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This will give you a chuckle. I supported a Kickstarter campaign for some inexpensive piece of kitchen gear back in October of 2016, originally expected to ship in January 2017. I'm still waiting. They haven't even sent an update since June of last year. :roflmao::laugh::smug:

I'm not sure what constitutes a "light bass," but I don't think I've ever owned one. :D

I suspect that reducing the size or mass would have a negative impact on the strength of the vibration, but I have no expertise in this area, so what do I know?

Do what you want, pardner. I have two almost-identical basses where one is fretted and the other is fretless. I have flats on the fretted and flat tapewound on the fretless. They give me the respective tones I want out of them. You do you, brother.

I have long held a love affair with Carvin amplifiers. I only borrowed amps for many years, but when I finally bought one, it was a Carvin Pro Bass II 400 watt amp in 1988, paired with (I think) a Pro Bass 215 cabinet. I have no idea how I managed to afford the ~$1000 price tag at the time, but...

I once saw a Latin jazz band where the bassist had picked up a right-handed bass, flipped it to the right 90° and played away. I suppose that's how he learned to play bass.

It depends on the version of BackBeat you're using. If it's the current model, I would run my entire monitor through the BB since it passes a stereo signal. The older model only passes a monaural signal instead of stereo, so it would be too big a downgrade to lose the stereo capability.

I always thought there was Zero difference between the performance of various pedals. The difference comes from build quality, material quality, etc. In other words, if I bought a pedal, I'd use it until it breaks. Or until I feel some random desire to get a new one for no articulable reason. :D

I try to get the same type of feeling I would get from standing in front of my cab, so I usually have it set in the general vicinity of 50%, maybe a bit less.

Yup, I've gotten the feedback through the strap. The only way to eliminate it is to break the vibration path from the BB to the guitar (physics is physics). While there are multiple potential solutions to this, the only practical one that comes to mind, short of turning down the vibration...

Look in the Effects List for the B3n. For each effect, the right hand column is either blank, has an eighth note symbol or a P. Only those effects with a P can be manipulated by an expression pedal.

Sure, but that won't give you a stereo monitor. That was my original point.

The problem isn't the cables. The problem is that the jack is monaural, regardless of whatever cables you use.

Which gives you a stereo monitor, if your wireless is capable of that. The 1/4" is only mono.

I have the original model, which weighs 15.60 oz, according to my rusty...erm, my trusty kitchen scale.

Since the BackBeat is intended to replace the rumble of the missing amp/cab when you go to a clean stage, you could make the case for not rumbling at those higher frequencies, since your amp/cab wasn't rumbling them in the first place. TL;DR - That's a design feature, not a bug, IMHO.

It's great to feel the kick drum through the BB, but it can be a little bit disconcerting to get an occasional rumble from a male singer's voice. I ultimately chose to just send my bass through the BB because I have a stereo monitor mix, which I can't get through the BB, at least with the...

I've been meaning to test that for myself on the original BB, and despite the fact that Signal Input 6 accepts a TRS plug, it does NOT translate into stereo out at Headphone Output 8. Which has contributed to my decision to quit using the BackBeat. My stereo monitor is MUCH more important to me...

There's a big difference between an orchestra in a concert hall and a band in a typical venue. For the orchestra, there's nothing going on until they start. There's no competing background music (or maybe not so background for some bars and nightclubs), plus many orchestral instruments must be...

I think of it this way: if it's a gig, we're there to entertain. If it's a rehearsal, we're there to rehearse. And not rehearse in the sense of, "I didn't rehearse ahead of time, so I'm gonna do that now." Keys and piano are the worst at that last one, in my experience. If I want/need to...

I take the same approach. The biggest issue I have with doing it this way is as much due to my old eyes as anything to do with the BB. The knobs are so close to my eyes (and the red lines on them so dark) that it can be a challenge to determine where they're set. Hardly a major concern, but it...

I view that as more of a feature than a bug. I call it "perpetual sustain." :D

I never put this much thought into it, but this is precisely the approach I took when I switched to a 5-stringer.

I haven't sold off any of my 4s, but I can't imagine ever buying another one. The closest I've gotten to doing that is my recent purchase of a Dean Rhapsody 12, which is really just a 4-string, three times over. I probably would prefer a Rhapsody 10, but they're much harder to find than a 12 for...

Before I bought the BackBeat, I was 100% wireless, so I had the wireless transmitter on the guitar strap, and I had the IEM on my belt with the earpiece lead going up my back, either under or over my shirt, depending on the circumstances. That way each component was attached to the appropriate...

I seem to recall something like five hours of usage. I didn't pay close enough attention to judge the accuracy of that claim. But yes, when the battery died, the vibrations stopped, but everything else went* on as before, no difference that I could tell. *Stupid spelling error corrected.

I'm with you on every point, but I will say that after using this setup for a few weeks, I'm getting used to what I need to do and I've streamlined it somewhat, so it's not too bad. It still takes longer than it did without the BB, but I'm used to it now.

According to the Zoom website, GuitarLab is only for G5n, G3n, G3Xn and B3n.

GuitarLab works fine for me, but if you're having problems, you might want to give ToneLib a shot. Free editor for Zoom pedals: B1on, B1Xon, MS-60b It also works on the B3n, I understand.

Don't get me wrong, what you're talking about makes perfect sense. Your circumstances are just very different from mine. It's good to think about other perspectives my own.

In a different vein... I'm an idiot. Here's proof. A couple of weeks ago, I inadvertently ran the BB's battery out of power while practicing, so the good vibes stopped (true bypass worked perfectly for me). So with that in mind, when I finished practicing Saturday afternoon, I plugged the BB...

I don't use the BackBeat that way, so that's why your question didn't make sense to me. I practice using one combo amp for playing tracks, and a different combo amp for my bass. Since the BB is already on the strap (and I'm not taking it off any time soon), I use it when I practice at home...

I think that sounds easier than it really is. First off, where is unity? Is it the average of the effects you currently have dialed in, or is it the one with the highest setting where you want all of the rest of them to be? Or maybe the lowest setting? What if all of the effects' respective...

I was correct to worry about the cables, but of course, that will get easier to manage as I gain more experience with them. Of note, running the monitor through the BB revealed that the kick drum (actually, all of the drum mikes) wasn't getting into the monitors at all, which I noticed because I...

I plan on running my monitor through the BB during rehearsal tonight, instead of just having the guitar in the BB. I'm apprehensive of all the cables, too. :nailbiting:

Wrapping the BB with anything will absorb some of the vibrations to a varying degree depending on the characteristics of the material you use to wrap it. So I believe that strap will dampen the intended effect, as well as possibly changing the character of the vibrations.

Oh, and I'm amused by how much metallic debris gets picked up by the hyper-powerful magnet in the BB. "Oh, here's a paper clip." "That's where that twist-tie went!"

That happened with me on the open B, but I don't recall if it was my Fender or my Sire (probably the Sire). It looks like it vibrates the strap enough to feed into the guitar body.

Please count me into the club, Pat. I'm 6' 4", and the included 38" cable struggles to make it from the BB to the guitar output, and during rehearsal this morning it kept backing out of the BB. I'll have to get a cable a bit longer. Then again, if I follow Pat's hook up, I'll just need the...

Mine is due to arrive tomorrow, so I'll get to try it out Saturday before I use it at church on Sunday morning. We run a clean stage with IEMs, and I hadn't planned on running the monitor through it, but based on Pat's comments above, I may have to rethink that.