Woodinblack

I have the ones on the left on the bottom row, next to the nux 2.4GHz ones, I use them in the house. My 5.8GHz ones look a bit like the ones next to them except they aren't amoon. And I also have (and have never actually used!) the red and black ones directly above those, which claim to be stereo. Oh and obviously the waza airs work with something that look like those boss ones. None of the 2.4GHz ones are useable plugged into the bongo, but the 5.8 ones are. The 2.4 work with everything else.

I am not sure there anything to prove that. I prefer budget stuff, I just don't do android (although I do program for it sometimes)

That is litterally the market here. But more the point is that my gigging iPad has a release date of Oct 2014, and has the latest but one operating system on it, so it runs pretty well anything, it runs the tablet controllers and it also used to run my synths (it obviously still could by I do it differently now). It is actually an art form to stop the iPad from updating to the latest system. I am not looking to replace it any time soon, and if I do it will probably just because it gets broken by some drunk guy at a gig falling on my microphone stand. If you look at the android OS distribution, they are less commonly upgraded.

Ooh so it is on its way. I only wondered as mine is also currently in customs, but it only got there on the 28th, so probably a while yet based on yours!

Thats all androids. If you then take the values between the last few iOs versions and the last few android versions, the market share is very different and the iOS figures are ahead. On the same site it has market share on android https://www.statista.com/statistics/271774/share-of-android-platforms-on-mobile-devices-with-android-os/ and also note that most of these devices are being used on tablets complicates matters much more: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273840/global-market-share-of-tablet-operating-systems-since-2010/ If you are writing a current app and don't want to have to write against an old SDK to cope with the old systems, the iOS route is easy. Yes, i have some old android devices round here with > 5 year old OSs on them, but all my iOS devices are pretty well up to date (or within one system version). As some of the posts round here say: So that is probably some old underpowered android tablet that will make your product look quite poor while preventing your writing for whatever the latest samsung or whatever is - where is the incentive for a developer to develop for that?

I think it is just much simpler to use a preamp that works at the battery voltage provided

I'm guessing its more than a wekk then!

Its not 75% though, if it was, it would make no sense at all. Overall it is just over 50% but in the markets that matter to zoom it is a lot higher (japan 65%-us 55%). From a resources PoV it makes sense, write once for iOS, write once, modify 20 times for various androids - when they give so little effort to the apps that control them its not that tricky of a decision and it doesn't appear to upset their sales. It makes much more sense on a music app, but not really as much on something like loading effects or managing a device - its just as easy to do on android and it doesn't have to be that specific.

I would say it doesn't affect my lekato 5.8 too, but I just looked and they are Cuvave. Although I am sure they are the same thing.

ok, I shall go and listen to counterparts then!

To be fair, I can do that bit and he is far better equipped than me to do it!

Easier than that - go through youtube recordings of spirit of radio. 1984, free and easy, 2004 mostly ok, straining on the high bits, 2007 obviously proving a bit of a strain, 2011 really having difficulty, 2014 he has obviously gone to a singing coach to learn a different technique for singing,so he gets the notes but it sounds weird back of the throat stuff and doesn't sound like him.

Indeed - and this is what always gets me. If your preamp 'works better' at 18v than 9V, it means it isn't working properly at 9v.

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.