Downunderwonder

I question the need for the extra cab. Is there PA support? Best to dial it back a bit and let the PA be loud and proud without interference from the stage rig getting into drum mics. If no PA support, best to stay under the vocals and not drown out the drums etc. No third cab required.

Yeah I own both BDDI and Deluxe, I recommend them often. Great stuff at reasonable prices. Live customer service on the internet. Great for avoiding soundguy conniptions. Still my BDDI needs help on account of less mids coming out than went in. That's not an obsession with flat. The OP asked. So it's not appropriate to put me down and suggest turning it off.

Dunno but if you cruise Nz's TradeMe basses for sale expired auctions I am sure I saw one just like it not so long ago.

Never seen a V2. I disagree that noon is anywhere near flat.

Notice the lack of top horn. This makes the instrument a neck heavy neck diving bastard when hanging on a strap. Major pain in the donkey for some. For sure it would drive me bonkers having to hold the neck up to play.

Man, it's lopsided already on a 4 banger so why not accept a little more as par for the course and worry about which shoes match your shirt and bass best instead?

What does the gearing do?

I wouldn't write off his jazz chops unless I heard him try. To my ear he's very jazzy for a rock band!

Too many audible lyrics. Too much melody. Not enough drum hits per second. Laid back guitar solo. Way too much fidelity all around.

Well that worked out pretty fine for all!

If you are regularly flipping 1000 pound basses, at 80 quid a throw, you are carrying your own insurance for free if you can get to 12 undamaged first.

That would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

A BDDI can never be EQ'd flat, always a cut in the upper mids even with both Bass and Treble cut. So when using one I always have another EQ in line.

There was a SP'd Squier J sold on TradeMe not so long ago. It was a little rough around the edges but it had wires and lights to go with the tin plate. It had a fair bit of body hogged out to save weight.

Expect ecstatic drunken reaction to bass kicking in.

The extent to which the bands are separated determines how much of your spectrum is vulnerable. Unfortunately it's not possible to brick wall it without some serious rack gear so we always wind up with several hundred Hz that is in common between the effected and unaffected. That's all assuming a crossover and blender is in play. With your 'garden biamp' of a distorted signal playing over a clean signal the usual approach is heavy EQ separation. That's even less reliable than a crossover.

No doubt you have found a niche but it doesn't give you the right to pass judgement on how other bands choose to entertain their drunken punters.

Acoustic version should be quite fine without electric bass, just be sure to put the HPF back on the acoustic guitar afterwards.

It took them so long because it really is a very small Trace Elliot team within Peavey. They did a good job putting the SMX into the Transit pedal and adding a overdrive. It may be a combination of parts of that with power. One guesses they have made another breakthrough and 500w 'Donk' with fuller featured preamp is GK MB200 size. I was hoping for 'Gnome' but Warwick stole that.

A lot of people use that term when they are actually parallel effected. There is no OR in biamp and crossover if you are doing it right.

Two basses are a VERY different ball of wax to slightly messing with half of the signal and putting it back with its unmessed twin. Iirc doubling up on incoherent sounds gets you 3dB louder. Coherent sounds x2 is 6dB louder. But adding coherent sounds out of phase results in a cancellation! Trouble is effected sounds retain much of their original form but could be 90 or 180 deg phase shifted if unlucky. Chorus and distortions commonly return 180 deg out. The blending of clean with the effected then suffers.

Yes it matters. That is the very reason many blend pedals come with a phase switch option. I guess you have to hear a phase mismatch to understand. The clearest demonstration is twin cabs miswired from a single source. The bottom drops right out. In my case I wrote of up the page my crossover zone was affected by some pedals coming back inverted relative to the clean lows. In the usual series line up of effects the various phase shifts are immaterial w.r.t our hearing. Not so when blending parallel effected signals, either before the amp or "in the air" with the bi-amp/ cab.

No guarantee an effected channel comes back in phase with the unaffected one whether it's biamped or mono mix.

Whitewash the south elevation. Shade the windows. Insulate the ceiling. Save on cooling effort by not letting it heat up in the first place.

Host of my regular open mic is a hua of a musician, guitarist singer, can't play fretless 5 string bass to save his life. Doesn't stop him trying after a few whiskeys. I figure it saves on other wannabes asking for a go.