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Pair of BFM Omni 10.5 cabs in the FS section for £210: Won't get a better deal than that if you want lightweight, great sounding cabs.

Ah I didn't know that, still should turn up this week hopefully as I'm gigging at the weekend. They were £7 cheaper than Thomann to their credit.

I ordered the tote bag for the QSC on Friday from Bax Shop and it was scheduled for delivery tomorrow, however despite being a UK company they're shipping it from the Netherlands and it still hasn't left the country so I'm not particularly impressed either.

This is near to me, crops up on my local bass searches. It's been on eBay a while now, strange combination of what looks to be solid if bizarrely implemented woodwork and clueless, hamfisted bodgery. I'm thinking the scratchplate, dodgy tuners and wonky string trees were added later.

I've asked if they'll post anyway.

I had a look at this for my daughter but it's collection only.

Just browsing Thomann for preamps and seen a GK one which looks great: https://www.thomann.de/gb/gallien_krueger_plex_preamp.htm?sid=8073c32db811bea59a77938a9360fbd3 Compression looks to have more comprehensive controls than other options, looks pretty decent. Not cheap though!

BRX not doing things by halves!

Our keyboard player used one until we got him in-ears, I usually stand behind him and it was enough for me to hear vocals and keys through. He treats his gear incredibly badly and it still works so they must be pretty well built.

I wasn't referencing you in particular btw, I'd seen this crop up a few times on Facebook already and the comments sections were a melting pot of outrage, ironically most of them didn't even know who QJ is.

The thing is Macca probably read it and laughed his a55 off.

The funniest thing about the interview is watching all the Beatles die-hards blow their nut over his comments. At the grand old age of 84 Quincy Jones may have just become the best internet troll of our generation, he can add that to his CV. Ghetto Gump indeed!

This is worth remembering and good advice, I assume you'd have to check the input sensitivity of the powered wedge and the output in dbv of the DI you're using. I didn't need to bother with this as the wedge I got has an input which can be switched to high impedance for instruments, although the Fishman can drive it at.line level just fine.

I've been using the Fishman Pro Platinum EQ for the last few months as my pedalboard replacement and also with an eye on using it in an FRFR setup when I got round to buying a powered wedge (which was last week), it's ideal for me and a real Swiss army knife. Not used with live with the FRFR yet but it replaced my previous micro pedalboards. https://www.thomann.de/gb/fishman_platinum_pro_eq.htm Compressor, tuner (switchable mute), 3 band eq with sweepable mids, high pass filter (12db/octave), brilliance control (reduces string noise), notch filter, phase switch and a switchable boost which is adjustable. It also has a crystal clear DI which our two sound engineers have complimented me on now! Fits in the laptop pocket of my gigbag and runs of a standard 9v adapter. The compressor is the one knob type and the only adjustable parameter is the threshold so it's not as versatile as the EBS (which I also have) but it's very natural sounding. Doesn't do that squashed slap/pop sound the EBS does in multiband mode though. Ratio on this is 2:5:1, attack is 10ms, release is 100ms. If you're going for something like this or the Valeton/Fly Rig and need a specific type of compression then I would have a play of it first.

Bart MKI pickups are a P/J set in a soapbar shape, Nordstrand do the Big Single / Big Split which is their take on a P and J pickup in the soapbar format, also I seem to remember Westone basses having a P pickup in that style. Wouldn't surprise me if there were tons more out there. Like BigRedX says there's no such thing as a soapbar pickup, just a soapbar shaped one. When they're a sealed unit with no exposed pole pieces who knows what's under there, I'm not taking a Dremel to any of mine though!

Weird, I watched that Davey Pollitt video which was supposed to be 30 funk basslines yet there was zero funk actually present, this video is ten times shorter and the guy is on it all the way through. Some people have a very strange definition of the F word!

That's the first thing I thought, very risky thing to do on a high value item.

Artecs are popular because they are a complete unit which includes pots so you don't have to completely disassemble your existing preamp and loom. They're also pretty nice sounding IMO, I have one in my old Cort and you can't get a bad sound out of it. I think the MKI pickups are quite low output so may be better suited to a replacement preamp than going purely passive, won't cost you anything to try it though I suppose!

Seriously have a look at Artec SE3 preamp, minimal soldering and they will improve the bass massively for £30. They're a full unit with pots and easy fit connectors, if you're looking to improve the sound of the bass significantly without throwing a ton of money at it then you could do far worse IME. http://artecsound.com/pickups/electronics/se3.html http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ARTEC-SE3-Bass-Guitar-electronics-board-Genuine-Artec/350864811568?hash=item51b12c2630:g:T9gAAOxyBvZTTQD9 The voicing of the 3 band eq is much more musical than the licensed Bartolini that comes stock, the bass control is set to 80hz for a start which is far more useful. Cort seem to like slapping a licensed brand name on what are probably all in-house parts, the no-name preamp in my old (Cort Factory) Ibanez was suspiciously identical to the Bart MKI preamp in my Cort B5, they use a Markbass branded preamp now which is probably the same thing. Those lic Ultralites are great though.

There was a cheap Hipshot 6 string bridge for sale on here a week or so back I think. EDIT: Schaller one here:

Does yours have the Bartolini MKI pickups and pre? If so try just upgrading the preamp, I think that's the weak point on these and the licensed Bart pickups are actually quite nice. I had the B5 and I always found the frequency points odd, the bass being too low/boomy and the treble too spiky. Some people wired these passive and noticed an improvement so.... Cort B series are great bang for buck and are great candidates for upgrades - licensed Ultralites, chunky bridge, nice woods. I would keep an eye out in the classifieds here for a suitable preamp, usually some bargains If you wait a while. maybe get a cheap Artec to tide you over?

Ringo comes back and says, “George, can you play it back for me one more time?” So George did, and Ringo says, “That didn’t sound so bad.” And I said, “Yeah, motherf****r because it ain’t you.” Great guy, though.

We have a quiet on stage sound, the drummer is a former pro who plays at a nice volume and the guitarist does our sound most of the time so there's no cranked "I need volume to get my tone" valve amps in there either. If I needed anything more then I would have gone for the RCF like CameronJ has. Our PA cabs are a pair of RCF 735s and they kick bass out for fun on their own, we went a year before buying matching subs. The small size and versatility of the QSC won out in the end as well as a mint used one popping up at the right time.