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Crikey, he does know that those screw holes behind the saddles exist for a reason, right? Good to see the return of mismatched control knobs though: It's one of these btw: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274861705638?hash=item3fff08c9a6:g:4uoAAOSw79pg6Dpf

Rear panel is also extremely similar:

There's photos of the BAM200 guts elsewhere on here: Would be interesting to see how similar the Gnome is, the control layout is identical although the LEDs are positioned differently.

Same. It's the bidders who get caught in a frenzy during the last few seconds that complain all the true bargains have disappeared. Best way to eBay is to spray and pray with low bids or keep refreshing the newly listed BIN.

Just seemed a little worrying to me as the other cabs in the series have more conventional frequency ranges. Been thinking about a second 1x10 to partner with my EA cab and these have Speakons and also a daisy chain output unlike the Eden I was considering.

The Gnome 1x10 lists the frequency range from 90hz though, would this be useful for bass?

The EMG Select J pickups you get in those old Cort builds (they're licensed in house pickups, not real EMGs) are a bit puny and wet sounding, also usually coupled with a pretty naff sounding preamp. Barts are a huge upgrade, can get pretty trad Jazz sounds out of them. Aquilar are also bar magnets underneath the covers I think, again would knock the Selects out of the park. The Select P pickups are quite decent though IMO, I've actually put those in basses I like to play rather than taken them out as with the J pickups!

Could just try rail pickups instead of ones with individual pole pieces? I think Bartolinis and some EMGs are rails under the covers.

Had this hanging around and it's about to go in the bin so if anybody wants this then give me a shout. It's a cheapo 10w Kinsman BB10BS amp section taken from a damaged learner combo, I turned it into a mini head after selling all my amps and used it with a small EA 110 cab, sounded surprisingly splendid although the cab was probably doing most of the legwork. Original salvage thread here: It currently has no case other than the original metal shell and an acrylic top (the rest went in the bin) so you will need to house it, also no IEC socket as I used this elsewhere. I removed the Speakon combo jack but have since replaced it with a regular Speakon I had lying around, the pics were taken before I installed this. So put an IEC socket and build a shell for it and it's ready to go. I also have a bag with the feet, ferrules and a handle from the original combo if you need those. Collection from the Fylde Coast (FY5) or can post if you chuck a few quid in the next Brian House box you see.

Used to gig UK and German made basses exclusively and a Gibson before that, also a Warmoth USA fretless. All through USA Hartke cabs, later through USA Schroeder and finally all Italian Markbass gear. All Indonesia/China/Korea now aside from my little EA cab which is USA.

Probably easiest to run a line out or DI out from the bass amp into a small desk and feed that to your in ear pack, in a pinch you could run it straight from the DI to the belt pack. Realistically if you're looking to use a single in ear then it won't help much as the outside noise cancellation is a big part of the experience (for me anyway), probably best seeing if you can set up a small powered monitor or something.

Well there are dedicated powered wedges marketed as FRFR like the Headrush and similar cabs so it's a more popular term now., the QSC K .2 series have a high impedance input option and presets for use with instruments so it's a market they recognise. But yeah I take it to mean someone who uses a powered PA wedge as their sound comes from a preamp or modelling unit, they want to hear that without any amp or cab colouring.

FWIW towards the end of my short but sweet period of using an FRFR I was using it entirely as a wedge with vocals, keys and bass through it, half the band were already on IEMS at that point but the guitarist still used an amp. We used to take a separate monitor for me and the drummer anyway so just ditched that and put them through mine. At that point I tried IEMs using the provided equipment (cheap headphone amplifiers, normal ear buds and having no direct control over the mix) and hated it which from some of the comments here seems like a common theme. When I bought the Behringer/KZ kit and an ancient £25 iPad Mini 1 (our desk back then was Apple only 😒) it transformed the experience and I haven't used an amp live since. I think control is the key to having a good beginner IEM experience, especially if you don't have a dedicated sound engineer to shout stuff at.

Just using the BC cheapskate setup of a Behringer PM2 belt pack and KZ ZS10 IEMs. cost is about £50-£60. I DI from a Fishman Platinum Pro which is has everything I need, I have a small clamp on shelf to store the IEM setup and a tablet holder which are both permanently attached to my Hercules stand, that's it for my gigging setup. The desk we have now is a Behringer XR18 which are usually £480-£500, the old desk we had was a Mackie DL32r which is more than double that but has enough aux sends for stereo monitoring for 6 people.

Using IEMs exclusively now and not going back. Great sound every gig and I have instant control over every aspect of it. All of this fits in my gigbag and takes zero space on stage.

I would go for the vertical 4x10 option, there's a guy selling some Traveller 102p cabs on the Bass Players' Market UK Facebook group, £275 each.

The Two10 is designed to be an retro sounding coloured cab isn't it? You may be looking an an entire new rig if you want a clean transparent sound. If you have a clean sounding preamp at your disposal then try that into the effects return of your Ampeg to see if the Barefaced will be able to deliver. If I was gigging a fretless in your situation I would just use my QSC K10.2 and Fishman preamp tbh. At home I use a TC BH250 into a Basslite equipped EA 110 cab, it's super clean and sounds great for fretless (also has the Corona Toneprint capability) so a micro head into a relatively clean sounding cab would be a good starting point. There's a Phil Jones D400 for sale on here:

I would never voluntarily listen to Footloose. I absolutely love playing Footloose live.

Yeah just having things like a configurable high pass filter and compression on inputs are things we benefit from (keys player and his wayward patches), not to mention 6 aux sends. Definitely the stuff of dreams compared to the stuff we used when I started gigging.

XR18 turned up a few days ago and used it at rehearsal tonight, finished setting up a few bits when I got in. Seems very capable and is touch friendly on a 12.5" tablet. Very happy with it so far and it doesn't seem like much of a step down from the Mackie stuff in terms of what it can do so thanks for the recommendation. We'll be using it with Alto TS215 tops and a TS215s sub until we can upgrade those so not a bad budget starter setup for in ears. Inbuilt router is absolutely terrible as mentioned!

Try and find a Guild Songbird used, you'll be looking at £800-£1100 but they're great little guitars.

Many years ago I bought a fret dress guard from him without knowing of his... erm... other items. Was the cheapest seller outside of China and delivery was fast.

Didn't even notice, tbf this is ridiculously cheap for him.

Cheap that, if you want a P/J you could do a lot worse and will always make your money back, Sometimes get a nice surprise with the free gigbags too, I picked up a £50 Westfield P a few years ago and it came with one of the nice old Ritter bags, sold it on for £30 and kept the bass!