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I have one from the same range but double wide that's been under my computer desk for years, works well for that application.

You seem like the person to ask for this, what does the voice switch do? The manual seems wrong.

I've owned one Harley Benton (the single coil P) and played loads more. You could honestly play one of those and never need to upgrade. Mental what £100-£200 gets you if you aren't bothered by the brand.

Corporate. It's the corporate suite. Office people who ruin the place. Edit, that Freudian typo should be 'run'.

It's partly because his eyes are pretty bad these days, and partly because he likes his signature to be a massive Hancockian affair. He has custom made sharpies in all black with his signature inlaid in gold foil like some tacky freebie you'd get at a trade show. I think I've just outed myself as a pen nerd.

Hard disagree. In the good old days you had to have money to get started on recording. Hell even instruments themselves were relatively much more expensive than they are now. Yes, that barrier probably meant that generally people who recorded were a bit more serious about it, but mostly it just meant that poorer r less fashionable artists struggled to get off the ground. Being able to record on a whim and really cheaply undoubtedly leads to more dross, but it also leads to more gems. People like Walk Off The Earth would have never been able to do what they do before decent home recording. There are also people in this thread making the point that music is fashionable, and that your face has to be marketable. Not so if you can do it yourself. I completely agree. Viagra Boys, Highly Suspect, Red Fang, Doctor Dog, plenty of bands out there making new music every day. The other thing that people stuck in the last millenium forget is that bands have always been struggling against solo singers. Pink Floyd spent 57 weeks in the singles charts. Cliff Richard spent 1182. Ok, maybe that's about longevity as Pink Floyd weren't huge forever. Fine. The Rolling Stones spent 389, still a third of Cliff. Came here to say this but have been beaten to it. Music used to be an effort. Vinyl and CDs were expensive, and they had to be bought in person from shops that had physical copies in stock. Then you had to find them on your shelf, turn the hifi on and play them. Nowadays you just scream into the void and ask Alexa to play anything ever recorded. Yes there's always been the radio and music in shops but kids today who aren't interested in music probably listen to more music of their choice than even the most ardent aficionados did in the 70s. That's got to be diluting the charts somewhat. As too are the algorithms, Spotify plays things that are already more popular, as does Youtube. Ask it for 'rock music' and you'll be spoon fed stuff that's already doing well. If you're not paying too much attention or you just want music but you're not specific as to what, then you'll be changing the charts without even trying.

Looks like old school Gallien Krueger, a 1001 and a rbx410?

Do you have the specifics on what those amps are? Most modern, prosumer level stuff should be fine. If you've got anything old, odd, or cheap then maybe not. I have to keep phantom power away from my hx stomp as it sounds all glitchy, but I think that's the only thing.

That's not arguing, you're just contradicting each other.

With signature stuff I always think that if you like the artist then you might have similar tastes. They're doing what you're doing, and they have a certain amount of free reign to design tools for that thing. Take the Mike Herarra Stingray. I too play punky, fun music. I too like Stingrays, I also like passive basses for 'that' pick tone a lot of the time. I also like bright coloured basses. I also like maple boards... The Ibanez K5 was the same. You can like Korn or not but that bass was amazing for heavy rock, you can tell that that's what it was designed to do.

Yeah. Unfortunately this is a "depends" situation. You'd be surprised at how much more you need to do outdoors properly, so if you're the main act for a loud dance floor then you'll be woefully underequipped, but if you're doing quiet jazz whilst everyone eats then maybe it'll be fine. Be careful with background music too. It tends to be compressed a lot so your speakers don't get a break, that can lead to damage very quickly.

I'm nearly always up for a political debate. Nearly always. But anyone who remembers Tin Pan Alley on that other bass forum will almost certainly agree that bass forums are for talking about bass. The only right vs left that matters here is what sub forum you list your basses for sale in. Besides what does something petty like politics matter compared to the big issues like rounds vs flats?

If you're using a rack mixer I have used this for almost ten years, works great. I know your question was about bluetooth, and we use it for that with other people's playlists etc at functions but actually for us we use the usb stick. It's always playing, and when we need backing music the drummer just leans across and rolls the hardware volume control up whilst I use the tablet to mute the stage mics. Seamless and easy. If you really have to have small then I've got one of these on my desk at work. Looks similar to the one mentioned above. I've never used it for gigs as I like more permanent solutions but no reason why it wouldn't work. Also sounds good.

You might also notice it sounding kind of muddy as you're essentially getting 'double' signal from (guessing) 100-300Hz where both the tops and the subs can give meaningful reproduction. A cut in that range might help clean things up. Edit. Just got back to the thread and noticed this has been mentioned...