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Wow! I feel for you, my EBS ones have been dead silent. I wonder what was going on there!

I've bought the little EBS ones and have found those to be really good. As a cheaper alternative I have some 'clones' that I think came from a German electronics website. However, this was all before D'Addario updated their cable kits. I liked the original plugs but they were a little larger than I would have liked even though the cable system itself proved to be rock solid. The newer connectors are much smaller, so definitely worth a look! I certainly will be investing when I need to.

Absolutely! - And, as we are seeing with everyone throwing in high pass filters to remove the stodge from their sound and boosting the mids to 'cut through the mix, often just opting for a guitar type cabinet will suffice. Yup, using the ears instead of the eyes to, as you say, give the right tone for a particular setting, song or environment. Interestingly, I have added a cab sim to one of my chains but as yet it has remained off. So, for me, no amp or cab time in there at all.

Ah! You got there first

The bass in question was for sale on eBay for.. well, forever. It certainly received lots of ehem .. 'interest' on BassChat where it's shortcomings were duly noted. An interesting DIY project for a zero budget tinkerer, but I wouldn't trust it for any gig, anywhere.

Thank you, really. It means a lot to me to know that my reviews have been helpful. I always hope to do the instrument justice rather than impress any sort of ego. My mantra has always been "No Ego, No Shred, Just Bass!" Anyway, whilst we are here, I actually went back and watched the Combustion 4 video again a little while back and have ended up giving myself GAS too! I really want one ha ha!!! Great basses, so well made and the support from Sheldon Dingwall and his team is just brilliant. 👍

I want the Fender to be 1, but it's the Lakland.

KZ AS10's ordered (see previous message)

I need pitch and timing correction for my bass playing, don't even let me near a microphone!

So an interesting update! My singer’s own generic IEMs died this weekend, so as it was short notice I let her use my KZ’s I’d bought when we all jumped on the links recently. She loved them being better than what she was used to. And she knows a good mix! So instead of spending nearly twice as much on her single driver IEMs, she offered to buy them then and there. So, I will grab another set for me as a spare. I guess I ought to try these new ones right?

I’ve obviously spotted that a few manufacturers of cabinets have included a fold out ‘foot’ that helps to angle a cabinet upward towards one’s ears in use. Does anyone have any experience with any third party types and where to buy them? Googling seems to always end up showing the (separate) Stagg stand that I have already!

Absolutely! In comparison to a decent steel plate and brass saddles, I noticed a difference in tone too. The cheapy didn’t sound as rich. It was the slightest difference, you probably wouldn’t notice it up loud. I think it’s because the cheap bridges are cast out of.. well, any old material they can get cheap.. because, it’s cheap!

Jeff has!

There's a certain chap we all know and love on BC who at last count had 80. Nick, I think we're gonna need that garden picture again mate!

The head has a smoother top end and I believe some sort of rounding off of the higher frequencies. The CN cabinets are awesome but do have a bump in the upper mids that may also be part of the problem. I found that this combination (though I had the CN212) liked top heavy drive and distortion a great deal. I wouldn't go for a mellow bass tone or flat wounds with this combination personally unless I took some of the lows out and kept the drive dial right down. The treble knob is around 4khz, so it wouldn't hurt to push that a bit higher than usual. Interestingly my Berg HD112 cabinets, I set the tweeter control at +3 as I too like a bit of brightness that would be afforded by the likes of MarkBass and Eden heads. The amp is great but I'd say swap that out first for something a bit more 'hi fi'. Hopefully you'll get a chance to try something else out before you part with any cash!

Yeah really classy, very nice! I'm glad you went with that colour scheme! When I upgraded by V series, they couldn't do the trans Purple with gold writing. I had a long think and couldn't decide, so I picked one solid black earpiece and the other is completely clear. The Black piece has silver writing the clear has black. It's just a winning combination!

OH BABY!!!!

And maybe stay away from the FRFR thread.. I'd love to plug straight in to an RCF NX45-a That'd be a bass combo on steroids I reckon...

It sounds a bit like the tweeter dial wasn't set flat. It works in the opposite direction to that of a normal tweeter attenuator. I'd also hazard a guess that most super tweeters spike in their sensitive region whereas the crossover in the BT2 will probably endeavour t keep the spike out of the sound and thus it won't have that 'tear your ears off' quality. Just some possibilities but I can not answer for sure as I wasn't there. If I were I'd be able to give a definitive answer Ok, my answer? IEMs.. (That really doesn't help ha ha!)

Crickey! Silly money for an entry to IEMs!

I had to go back to your original post to reacquaint myself with your requirements. I think the BT2, with that nice big tweeter waveguide will reward you with clarity across the stage. The BT2 is all about maximum balanced off-axis response.

The Bergs and VK's are coloured and are coloured differently to each other. The design parameters are not about being 'flat(ter) response'. The Big Baby II and Big Twin II are designed to attempt to iron the colour out. Colour is often seen as a negative trait and it can be for poorer speaker examples, but in the case of the likes of Bergantino I would say the colour isn't to detract from the natural sound of your instrument but to support it. There are for example some cabinets I have reviewed that were so coloured that all you could hear was the sound of the speakers being impressed on every note. One cabinet actually gave me a headache it was so bad. Another thing to help confuse matters is that some speaker cabinets don't seem to allow the voice of a different amplifier to come through as much as others. I suppose this is the same as the above but just coming from a different angle. An amp I played with recently seemed to make my speaker cabinets overly bright and unbalanced. I had to mess with the EQ to get everything to play ball, whereas my amplifier of choice is pretty much left with zero EQ on at all and I can play digital audio through it with smiles from me all day long. Something to think about I guess.

That's interesting actually as I tend to lean to ward the Vintage MY rather than the B*k models. My own drive needs tend to be more band pass in the mids. I'm currently doing a blend of clean EQ and two drive pedals at low gain in series to get the effect I want. (Albeit happening inside Helix)