Jack

I'm fairly sure it was my thread. Hook on the board! That way you can have loop on the pedals and THAT WAY you can safely put pedals on carpet.

I have no experience with the Bass VI clone, but the Harley Benton that I own is brilliant and I've never seen a bad word written about any of their basses. If I had to take a punt and buy unplayed it'd be on that.

My indie-rock type band uses the 712s, and whilst they're decent PA speakers they don't hold a candle to my Barefaced FR800 in terms of either output or bass response. I did a quick shootout once in a rehearsal room and I feel that they'd be great for guitar or something but they couldn't carry bass in a room IME. I haven't used the 732 but by all accounts they're much more capable, with RCF at least I'd say you need the not-budget ones. On the basis that the 735s are largely overkill and the 712s aren't really enough the 732 seem to be the sweet spot. Of course, you may have a different definition of 'loud enough' to me.

If it helps any, I got a Stingray in a trade that came with the MMSR already installed. I knew that the original preamp was better, so I took it out and sold it. I then immediately regretted it and bought another. It's almost worth it just to have bloomin' center detentes on the bass and treble, but the semi-parametric mid means it's capable of a lot more tonal variation than many basses.

Gotcha, I do now notice that you said 'combo cabs' and that does make sense. Maybe I should stop skiving at work and then I would have the time to read posts properly. 🙂 To answer the actual question: I don't know of any female/female 1/4" couplers or male/female extension cables that can handle speaker-level signals. To be fair, at the voltages that bass amps use I don't like ANY 1/4" connections, but as you've noticed, they're your only choice here. You may have to make one.

I don't understand, you say you've got two combos and then you say don't?

That's the exact stand that I use. A micro head might work on top of it but my rack just has to go on the floor.

Swap you for a Helix for a gig or two? Actually, for the benefit of the OP I'll PM you.

Hah! No, sorry, didn't mean for it to come out like that. I'm a serial gear flipper but a (my) 1001ii is one of the very few things I regret selling and I wish I'd held onto it. There's enough out there that I'll just wait until I need an amp again before buying another one, but if I ever do see mine for sale I'm buying it back whether I need it or not.

If it has a capital 'J' on the back in black sharpie then I'd like it back please.

Power strip at the top on the back, one (easy to reach) switch for everything. The real problem is (and Ashdown are just as bad) there's no secondary input on the back. I'm buying a rackmount head => I'm probably going to rack mount it => I likely have other rack gear (tuners, wireless, etc), all of which has the I/O on the back => I have to have a stupid trailing cable from the back to the front of the rack that I have to plug and unplug every time or at best some custom job that feeds through. Props to Peavey for getting it so right with the Tour series.

Is that an offer? Where, exactly, in the north east? Thunderfunk is my dream amp... 😇

As mentioned, lots of cheaper basses get very close to the sound but not the feel. 'Real' Rays feel somehow solid. Confident. Keep an eye out for one on here, there's nothing spoiling so wait for a good deal. I sold my black one for not much over your £800 and it was pristine. My red one would be way under your budget if I listed it here. If you're ever in Newcastle...

They're by far my favourite amps, I've had a 1001ii (the only amp I regret selling), a MBF, MB500 and an MBE. All bombproof and all fantastic to listen to.

I was thinking more along the lines of bass > effects (you mention a board so I'm assuming) > BDDI (set to sound good through the PA) > parallel output to amp. That way the BDDI can be twiddled to the soundman's content and the amp o yours without either affecting the other.

It sounds as though you want the tube drive and general 'character' from the GK amp but not the eq? You're right that it's either pre-both or post-both. I had the same amp and thought the same thing, normally the 'pre-eq' setting on an amp is still after the gain control, not so on the many GK amps I've tried. If you simply must have the amp's character then it sounds as though you've got the set the DI to 'post' and either live with not really being able to make too many eq changes after soundcheck or putting an external eq in the effects loop. If you can get the character from somewhere else then your BDDI suggestion is as good as any other. I don't like them before an amp, so I'd set it all up beforehand, never change the settings and then send the parallel output to the amp head if it were me. A little off the wall here, but I remember my GK Plex did a very good impression of my Fusion. What about putting a Plex on your board set just so for the FOH and then running a totally seperate line into your amp?

It's an easy DIY job. But if you add up the cost of all the pieces you'll see why they're expensive.

I'm starting to wonder that too. Assuming it isn't: OP, many people are trying to give you good advice on here but with your complete lack of understanding it's very difficult to help you. Nothing, nothing, will be as good as paying a local sound engineer for a few hours of their time to walk you through some of the basics of setting up your system. Where are you? Maybe a local basschatter will step up? And I second the recommendation for the book above, it's a good read.

I have that mixer (and I've had it's predecessor the Compact too) and it's a brilliant choice for what you want.