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  1. Ramirez
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  2. Ramirez started following Live tone , ON HOLD - Harley Benton Beatbass fretless with LaBella flats. , Jack Casady Fretless bass and 3 others
  3. Ramirez
    I'm selling my Beatbass fretless, because I really fancy one of the new Epi Casady fretless, and I'm struggling to get to grips with a short scale fretless alongside a double bass and a fretted electric! It's in as new condition, barely used, with LaBella 760FHBB flatwound strings and a soft case. The bass sounds great, pickups are powerful and noise-free. The only work that's really needed is that the nut is really too high for fretless (was like this from factory), so it needs lowering for the bass to be at its best. Asking close to the cost of a new one due to the strings and gig bag. Pics to follow. Would much rather meet in person than post. Aled
  4. Ramirez
    Anyone else had a go on one of these? I'm seriously tempted.
  5. Ramirez
    I think you're confusing 'professional' and 'elite'. Most professional players play off the shelf basses, and I'm sure plenty of them own and play Squiers. My DPD delivery guy doesn't get to drive Max Verstappen's F1 car, but they're both professional drivers.
  6. Ramirez
    Quite- I was using them as examples that ‘unbalanced’ isn’t inherently ‘lower quality’ - it’s just a different system. ‘Line level’ and ‘headphone level’ can be quite close though. And they can all vary a lot!
  7. Ramirez
    Certainly! It’s always a good idea to balance them as soon as possible with a DI box, whether that be a guitar signal or an unbalanced out from an amp. Speaker and headphone feeds are usually unbalanced though, without problems. And there’s the added bonus that you send a stereo unbalanced signal down one XLR if you’re willing to take the risk with noise! I’ve done that a few with robust line-level signals from keyboards on occasion- worked fine and cut down on stage clutter.
  8. Ramirez
    Fair enough, but I still think accuracy is important even when simplifying things - an XLR cable is not just a ‘mic cable’, and stating so could cause confusion in other situations. And unbalanced connections really don’t mean a lower quality sound, generally or otherwise.
  9. Ramirez
    Balanced connections are very often carried on TRS jacks too, not just XLRs. They’re not “noise cancelling”, just more immune to interference etc, which is useful in some scenarios. They’re usually line-level signals, apart from DI boxes and microphones. Also, unbalanced does not mean “lower quality sound”. it’s just a different electrical system. Many extremely high-end audio equipment of all descriptions use unbalanced connections - it doesn’t sacrifice any ‘quality’ as long as everything works as intended.
  10. Ramirez
    Ha! You're welcome to borrow one (or two...) if you want to try. I have 2x Camden 500 modules in a small chassis that's not seeing too much use at the moment (another four are in the main studio rack, and the EC1 goes wherever I go to solve all the unpredictable of mic pre/DI/reamping/monitoring problems I face from day to day!). A few days ago it was 'reamping' a real Steinway grand piano through a rotary speaker pedal in an opera recording on location... you can't do with that with all those other great bass preamps !
  11. Ramirez
    Great! Hard to know what could be lost from the EC1 though - I've certainly found all the headphone mixer options and inputs useful in various in-ear monitoring scenarios. The CAST is probably a bit redundant for performing bassists so could be dropped... but having said that, I've used that on stage with an N22 too!
  12. Ramirez
    Quite. That holds true for any acoustic instrument. But sometimes a pickup is the practical solution if a mic causes other issues. And if I had an upright pickup that gave me that sound I posted, I'd be very happy!
  13. Ramirez
    Does this cut your mustard? It's a cheap Harley Benton Beatbass fretless 😁! I fitted a very cheap piezo pickup (not a bass specific one) that I found in the shed, and ran it through an upright IR in Helix. Annoyingly, it sounds more convincing than a pickup on my real upright...
  14. Ramirez
    Well, it isn't a double bass at all - it's a cheap Harley Benton Beatbass fretless and a cheap old piezo pickup I found in the shed, though an upright bass IR on a Line 6 Helix. If I'm being honest, I'm unable to get a sound that's nearly as convincing from a pickup with my real upright! - my Krivo pickup sounds more 'electric', and the piezo doesn't work as well either. Ho-hum...
  15. Ramirez
    Thanks both. I'll admit, there's a twist in this tale, which is why I'm not yet being specific - I'll wait for a few more opinions on the sound! Aled
  16. Ramirez
    Right, I've been messing around with pickups and mic for live use, and I think I've found something decent. Would you be happy sending this sound to FOH? (Mind my intonation 🫢!)
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