warwickhunt

It sold once already by the seller... back up for sale again. Close up of the pics shows lots of strange stains, no idea how they occurred.

Korg Pitchblack/Pitchtune or some such name. Clear to read and it can be reversed. ...and it appears to be less than 50% of the TC

Interestingly as I view it, you are simply trying to achieve a sound that you desire by the simplest means possible. I found that an active Streamer at max bass + treble (no mid control) gave me a core sound I liked and it never saturated the front end of my amp to the point of distortion. I concede that I could likely get the same result if I left bass EQ flat, turned up the input gain and boosted the same B + T frequencies that the onboard preamp was set at BUT... there's no guarantee that an amp I was plugging into had the ability to boost those same frequencies. Does that make sense?

Vintage (80's) 2 band active Warwick Streamers... I've always played with the B & T fully whacked up and the amp EQ almost always flat. Essentially I'd have been putting in a smiley face EQ into the front end of the amp.

Why would it be a sacrifice? Use the profit to make/buy an amp with even better tone. I've known many occasions where I thought I had the best sound I could get... till I found something better.

I recently spent a few minutes explaining to an in-house engineer that my ampless set up inc a few pedals as I needed to replicate the sound of a 12 string bass (tribute to Cheap Trick). The first thing he did was produce a DI box and ask me to plug my (4 string) bass into it... Hmmmmm!

TBH there's a lot of variables and unless you know the exact spec of your other speakers (not just 8 ohm 200w or whatever figure), you run the risk of having an unpredictable outcome. You can of course just bung any 8 ohm 10" driver and crossing your fingers but I'd be messaging MB or their distributor; someone on here might know the spec or you may find someone selling identical drivers!

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?

I'm sure @agedhorse will be along shortly, he's on the ball with stuff.

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

I think that is exactly it!

IIRC I wasn't so keen on the bi-amp sound so I ran it full range into both cabs... more is MORE, right?

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.

Does pairing them fresh each time mean that they select alternative frequencies?

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!

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!

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.

I quite liked @Rich's pontificating braggart!