SimonK

There's plenty of old Trace Elliot 2x10s that are front ported:

I think a lot of worship leading is being sensitive to the congregation. The nice thing with playing on your own is that you can change the set/arrangement fairly quickly in response - e.g. if everyone is looking around choosing something a bit more upbeat, but if they are looking like they are getting into it you can play something more sensitive. The key is to not try to be a full band - if it is just you focus on the things that one person can do well.

I was quite tempted on a few things there until I saw the additional fees - crazy!

I too play in church, and once did a big conference that was streamed live. They had one mixer for the auditorium and then everything was doubled and sent into a studio where there was a separate engineer mixing to a set of relatively crappy speakers, arguing that is what most people would be listening through. I imagine the two mixes were very different. Taking a feed off aux sends is what we do for recording on occasion, and I normally set the mix through headphones, although its often pretty rough. Ideally, as above, you would have a separate person doing it.

If the feed to facebook mirrors the feed to the FOH you will have too little bass especially if you are using an amp as well, simply because low frequencies tend to propagate around a room very well (and even more so if there are subs) so a lot of the bass people hear in the room will probably be bouncing off things. But for a completely online feed you will need to be boosted way more in the mix to be heard in a similar way as in the room. Also bear in mind people tend to listen to live feeds through tiny speakers or cheap headphones, so the chances are even if the bass frequencies are there again no one will hear it! ...it can be a sad and unappreciated life playing bass...

Last Sunday for a while as going away for a couple weeks and have a lot of children's cricket coming up (for my sins I am junior coach at our cricket club). As mentioned above I played the Cajon for a few songs this week, and do rather like sitting on it when also playing bass at it gives some rear-end feeling! Really digging the new Genzler preamp especially the mid boost "Curve 2" as it slices through the mix like a knife (perfect for some slap and pops at key moments!):

Right - I think this will be my last iteration for a while (said no one ever!) as it seems to do everything I need. Tuner and Compressor a must (Murder One to provide very quick momentary mute for tuning), Chorus for fretless, Fuzz as needed, EQ'ing options from both the preamp (the Genzler has two EQ curves & HPF) and Bass EQ (when everything else fails!), looper for system/amp level testing. Can run to the desk from Genzler or amp depending on situation.

You didn't say whether you also have a DI going to the mixer, and thus wanted to switch between amp OR headphones on stage leaving the DI signal intact, or switch both amp and DI off when the signal goes to headphones.

Yes I also quite like switching instruments for different songs. We have a teenage drummer so when he goes out for the youth meeting I've been switching from bass to cajon which works quite well (or "the box" as random people in the congregation call it). Mind you next week they've asked if I can play something on acoustic guitar as well during communion, but I'm not quite sure I can get all the gear in for three instruments given I couldn't possible not use two pedal boards...

For me the fact that he's musical, and not just showing off, is the main thing. There are so many youtubers that are just about jaw-dropping technique, but both his covers and originals are played to make music first and foremost!

Wow - this week's video is pretty awesome:

If there is a built in compressor on the gain to prevent clipping if set too high, there definitely will be a difference between the two controls as you will get a more compressed (and thus dynamically consistent) signal with the gain set too high so as to avoid what would presumably be not very musical distortion. So for this amp I would use the signal LED to find the "Goldilocks position" (not too hot, not too cold), and then use the master for the main volume - unless I particulary liked lots of whatever compression it happens to give!

That's fun - they've tried to make it "idiot proof" as clearly they haven't designed it to distort musically, whereas in many older tube amps that is precisely what you pay big bucks for!

Presuming you are meaning pre-amp gain vs power amp volume on an amp they are quite different things. For me the main "simple explanation" is that gain affects tone and ultimately drive/clipping used as an effect, whereas master volume just makes it louder or quieter*. Sometimes if the input signal is really low you can turn the gain up full without any appreciable difference in tone. I find the easiest way to think about it is to compare to mixing desks where gain is about balancing input levels to stop clipping and ensure levels are roughly equivalent between channels. Gain controls are often used alongside compressors to try to keep peaks no higher than about 3dB. *edit - except with tube poweramps when you get lovely poweramp distortion - but digital/solid state amps as most bass amps are shouldn't do this!

...oh and if you're right handed it stays out of the way of the bass neck as well...

Well not quite a magic trick, but it's taken me thirty years of playing in bands to realise that if you have to put a mic stand slightly to the side, it should always go on the right (if you're standing behind it) because that way gravity will tighten rather than loosen the thread on the mic clip...

Got the cab out this weekend and the good news is that the speaker works fine and the cab is in much better condition than I remember. The maybe not bad but unsure news is that the speaker does not say "Trace Elliot" on the speaker diaphragm which means it could be from before Trace started doing this, but without taking the whole thing apart I can't confirm whether the speaker is indeed original. I have no idea of the history as I think this came in as part of a clear-out deal with some other items. RE price, I think given the condition is not at all bad I would be after £50 for speaker and cab together - although as mentioned it probably isn't worth posting. I'm in SO30.

I'm just going to dig my old speaker out and check it before I commit to anything - but at risk of giving you other ideas have you seen: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186394272088?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=e2r3IhAQSrS&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Ooh couldn't quite help it...

...to be fair I was think £20ish for mine albeit we would need to work out postage/transport - the £150 would get you a working combo from ebay giving you an amp to play with too!

Wow that told me 🙂 ! Makes "in the pocket" bass lines sound quite mundane!!

Potentially silly question - but the original cab/combo comes up pretty frequently on ebay and the like so why don't you just buy another one for £150 or so and then flip the speaker? For that matter I have one currently not in use (see piccy - top cab) which I could probably sell & send to you if you want, unless you happen to be coming past Southampton anytime soon?

Just out of interest - why would you use a FreqOut on a bass? I use it on my electric guitar pedalboard for doing Jimmy Hendrix style solos when you want to mimic an amp feeding back on sustained notes, but I would never do this on a bass!

...I have a secret envelope lodged with my solicitor - "surprise" we are twice as rich as you thought due to my secret bass investment portfolio....