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warwickhunt

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  1. warwickhunt
    Those IE100s look significantly smaller/lower profile than the KZs, is that the case @Phil Starr? Does anyone have a photo of them physically side by side?
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    Could be worse... you could have bought a Fender! Hey! Just saying.
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    I've just bought one of these and as a former owner of both USA Stingrays and Sterlings, they really do punch above their weight and get a very good 'Musicman' tone despite being passive! If you want that MM tone but in SS, do yourself a favour and buy this. I was seriously tempted to go for the full fat USA short scale but after trying this out, I'm not going to shell out x4 as much cash. Not saying a USA wouldn't be better but not 'that' much better.
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    I've bought dozens (literally) of used £1000+ basses from Europe over the past 20 or so years and price/value was/has been one of the reasons I bought from Europe (+ a few from the USA when £ v $ was good). However post Brexit, the 25% increase and the weakness of the £ has meant that there's never a point where an instrument purchase makes financial sense, I may as well wait and see if the instrument that I've an interest in, appears for sale in the UK. Likewise, I've sold/traded basses 'to' Europe in the past but now, European buyers won't pay what the value is now!
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    I got the same unit, with the intention of sending back when (if) it was cack; turned out to be perfectly acceptable. It is NOT a pro unit and wouldn't stand up to hard road use but for the price I can 'hear' no discernible difference between it, my previous £250 Line 6 unit and a £500 unit I borrowed. I'm sure with studio headphones or on a test machine, you'll note differences but in the pub/club with a band/PA going I can't see you'd grumble.
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    Is it anything to do with the internal stereo/mono switch internal to the P2?
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    Is the switch not an active/passive switch?
  8. warwickhunt
    Active or passive doesn't affect my Lekato 5.8.
  9. warwickhunt
    North East Cheap Trick fans?
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    I'll hold off on judgements as to how I'm likely to use it till I hear it in the full band setting but the output variation does defo seem to act very differently with certain amps.
  11. warwickhunt
    As you were! Swapped to my regular amp and cab and all is as it should be! My 'house' bass combo is a bass/acoustic combo (Ashdown Radiator) and seems to be much more susceptible to input level changes, no such probs on my amp and cab rig.
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    Just picked up a short scale Sterling by Musicman Stingray... the neo pup passive jobbie with the push/push volume pot. I was aware this was a (faux) volume boost and various youtube reviews (Andertons & Lobster) seemed to indicate this was a subtle boost (or cut as it really is). However, the bass I've received has a BIG gain/volume differential and I wondered if this was normal? The differential is so great that there is no way you would engage it to make up for any perceived differential between any of the 3 pup selections, it is that big that no matter which pup selection is made it feels more like a 3-6db lift (massive).
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    Can of worms time... guitarist playing a bass (which he is famed for) or does he become a bassist because he is playing a bass? Either way picks are good and I think SL might have struggled to play finger style.
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    Moondrop Aria - any owners/users can comment on the ergonomics of the fit? They look to be quite 'blocky' and I think one of my isolation issues with my present ZS10s is due to the bulk of them, which I think could be pulling or rotating them in my out ear. I totally appreciate that everyone's ear is different and that moulds are the absolute answer (I have custom moulded attenuated ear protection from pre IEM).
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    I may have posted this in another thread but I can trump some of your 'sound guy fixes tone' anecdotes. I play in a Cheap Trick tribute; the guy from CT, Tom Petersson literally invented the 12 string bass and has a tone (not to everyone's taste) that encapsulates the 12 string bass + bass AND guitar valve amps. I got to a gig, set up and then went to have a bit of a chat with the engineer. I explained what I was trying to achieve with my 4 string bass, some drive from the Sansamp and a mix of effects to get somewhere near Tom's tone. He came over to me 30 mins later to ask for a dry feed from a DI for the FOH so he could get a nice fat clean bass sound out front. DOH!
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    Sadly not 'rookies'! This a pro instillation in a venue done by 'engineers'!
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    For some reason I was thinking it was the same as my Musicvox which was inverted but as you say this is the correct way and the inverted way makes it harder to play as you need to flatten your finger to press the octaves.
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    Small matter and some manufacturers offer it as an option but the 'bass' string being the bottom of the 3 in a set is not the easiest way to finger/fret, as you have to rotate your finger over the thick string to fret the octave strings.
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    2-3 MONTH delivery but if you are unhappy return it... within 3 days! Love that all the sets of strings anchor through 1 hole/retainer.
  20. warwickhunt
    No I get this, we mix our own sound via our digital 'desk' and gig in venues with in-house engineers but we either accept that we turn FOH over to an engineer or we mix ourselves; different if you are taking your own engineer who will handle the PA. On multi line up gigs such as festivals you are unlikely to have that option to just turn up and say 'We'll give you a stereo feed of our mix' as the engineers will have no control over balance or issues arising!
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    Hmmmm. A - I can't see an in house engineer being to happy that he is redundant. B - Can the band envisage that they can mix the sound for every venue effectively and deal with any issues arising in real time etc because the FOH SE will only be able to turn you up/down or effect the whole band mix with EQing. If you are talking about the band having a splitter so that they have an in/out/thru for each channel; they control IE sound/mix and send an identical signal of each input to the FOH that might make sense.
  22. warwickhunt
    Are you talking about your band controls / sets the mix and then you give the FOH/SE a L&R send?
  23. warwickhunt
    I was with you right up until you said "load a blank IR into your NUX and just use the HPF/LPF on the editor"!
  24. warwickhunt
    I like the sound of my amp/cab set up (Thunderfunk>TCRS210) but there's no such emulation (referring back to Alex's video). However I'm trying to emulate as good an IEM sound as I can; DI/FOH literally is down to whoever is handling FOH but that is ever the case because even if I were to take stick a mic in front of my amp/cab, it would sound different out front any way. A cab sim to me is just a badly EQ'd amp tone.
  25. warwickhunt
    BBE Acoustimax / NuX MLD / Tech Para / Tech (original DI) / Fishman Platinum Pro BBE - 'technically' for acoustic instruments and has a Sonic Maximizer built in but works great for electric bass but no drive NuX - drive/OD and IR but I found it overkill for me, even when dialled back Tech Para - upgrade to the Tech DI that I had but tbh I found that without some of the options engaged it was a bit weak but with them on it was too full and I needed to EQ it a lot Tech DI - my original back up incase my amp was to die but in fact my choice for pre amp to desk and IEM Fishman pro - The least coloured pre and very useable EQ that isn't excessive, no drive option; I'll keep this as the EQ can be switched for my acoustic guitar
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