Downunderwonder

Except without the bass it wouldn't be quite right.

Barefaced unwittingly play into that myth. You are told you can use X000 watts amp but you must be using a clean tone. That's so you can avert destruction by hearing it start to complain before you go too far. If it's distorting with a clean tone the woofer is being made to travel beyond where it is happy.

Get off your high horse and acknowledge the rest of the world that often has no stage as such just a corner of the pub to set up in and play some tunes.

BFM will be along to correct you far more concisely than I could.

IEM has never rated a mention in any of my bands or offered at any of my gigs where sound is provided. I would be a very lonely bassist if I were to ditch amps for IEM.

Hope it is the same guitar you sent!

^ Just needs a bass guitar bridge to be the ultimate bottom end accessory. Wooden toilet seats are the shizzle in winter. Naturally antibacterial too.

And .36mm is ambitious on a budget instrument if you ask me.

Good luck with that rooster.

Two things. Hartke are not nearly in the same league as Barefaced. A burst of low end is what busts up woofers.

Same same. The 2nd channel was a boost. The third was boost with fx loop preselected. This enabled me to preselect the fx I wanted and either kick in with boost or not. If I wanted fx at standard level I could still kick them in on channel one and still go boost on channel 3 with one stomp. IOW clean, clean boost with delicious touch OD, clean with fx, boost with fx, pretty much one click from each other. The exception was from failing the double tap to get clean fx and getting Band B instead ( which had fx on 1 to save the day ) Neglecting to disengage B while skipping about over on Band B [which had identical off on fx channel 2 and 3 so no issue toggling back to Band meant no clean regular without a little twin tap dance, which ain't bad really! Needed an EQ pedal to put in some mids that the BDDI couldn't quite do.

Same because they are the same thing. Only the naming is different! As you know but many would not.

Can I sign on the basis that whatever nonsense you guys come up with makes it here in about 15 years?

Idiot question. I always thought pickups were designed with active or passive in mind so is it ok to blithely covert to passive?

It is quite simple, just not a one click process. Select model channel. Adjust all the knobs so nothing is flashing. That shows the knobs are in their preset stored positions. Select destination channel. Twiddle each knob up and back to where it was. Save. Now you should have a solid light and saved same as the model channel. Click over to the model channel. It should be the identical and twiddles up and back should go back to solid red also. I think that's it.

I wouldn't. Too many fudgy numbers flying around which means more power is almost never the answer.... 1000w is a pipe dream cab rating, and OP is looking at the low end response where the rubber hits the road. Class D amps usually get a notable bit over half of the rated output when pushing 8 ohms. 700w could easily be pumping out 500w thumps. I reckon he's pretty darn good for power. To make an appreciable difference the cab would need an actual thousand watts up it, and that would break it.

It would be a pretty simple job to solder in some extension splices. If you stagger the join by snipping the cable an inch or so apart then one piece of heat shrink can tidily cover the joint with no shorting. Remember to put your heat shrink on the cable before soldering.

If we use some typical figures your 410 should be around 101dB sensitivity and a 115 might be 97dB on a really good day. Let's say they have similar rolloff in the lowest frequencies of interest. Your amp might output 500W into the 410 and be on the edge of farting if you push it for lows. Let's say you can find a 97dB 115 that can handle 350w similarly, ulikely though. You are trading 150W less @ 101dB for 350w @ 97dB which is roughly a wash. But now your 115 is maxed while your 410 is having an easier time of it. Tends to break the 15 because you don't hear it complaining over the racket of the 410 in your ear hole. That racket sounds a hell of lot louder to you on stage but when push comes to shove it won't have more low end in it. At less than max output it will sound like you have a lot more headroom than you actually have. This is even more of a problem when you are basing this on the loud knob position.

Ditch the Hartke and grab the BF BigTwin in the classifieds.

I used one of those that was supplied jazz festival backline, or so I assumed. When it was my turn I was shocked to find it was filling the whole room all by itself. You can certainly send PA the DI and it will almost certainly not get used.

Never had a problem doing small venues with guitars and vocals. They always put the speakers at the back to the sides so it's monitor and PA in one. My bass amp goes just inboard or just outboard at one side. Have a look at some of the gig photos in the weekend gig rundown thread. You will see it's pretty standard.

.15 of an inch is over 3.6mm which is a bit ott if you ask me and way thicker than an business card!

Unless the PA has a subwoofer you are left with using an amp. Bass through vocal PA is highly unthrilling and liable to blow up the speakers. Playing along with vocal PA with acoustic guitars in it is what I have done all my life. People must have told tell me to turn up 100 times for every time I have been told I am too loud. Mostly nobody says anything. Vocal PA with backline amps and a drum kit. The trick is to have everyone stay under the vocals. This requires a drummer who can convey energy without bashing the living daylights of everything. It requires guitarists who aren't egotistical nitwits with stadium sized amp stacks. No drums and just acoustic guitars = take your little amp and you should be fine.

Something to keep in mind is any drive effect by its very nature also compresses the sound.