warwickhunt

My first musical love so it was obvious at some point I was going to form a tribute to them! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-kaRuKaezzBftF4vxyiztwNAlbEzphIM/view?usp=drive_link

Bassbros & Bass Direct - obviously commission off the price but I sold 9 basses through Will at BB and got more after commission than I would have selling privately.

Been there and T-shirt owned. Best one I've done is supply the guitarist with a guitar rig... guitarists combo went pop toward the end of the first set (we ended the set there) and he announces 'That's it, gig off!' I produced a Hughes & Kettner guitar preamp from my gig bag which I carried as a spare for my bass amp breaking down. He's looking at me like 'WTF do I do with that', so I hook him up to the PA and put him through the monitor. Gig NOT off due to bassists forward planning for eventualities.

I'm pretty much doing as you've outlined and I could easily set input levels etc. but the feedback suppression seemed a good idea... so long as you lock it after initial setting. I've done mixes for my 2 bands in 3 locations (S/M/L venues) and using these as reference. If I know I'm playing somewhere that I anticipate returning to I'll save that as another 'scene'.

I specifically wanted the 'all in one' functionality of the A&H CQ over the usual rack > interface type; considered buying the CQ18 over the CQ12 but the extra outlay for channels I might not need was the decider... possibly wrongly.

Phew not just me then! I have to confess that I also thought that 12 channels would easily cover a 4 person band but we are using every channel now as the drummer has requested a mic to do backing vox on 2 songs and the vocalist is adding acoustic guitar on 4 numbers... hmmmm should have maybe gone for the 16!

The auto feedback feature caught me out the other day! New venue so I set the feedback destroyer to do it's thing, fine and dandy. Started to play and 2 songs in the sound is awful (lacking any depth). Did an on the fly tweak of EQ to boost Low mids but not great. Got the singer to do a number with just guitar and vocal while I dived into the desk for a reset; went into a series of screens and noticed the auto feature was left engaged and it effectively was pulling all the EQ down/out. Reset and left off for the remainder of the set. TBH it was operator error as I should have disengaged the feature after it did the initial setting (it does have a 'live' function which can be used). Just leaving this here in case anyone has a similar issue and doesn't realise.

I dabble on guitar but I do NOT widdle; the duo I play in was going to be called Sans Solo! As such the guitar I've plumped for is a Taylor T5. Looks less like a widdle machine and makes nice noises... perfect for a bassist!

Lovely idea but the person owning that FB page wouldn't like you doing that, so they would delete such posts... from experience.

I've been doing 2 x 45 mins for the last 40 years (I do stuff other than covers) and it is the expectation of every venue I've played; we generally keep 2-3 songs back to do at the end if it's going well.

It does and I suppose they could have put 2 - 16/32/64/Infinity... but I assume that they have to put on the operating range that 'most' bass players will use and that would be 2 - 8 ohms, I've certainly not used a 16 ohm cab in maybe 35-40 years!

I own one of these and it does indeed mean the amp will operate 'between' 2 and 8 ohms.

Surely you can claim against them via ebay?

You would 'assume' so but personally I'd not rule out some other cause; be it cables, the cab, power supplied etc.

As @pete.young has said, your amp is capable of operating down to 2 ohms, often folk will advise against it as it 'might' be near its limits BUT that said it should still be safe! I've a feeling other factors are involved in this sad situation!

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The correct answer is of course... both!

I wish it could be attributed to that but as I'm the bloke lecturing everyone else, I made sure I lead by example and gave it beans when I set the level! LOL It was also the fact it was literally; intro + a few bars... vocals and bass GONE. I'd used the desk with my duo and had assumed the dip in the vocalist level was due to inexperience of her hearing herself through the PA and backing off from the mic. Apparently not and I need to apologise to her.

Yep, pretty much my conclusion. It's then down to me to impress upon folk to be sure to play/sing at gig volumes... and not then increase, which kind of negates the USP of the desks auto feature.

Thought I'd throw a couple of quick thoughts down re the new desk I got (CQ12T). This thing is so small, light and easy to use out of the box that even old hands like me can manage... when you get used to navigation. Nothing unusual in that but I do still find myself toggling through screens trying to remember where the send fader is for something or which screen is the one that allows adjustment all of all of a certain setting in one place. The various PEQs (parametric graph type) are handy and easy to use and I quickly found myself converting the quick/simple channel set ups to the advanced mode, which I didn't think I would but it is quite intuitive... when I can remember which bloody screen. The negative... there has to be one! The one thing that I thought was initially clever was the auto-fader feature... but it isn't! Essentially the desk sets the input gain for you, based upon the input applied by instrument or individual voice and once initially set it will tweak the gain down if the input starts to exceed that which was initially set (guitarist anyone); fine and dandy and this works 'in isolation'! First full band rehearsal using the desk, I went through each of the 3 vocals, bass and acoustic guitar (no drums or electric guitar through the desk at this point), all set independently and sounding good (no peaking etc and the levels looked about where I'd expect them to be if I was using a fader meter). Band kicks into the first song and 8 bars in we are all looking at each other wondering where the hell the vocals and bass just went? Yep, the desk had turned us down and it will not reinstate levels if it pulls them back. I get that with everything playing the mics may well have received extra gain/input but we weren't pointing mics at the speakers or anything but I'm puzzled as to why it pulled back the bass in the desk! The bass was effectively DI straight from a preamp pedal. We tried this several times and each time it did the same thing, so I had to manually reset them and disable that feature. No big deal but a pointless exercise/feature if it won't work on a basic level. I'll report back with new thoughts as and when but has anyone else got one of these desks and wants to chip in?

If all you want is more volume then that will defo work; how it will sound is a case of suck and see. However, if you are being offered it free or cheap it is worth trying. Different manufacturers label various outs in different ways but line out/pre out/Di are all worth trying to see what works best.

You've gone straight in with a big boy then!

Can you not run both cabs off 1 power amp? It is a stereo 400w into 4 ohm amp IIRC... those cabs should match that well. Aside from that is running both cabs necessary? It seems to be a LOT of cabs unless you are playing stadiums! LOL

Plug your extension 8 ohm cab into the other output in the pic, you get your 4 ohm load.