skidder652003

If you can afford one go for it. You could probably move it on for what you paid for it. I have one, hardly use it anymore (heavy) but now and again it comes out for what I hope is a possible special gig/venue. I had the same curiosity over the valve ownership/experience as you and I'm glad I took the plunge but it can be expensive to service, especially a re-valve. If I was going to do it again, I'd go lighter so something like a Handbox would be my suggestion.

sadly not but I'm a little disappointed that you didn't put up a picture of a bitchin' allen key...

had a play, that's pretty good fun and great for ideas. Thanks.

God I'm old...I was expecting Graham Bonnet

great news that evaluation doesn't run out after 60 days btw. Reaper runs as normal for ever, they just put a temporary popup at the beginning to remind you to buy a license when you can.

yeah MP4 is MPEG-4. Still no sound though? Weird. Try Format as QT/MOV/MP4 Try the video codec as MJPEG Try Audio codec as 16 bit PCM what are you playing back the video on? if you have a windows machine it's worth downloading VLC player (free) as it has the right codecs for reaper.

I'm not too sure but I wonder if that mpeg 2 format might be an issue? I usually render video in mpeg 4 or MOV files with 16 or 24 bit PCM for audio.

Markbass 210, 44lbs. Not tried it but I have the 112 combo and it's light as a feather (well, not quite). I imagine this would be killer too https://www.gak.co.uk/en/mark-bass-cmd-102p/4281?gclid=Cj0KCQjwmIuDBhDXARIsAFITC_4u9OlS10r8GkLJqOAwhOVoRCxxZ8gOa7-2hLYs28du33NFUoAKqGEaAlJ5EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

thats brilliant thank you! Downloaded it, unzipped it and it fired straight up in reaper!

nick cave?

who?

I have used my markbass combo on a tilted stand as a monitor, i.e. in front and to the right of me, as well as going through that and DI to the PA. Worked well, could certainly hear myself for a change.

we had RCF 310's briefly as stage monitors but IMO they struggled at higher volumes, especially for bass. We swapped them for 315's and they're much better. Depends on your volumes I guess.

I've never considered myself a complete bass player until I can slap to a competent degree. I still can't (currently attempting to learn Love Games and struggling). Probably an issue with being in thrall to it in the 80's.

they get good reviews

supposedly, haven't put it up yet

weirdly I bought a 3 x 3 m gazeebo last week, never thought of using it with the band. Comes with sides too. Annoyingly mine cost over double yours, hope I haven't been ripped off!

I run reaper on both a mac and PC and there are small differenced but both are stable. As the trial version is the full version without any time limit (they just ask you to pay when you can, £60) why don't you just download it and give it a go? I've also got Garageband and Harrison Mixbus and I always go back to Reaper.

The free version of DaVinci resolve is probably more than most of us would ever need, it's amazing but a pretty steep learning curve.

ELO 1 and ELO 2 , both pretty rubbish, On the Third Day and onwards until Out Of The Blue, all belters.

Had an XR18. Couldn't get on with it. As others have said it's a steep learning curve and as me and the drummer were responsible for the sound during the gig, fiddling with a tablet mid song was too much of a faff so we went back to an analogue (RCF) desk. The ability to use it as a DAW during live performance would have been useful for sure but for us as a pub band recording our gigs on a zoom field recorder to mix and release on YouTube and Facebook has been fine. We definitely would have found it handy to record our more recent "studio" rehearsals but we got a Tascam US-16x08 for that. For the money the Behringer is hard to beat but it depends on how much you want to get out of it and how much you're prepared to put into learning it.

time to drop this old nugget in....