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Have a black SL5 fretless, now I've got it properly set up with Thomastik Jazz Flats it plays like a dream and sounds fabulous -- love the tone and sustain, and Chris was extremely helpful sorting out a couple of issues. One peculiar finding was that the roundwound strings it came with made...

It's very easy to misunderstand people's point of view when all you can see is what they write... ;-)

The totality of my statements so far is pretty much that different setups and sounds work for different people, some setups make it much easier to get the "right" sound at FOH than others, just because you sound good on-stage doesn't mean you sound good out front, micing up a cabinet needs to be...

You obviously didn't bother to read the bit said that "my personal preference, other opinions may differ"...

All the numbers were done taking the flat inband response as the 0dB reference, which is +22dB. (actual vertical scale is arbitrary)

So, no fundamental to speak of below G (-10dB at 50Hz), huge midrange dip (-10dB over most of range), nasty spike at 3kHz (hear that presence peak!), no treble above 6kHz -- and this is 6" in front of the dustcap, the off-axis response where you listen and by the time all the drivers have...

Not if you're standing in front of a loud on-stage rig, you've got *no* idea what's going on out front during the gig as opposed to when (if) you walked out front at soundcheck...

I agree that soundmen are (usually) easier to replace than band members -- though maybe not on the night with an hour's notice when you realise they're no good. But assuming the band is competent and the audience wants to hear them not yak, the sound out front is entirely dependent on the guy...

The band I used to play with had (up to) 3 fiddle players in it, all of who we needed to hear in the foldback, and it used to be a feedback nightmare waiting to happen especially if they moved around. So we switched to Bridge electric fiddles -- nice sound, much less synthetic than most -- and...

Most people on this thread -- me included -- weren't being disrespectful to players who wanted to do it their way *and were happy with it* (like JimmyM), and acknowledged that there are pros and cons to different ways and no one "always right" way of doing it (though different people have...

No it's not, as anyone who's done FOH sound (as opposed to playing through it) and/or understands how hearing works could tell you -- so I'll do that. Nobody can go and have a quick listen on stage, walk back to the desk and accurately reproduce that on-stage sound, your sound memory and...

Thanks jimfist for adding much more detail than I know about on speaker simulators -- you hit the nail on the head with the problem I've kept trying to get over about using a mic with a cabinet, which many people seem to have misunderstood as either saying that cabinets are a bad thing or a...

Obviously a clean DI feed straight off the bass sounds completely different to a (non-flat) cabinet and mic, and if the cab+mic is the sound you like then you certainly won't want to use a clean DI feed, and I never suggested this. But there are then lots of reasons why the sound out front can...

Like I said, if you're happy with your setup that's fine by me. For all the people you don't care about who have often been less than happy with FOH sound but don't know why -- and by the sound of it, there are a lot of them about -- I was simply suggesting something that might make them...

OK, technical content follows -- don't read it if you're not interested... If you point a mic at a speaker cone from a couple of inches away you don't get the sound heard by the player which is the sum of the sound from all the bits of the cone, you get mostly the sound from the bit of the cone...