Jack

My beloved G&L SB2 Tribute in suitably pop punk seafoam green into a Shure glxd and a hx stomp. It looks and sounds like this.

Indeed. Last weekend was my unofficial first gig with the iems, I'd kept the box and all the little plastic screen protectors, just in case. Over the week though I decided I was committed and got everything sorted. I hate fiddly setup stuff so I put the iem transmitter in a rack with a power strip and a 10m xlr loom. Half the connections to plug in and out, better protection, more power sockets on stage and a nifty light. Had my first gig with it on Saturday. I'm a little worried about the volume though, with my deafness in one ear I've got the stereo balanced panned to my deaf side, and I'm concerned that I'm hitting my deafer ear with too much volume. More experiments to follow, although I'm loving the clarity and the freedom to move more on stage. Sorry for the bad in situ photo, the drummer's ego light blew out the shot.

Pop Punk Prty's 4th ever gig. A nice, small affair in Ushaw Moor. Don't know how backline bands would squeeze on the stage but hey. First gig we've done that I'm happy with without qualifiers. No "it was OK but..." or "well, for our second gig..." we just nailed it.

Ashdown, Stoneham and Handbox all do small tube amps. Barefaced 10" cabs are voiced very old school. Some if the suggestions above aren't in the same tonal ballpark as your current rig. Sorry @BassAdder60 the Eich you mention is fantastic, I would prefer it to the Fender Bassman all day, but if you want something close to the Fender it's miles out. Is it really getting you close to your V4B?

Well also valve amps tend to run the same power into any load. They don't change with the load like solid state amps.

If you want the sound of the amp in your headphones then you can use the effects send or the preamp out on the head into any headphone amp. I bet thomann do a very usable one cheap.

See? The markets not slow, the prices are high. Guarantee that if I put a Wal up for £20 it'd be gone in minutes.

Do you think maybe the ridiculous prices that people are asking and the fact that the market is slow might be linked? 😁

2016 I sold a black and maple, 2 band, single humbucker (so about as wide appeal as they get) for £750.

I'm in for a pa meet up. Xr18, qsc tops, a full alto system and a full rcf system here, not that I could bring all of it at once.

The Euro is (it wasn't but I replaced the preamp), the Pulse isn't. Unless there's tape or some other shielding in behind the plastic in the cavity? Neither have issues with my Shure wireless that I gig with.

I'm trying IEMs for the first time this weekend, but once you've done wireless bass you never go back. Seriously, I don't think I've played a gig with a cable in 15 years. Even at home I have a set of the Amoon bugs.

That's reassuring. Thanks. Yes, I'm painfully aware of the price of the Sennheiser. Y'all are enablers.

Well that's an interesting comment because don't you use the MIPRO MI58 for your IEMS? The Mipro and the G4 were my top two contenders.

This is part of it. I've never had a problem with volume from active basses, it's the noise from the switching system. My Stingray (with a John East preamp) is just fine but both my Spectors present a constant whining sound through the bugs. A 30cm 1/4" extender cable sorts it out.

I can't believe I only sold my QSC PLX1602 for £250. There's no need to buy a cheap amp new when you can get that kind of pro-grade amp for that kind of money.

After doing all the research and telling myself I can justify the cost I have bought a pair of Shure SE215s and a Sennheiser EW G4 in the free band. However, before I unbox it all for the gig this weekend I'm having second thoughts about the fact that maybe I should have gone digital instead? People seem vehemently entrenched online, what's the thoughts here? I guess it's compander vs latency really? I chose analogue for two reasons. Firstly, there's already some 8ms+ cumulative latency in my signal path. Shure wireless (4ms) HX Stomp (2ms) and Behringer XR18 (2ms). I think that the extra 2-3ms or more might take me over into it being noticeable? Also, why can't we invent a standard digital interconnect? EVERY SINGLE THING in my bass signal chain, even up to the speakers, does it's own discreet ADDA. I don't have anything analogue after it leaves the pickups. The other reason was the fact that our digital space is pretty full. I've got the router, a tablet. up to 3 phones, my shure wireless, a line 6 guitar wireless, a cheap Amazon bug-style wireless, and 2 xvive IEM wirelesses all spread out over 2.4 and 5.8. The extra just seemed like I'm asking for trouble. Those who have the Senn G4 (and I've seen you in this thread!) are you happy with it still? Would you go digital if you were buying today? How does it sound at gig volume? (Whatever that means for an IEM). It sounds ok at home... Gahhhhhh, this is hard. So much easier thanks to this thread though.

I've always wondered about people who do that. Do the straps not get all 'in the way' in the cases? Do you use leather or nylon?

Oh right. I took it as a reference to the lead guitarist I mentioned. No idea who the dancer was, but he's at his mate's wedding so I hope he had fun.

Thank the catholic god I've not once cared about what the pope thinks.

I'm not sure I understand, were we THAT bad?

We've just dropped American Idiot by Green Day. I told the guys I didn't want to play a song that used the word that also means meatballs but with offal. They said cool, life moved on.

Against my better judgement that was kind of me on Saturday. It was the wedding of a good mate of mine, the singer in my technically-still-going-but-don't-do-much-these-days hard rock band. Thanks to the excellent Sound Cartel for loaning us some gear, even if I do have the sneaking suspicion that you just felt as though you couldn't say no to the groom. Still, the others were going to do it over my objections anyway, if you can't beat em, join 'em. Anyway, here we are trying to remember some songs we used to play. I think it's clear that I'm rather embarrassed about the whole thing and I'm trying to hide. Unlike our lead guitarist. VID-20240602-WA0000.mp4

As has been mentioned a lot in this thread, different strokes for different folks. But I've got say man, that sounds a little mental to me. If they're not willing to think this through then I don't have the time to be babysitting them. Of course, I'll help out in a pinch if something has seriously gone unavoidably wrong, but if the guitarist has broken a string and they don't have either another guitar or another string then they're playing without. Happy to cancel the gig, I'll even go an tell the bar manager, party organiser, bride, whomever that the drummer says we need to go home because he's broken his only stick. I have in the past purposefully drawn up plans to share gear to save carrying. When I had a full fat rack Helix the two guitarists in that band knew they didn't need to bring a shared amp because I had a stereo facility that I wasn't using. In my current band I've got an unused channel on the desk set up with a Sansamp emulator in case one of the guitar or bass processors goes down. Nobody needs to bring a spare mic because the backing vocals that the other 3 of us do aren't really that important, so one of us would just not sing if ours went, or the main singer would borrow one of our mics if his went. The two guitarists in my current band alternate which one of them brings 'the' spare guitar, etc. That's not a problem, because that's planning, but don't just shrug your shoulders and hope I'm bailing you out. Every few weeks there's a 'do you bring a spare bass?' thread on here, and it's those people that we're dealing with here!

Yeah the tens are "this cab sounds great" and the twelves much more "this cab doesn't sound of anything". Within reason obviously.