warwickhunt

You think it was maxxed?

Hmmm. Sansamp to the rescue. Engineer had to boost the level to the point where it was horribly hissy; I went into the app mixer and it was on max. I need to look to see where it is choking the output. I'll test at another gig tomorrow with a different in-house rig and engineer!

I'm not so worried about the PA; the engineer is old school and knows his stuff, monitors are 15" but not top notch. The band is a simple 3 piece, so getting what I want in the monitor feed is fairly easy (guitar is PA via a Helix/Tone-X/Boss thang). The 'unknown' is how good the Mooer is live but I've decided to put a Sansamp in my bag as a backup.

I have a city centre pub gig tonight (in-house rig and engineer) and parking can be a mare (but not always), so I'm in 2 minds about how little I can take. Mooer - owned it 6 hours but it seems straight forward. Mooer > in-house PA > house monitor and/or IEM I could potentially take a pedalboard and/or full rig BUT I'm inclined to dive in at the deep end. Having trialled some of the user created tones, I've selected the one that is closest to 'my' sound and tweaked it a little. Theoretically, I can tweak the EQ on the fly via the app but hopefully it's a case of Plug and Play. I'll report back tomorrow on the results.

Can't help with your mixing but your drummer is one step closer to IEM after borrowing my Behringer P2 when he depped for us the other day!

I've played bass 'live' for 43 years (30 - 100 gigs per year) and I've never once needed to use a spare bass. That isn't to say I never take one; for high profile important gigs I'll take a spare but for pub/club gigs I don't. Saying that, I look after my gear and attend to issues as soon as they show the first inkling and I change batteries regularly in active basses!

Quick question... why? What is she bringing to the bass that you are not; will she be adding anything that you can't do? If not then it is purely for 'her' gratification which is fine per se BUT what are you then getting out of it? Where is your pleasure gratification? Fine if you gain pleasure from sitting it out watching the rest of the band perform but IMHO I am in a band/part of the band for 'my' pleasure and enjoyment. I would not get pleasure from watching someone else play bass in a band while I sit it out on the sidelines... at least as I sit here and type that is my view (mainly because I wouldn't let it get that far.

Pretty much their first overseas instrument was essentially a passive Stringray... You sure? The early OLP "Stingray"s were passive but they were named MM2 / MM3, not SUB... Are YOU sure? IIRC the first overseas instrument was the Japanese Stingray EX (active) which was effectively the USA Stingray assembled overseas, which was 'exactly' a USA Stingray but doesn't have the made in USA legend on it.

I have the same Club bass (in black) and I was pleasantly surprised it could intonate with a little bit of shuffling the whole bridge assembly. As for the controls... set them in the one position that has them switched on and then leave well alone! TBH I've been tempted to just bypass the switches and junk the plate to put in my own plate with just a stacked control for the 2 volumes. I quite like the fact that you have to work with it at volume as your technique can get a good variation on 'that' sound.

As Walshy has said, Dave W is superb BUT... you pay for what you get and if it is a 'cheap' bass you sadly are unlikely to justify a trip to Dave.

For many years I've used BOSS Chorus + Octave pedals, with an EHX Small Stone; latterly using a TC Plethora X5 and the effects were as good as any of these. I'm fairly sure some/many of the effects available on Kemper products are modelled (copied) off known brands. I'm assuming that the interface/rig manager will be the same as on the 'toaster' and you can go in and tweak stuff.

Yes you said it was a 2 x 12 (two 12" speakers) but it is actually 2 x 10 (two 10" speakers).

Decent bass cabs it a 'bit' limiting being 4 ohm 2x10. That cab is actually 175 watts (RMS is the important bit) but it'll still cope with your amp so long as you don't go boosting the lows too much. We've no idea of the situations you'll use it in but many folk manage with these no probs.

Mystery solved... it is a 2x10.

It is more unlikely than it is likely... in fact you'd have to be a dingbat to blow it up without noticing it farting and warning you. I'd go so far as to say that it is almost impossible to destroy a 350w (RMS) cab with a TC500 watt amp unless you are really trying.

I'd be hard pushed to decide if Warwick or Musicman had the most baffling range of basses but it just goes to demonstrate you can be a huge multi-million Euro/$ company and still fail to employ someone in marketing with 1 iota of common/musical sense.

Having owned the Profiler 'Toaster' the blurb seems to indicate that this has all of those facilities/rigs etc available and editable via rig manager on your phone/laptop/PC that it has, in which case yes it has a full range of editable FX; it has the usual phasers, octavers, reverbs, ODs, filters etc etc

Not sure I've ever seen one of those!

I think the ohmage and wattage thing is covered but be aware not all cabs are created equal. This pic might look ridiculous but I'm presently testing various rigs and cab combinations. I can tell you that all of these combinations present 4 ohm loads to the amp (the 2x12 cab is 4 ohms, all other single cabs are 8 ohms) and one of these set ups is way louder than the others, while one set up is particularly quiet (no setting changes on the amp). This is all down to sensitivity of the cab(s) and... one of the single speaker cabs is exceptionally clear and carries the top end with more projection. Oh and this little test absolutely destroyed the urban myth that you get more top end from 10's and 15's give you more bass/bottom end!

I thought they had the axe-head inlays, mine certainly did?

Absolutely correct answer! Dumb a55 bloody Brits insisting on using Imperial measurements when we've been in the European Union for... Oh wait... we burnt those bridges as well.

Pedant alert... my pet peeve (yes if this is the worst, then I have a fine life). Weight = 8.9lb Now is that 8lb 9oz or 8.9lb as in 8lb 14 3/4oz STOP using decimal points in Imperial measurements, they have no place! Carry on, nothing to see here.

Can I ask... for a friend. It was OK in the 1980's to put an XR3i badge on a 1300 Escort wasn't it?