EBS_freak

I know, I know. I hate gold hardware. IMHO, gold only goes with black basses. BBNE2 as an example.

When I had my all white bass built, I did contemplate white pickups - but my OCD wouldn’t allow the slight mismatch of white. And I went with a nickel nut to match the frets.

Not what Marcus wanted.

Nah. It’s Marcus’ doing.

Just looking at the Butcher manual (uses the same pedal) - Found this in the manual - REMOTE SWITCH This eight-pin DIN connector is provided for the connection of the remote footswitch. You must use the included eight-pin cable, as it supplies power to the footswitch. The Butcher can also be controlled remotely via MIDI using a standard five-pin MIDI cable. For a complete description of the MIDI commands, please refer to page 12 of this owner's manual. Page 12 - heres the buttons CHANNEL SWITCH Toggles between the Clean channel and the Crunch channel. EFFECTS LOOP ON/OFF SWITCH Toggles the Effects Loop on or off. When the indicator light is lit, the Effects Loop is active. CLEAN CHANNEL BOOST Switches on the preamp boost on the Clean channel. CRUNCH CHANNEL BOOST Switches on the preamp boost on the Crunch channel. MASTER VOLUME SELECT SWITCH Toggles between the Two Master Volume controls REMOTE CABLE JACK Connect the included eight-pin cable to the amp's footswitch/MIDI input jack. Note: You must use the included eight-pin cable, as it supplies the footswitchwith power. When using an external MIDI source to control the amplifier, a five-pin MIDI cable can be used. Since the Butcher uses MIDI control, changes made to switches on the amplifier will be reflected by the LED's on the footswitch, and vice versa. Interestingly enough, it looks like you can change midi channel - Hold the last footswitch (Master) for 2 seconds to enter MIDI channel select mode. The LEDs on the first four footswitches will blink. You can then choose MIDI channel 1, 2, 3 or 4 by pressing one of those. You can also press Master again to cancel the operation. But that won't allow you to actually do much with CC with the looks of things. Anyway, you may find this handy. http://zorkmids.com/?p=1425

Well spotted. I suspect it's a 5 pin implementation fronted with an 8 pin connector to make you buy the official accessory. I've looked on some reviews on Youtube - looks to be 8 pin DIN. Or maybe they binned the MIDI in the end. Just going to do some research on that particular pedal...

I think the Peavey footswitch is hard coded. Wouldn't be too hard to switch the guts out with something like an arduino. Probably want to look into the power requirements first though - I'm guessing it's going to be the standard 5v, which is pretty useful as a lot of self programmable microprocessors will run at 3.5/5v, So yeah, pretty straightforward to mod that into something with some different hard coded values. Check out @stoo's thread for inspiration...

Good 🙂 Remember the mic sensitivity though - otherwise that mic is going to be squealing all over the place.

All good. So happy so far then? I think you’ll be pleased with it. It’s defo the unit I would always favour before going to ULXD - but that’s a different price all together!

Yes - It gently removes all the low subby bass, that’s not really required on vocals.

They are pro bit of kit. They are superbly made. It's not too complicated - in reality, all you'll need to do is this - Mic - turn down the sensitivity. Receiver - turn up the AF output (eg the make up gain). Set on the same frequency... done. Just use on the of the presets within ch38. You may want to turn on the hi pass filter if your desk hasn't got one.

More to the point, is it in your hands yet? Next step is to get a set of Eneloop batteries!

Have fun!

There's a couple of Italian clinic musicians... I think it's fairly certain they are going to be off the table.

Just checking! 😛

You think they make pretty amps? Theres only one manufacturer that I think makes consistently visually pleasing amps... Darkglass.

Well worth the watch.

Eye of the beholder - I've always loved the look of their no nonsense HD and TD amps. It when they started with the artwork on the Reidmar that my eyes began to twitch.

“We have installed signage in all toilets and digital screens across the venue advising staff and visitors on the importance of maintaining good hand and personal hygiene“ What a sad state of affairs when people are too inept to even step up when it comes to their own hygiene. Mind you, I am still witnessing people doing a splash and dash, spitting in the streets and a dump and run. Dirty, dirty people. My other half is immunosuppressed - and what really angers me is that her health very much depends upon the basic rules of hygiene being followed by others... and people are too selfish to do that. All this stockpiling of goods - don’t people that everybody has to protect themselves to protect others...? Anyway, this is a rant for another thread. Maybe see you at the show, maybe not. If we are following the example of Italy, in a couple of weeks we will all be on lockdown anyway.

I witnessed that yesterday... yup, I'm with you on that one. I loathed it to begin with... now... grr.

As for your question between 8 and 9 series mics, the 9 series are seen as being audibly better than the 8 series. What that means in reality, from my experience, is that the 9 has a better high end (more airy, less harsh), and a thicker mid tone.

I concur - its better to have a channel with no processing on it, rather than introduce processing that can bring with it more troubles than benefits. Presets don't take into account mic types which can greatly influence gain, eq, thresholds... I think you need to understand the processing and what every control does before even contemplating using them. The amount of times I've seen people struggle with PA because of poor use of compression and EQ, I'm thinking to myself, concentrate on the bassics of getting things balanced before heading into the likes of compression and gates. For people new to PA, I always advise to get themselves some raw tracks and try mixing them in the DAW and understanding how things like gates, side chaining and thresholds etc work. And then take into account what works in a DAW doesn't necessarily work live. If you start compressing the hell out of stuff and adding a load of make up gain for example...

Proper getting into this video stuff... now looking at ditching 8 bit to go 10 or 12 bit so I can get more out of the grading aspect without everything falling apart. C'mon people, lets get some more content up here!

Defo.

Open it up. It's out of warranty. Chances are it's a readily available LiPo or something along that lines. Post some pics up with some identifying marks. Who knows, you may even be able to replace it with a greater capacity now that battery tech has moved on/got cheaper.