Al Krow

In my band I am the butler. 😁

Nah - you can get an overall lighter weight using 2 x RCA 310As and a BF SC than anything comparably good with IEMs and a PA that can handle bass (you're talking RCF 735As or similar, right?) And a BF SC by itself plus D class head is less weight than a QSC K12.2. Where the QSC wins (hands down!) is on cost.

I think we are very rapidly coming to the same conclusion. It will be something we look into as "standard" going forward and who knows we may be able to persuade some folk booking us to consider alternative venues if they don't want the band (and the DJ last night) coming up against sporadic cut outs!

+1^^ to what Dave just said. Didn't put 2+2 together until near the end of the gig - we were too busy trying to avoid the red light & cut off before then. In my defence I was the only band member who spotted this "loophole" - the guitarist was oblivious to the fact, perhaps cos he was already turned down a LOT (treble frequencies seeming to be more sensitive) so probably couldn't hear himself anyway 😁

Yeah good plan! Actually our guitarist looked at me quizzically when I turned up his amp towards the end of the gig when we had yet another raucous-audience induced power outage. He was last man standing - his power socket wasn't affected - and could keep playing along with the drummer whilst I was doing silent air bass 😂

Actually you're not wrong there! So did you replace your temporary Stomp / get the software version or are you currently Stompless?

Nope to HXFX. Size / PB real estate is a major consideration for me. You've missed off all the things I said it does well which I am using it for and I omitted EQ from above (I'll add that in). It's already paid for itself by: - replacing a Q\Strip, octave down, headphone amp and avoiding me needing to get a Fishman Power Chord! And yes I have messed around with the drive etc. Not yet matched my dedicated drives (hence "jury is still out") but early days. Where have you landed on Stomp ownership, can't remember if you still have one / replaced the one you returned?

VK cabs are excellent. I've found Berg and Fearless to be even better. And BF, whilst my least favourite of this high-end bunch of cabs, wins easily on portability.

Nope not ditched all my pedals. IMO Stomp can't do the following as well as dedicated pedals: synth (cos it doesn't have a synth engine); octave up or bit crush. Jury is out for me on drive / fuzz and filter. It's not too bad on plain vanilla octave down but it's certainly no DOD Meatbox (but then what is?!) Can handle pitch shift, and other modulation effects (chorus, delay, flange etc) well. Seems to have got the thumbs up on compression from several BCers. It's pants as a looper compared to the 6 to 8 hours recording and 99 memories available on dedicated loopers. It can manage all of 60 seconds so do hold your breath. Very capable EQ and should be a decent hpf / lpf (although I've still kept my Thumpinator for now for hpf duties). Supposed to be pretty darned good at amp and cab sims, but as I'm very happy with my amps and cabs not an area that will be particularly relevant for me, but if you're thinking of going IEM then it could well be just the ticket. And it's a blood*y good tuner 😁

Feedback from the band is we should simply turn down gigs at venues with sound limiters. Quite a radical approach. But I can see the sense in it. Anyone else gone down that road?

Just back from a wedding gig. Our first experience of sound volume limiters at venues - talk about spawn of the devil!!

Interesting - seems that I should maybe equating the TKS 1126 + tweeter with the BB2 and the TKS 112 (tweeterless) with the BF SC? I actually find the BF cabs a little lacking in the mids, as it is, so if the 1126 is more 'scooped' than the BF it's likely to be going in the wrong direction and the Fearless F112 will continue to be the cab for me (just waiting for @dave_bass5 to decide it's not 'quite right' for him and to sell it back to me. Give him a couple of weeks...😁) Did you consider getting a pair of 212s (or possibly a 410) instead of 4 x 112s?

You've clearly been subliminally influencing my thinking (again) then!

THREE 112s!!! Btw when you said the TKS 1126 was more hollow than the BB2, are you essentially meaning more mid scooped?

Was that due to a nosiy circuit?

How about ones for different coloured basses then? And obviously separate threads for different scale lengths is a must.

@4000 I guess on the flip side you've had some awesome basses!

Could we have separate threads for 4, 5 and 6+ string basses whilst we're refining things, please?

Has that already gone?!

That would have been very kind of you dB. It seems to me that 'growl' & 'bite' are integral to the AO pedal and DG have simply imported the AOmicron features lock stock and barrel on the AO900. They don't appear on the DG M900 v2. This has definitely become an official de-rail now - lol! Sorry!

You maybe right - my source of info was at 4.48 of this review by this crazy crew who's YT reviews I do enjoy a lot!

Agreed! Nope (my Mesa M6 doesn't have a built in comp so the Stella still has a place). But there will be a vgc DG M900 v1 wending its way to the FS very shortly...and the B3K on that amp does work very well with Yammy PJs (See what I just did there? Gave a forthcoming FS item a shameless plug Got things back on topic! ) 😁

Haha! You've rapidly taken the place of @lee650 as my biggest customer... who knows I may end up trading you it for a decent one-hand-carry112 cab in the near future 😁