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[quote name='funkydario' timestamp='1486579033' post='3233001'] SA Soleman...already in my buying list [/quote] Is it the SA Soleman which enables that... or will any standard MIDI controller do it?

Hang on, I didn't think you could do remote changes via MIDI...! This could change things...

Paul Denman is my benchmark when it comes to Stingrays... his tone with Sade when I saw them live was thunderous. I don't really get the Flea tone chasing... but agree, Flea will always, for me, be associated with that MM pickup in the sweetspot... no matter what piece of wood or carbon hybrid it is attached to. I think the appeal for Fender Flea basses with the MM setup would actually limit sales to the die hard Flea fans... whereas the stacked knob jazz that is currently up for grabs is appealing to a far wider ranger of players - both Flea and non Flea fans. Interesting to see what Fender do... but I suspect they would build you a Flea bass as above... if you go via the custom shop... otherwise, just get a body, have it routed accordingly and painted and stick a Fender neck on it. Job done.

Drums is easy if you want to keep it cheap - kick drum mic and overhead condenser (those small pencil sized ones - but remember that they will require phantom power from your desk. You haven't stated what desk you are running but most will send phantom power). Pretty much anything will do... red5audio is as good as anything (if not better than most) for not a great amount of outlay... and cheap enough to mic the whole kit.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1486315429' post='3230825'] possibly, and they do take a few hours to 'burn in'... but it was the drums that sounded worse to me... just lacking a bit of punch compared to what I was expecting. A bit 'muffled' and distant in a way. I need to try them properly, and also make sure the buds I choose are the correct fit as that makes a huge difference. [/quote] Muffled and distant does not sound right at all. Defo check that you have the right buds and no ear wax in them, which can mess with things.

mcnach - interesting approach, I'm very interested to see what your results are like - especially with no cab sim on the end of that monitor feed. As an alternative... and I've talked about these in the thread before... but if you haven't considered, it may be worth while getting one or more of these if you start to get serious about your monitoring when you are utilising a third party front of house. One of these https://www.studiospares.com/Microphones/Splitter-Combiners/Studiospares-RED800-Mic-Splitter_458950.htm and say a cheaper digital mixer such as - XR12 (will give you 2 auxes and a l/r mix that can be used for monitoring) or a XR16 will give you 4 auxes and a l/r mix (that can also be used for monitoring) will enable you to plug your band into your monitoring rig and send a replication of whats on the XLRs to the front of house from the splitter. This will give every band member their own mix that is controllable from your android/iphone/pc A cheap 8 way snake from thomanns will plug your splitter into the foh box. If you need more than 8 channels on your monitoring, you can always double up your splitter and snakes... but obviously you are limited to the number of channels your digital mixer can take.

I saw the Studiospares one in a rehearsal room this week. They look to be the ticket - thanks for the heads up, 6 ordered! Thanks for the link markstuk!

It sounds like it's not a volume thing that you are having problems, more of a "fatness" thing. Have you tried to make the jazz bass "bloom" more, via something like a compressor or overdrive (when I say overdrive, I don't mean distortion, I mean more like the soft drive you'd get from tubes - it thickens the sound before hitting that audible distortion)?

I love a good DI - I'm now running a Kemper straight out of the PA... and having that in your inears is bliss.

The trouble is with these things, is that you can never really test them out in anger to see how well they are going to work for you. A grand is a lot of money to pot luck on.

Utterly disgraceful. I've never ordered from them because of all the horror stories.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1486142144' post='3229630'] I'm very pleased with a K&M boom stand I bought a couple of years back. [/quote] But which one? K&M can get very pricey indeed!

As the topic title... I'm looking to buy a few boom stands to mic up a percussionist that will be on some gigs with me... but don't want to spend a load of money... but don't want to buy complete crap!

[quote name='bassjim' timestamp='1486123913' post='3229389'] On the Markbass website there looks like something is possibly going on. Are we all about to start selling our beloved EBS equipment ? ( thats a joke BTW) [/quote] Marcus was still using EBS when he was endorsed by SWR. I wouldn't read too much into the whole endorsement thing in this case!

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1486002147' post='3228477'] ^ Nice! ^ Never played a kemper live but have recorded with one (no, I don't own it) - I shouuld get the chap who owns it to profile the V4.. [/quote] It's a very impressive piece of kit - I've only just started to delve deep into it. It certainly seems that it delivers everything it promises to. Just hooking it up to the remote and editing the fx to taste. So far there seems to no difference in my HD350 and the Kemper take on it.

Finally went for it, after years of hesitance.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1485775649' post='3226512'] And there's that lot of players that use passive P and J's and say they don't want anything to do with active basses but add a Sansamp (or similar) in the signal chain, thus making their basses "active". [/quote] You could route your bass and stick the Sansamp in your bass. Probably wouldn't be much wood left in your bass... But then of course, routing for batteries and circuits obviously takes away from everything that a passive has on the "tone wood" front.

You may/may not find this interesting. Think we've covered most of it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3CDoE1jaWQ

Looking forward to both of your guys opinions on your respective toys - maybe stick them in the big in ear monitor post to try and keep everything together?

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1485466887' post='3224243'] you're a bad man [1] [/quote]