dave_bass5

All my gigs in the past have been with just a vocal PA, so my rig has always a had to be monitor and FOH. I dont think ive ever gigged with just a 1x12, other than the Fearless F112. This sounds very different to that though. I’ll probably never need to use it as a bass rig, but its nice to have something so transportable.

Cheers, how are you liking your rig? I’m sure mine would be fine for small gigs, but I’m not sure about louder ones. At the next rehearsal I’m going to take my B1 and my bass player said he would play a song with this rig so i can hear how well it works for bass.

I really wanted to get one of those, but its out of my price range. Once day. Although ive not sold my CN212 yet, this is my new Bass rig.

Ive just got a Yamaha DBR12 to use with my Synth, but the first thing I did was hook up my Zoom B1-Four ( i sold my Helix recently) and play bass through it. First time ive picked a bass up since July. I was very impressed with this tone. I had a Fearless F112 last year, but felt it was a bit too open and bright. I think it was the mid driver that made it sound like this. Playing with a pick i just couldn't get what i was looking for out of it. The DBR12 seems warmer, but still without an obvious colouring. I know its a budget cab, but I think i could gig on bass with this and the B1 if i didnt have anything else to play through. Very happy with it.

Ive been rehearsing every 2-3 weeks since Aug, and its great to be playing with others again. Only so much you can do at home IMO, especially if you are a gigging player rather than stay at home/recording.

Some people have money to burn 😂

Top of the list Paul. 😁

You cant go wrong with those. The latency is very, very low, and i get about 3 rehearsals from a single charge.

How does he get the Banjo string to stay on the bass? Aren’t Banjos a lot shorter than a bass?

ive got the Xvives and Boss WL-20 The Boss sound a bit better, less artefacts when the notes are dying off. I've only head this at home in a quite room when sitting in front of a rig. Never been a problem with the band though. I did tend to favour the Boss for rehearsals and live use, as its a bit more robust as far as connection goes. My guitarist uses Xvives and he has had interference with his, while my Boss ones were fine. not a lot in in, but IME the Boss work a bit better. Where the Xvives really win, especially (IMO) in the OP's case, is they have a proper on/off switch. As long as you aren't using an active bass and a pedal running on batteries you can leave them plugged in. The Boss ones have to be removed or else the battery drains more. I used to leave my Xvive plugged in to my Bass, even when its not being used and in its case, and the other end in my Stomp. I loved that i didnt need to plug anything in when i wanted to play bass, just switch on at each end. I used to play sitting on the bed, which is against the other side of the wall that has our router on it. Never really had big issues with either system, although again, the Boss less so.

Interesting. I just downloaded the app and had no issue once i had linked it to DB. What exactly was the issue? At what stage in the process did it not work?

Sorry, yes, we were talking about Anytune, that was a typo in my reply.

Ok cheers. I might see if it works for me, but i have other options.

Cheers. I was asking more about why you were struggling with Anytime and why you mention Apple. What was/is the snag?

I’m trying to figure out what this post is saying. Can you help?😁

At the moment we are just starting to play Lets Dance (Bowie), Modern Love, Ballroom Blitz, Sweet Dreams, Power of Love (H. Lewis), Learn to fly, Cant stop this thing we started, Rocks, When you were young, Dancing in the Dark, plus I’m still learning the other 40+ songs on our play list on keyboard. . Since i switched to keys we have suddenly started doing 80’s songs. Not that i mind, but dropped in at the deep end a bit.

Ah yes. I remember now. Cheers.

Spot on. I thought someone had done this, but couldn’t remember what devices. It would be good if we could just load whatever sounds we want on to these devices, a bit like Source Audio allowed with their Phaser/Flanger/Chorus pedals

Cool. You wont be disappointed in the B1 for either instrument. There is plenty of EQ on tap to fix most tonal issues anyway.

I never used these, but the latest implementation of them seems like a big step forward.

Ah, in that case yes, go for the dominant instrument. Thats pretty much what i was doing. A bit of guitar evert now and then worked fine through the B1. The only thing I will say is, if you are using a sim of a pedal that doesn't have a clean blend, then its going to be more authentic. A few people make a big deal out of the lack of clean blends in pedal sims, but are happy with the real thing not having them. I’m sure most of us using small pedal boards don’t run parallel clean paths etc, and yet its a deal breaker when a sim doesnt have it. Cant quite see the logic there, but each to their own. You can download the manuals of each to see exactly what parameters and FX each has.

I’d get the guitar version. Guitars seem more fussy about effects. I’ve used my B1-Four with both and it worked ok, but I wasn’t too happy with the amps and drives for guitar. With bass most things will work, unless you are looking for specific sounds.

Too right. Not sure why its even being discussed. Ive never been convinced I’m wrong for not liking anything. I get the feeling you are still on the fence about that head though 😁

Thanks. At least it got the Fav’s and user defaults. I wonder if the Pod Go will take over at the lower end. Although I’m never keen on presets, it looks like the big boys got a lot of new ones. Some seem like they might be interesting. Ive only got Native left now, but that seems to have got almost everything new.

What updates did the HFX get? Seems like the Stomp got quite a few new features (not bass specific).