Jack

I was ordering from thomann anyway and took the chance that the isolation pad might stop my home setup from rattling the floorboards. You know what? It sort of does! I can't speak to their intended use of gig isolation but they should work OK for your purposes. The photo has a weird perspective, the isolator is more than wide enough.

Pleased the sub is treating you well. In one band we've got too much sub for the tops so we've got it at 120Hz to take up the slack. In my other band we're running the manufacturers recommended rig and so they're set to 80Hz, again as recommended. Both are occasionally subject to change in difficult rooms.

Dude if you were a kid at my school I'd have just dragged you into my office to talk about self respect.

We were at a comedy club in Newcastle once. If you've never been to a comedy club, you're really not allowed to talk. A guy is taking all the way through this comedian's set so the bouncer goes over to him. It's quiet, right, so the whole room can hear, even the comedian has stopped. "You're gonna have to stop or I'm going to ask you to leave" "But he's stinky poo!" "I know, but rules are rules"

Don't be like that, a 10m instrument cable is only a little over £100.

Always nice to see corporate reps on forums, welcome.

Cool, I didn't know they made a passive one!

I sold my full fat Helix because the Stomp was so good. The Stomp, a wireless and an extra switch are all I use now. My whole rig fits on a PT Nano. ....it even does a decent impression of a Darkglass... Where are you? Perhaps a local BC will hook you up.

I believe that's a Barefaced LF1200.

No, unless @atsampsondid something very unusual then you usually feed a spectrograph a pink noise signal, which is equal amounts of every frequency(ish). Meaning that this is the response of the pedal, there was no bass guitar involved here.

Yeah but then you're the band who makes the whole audience listen to you tune. That will be fine in some situations and not in others.

I'm more 'derringer' than 'big gun' but that's exactly what I do when there's an external soundman. Give them everything, keep the sub bass off the stage. Why knows what they'll be needing for the room (or more likely field as we only really work with sound crews outdoors) and it's near impossible to get that sub bass back after it's been so well removed.

They're very scooped but in fairness so is the original model Sansamp Bass Driver that they're based on. The mid point is pretty much fixed so if you turn both treble and bass down quite a way then you can eliminate it somewhat. The Paradriver (oh the Behringer Acoustic DI copy) have way more mids.

Out of the box suggestion: Wingbass? (not my pic)

I've had two off the shelf (well, they're all hand made but you know), one custom paint job and one entirely custom pedal. Couldn't be happier.

He's gone from being the only game in town to having 4-5 strong competitors now. Might make one a tad protective.

They're there for sure. Try using a tone generator to go lower and lower, but be careful you dint find yourself listening to harmonics or other distortion. The questions are though: where are they? How steep? Is that where your cab wants it? What about your tonal preference? Can you adjust? If I'm doing reggae, straight into a huge wall of million watt subs, I'll be setting it super low or turning it off. Rock with a pick, using just a small 1x12" cab? 80 Hz or so please!

A blue Spector has been on my bucket list for years (seriously considering the one in the classifieds now but not my ideal pickup combo) but that may be replacing it from now on. Stunning mate.

I any kind of quantity? Absolutely! As you mentioned speakons are by far the easiest cable to DIY. For one or two 1m cables? Just not worth it really ime.

I, like many, moved from obbm to designacable and couldn't be happier. * when he retired that is, not because he was bad or anything...

I believe it's intermittent during use. I've never actually had the problem, the soundmen we work with don't match the descriptions given on BC. 😉

We're perhaps a little off topic now but the common wisdom for helices is that whilst phantom won't harm, it does make weird noises.

No unfortunately, nor any way of blocking phantom power. I should have elaborated some more in my first post really, no DI needed as long as you trust and have a competent soundman! I do take a DI box to those situations and sometimes use it. You forget these things when you run your own pa, sorry.