Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

Jack

⭐Supporting Member⭐
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,407

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Jack

  1. Jack
    There was an andertons video on the guitars, they look fantastic. Yes, I suppose that's the point of putting them on a shop's channel. Still, they did.
  2. Jack
    We played Anti Hero about 15 times about 10 different ways this week. Couldn't make it fit. I worry what the band next to us thought, but we've learnt and won't be playing it live.
  3. Jack
    They've both made more people happy, sold more records, made more money, and seen more of the world by playing bass than I ever did.
  4. Jack
    Hey man whatever works for you. I don't have an amp on stage, but our PA subs cross over at 120Hz and Id say 95% of the noise my bass makes is coming mainly from the tops. Maybe it'd be different if I was playing flats with my thumb in a reggae band.
  5. Jack
    Sweet, thanks! Are they good? (Of course I think I'll be finding out for myself soon)
  6. Jack
    Even if I wanted a subwoofer on stage, with all the drawbacks that would bring, there's just not much bass guitar in the subwoofer range.
  7. Jack
    After years of combat gating whilst trying to play bass at the same time, pretty much the second best thing I did for foh sound (after buying a digital desk) was put all the backing vocal mics on optogates. Not so important on a silent stage granted, but ours is ampless, not silent. And every mic is a drum mic.
  8. Jack

    NCD TCE 2x8

    Jack replied to stewblack's topic in Amps and Cabs

    Oh no that sounds terrible, they wouldn't work for me then 😆 Glad you're enjoying them,nnothing better than a sweet new rig. I had (and loved) the 2x8 combo, if the cabs are anything like that they'll be great.
  9. Jack
    Careful with the impedance, especially if they're bridged.
  10. Jack
    They're great units. Just like BigRedX I've a history of trying to make a bass amp more like a pa system. I've had racks with channel strips and pa power amps, as well as Kempers, Helicies and a few others. I had an original rack bass pod pro! The only frfr cabs I ever used with my Kemper were a pair (well, usually just one) Barefaced FR800. Sadly discontinued and something that I really regret selling, but just awesome. 800 watts into what was essentially a Barefaced Big Baby. My Kemper never crossed over with any of my other attempts at frfr stage amplification but I have no reason to believe it wouldn't work just fine with any of the usual contenders from RCF, QSC, etc. Sorry about the crap photo. Camera phones weren't so good in eons passed
  11. Jack
    Yeah of course man, I know me and you have been on thread before extolling the virtues of the guitar amp models in Helix, or just not using any amps/cabs at all. I just wouldn't want someone new to digital fakery thinking that amp models were just an eq block is all. Funnily enough I've joined a pop punk band. I attacked the Helix the way I normally would and never quite got it right, until I had to make a patch really quickly and so I just faked a normal rig and set up a patch using an SVT/810 model with a compressor after it. Stuck with it, it's the right sound for this band. I mean, yawn, but it works!
  12. Jack
    I disagree with a lot of that mind. I agree with you that, a lot of the time, you don't need an amp or cab model to achieve great tones, or even the tone you want. A lot of my helix patches don't have amp and cab sims. The 'artistry' or whether or not one should use an amp model, cab model, or IR is up to personal choice. However, factually speaking the amp and cab models in the helix (and especially in the kemper) are much much more than just eq filters. They're an interactive, deep, musical, piece of code that can do things to a sound that no amount of eq could ever do. Except maybe a constantly adjusted, instant real time eq along with compression and distortion. But if we're doing that, then isn't everything that we do (including note choice) just eq?
  13. Jack
    The Harley Benton ones are great yeah. Much bigger than the average though. I know you said you don't need anything and so they aren't worth it, but I mean are you really really sure you don't need anything else from Thomann? You've been very good this year. The BC ones were a limited run unfortunately. Although maybe @ped still has some behind the sofa or in an old pair of pants?
  14. Jack
    I have some of the Harley Benton ones. To be honest I don't use them much as my basses all have staplocks, but that has caught me out a few times as my strap now can't really be used with any other basses. I always make sure to have some rubber washers in my gig bag, 'cos you never know. The Harley Benton ones seem just fine and I was already putting an order in, so for like £2 for 4 they weren't bad. Might be tempted to sort a bulk bag on ebay or aliexpress if I used them all the time though. I know you said you aren't bothered about the branding, but could these convince you?
  15. Jack
    I would do this with a second hand bass I bought from somewhere/someone trusted but the person who deps for me in my indie once apparently (I wasn't there obviously) showed up to the gig with a sealed cardboard box. He used a pen knife to take the staples out, pulled the plastic wrap off and unleashed his new Sire V7. It had been delivered as he was packing the car. That's commitment, have you seen the way some delivery basses arrive new from warehouses? That Nash is GORGEOUS. I have been on the lookout for just such a vintage-looking super p. If you don't bond with it, let me know first?
  16. Jack
    That's the proper way, right? That's the way my two Spectors are done. That's the way I've done any 2+2.
  17. Jack
    It's the strings yeah!
  18. Jack
    Yeah if you're using the filter in the subs then run the tops full range.
  19. Jack
    If you're ever gigging anywhere near Newcastle (you're not a million miles away) then happy to loan you my mixer or I'll soundman for a gig if that helps? I've had my XR18 for something like 9 years now and there's no way I would go back to a desk desk.
  20. Jack
    Tell me about it. Our drummer (otherwise a very restrained, softly-spoken, low-ego, plays-quietly type) insists on micing every drum at every gig. I mean, I don't mind, they're his mics and it's his time, but in The Spanner and Mallet to an audience of 4 people and 3 teeth I've not got any of them turned on. Maybe a bit of kick but even that's to make the drum sound bigger, not louder.
  21. Jack
    It really wouldn't surprise me, the power of of the mind to affect things that it shouldn't is super, super strong. Not like in a woo-woo, you only use 10% of your brain type thing, just in terms of expectation, bias and placebo.
  22. Jack
    Cheers man. That showreel was only February but it's already a bit cringe. You can tell we're trying really hard to remember the songs and not really enjoying ourselves. The mistakes, the fretboard looking, the song choice, my hair! It got us a year of gigs so it served us well, and there'll be a better one soon. I'm a LOT more proud of my video editing skills than I am my bass playing skills, that's for sure.
  23. Jack
    Thanks! I actually am running in stereo, I was just abbreviating as I was on my tablet and it's a pain to type. The stereo bus on my mixer is running through a (virtual) stereo eq to balance out the volume and tone difference between my ears (about 10dB down across the whole range and about 15dB down below 250Hz in my right ear). I'm just worried that if I have the volume "correct" in my good ear, then it's secretly 10-15dB louder than it seems in my bad ear. However, I am trying to run the whole thing really quietly anyway, so hopefully it won't be too bad. 18 years and I'm still a medical marvel. No one seems to know why I'm deaf.
  24. Jack
    Oh good. I was wondering if I'd somehow been playing bass for over 20 years and not noticed people doing this on the regular.
  25. Jack
    Is this common? Or is it as unusual as I think?
×
×
  • Create New...