TimR

There was (or is) a bass head in production being funded by pre-orders.

Hopefully it's just the internal fuse. I played an outside gig once where all the gear went completely beserk. Traced the issue to the band being supplied from several daisy-chained extension leads. About 400m in total. A lot of voltage sag when we turned on the lights.

Brilliant IA. 🤣

I think rather than delving into heavy formulas and technical explanations a more simple approach might work. Maybe the mods would make it a sticky, as this thread will eventually just disappear. I thought this was already somewhere else, but have searched. Maybe a Myth/Fact list of all the things that are commonly stated. 8"/10"/15" speakers. Valve/Solid State amps. Speakers in parallel/series. Lowest impedance for an amp. Open circuit issues for valve/solid state. Types of distortion speaker/premap/poweramp and the problems and what to avoid. Power amp manufacturer's figures including THD% at Hz. I don't think any of them really require an in depth understanding of why in electronics terms, they're important. I think that's the part that throws the bass player in the street when they say "I don't understand watts and ohms", it's the application and pitfalls rather than what a watt or an ohm is. More pictures/photos.

People will always ask. There's YouTube, Google and thousands of resources. It's a difficult thing to understand if you can't do maths and physics. And if you can do maths and physics, then you don't need to ask. 🤣 There's many different ways of combining amps and cabs, and the electrical side of that is only of interest to people who are interested in it.

The SI unit for voltage is the volt (V), which is defined as one kilogram meter squared per second cubed per ampere kgm^{2}s^{-3}A^{-1}

Weird. I thought that moving magnets exerted a force on the electrons, causing them to move. That's the EMF. There's no voltage moving the electrons. The voltage is caused by the electrons moving from one place to another. That's why voltage is defined in terms of current, not the other way round. A higher voltage is just where you have a higher density electro magnetic, electro chemical, theromionic field, or capacitive storage.

There are many ways of inducing current without voltage. Current comes before voltage as the first current was measured in a moving wire in a magnetic field. Your bass pickups induce a current with no voltage.

Strictly speaking this is wrong. The volt is defined as the difference between 2 points when a current of one amp flows through a resistance of 1 ohm (although it's expressed as power dissipation 1Watt). ie the current flow causes the volt difference. Which is a very difficult thing to get your head around and why the water flow/pressure analogy is more correct. Think of it as lots of blue men on the left piling up trying to get through the tube at the same time, with fewer blue men running off to the right as they pop out of the restriction. While the blue man stuck in the tube gets more hot and flustered and red in the face. Anyway. As you were...

I'm sure someone has done this in the past and it was asked to be a sticky, but for some reason the Mods didn't agree. Or may be a different forum...

My '87 Jackson Charvel SB2 complete with pointy headstock. It's my backup bass that I take to gigs. I've only played it 3 times in the last 22 years. Might get it out next week.

Lovely bass. I manged to pick one up for a friend some time in the 90s. It was a mess. I told him how to clean it up with a toothbrush and some cleaner I had. He spent a week sorting it out and bought it round and I gave him a set of my old strings and strung it for him. I can't remember his name, but it was a great steal. Wish I'd been able to buy it for myself.

I also stack the 2x10s vertically so there's more coming out at ear level.

I bought my TE 300 watt combo. GP7-SM 300? In 1996 for £300 second hand. I sold it in 2008 for £300. I used a Warwick 5.2 ProFET for the next 16 years into 2x 210pro. That's about 500W but never had it past halfway. I am now using a Gnome iPro 2 and TE Elf 10" for rehearsals and have used it on 2 gigs in a 'small' pub. I've used the Gnome on the 2x Warwick Pro 210 cabs and it's more than loud enough for outside gigs. As has been stated a few times, power amps are all pretty good now, it's the speaker sensitivity and I've found 15" or 2x10" is plenty for most gigs with a loud drummer. Adding extra speakers increases volume from the same amp.

Define small to medium. Up to 150 people?

When you apply for a premises licence you state what type of entertainment you will be providing. The local authority then grants a licence on what you've told them you will be doing. Or the LA may have knocked them back and told them only duos and trios. AFAIA you don't apply for a specific entertainments licence for bands/orchestras/soloists, it's all one premises licence with permitted activities.

On the plus side you have a ready made band, just need a singer. Any complaints from the old singer and you say he resigned, unless he can show the evidence that you actually sacked him.

My 486DX had 8Mb. It was about £35 per Mb. 🤣

Our people do that anyway without any AI interference. 🤣

Imagine what it was like in the late 90s, early 2000s! I had a Soundblaster with Cubase on windows 98. You had to set the interupts using MSDOS Config.sys and the latency was awful. The Internet was on dial up and help files and forums practically non-exsitent. But the biggest problem was dealing with the band who all wanted to be louder than everyone else in the mix. Type Device Manager in your search box, open it, and make sure the PC can see the Scarlett under USB devices. That's the first place I would start. After that it's just a case of working out what sound is routed where. Right click on the speaker icon on the bottom right of your screen and poke around there.

I think tools like ProTools, Garageband, Photoshop, and video equivilents have allowed the man in the street to do things to a level that gets ideas across without having to pay for videographers, recording studios, graphic artists. So I'm nor sure it's the billionaires to blame. The billionaires are taking the money from the people buying the software and hardware. However, they're never going to be a substitute for someone who has been trained and uses those tools all day everyday.

As I wrote upthread, Spotify, YouTube and various opinion 'news' outlets are full of people being creative. Most of them would do better to go outside and dig the garden or do the dishes. Actually being creative, coming up with new material, that other people are interested in, is hard. If it was easy, we'd all be making fortunes writing books, music and directing films. Shouldn't have to point that out on a bass players forum.

But if I see a round thing, I can isolate it from it's surroundings very quickly, I can move around, touch it, pick it up if it's small enough, feel how heavy it is. See what happens if I drop or throw it, bounce it, taste it. I can then very quickly catagorise it. AI can look at it and compare it to images it has seen. The images are just 2D photos or videos.

Maybe our civilisation will collapse due to AI. Not because AI deliberately destroys us, more because people use it to build things that don't work anymore. 🤣