Frank Blank

Typical me, speaking too soon, not got the Gretsch yet. Haven’t had a chance to get up to Bass Direct yet, there are a couple of short scales I’d like to try up there first.

You’d need binoculars to see your clip on tuner.

I have to say PMTs stock system just seems to be a random display of virtual items displaying anywhere across their estate which appears to bear little or no resemblance to where any physical items are, even the staff in my local branch seem befuddled and exasperated by it.

I’ll let you know onc mine’s on!

What they all said, back on the horse with you!

I’m not looking for anything that doesn’t drop in. I won’t be fitting it so more drilling is more work and, as you said before, it will cost a lot anyway with the Babicz!

Thanks for this Sir. I’m already quite taken with the black Babicz but very interested in the other options, hmmm.

This is true. I do have a tuner that’s on all the time but I find myself referring to it rarely initially it gave me confidence but you are quite right, nothing beats actually refining your musical ear. A tuner can be a tool to achieve this refinement rather than something to rely on instead of improving one’s ear.

I use a Peterson StroboClip HD, it’s on all the time I’m playing, just practice, practice, practice. Play tunes with no ‘fretless content’ so to speak. As other people have said, after a while going back to fretted feels like a regressive move, fretted instruments begin to feel restrictive.

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AER make the best combos for double bass there are, full stop.

I’m looking at a QSC TouchMix 8 for some reason...

This is great info, I'll be looking into the Zoom, cheers.

What did you replace it with?

Reaching new levels of dumb here but how would I switch them on and off if they are in parallel? The Fishman has a boost and a tuner mute but is just ‘on’ when an instrument is plugged into the input?

*sigh* I’m holding out because, indeed, I have two basses and want two distinct sounds but I want the cleanest most uncoloured sound possible from both and that’s all I want, those two. Again I would feel like I wasn’t using a fraction of the capabilities of a Helix just to get two variations of eq and gain? I feel as if my (by now no doubt boring) query is coming around to your earlier two preamps with a line switcher suggestion. Mind you there are smaller Helixes... (I’m assuming you are using the top Helix model?)

1. jebroad 2. Len_Derby 3. Jabba_the_gut 4. Spondonbassed - Hohner B2A 5. Andyjr1515 6. Jimothey 7. Mojo 8. Owen 9. Teebs 10. Josie 11. Aidan63 12. Frank Blank Will be bringing Rob Allen Mouse, a fretted Godin A4, an Ibanez SRC6 and a Fishman / QSC FRFR setup.

I have an acoustic bass and a passive bass that need separate eq but ultimately to go into one input on the QSC. When we rehearse I go through the QSC but my partner sings and plays acoustic mostly unamplified, occasionally they will use an amp but rarely. In a live situation I play the acoustic bass through the Fishman, into the QSC and DI out from the back of the QSC, my partner usually DIs straight to the desk and relies on the venue’s foldback, so, at the moment, we don’t share anything.

In my QRC just bass.

Foldback for both of us.

Thanks @jrixn1, will take a shufti.

I don’t think it looks odd or ridiculous to see anyone on stage wearing over ear headphones, certainly if it’s the difference between you continuing to play or not. I’d wear ‘em like a shot at the drop of a hat!