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  1. warwickhunt
    It sounds like you've tried lots of options and there is divided opinion on pups v preamp replacement; so can I just through into the mix that sometimes when a bass doesn't sound good, it is the bass! Some basses can have various reasons why they lack resonance or have too much in certain areas and no amount of tweaking other areas, resolves this. I've known basses have neck pockets that weren't secure enough (screws loose easy fix), nut cut so badly strings didn't sit full depth and transfer vibration and worst of all, plain badly seasoned/dried timbers that just leached certain resonances. If you love the bass and need to persevere I'd go with the option that is easiest reversed and achieved with the least loss; a pre amp pedal does exactly what an on board pedal does but... your amp has a preamp which should allow adequate manipulation. Can you borrow pups from another bass or source appropriate ones 2nd hand?
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    I'm sure @agedhorse will be along shortly, he's on the ball with stuff.
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    A professional repair technician put a 4 ohm driver in a cab rated at 8 ohms and populated by all 8 ohm drivers... you've had a lucky escape that he is busy! If you have a valve amp you really need to get the ohmage sorted. If you have a solid state amp it is less of an immediate issue as your amp is likely to go down to 4 ohms but it is not good for the drivers to be mismatched like that.
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    Just got this and a friend was playing it the other day, he played it 5 minutes before I told him it was 32" not 34"
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    It's misleading but many people refer to Class D as 'digital' and it isn't worth getting hung up on it; the terminology may be wrong but it isn't like folk don't know what you mean. Aside from Peavey I'm sure I've seen a few manufacturers refer to their amplifiers as being 'digital' when in fact they are Class D power sections.
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    I'm sure there is a 'sticky' on the forum with recommendations. In the North I'd say it has to be Dave Wilson @ Hexham or Paul Richardson Guitars @ Durham (look him up on FB). Both are top notch and if they can fit you in (if the price is right) it'll only cost a tenner to post it... probably cheaper than driving to your local guy.
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    Not in the UK obviously! I taught in school for 15 years as a generalist teacher but with responsibility for the Music curriculum. I took early retirement at 55 partly due to the stress of the job and I retired with 15/80ths of my average wage... not a very big pension but my choice. I supplement my present pension income with gigs, supply teaching and casual work.
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    So the cover will cost you £10.60 and a pick-up with cover is £20... might be just me but I'm thinking buy the latter and stick you black cover on it and flog the pup with black cover for £15-£20.
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    Reverse calculate the numbers; how much do 'you' need to live on now and in the future. Base it on per annum, ideally calculated by putting all of your other income streams and EVERY outgoing into a spreadsheet (I downloaded one from some money saving site), be sure to assess your fuel costs if you need to start travelling under your own steam. Divide your necessary income by 52 and that is how much you are going to need to generate EVERY week to make a living. Be sure to bear in mind that had you done this 4 years ago, your mortgage interest would have been 0.5% not 5% and your heating costs would be 50% of what they are now... do we know what 4 years in the future will bring? I've no idea what number you will have come up with (are you single, married, family; where do you live for housing costs) in your calculations but I'll hazard a guess that you will need a minimum of £500 a week. That could be 1 or it could be 3 gigs every week just to generate enough income to live on. If you don't get bookings, fall ill, you are going to need to do more than that number of gigs. This work will invariably be every weekend and will entail long days if it is corporate or wedding based, if you want a few weeks holiday or weekends off you are going too need to increase the number of gigs (or increase your fees) to cover this. Have you also considered tax and NI? You'd be silly to not declare your income and pay tax and if you aren't paying NI this will affect you state pension! I know people who play in function bands and generally the bigger/better corporate/wedding bands are run by someone and you are a hired gun. Bands such as this can't afford to be set up like a bunch of mates where you all phone around and ask who's available for certain dates/locations; the leader/owner of the band takes gigs regardless of your availability and it's tough if you can't make it. Often these gigs are reading gigs where sets are issued based upon the needs of the client. Consider if you were to take a low pressure job and just play the pubs for £100 per gig... what are your earnings then?
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    I think that is exactly it!
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    IIRC I wasn't so keen on the bi-amp sound so I ran it full range into both cabs... more is MORE, right?
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    Only had it a week but it seems to cover what I need with regards to send/return and mixes; sound was good and you have several mono/stereo options. One thing I need to check at today's gig is gain staging, before / after the Rolls. I found that when I turned the gain on the rolls up to the centre detent (12:00), it was starting to induce distortion; in fairness you have gain at the desk, gains on the Aux send channels and main fader, the Rolls has gain and my wireless system from the Rolls to my IEM also has gain. I need to juggle to ensure I'm getting the best signal. TBH I'm saying the Rolls was distorting at 50% of its rotation but had I turned down the gain at any one of the other points it likely isn't an issue; experimentation today.
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    Does pairing them fresh each time mean that they select alternative frequencies?
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    I'll take these please.
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    Sandberg 'P' - Ash body, maple board, Passive Lollar pup Sandberg 'P' - Alder body, Pau Ferro, Active S'berg pup Bolin NS - Alder/maple, ebony, 2 mag Bolin NS - Alder/maple, ebony, 2 mag + piezo Warwick Streamer - PP pups, 7 laminate neck, ebony board Warwick Streamer - PJ pups, 3 piece neck, wenge board edit Ah, no opportunity to compare 4 and 5 of any P bass derivative!
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    I'll also praise the Peavey 410 TX TVX cabs. I had a few of them 'back in the day' as I couldn't afford SWR but when stood side by side or gigged in comparison, there was not a lot (if anything) between them. I also plumped for the 210TX at one point and paired it with a 410TX run off a GK800RB. The 800RB had separate outputs to run 300w @ 4ohm and 100w @ 8ohm; oddly it meant the 210 had to be hooked up to the 300w and the 410 to the 100w... seemed fine to me!
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    Houston we no longer have a problem! Gigged last night and I went belt/braces and took EVERYTHING; IEM, monitor, backline, Rolls PM351, Behringer P2... you name it. Intent on having bass through backline regardless of IE. Bass > pedals (ditched digital Plethora just in case it caused cumulative latency) > amp amp tuner send > Rolls amp DI > desk desk Aux send (vocals/guitar/bass) > Rolls Rolls mix desk + amp > IEM Initially all of this was hooked up with cables so that I could have no potential for digital issues etc. Amp into Rolls was fine in my IE. Desk into Rolls into IE 'awful' as before. I then swapped to wireless so that I could easier get around out front and to the main desk interface; sound with wireless bass and wireless IE was the same as wired, no change in signal or tone. I plugged my IE into the guitarists Aux channel and his bass feed was fine ergo the issue was something on my Aux feed. I then had to do a quick vocal line check and the vocal sound was equally as bad on the FOH as there was IE. My vocal mic was swapped (assumption being it was my mic), just the same! A minute of messing with the desk interface and clarity, vocal mic OK.... within seconds my bass is clear through IEM! I queried what had changed as I needed to be sure it didn't happen again and it transpires that it could have been a combination of a guitar amp patch/setting/template that was applied to my channel (my words/definition) and a noise gate kicking in/out. Apparently because the room we were playing was significantly smaller/different to any other + we were using a sub with a full range signal sent to it, we didn't use a previous saved board. I now have to ensure that when we play on Sunday (different band but same PA/guitarist), whatever was applied/disapplied to the desk is done on a saved board. Genuine heartfelt thanks to anyone who has given me pointers, tips or suggestions. Cheers folks.
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    I quite liked @Rich's pontificating braggart!
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    INIT setting I'll bear that in mind. The good thing is I've sourced a Rolls PM351, worst case scenario if I can't sort the mixer issue out I can do a mix of my bass and the desk send (sans bass but with guitar + vocals in that mix) in the Rolls.
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    This^ Absolutely correct, I've checked and rechecked that the bass direct to the P2 to IE is fine as are my pedals to P2>IE (I worked back over to identify where this starts in case it was cumulative) and I'm fine at home with 'my' gear. The issue starts when I get my Aux send feed from the desk. I've downloaded the Soundcraft manual and I'm reading/rereading (I need to process some aspects of how this works/is routed etc) so that I am clued up for the weekend. This has pretty much snowballed from the start of 2023 I'm blissfully playing through my gear and the band has never had complaints or negativity re venue sound, to the present situation where it is silent stage (except drummer) and IEM, no foldback. I'm not a luddite and I'm happy to do this if it works for the band, audience AND me but I see little genuine benefit for me and not a great deal more for the audience. As you say @BigRedX, I also suspect that there is something routed/applied to my Aux that shouldn't be and I'll likely find it is a simple click away from compressed/driven mush to crystal clear bass.
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    I'll check that on Friday @Bassmonkey2510. I'm not dismissing it but the tone of it defo seems to involve excessive compression + possibly drive/distortion rather than EQ related (unless it is extreme EQ). You have set me away thinking that if I likened it to anything it would probably be more suited to a guitar tone... I wonder if there is some universal setting on the Aux sends that was engaged by the guitarist who runs the PA. Not blaming him for sabotage but I wonder if some setting is transferred over to my channel. As for others, the consensus is that they can hear me but it isn't like the bass tone I get out front or through my cabs when I used them. I may have said on another thread that this weekend I'm going to plug my IE lead into whatever they plug into and listen to their mix; I'll then know if it is global across the Aux or just my feed. Thanks for the constructive advice.
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    What? Thanks for that insight but I'm assuming I've missed something in translation or you simply have a high opinion of your ability to EQ my bass... without having any idea what it is! This illustrates that you have no idea what you are talking about. I suggest you take your over inflated opinion of your self and place it where your very expensive IEM should not be placed.
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    Genuinely appreciate the suggestions and don't be put off by the fact I've tried them. I tried the internal switch literally as soon as I plugged it in for the first time. I may still try it again as there is never a guarantee that something has changed elsewhere in the signal path in the meantime. I'm actually wondering if there is a way I can record what is coming into my P2/IE... wondering if I can connect something simple into the headphone output rather than my IE?
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    I'm using the KZ10s @la bam which are used by many of you and recommended as the budget starting point by @EBS_freak and others. Aside from that I can run my bass direct into my P2 direct to my IE and the bass sounds fine/great. This is an absolute ball ache for me as I can not get my Aux sent IEM sound to even resemble a bass that I can use as a reference sound for how I'm playing. Everything on the Soundcraft ui16 is showing as registering normal, no overdrive or compression yet the tone is like a bee farting in a watering can! I'll see how the Rolls PM351 works out but because we've never had time for a full tech rehearsal, I keep trying little tweaks and adjustments on the go. What I will try this weekend is to plug my IE into someone else's Aux and see what they are hearing as nobody has said anything about an awful bass tone in their mixes... hmmmm maybe they've never cared. LOL
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    @Bassmonkey2510 FOH is fine. Metering - nothing is overloading/clipping. Wireless AND wired through IEM or studio headphones is exactly the same. It is a total mystery why my bass (and none of the other inputs to the desk) in the Aux mix should be so bad but in bypassing the Soundcraft desk/mixer and using the bass into a Rolls PM351, I can hear my clean bass tone and get a mix of the rest of the band.
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