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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!

Probably worth 50 notes, seller a little optimistic I think: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124929204556?hash=item1d165c614c:g:wxkAAOSwSxtd3vB6 Just about all of the bridge missing, pickups gone, headless hardware stripped out, truss rod shot to pieces. Also no knobs, cover plates or knee rest.

The thing is even if those tuners were the only option it could have been 100x better simply by plugging the old holes with wooden dowels.

Can't see any crack on the headstock. What's more likely is that one of the old tuners failed and they were replaced with those F style ones, new holes had to be drilled as the much larger baseplate would hang over the edge of the headstock - you can see the corners slightly protruding in the pic.

Gan get a 735A for around the same price as a Super Compact, a few places have the 745 for just over a grand. Not saying either option isn't valid, just a lot of the reasons given for dismissing alternatives to traditional amps aren't based in reality - the main one being that unless you have a dedicated bass amp you somehow can't provide bass out front without PA assistance and also that it would somehow be automatically inferior because it isn't a wooden box with a known bass brand on the front.

After a night out in Lagney maybe?

That bathwater is shared by the whole family as well remember. My uncle came to visit earlier this year, he told us some lovely tales of when him and my dad were kids and they used to race to have the first bath as both knew the other would wee in it.

Can't go wrong with a Cort as a first 5er, I still use an old Korean C5 as my backup bass.

Be careful if you're driving there, I heard the motorway is cobbled! I live close to Preston, in all seriousness I quite like it although it is lacking a decent chippy.

Yeah I knew it wasn't one of the crazy money MIJ ones, didn't even know they made them in the 90s tbh.

Dunno of this is legit or a bargain but thought these went for a fair bit more: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304171260289?hash=item46d2051981:g:X2QAAOSwl4dhWYfO The downside is that you have to go to Preston but some things are worth the hardship.