipping seller and take the hit from it. In which case, count yourself lucky he didn't just claim he never got it and claimed the money back, it is quite easy to do. Never take paypal for something that you are not shipping by a tracked service. You have no proof he got it apart from his word. And you already know what that is worth hahahah!

I know there are a few threads on this but they get quite detailed and it is hard to pick out the details that are relevant to your own position. I have a band, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keys, Sax, 3 Vocals. The bass doesn't go through the PA, everything else does (the guitar has its own amp but some part in the PA). This is currently handled by 2 x Alto TS312. The drummer is reasonably loud, when we play at an average pub gig, the red lights on the back of the pa will occasionally flicker. The singer isn't always very clear, although odly I am. Sometimes we get great sound, sometimes less than great. It is all controled by me via an ipad and X-Air, while playing bass, no separate sound guy. I also have another band that is not yet gigging but will be. So basically it all works but I feel it is constantly on the edge. And I get nagged a bit by it. I bought a column PA from G4M, because it was on discount, an 8 inch column speaker. I didn't think it would be loud enough but it was a bargain! Tried it out with both bands yesterday and day before, and it just overloads at the volume I want so it is going to go back. My wife was monitoring through it, but then went for the bose S1 and it was so clear. I know on these threads someone will come up with 'oh you can get this and that RCF or whatever for only £2000', but I have no real budget for this. However, I already put £300 in, I figure if I stretched to another £300 at absolute max, I could get something like the RCF EVOX J8 which looks good, and maybe replace one of my Altos, leaving the same for me to carry but maybe improve my clarity. The pair of altos and stands and cables cost me £300 on ebay marketplace. If you were in this situation, and had the demands of 1. Really can't go past £600 at max 2. Really don't have much room left in the car for additional things, or storage at home so a sub is out. what would you do, or would you just stick with what you have?

Yes, Go fund yourself seems the general answer

That isn't begging though, that is getting someone to fund you to do something, same as a kickstarter campain, so they aren't giving you money as such, they are just paying you up front or paying for something they want to be done. None of them care if you have a new bass or not, they care about getting the thing they want.

I put a roland pickup on both a P bass and a G&L2500, both with shiney finish, and both of them show no signs of the tape afterwards if you are careful cleaning it off.

I wouldn't gig with a stomp, as it doesn't have what I need, but for the stick I just need maybe a phaser on the bass, a bit of reverb and a drive on the treble. All going to headphones probably. Obviously the LT can do this and a lot more, but it takes up a lot of space so it isn't something I can get out in the evening for a quick noodle.

You are incorrect, I obviously know less about the LT than you! OK, so that is an option - I never looked on the HXFX as it has stereo inputs, the same as every other helix apart from the LT. Thats good, I can get on with it. It is however a bit overkill on what I want on the stick, but that gets it a lot more useful - thanks very much.

Unfortunately that is line level

I won't do a whole brace of politics. I will do some religious affiliations, depends on who and what they are and if they want to involve me in them (ie, I have no problem playing for a church fete sort of thing, but that is about it). Won't do hunter groups.

Always good to see another of those!

One of mine looks like that, but then it has always looked like that and I put it in 10 years or so ago. Never moved in that time. Has it moved to go there?

I have an SA36 - same layout. I put a dimarzio par on the bridge and a Seymour Duncan compressed humbucker in the neck, that last one was wrong, it's not the right spacing and it doesn't suit them. note the pickups are weird, if it has the pull switch it's because the two single coils are very different from each other

Lay concrete driveways?

As long as I know my gear is reliable, that is all I need for gigging. I rarely take my expensive basses gigging, but when I do, it makes virtually no difference to the audience whether I have that or my aliexpress special. My confidence comes down to knowing I can do what I need to do, and the bass doesn't take much of that.

DOn't get me started on gofundme campains. We have a friend that is always doing them for getting holidays for herself and the like. She has more money than most of her friends and I don't think any have been successful, but it just winds me up disproportionally.

Honestly it doesn't look a million miles away from the taurus, apart from the slope at the top. I think it looks really cool in the aluminium. If it was mine I would probably fit the synths inside it and have a few footswitches on the top. But then if it was mine it probably wouldn't be done as well!

Anyone want to upgrade from a stomp to an LT? I wonder as I have an LT (as you probably guessed from the first line). For me the LT is too big to gig and the stomp is too small, so I am still happy gigging the HXFX. But for playing the chapman stick, sadly the LT lacks a stereo input which I believe the Stomp (and the HXFX) has, and as live is probably not something that is going to happen with the stick, it is more a home thing.

I can't imagine them closing pubs here. Closing workplaces and schools, maybe, pubs? thats not going to work

I just buy basses (and musical stuff) from the sales of other musical stuff and the money from gigging. Makes it a self sustaining hobby. Having said that, I don't have a 2.5k bass.

I love her theramin stuff. I was almost tempted to get one based on the stuff she did, then I realised that I would sound more like a couple of cats fighting!

Thought that was more an American thing. Having said that, my house is one of those steel frame concrete houses they made after the war

And moderately priced Sire 5ers are prety heavy