Woodinblack

They continually reinvented their sound over their 50 year run, so yes, it will be variable to a lot of people and like all groups it depends when you started listening. I started in 1980, so first heard 2112, went backwards and forwards up to hemispheres, was into them already when permenant waves came out, queued at the Portsmouth Virgin record shop to get Moving Pictures (the only record I have ever queued to get from an ordinary shop) and got everything from there to hold your fire - didn't realy bother that much after that, as I was going in a different direction to them. But that is the way of changing direction, they never were going to be a group that just knocked out record after record of the same thing. Sadly yes it did. Which is why I didn't want to go and see their last tour, even though it woudl have been on my birthday, his singing voice matured fine but then didn't really work for a decade or so. for me.

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Thats what the X-Touch is for!

I think for me that would go with anything a band is playing in a pub gig!

Can't really comment on that - I don't know what it is. From a quick google, it looks sort of like mixing station, which isn't something I use. But agree, its worth looking at other things. I trust the X18 now, after all these years, it hasn't let me down, so something would have to be another step better to replace it. I also like the dual interface of iPad and Sliders, I find the hardware sliders good to use when I am actually playing (easier than jabbing the screen) and as a feedback on what is going on, but with the iPad to give setup, eq and more detailed changes. Indeed - there isn't anywhere near as much advantage on a modern mixing desk if you couldn't control it with something else. Even though I have the X-Control, and in theory I could setup everything with it, the whole EQ thing would be confusing and doesn't have the real time analyser which is good for finding feedback spikes etc.

In my book up until Hold your fire, they were my favourite group. Love the basslines and everything else, although the sound of the ric isn't my favourite always. If you don't like it, just say no and do something else - there are a lot of songs about and I can't imagine that much of that is good to cover if you are in a general pub group. Thats what I would do if I was asked to cover something I didn't really fell like you don't seem to.

I would read that as music with just a constant thudding beat all the way through it and not really much else going on - you would expect a lot more lower bass.

That is an odd decision for a mixer - is there nothing else third party that works with it, like mixing station works for the X-Air series? I understand music software being iOS only but not a control surface for a mixer, that is odd. As someone that works with both - they aren't really slightly similar, and not any more expensive unless you are at the real budget end (ie, my work laptop is more expensive than my own macbook, while not being as good in many important areas). But I wouldn't say to buy one just for a mixer though - there are many other mixers, and you already have an XR18 that you seem happy enough with.

Yeh, but powering something that uses a 9v battery with an 18V battery doesn't make it last twice as long - if you have to make a zero crossing, you have a resistor chain in the middle. An amp is a series of resistor chains and as I = V/R, if you double the V, you double the I going through, so you are using more power in the same circuit. If there is any problem with the time a battery lasts in an active bass, its time to find a reason - a battery in a bass pre-amp should last ages.

Same here. In fact I had to - someone asked me to do sound for their band a few months ago on their mixer. I got there and it was an analogue mixer - ok, it was a reasonable one but it really is like going back to a 20 year old computer, you know it can do the job but everything is really hard! I never got the complication of the X-Air series myself, but you have to use what works for you. And as long as I never have to use an analogue mixer for anything other than mixing keyboards on the stuff in my office, I will be happy!

That is because it is how they designed their preamp to function - it sounded like you were just taking some preamp designed to run at 9v and running it at 18V. I guess I just don't get what is trying to be achieved here. or are we trying to extend tonewoods to electronics now?

Just imagine how long it would be if you hadn't been 3rd in the queue - they must put out 1 every couple of years at that rate.

But that doesn't give you any real advantage over a 9v supply, not like an actual 18V where you can use the zero as the centre crossing point.

I have both - I carry the CT100 with me everywhere, the other one I keep at home as although it does other things, it is a lot slower going through a number of leads.

People notice posts getting removed, plus if you do a google, basschat threads appears quite high in the listings for it, so people can find out. Then of course, there are various trustpilot sort of sites...

Do you mean that out of the 3, only 2 work well at any time or that one of your IEMs isn't functioning well?

Fair enough, if it is a level thing (I have a passive that is louder than all my actives). I wondered if there was some technical reason I couldn' think of. I will say, I can't use my 2.4GHz transmitters (either the dongle or the Waza air transmitter) directly on the bongo, because of noise, and i can't use the waza air on the ibanez as the whole is too small! Take your word for it - would rather throw my money down the drain than order from Amazon, but we all have our things we won't do! Yeh, but the ones in the image aren't which is why I wondered

I saw that. I did wonder why it thinks the Lekato 5.8 GHz aren't compatible with active pickups though. They aren't the ones I use, mine are sort of square.

Oughta know is a good one for a wedding! Still, we learned Pinks who knew for a wedding in the first place, I guess people don't really listen to these things!

As a data point supporting that, I used to use my X18 with either a 2.4GHz external router (the TPLink travel one) or its own internal router. At the same time I used the smoothhound, with no issues. Then when I bought the XVive U4, the X18 would simply not work - it connected, but trying to change anything was an absolute nightmare. it was definately the XVive as if I turned it off it worked again. I could get some reasonable sort of connection from it by sticking the X18 at one end and the XVive at the other end of the channel, but it wasn't good. So I went out and bought the 5.8GHz TP link travel router, the one up from the one I had. After getting that (and now moving on to another), I have never had a wireless problem (except when the XVive died). So it could well be that the XVive is 'dirty' and just dumps all over other 2.4GHz stuff.

By low cost I mean not the real budget ones, the ones in the £100 range. Certainly the nux, smoothhound and a few others list that as a feature.

I presume it does more than that though as even the cheap wireless systems automatically pick the least congested channels and switch to them if they are better than the ones they have rather than having to do it manually?

I have it and occasionally use it (it is good as a backup on the phone, as the official app is iPad only), but I never really got on with it - maybe I could have spent more time

I have an xr16 as well which is what I thought I needed, and honestly apart from multitrack recording, it is, the 18 just adds more jack inputs, more aux outputs that I don’t currently need, a pair of inputs (vs 2 singles) and the usb

Same unit I had. I got it as I lost my 2.4GHz dongle I used for practice for a while (turned up in a lesser used gig bag after buying them), so I could continue practicing with them. I used them for all practices and then after a while it occured to me that I trusted them more than the smoothhound so I started gigging with them. Then I used them full time. Only downside is I wish I hadn't got the white ones and they are a bit wide.