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  1. Woodinblack
    Mine the other day wouldn't play bluetooth audio at any level - I hope that is a temporary thing. I could just about hear the audio at full volume.
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    The beatles have never been that much to me. I listened to them more as a kid (and had those two albums from the picture earlier) but they weren't that significant. Something was the first guitar solo I learned though. Now with time they mean even less, not something I would ever intentionally listen to, but also not anything I would rush to turn off - like sonic wallpaper I guess, just there. The stones mean even less, never really listened to any of that, and the who, I doubt I even know most of their songs, I guess that is just mummy and daddy music.
  3. Woodinblack
    Posts in off topic don't add to your post count.
  4. Woodinblack
    Doesn't seem anything for me to update there, I don't have a pedal for it.
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    I am sure there is a good reason, but why do you have a camera aimed at your arse at gigs?
  6. Woodinblack
    Sockets. I took my Green spector Euro out on saturday, remembered how much I liked playing it (after a bit of a 'mid on full cut' issue), apart from the weight. The RST solves the weight issue by being one of the lightest basses ever but, I don't trust it fully as it cuts out occasionally from the jack socket. I looked in the electronics cavity at the weekend, it is so cheap in there compared to the Euro - these basses retail at 2.5k, and the electronics aren't as good as the basic ibanezes!
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    Thanks for that offer - it is the self tapping ones on the old spectors I am missing!
  8. Woodinblack
    Forgot to mention, on my gig on saturday, setup, all ok, start playing, bass (Spector Euro) sounds completely gutless, like the whole middle is missing, check the amp, all is ok. Carry on a for a few songs. Then I thought I would maybe boost the middle after a gap in song 3-4, found out that when checking it out (the battery was a bit dead on friday, which is why I didn't take it to that gig), I had checked out the swept mids and left it as complete cut in the middle. oops. Turned that flat and.. ok, now need to turn the bass down! Rememebered, that although the spector is heavier than I liked, it is a great bass to play. Need to sort the socket out on the RST so it doesn't cut out, and then that will probably be coming out more too.
  9. Woodinblack
    I have basses with magnets only and there really is no danger of them falling out accidently. Also I believe all alpher basses have magnets only and I haven't heard people complaining about that.
  10. Woodinblack
    I was going to say, the P2 holds a XLR all too well!
  11. Woodinblack
    Standardise knob order on basses. I understand there are different features, but where those features are the same, put them in the same place. The two basses nearest to me here are Volume, balance, stacked Mid/Freq, stacked Bass/Treble and Volume, balance, stacked bass/Treble, stacked Mid/Freq. Even with manufacturers, my two spectors are volume / volume / bass / treble and Voume / balance / Stacked mid/freq / stacked bass/treble. And the volume of that last one is clearly in the wrong place. At least ibanez are internally consistent. Pickup manufacturers, why do you all use the same colours but for different parts? Either use the same colour for the same thing or different colours for different things.
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    Was he? I can't see anything where he is talking about them - do you have a link? And why does that makes what he says wrong?
  13. Woodinblack
    Battery life (although non replaceable) has also never been an issue - we do 2.5-3 hour gigs and never run out of power or anything. I am annoyed it died (and will take it apart tonight) but it wouldn't put me off getting another one. maybe rather than putting it in its bag and throwing that bag in another bag with everything else I would get a padded box!
  14. Woodinblack
    Oh no, they have lasted a year and a half and not been treated particularly well. There was no issues I had had with them aside from the inteferences at 2.4GHz which was solved (and worked out better that way) and the fact the reciever has a habit of switching itself on in the bag!
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    I just checked and bought it in May 2021, so out of warranty now. Which is a shame, I really liked the form factor of those. Shame they didn't break earlier. I mean I have dropped them a lot, kind of goes with the territory for devices of this size, but when they went I was just playing normally. The XVives are also 2..4GHz but not the limitation. In fact the XVives being 2.4g is what made me go to 5GHz for the Behringer mixer, they interfered badly
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    Well, my XVive U4 died during a gig on friday, and trying it again on saturday (I assumed it had gone low on power), it has no range - it works if the rx and tx are next to each other, but not so handy. I will take it apart today to check for obvious stuff, but I guess I will be getting something new soon!
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    Played another one last night - second day in a row, new pub for us, it was originally booked when we were going to merge with another group as we were losing our guitarist and they were losing bass and drums, but it didn't happen, so we thought we had it, and it turned out it was theres. A bit of a conversation and their guitarist had hurt his foot and was more than happy to not do it. I see why now, it was upstairs which involved going up an outdoor metal staircase! It was weird, it looked like a fancy eating pub downstairs, but upstairs was this 70s social club vibe with bowling alley and mini bar. thought well, noone is going to come up here, but turns out they do in large numbers. Downside of the evening is that at the end of yesterdays gig, I thought my XVive IEM had run out of battery as it died, but I put it on at the start of this, and unless the tx and rx were touching, there was no function - looks like they are dead Also, the drummer met someone in the town where we did the gig last night and said they were coming to see us tonight, turned out on the facebook poster, although I put the right date, it said saturday! oops. Still, it was busy anyway. After all the gig was heaving and pretty good. Second half a lot of numbers were quick, I guess the drummer had a bus to catch, but it went well and they seemed to like us, and on unloading, it was now raining so the metal staircase outside was wet, that was fun! Oh and there were a group of 4 drunk guys arguing in front of the door that I had to ask to move a about 4 times and then had to shove them out of the way, until the drummer walked into them with the drum frame, then they moved!
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    Great night. We hadn't played at that pub for many years. Easy setup parked outside, quick setup. Got started but the sound was a bit weird. Had to turn the bass down to half the level of last week, and turn the PA up full, and still the little alto speaker wasn't even showing hte clip light, so not sure what the issue there was. Still, got a good sound in the end and there was much dancing and singing. There were a couple dancing on a table which looks like it was going to give, but somehow it seemed to survive!
  19. Woodinblack
    I am missing one on my green spector, but just one, seems a waste posting (although probably also a waste buying!). I assume these are the screws for the old spectors, not like the bolts for the new spectors with brass inserts?
  20. Woodinblack
    yep, that's the one I meant, like this one on the right
  21. Woodinblack
    The SR1000s of the time had a curved body
  22. Woodinblack
    Just answering the question - obviously what you want is up to you, I generally would go for not drilling more holes if you can!
  23. Woodinblack
    How big a circuit do you need, and what tonal quality do you want. That would be using a preamp as a buffer, which means you get the sound of your pickups without loading by everything else. You don't get the signal 'bigger', you get the signal low impedance so you don't get noise or the effects of loading.
  24. Woodinblack
    umm.. what is the difference between that and the original? The book folds are slightly bigger. Frankly apart from it saying epiphone I don't see much of a difference
  25. Woodinblack
    PM'd you about it. They do all come from one person, but not here.
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