EBS_freak

i suspect your problem is EQ related - if you feel you are lacking balls, check out the compressor on the XR18 and push the make up gain on your bass channel. It willl help you get back in the game - I suspect the transients of your bass were ultimately robbing volume (presuming that your gain structure is right on the desk). I would always take pre EQ - why wouldn't you - apart from the reasons already mentioned above, the EQ on the XR18 is infinitely more powerful the EQs found on most typical bass amps. I don't know how big your marquee was but your system is fairly gnarly for a small PA and would certainly have no problem giving you enough volume for the dance floor straight infront of you (not necessarily the rest of the marquee)

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1466778370' post='3078749'] Why not just use the headphone socket on the MB2 to power your headphones? Or have I missed something (always possible!)? [/quote] The output is not usually powerful enough - but crucially, by using a mixer, you can blend the two signals and mix your bass independent of the monitor engineer. "More me"

[quote name='JustinBass' timestamp='1466694862' post='3077964'] I was thinking of buying something like an EBS microbass which is a DI/preamp, but what's the point if we are supposed to provide a totally dry signal to the sound man? [/quote] The DI on the MB2 allows for pre-eq out. The jack output allows for the EQed signal out. What I would do is use the DI to send to FOH and plug the output of the MB2 to a mini mixer and also plug in the return from the foh/monitor desk into your little mixer which you use to power your headphones.

Thumbs up !

What do you make of the QU? I did a show on one last weekend - great deal for the money - although I did miss my DCAs.

[quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1465922360' post='3072150'] He is looking at going wired. Any recommendations for the beltpack? The Behringer P1 looks great for £40 (and being an XR18 owner, I'm no longer worried about the Behringer name). The other option is the LD HPA 1. Rolls were always on the radar when I was looking but they don't seem that readily available these days for a single unit. [/quote] There's a few been mentioned in the thread - you can't really go wrong, they all do the same sort of thing. This one looks quite interesting too - http://www.whirlwinduk.com/blog/introducing-the-pw1/ but with the P1 at £40, its hard to justify the cost of anything else. Even the Millennium one at £35 is hard to pitch against the P1... who wouldn't pay the extra fiver for the portability?

[quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1465922360' post='3072150'] On the other hand the Sennheiser EW300 iem G3 can now be had for £619 - these were just short of a grand when I was in the market. [/quote] Where is this from? Most of the cheaper vendors are around £690. That's a great price. I guess the PSM300 has had a significant impact on the Sennheiser then... Sennheiser were pitching them against the PSM900 and not having anything to counteract the PSM300, I've guess they have been forced to drop their price to stay in the game, despite the EW300 being more feature rich than the PSM300. ...unless they are making way for G4 (which to be fair is probably about due).

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/286683-good-quality-wireless-iem-inc-earphones-for-l1k/ Just thought I'd share it here. With 1964 quads actually being pretty expensive nowadays, here's a way of getting a decent quad at under 500 quid. Basically a set of UE900s with a reshell.

[quote name='cetera' timestamp='1465894991' post='3071846'] OK, cheers! I think I'll just go for the UE900s...... and if I want moulds I'll do that later. Thanks a lot! [/quote] No worries. That's going to be about the cheapest way of getting a good quad driver custom. You may find that the supplied tips are well suited to your ears, in which case, although being lovely to wear, customs may be an unnecessary expense. Good luck and let us know how you get on.

You are going to struggle for custom quads at that price... But... How about the UE900s and this - http://www.custom-inearmonitors.co.uk/reshells-remoulds/reshelling-remoulding-service-for-in-ear-monitors.html

Easy. Sennheiser EW300 and a set of UE900s (quad driver universals, dual lows). [url="http://pro.ultimateears.com/ue-900s"]http://pro.ultimateears.com/ue-900s[/url] I would take UE over Shure any day. I've had a friend order from here - [url="http://www.eglobalcentral.co.uk/logitech-ultimate-ears-ue900s-headphone-en.html"]http://www.eglobalce...adphone-en.html[/url] - and despite the dubious looking website, when they arrived, they are the real McCoy. Compare to the price at Bax - [url="https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/in-ears/ultimate-ears-ue900-in-ear-headphones"]https://www.bax-shop...-ear-headphones[/url] As for the Shure vs the Sennheiser systems, at that price point I'd take the EW300... basically due to its non fixed channels in the the RF section. They do however, both sound great and you'd do great with either. The pack of the premium Shure does feel slightly better than the Sennheiser... but the Sennheiser transmitter is both more feature rich and more premium in quality. To get the similar build quality and extended feature range, you have to go up to the PSM900 - which is a significant price hike. I would suggest buying the Channel 70 (Range E) version of the Sennheiser as you can use it license free (here and in some of Europe) - but if you find out that if you are getting problems with Channel 70, it will tune down low enough to 823-832Hz which is now included in the licensed mic license (which is aka as the channel 38 license... although 823-832 doesn't fit in the channel 38 spectrum). If you buy the channel 38 version (Region GB), you have no option but to license it to use it legally. Hope this helps. PS can recommend these guys for the IEM system - http://www.mercury-av.com/sales/Sennheiser-In-Ear-Monitoring.html

My mate had just fitted a Bart preamp to his Jazz - I agree with it being a good choice. Fitting it in a J bass could prove tight though. Routers at the ready.

DRs last about 4 months for me but it depends how much you play/sweat. I've found them to be the best strings for me and do a mean impression of Marcus. A HD350 with a healthy dose of compression and pre shape engaged into some zingy speakers will get your there pretty quick. I thought you'd run a 350 with a 212 neo line at some point? With the shaping on the amp I'm not entirely convinced you'll need to much reliance on an onboard preamp.

Strings - DR HiBeams (Stainless) for sure. No signature, no nothing - straight forward HiBeams. Stainless is where this all starts.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1465557658' post='3069219'] Please run back and construct that sentence so it can be understood by humans. [/quote] Sorry, I don't even English.

Wouldn't life be easier if the forum had a similar stance on BF with Rickenbacker....? *runs away*

Bugger, gonna have to do another hob nob run.

For me, heft is more about the attack and weight of the resulting note. You can get many rigs that will produce the notes from say 40hz up to 15khz - but it's how those notes (particularly those in the lower end of the spectrum) is delivered that is important to me. I think there is an important interaction going on between player and rig. Much like a guitarist likes the way valves interact with what is being played (with say sag and natural compression), as a bass player, I like to dig in and have my notes delivered with zero sag - with full attack at the beginning of the note - right through to the end.

I don't like the Sadowsky preamp at all. Yet in a band situation, they always seem to sound amazing (mostly with other people playing them!). I'm the same with a P bass. Played solo, I find that they sound utterly miserable. In a band... they are always thunderous.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1465297682' post='3066850'] If you're not shaving the pennies, then the Powersoft Digam range are pretty much as good as it gets, and tick every box you can imagine. [/quote] Powersoft is where it's at... although you will be paying a pretty penny for it.

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1465288807' post='3066724'] That's nice to hear. I'd often wondered if she'd managed to destroy it yet. [/quote] Quite impressive given the fact that at one point she seemed to be getting through an XLR a gig... Just shows you that the mass produced soldering options are not always economically a sound choice! Spend a bit extra for a hand soldered quality lead people!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1465286795' post='3066706'] I used to buy all the components and make up my own leads, because I had my own home studio and required cable runs of very specific lengths and often different connectors wired in very particular ways at each end of the cable. However when I need some more basic jack-to-jack leads for my new bass rig 6 years ago, I ordered them from OBBM. I could have probably made my own for slightly less money, but certainly not once I figured in the cost of my time to do it. All these leads are still functioning as perfectly as the day I received them. They most definitely last longer than any of the shop-bought leads I've owned. [/quote] This. And the "singerproof XLR" he made for me, is still going.

Psst. OBBM. Just making sure you get the idea! :-p

Just backing up...

You think their mixes are bad? The amount of artists that complain about their IEM mixes...