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Worth noting the QSC K12 are the original versions which are quite a bit different, the power distribution between the LF and compression drivers makes more sense in the new versions. Also you don't get the fancy screen and I assume the handy factory presets/eq. Anybody had both to compare?

If it was a Gibson it would break at the headstock as soon as a child hit it.

Sterling Ball has the lawyers on amber alert:

I've not found the QSC to be mid shy at all, however I am using it with the Bass Amp preset so maybe that has something to do with it. Also maybe the Sire preamp has a baked in sound itself as I'm doing pretty much all tone-shaping from that and very little on the Fishman. Last gig I had to cut mids (assuming around 400-450hz) and boost a good amount of bass to get the sound I wanted, the previous one I ran it with centred mids and a small bass boost. On both I rolled the brilliance knob back a bit on the Fishman to get the highs under control.

Oh don't get me wrong, it's plenty low enough, I would have sold it already if it wasn't! It puts out a lot of nice low end and doesn't sound lacking at all, one thing I have noticed is that it's much more responsive to eq than my old Markbass rig and I'm still getting my head around what a flat eq actually sounds like rather than the bass heavy/rolled off treble "flat" I've been used to on bass amps for two decades. Only done 3 gigs with it so far, first one it coped well despite being on a crap sounding stage and the next to it performed admirably. The downside is nobody has bought my old MarkBass rig yet!

Well, a true frfr is a top end speaker - just one designed to reproduce what is being fed into it with as little colour as possible. In fact the current trend for a lot of high end cab designers is to get an approximation of a flat response, it's used as a selling point in a lot of cases. The examples you use are all very different but have similar design goals, the QSC doesn't go down as low so is probably not true full range (to 56hz?) but it still reproduces a true, clear signal for monitoring purposes which is the point of getting one in the first place. The PA (if it's a decent one) will reproduce what you put into it in a very similar way only a lot louder and pointing in a different direction. It's just a much more consistent way of achieving a specific sound. For a very long time I just wanted to reproduce the sound coming out of our PA in a condensed format for personal monitoring as I really like the sound of my bass straight into the desk, using an amp actually got in the way of that.

It would be presenting a load lower than 4ohms though, presumably the amp would have some sort of safety feature that shut the amp down before damage occurred. Ashdown's track record with Class D micro heads isn't great though so who knows.

Ashdown were fixing (or offering to fix) Superflys recently on here so they should sort this out, that's at best a plain-as-day manufacturing oversight and at worst a sneaky way to get rid of the 4ohm speakers in their inventory. Imagine if you didn't know about impedance and plugged it in anyway? They're designed to work with each other right? Offer to send that dodgy 4ohm driver back and happily accept the correct 8ohm version in the post courtesy of Ashdown, their customer service is great apparently. Maybe they have some nice covers for it knocking around they can send you to apologise for this patronising cr@p:

Haha, that's the first thing I thought when I saw it. Would be an impressive explosion of balsa wood and white emulsion!

Why can't Fender release anything that looks this cool?

I recently paid £63 for an official speaker bag, I hated every minute of the buying process and clicked "confirm" with gritted teeth, facing away from the laptop and swearing under my breath. I hate upcharges on accessories that should really come free with the product at the £500+ price point. Agree on Gator stuff, great quality gear at very reasonable prices and seem to be very well though out products compared to what else is on the market too. Our keyboard player has their ABS case and even though it's bigger and heavier than his old one it's much easier to carry and wheel around.

Also this: http://www.creationaudiolabs.com/redeemer

A good tech should be able to make you a buffer preamp, there's a few schematics floating around the internet.

Not surprising, a comically backwards thinking company run by clueless idiots that produces novelty knock-offs of classic instruments. This is their latest idea, apparently the cost is $4,999: Based on that alone I can't think of a more deserving company to go bankrupt.

Dood did a good video:

If they could have crammed a DI out into that little MS60B then it would be a must buy for me.

There was a B3 for sale on one of the FB groups a few days ago IIRC.

Will be gigging my K10.2 tomorrow at a venue which I've played at for over 12 years and has the boomiest stage I've ever encountered, not spoken to a single bass player who can get a decent sound on there either. Not the best first outing but hopefully the filters on my DI can remedy that a little.

Check the Cheetos crumbs on the nut:

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.