dave_bass5

Guess we see life differently.

Ok but its not now. Surely a rant should be based on the current state of things? Anyway, id get one if the Bass Driver Elite wasn't coming out. I too thought it was too expensive at the £600+ price, but G4M’s price seems more reasonable to me. To me things like the Anagram or Quad Cortex are much more over priced, especially with Valeton and Zoom stuff around and much, much less cost. And DarkGlass stuff has always been expensive for what it is I like tech, but its easy to get bogged down in apps and what you can and cant do, so of rme it doesn't matter if there is an app or not.

It came down in price between when you posted and when i googled it? 😂

Do you mean this one? Its £481. https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Tech-21-SansAmp-XB-Driver/6RGG?origin=product-ads&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22226322366&gbraid=0AAAAAD_kjLQkn8dZDxs3pJFvZ159DeUif

I ended up getting an Alto TX408, mainly as it was cheaper and Amazon had them. It seems very loud and punchy for something that size. Easily kept up with the band and drummer with volume to spare. Just wish it had more handle options like the db has.

A bit more from Tim

Broken Peach at the underworld in Camden last week. This was their first, and only UK date. Fantastic night. Never been to that venue before, although I have been upstairs a few times. They did a straight 90min non stop set, and had so much energy. Almost all covers but all were mash ups which made a change from the usual covers band gig. They took this at the end of the night and posted it on Social media.

Ah, so you saw the singer on the far right. I didnt quite get a view of her most of the night. Yeah, they had so much energy, and seemed genuinely overwhelmed to be there which was nice. Strange place to come all that way for just of the one gig.

Yeah, I thought it funny when the girls said their bodies couldn't take any more songs 😀 Where were you standing? We were to the left (looking at the stage) of the mixer.

Yeah, ive just edited, didnt notice you said Set list mode. I'll let you know later. Just not sure it will cycle back to the start. You could certainly use the big knob to cycle between the patches, and use the foot switch to turn on and off the transpose, so that would bring it down to only needing two patches. You can also hold the foot switch down to get to the tuner while in control mode.

Ive never used that mode, but I'll give it a try tonight and let you know if it cycles back to the first. It should.

The P2 has Stereo XLR and stereo Jack input. What are you connecting it to? I use a single XLR to 1/4 jack for my IEM's in stereo.

Saw Broken Peach Last night. What a gig. Those 3 ladies have fantastic voices and so much energy. Nice to see a band really enjoying themselves.

Ive been using the Xvive A58 for a while now. Not one drop out and its very compact. You can also change the battery when it starts giving less running time, as these things do and will. I can get 2 rehearsals out of a charge which is nice if i forget to charge them.

It’s not replacing anything, it’s changing how you go about doing something. Speeding up the process.

Well it has a higher intelligence than me, thats for sure. 🤣

Today’s Logic Pro update has a cool new feature that lets you drag midi or audio to a chord track and it gives you the chords over the track. To me that’s going to be a huge time saver when working out songs. I can imagine it’s not going to be totally accurate, but a good starting block. Another + for AI in my book.

These are rumoured a few months ago, and I was tempted to wait, but not sure what I make of these. Its like they had great success with the GP-5 and now they are adding more and more until they get it to the size of the GP-100

Yep, dont want more than one box on the floor, but do miss the BDDI. What always bugged me with it was I could only have one tone at a time AND have the mid control of the V2. So the Deluxe and Programmable were not the solution, plus they only did one thing. The GP-50 is great for what it is, but I don think id want to gig it. its working for rehearsals at the moment, and I do love using IR's, so this new one should cover that. The GP-50 doesnt have a decent BDDI.

I find learning songs is a lot easier now we have decent stem splitting, I use it all the time. I also can't sing to save my life, but have musical ideas that would just be pointless without a singer on them. Again, Ai is a big help with creating vocals to go on my instrumentals.

Same, so there will be at least two in the classifieds soon 🤣 At the moment, im using a GP-50 for always on Ampeg tone, and I have a duplicate preset with a chorus and one with a Phaser. Each also has a drive block with on and off on a foot switch. I hardly use the phaser though. We have started doing a couple of songs where I could make use of an auto filter, so I have replaced another duplicate with that in the GP-50. I rarely touch the EQ side. Id love to replace the 'ampeg' tone with a BDDI, as thats more my thing. This new pedal seems to cater for all I need, without things I dont have a use for. Im aware many digital devices have a BDDI in them, but ive never found one that sounds just like a BDDI to me, more that it has the character of the BDDI, and a lot of them are based on the V1 BDDI so more limited.

Gear4music are advertising it for £330, with expected delivery early Feb. Believe that when I see it but I will jump on it if it happens. https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Tech-21-SansAmp-Programmable-Bass-Driver-ELITE/7TVW There are a few video's up now. This one with Tim demonstrating the software side (although not with the Bass version). It looks configurable enough for me, without any Rabbit holes to go down.

Must admit i keep mine dangling as well between sets. Does give me a feeling of being more important than i am.

just a heads up for Beyerdynamic users. Been testing this out for a couple of days. It seems to do what it says and is free. It makes quite a difference with my 700 pro X. It smooths the high end quite a bit. I didnt realsie how harsh they are until i tried this. Great for general listening but not as flat as i had hoped.