Woodinblack

I loved the colour of the GVB, especially in the sun where it just glows. I loved the string spacing at the bridge too, which is perfect. It is just the string spacing at the nut which is just way too big, I needed it to taper and it didn't. Still a good bass though, even if you have a life time of turning the wrong knob for treble, or forgetting which one is the pull pot!

Yeh, that is how it starts. You will find it quite frustrating that you cant use IEMs effectively if the guitarist isn't going into the desk so he will eventually at least stick a mic in front of the amp. Which is a pain as the volume levels change at every gig. My bass goes into the PA, but doesn't come out of the PA, but it gets into the IEMs and any recordings that way. I don't think the issue will be the 12 inputs. Unless the drummer is plugging the whole kit in we dont' get near the 16 in the X18, the issue is the aux outputs. I couldn't use the XR12 as it only has two aux's. I was ok with the xr16 as it had 4, which gave us one monitor for each person, and the X/XR 18 has 6, which is handy in my second band where there are 5 of us. Good luck with the no responsibility for setting up the PA thing!

I had a XR16 and upgraded to an X18, purely because I wanted the multichannel recording. If you don't want that then you are right, there isn't much to be added. Well, it is a self selling thing. When it comes down to it, most people who buy one don't have an idea how to use it effectively before getting it (apart from the weirdos that reseach these things). However, you will find it becomes pretty clear pretty fast and as you are saying that the band want to go iem, you will see those results pretty quickly, so it is mostly about how many aux outs you have, one for each person / monitor. I wouldn't cope with wired but it is true it is cheaper. What we have is for a 4 piece is me and the guitarist have wireless iem, drummer has wired one (he isn't going anywhere) and the singer is trying to get used to the idea. The drummer only has his vocals and my bass in his ears, I have most things, especially vocals, but mostly my vocals and a bit of bass. The guitarist has mostly the guitar and some of the other things.

As a note, same as any other tube head, apart from the Ashdown CTM-100 which doesn't have a standby. Generally with valves, the cooling down is more important for long life than the heating up!

It is viable, if you have it. I went on for over a year until the first time the wifi failed, although bear in mind it isn't a binary - one day you turn it on and it doesn't work. no it is working fine and then half way through your gig you can't really control it any more, some changes occur, some dont etc. Too many phones in the area. My external router was £15 and is slightly smaller than the mains plug, but never had any trouble with it.

I have tried it with a B3n, and that worked well! Probably not going to be using it with much as I don't have room for many small pedals on my board (in fact I only have a few small pedals now) as there is too much there. And frankly, I have been through the small pedal thing and don't really want to go back there, just too much hassle compared to a multi.

Eating?

Good luck with that. The guitarist would rather complain about the mix then do it himself Remember with group effects like reverb you are doing a submix which can trip you up later, so you have 3 vocals going to reverb, and the reverb slider up in the mix and you are trying to turn someones vocals out but still hear them, remember it is coming through the reverb! Obvious I know, but caught me out near the beginning. Also microphone groups are useful. Well, muting groups. Is it good? I was looking at one of those. I use the iPad app obviously, but sometimes when you are playing it you try and quickly jab at it to take something down and it doesn't respond well enough. The XTouch was quite expensive but looks quite appealing, especially as you can use it on a computer as well. Does it connect easily enough to not be another hassle when you are setting up?

He did for union as he was part of the ABWH (alternate yes) , but Alan White was still in the band, so they had two drummers (well, two of everything). In fact, as there were only 4 years at the beginning when he wasn't in the group and Chris died 4 years ago, he is probably now the longest serving member of Yes.

Although the drummer has been there since 72 without a break, so thats not too bad.

Some of richard cheeses stuff is brilliant, not the friends one you posted. How about this: Bearing in mind I really like the original.

Quick, run now while you have money!

Interesting - if it is monophonic, how do you get to pick which chord you are playing?

Sounds about right!

Yeh, I suggested that when the guitarist was going on about wanting to play some christmas songs.

We do either 2 or 3 hours. If we do a 2 hour we have a break at about an hour, if we do 3 hours, we tend to have a longer first half so we do an hour and a half. If we are going to do a short gig (ie, 2 hours), I might take the 5005 for a set, but tbh, although I used to cycle around the basses, I almost always take either the Maruszczyk if I trust the place, which is chambered or the 1605 which weighs nothing. I only take the 2605 if we have a proper stage.

Yep, got one of those for £30 last year and have used it as my main bag since then. The strap broke at one point (but I put tons of stuff in that) which I sort of fixed but then didn't use the strap again. Well worth it though.

So someone has just joined specifically to raise old years old threads about female bass players?

I was seriously considering the sy300 before the sy1 came along, the thing holding me back was the size

Or as I said which I think is the same thing. If it does anything to replace that waveform it is a phase locked loop (but even that would fall over polyphonically), so yes, this is a continuation of the VG technology, where the GR-10 & 55 are a continuation of the note detection technology. Which means the reason that the SY boxes don't give out midi data is that at no point has the SY worked out the pitch. And why if you actually want midi input you are still going to need the GR-55 or the like and the hexaphonic pickup (or in my case, I guess a pentaphonic pickup!). Having never used the SY300 I am wondering if it is exactly the same, or if it has moved on a bit in the following 4 years?

I am happy to listen to suggestions, especially on a song I don't know, but then they are suggestions, no one would actually tell me how to play it, and then ultimately it would be my choice.

I thought that cables and things were ok. Nice looking cable. Like the fender leads but hopefully not so useless.

I like the sound of my 5005, but then I like the sound of all my 4 digit SRs, and TBH, there isn't that much difference, but the 5005 I couldn't wear for a whole gig as it is much heavier than the others and I don't have the luxury of these short 1 hour sets that people go on about!