And I’ve been running the Eich Bassboard for over the past year. I wouldn’t do an IEM only gig without it. I can’t recommend it enough (and I have probably a hundred times on here).
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Cab-less, anyone?
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And I’ve been running the Eich Bassboard for over the past year. I wouldn’t do an IEM only gig without it. I can’t recommend it enough (and I have probably a hundred times on here).
Jay Ganz Straight Ahead. It’s the silver box on the upper left of my pedal board. 300 watts into 8 ohms of eyeball rattling goodness.
Is it the KT Platform (TT6 equipped)? Is it large enough? I can see that you are feeding it with Big Bang, right?
Yes. That would be the S size. It's way easier to transport than the M or L would be. At 27.5 lbs it's very easy to grab with one hand and they placed the handle in the perfect spot for balance and ground clearance.
And your rig is really close in comparison to mine in terms of functionality, right down to the use of monitoring your signal with the Rolls. My Ultimate Ears will be delivered tomorrow to replace my well used Westone's.
You have about as many things to plug and unplug as I do, but I've really tried to limit that as much as possible on the actual pedals and I use a patch bay to help with signal routing. A guitarist buddy of mine even switched his entire rig over to something very similar once he saw how much easier it was to set up and break down. 
Yes Zbysek.. it's the KT platform. Amazing piece of kit. Large enough for me but there is a bigger size available if you need more space. I have the separate engine for running it but I wanted to minimize the amount of things to carry so I decided to put the Big Bang on the pedalboard to keep everything in the one place.
Yeah, I'm the same. Takes about 30 seconds to disconnect everything and put the lid back on the pedalboard case. Can't get much quicker than that.And your rig is really close in comparison to mine in terms of functionality, right down to the use of monitoring your signal with the Rolls. My Ultimate Ears will be delivered tomorrow to replace my well used Westone's.
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Well spotted Blankandson! The accordion is a Serenellini... Italian I believe. It has a preamp and pickup installed inside.
Get a Buttkicker to go with your IEMs. Like playing with a wall of SVTs... BTW, does your drummer play with an electric set?
I bring an amp, even though we use IEMs because:
- I don't 100% trust that IEMs are going to be working perfectly every night (they don't and i'm glad i can still hear myself...has happened several times)
- Like other posts have said, it sounds really lame for people sitting or dancing in front of the stage to only hear drums. I play with loud confident drummers and guitar players with tube amps. Got to keep up.
- Bass amp technology has come light years in the last decade. You now can shake the stage with a 30 or 40 pound rig. Only apathy is preventing you from bringing a rig these days.
- I don't 100% trust that IEMs are going to be working perfectly every night (they don't and i'm glad i can still hear myself...has happened several times)
- Like other posts have said, it sounds really lame for people sitting or dancing in front of the stage to only hear drums. I play with loud confident drummers and guitar players with tube amps. Got to keep up.
- Bass amp technology has come light years in the last decade. You now can shake the stage with a 30 or 40 pound rig. Only apathy is preventing you from bringing a rig these days.
Flog, that's my setup exactly. Phil Jones CAB27 ( two 7" speakers) weighs 30 Llb, GK Legacy 500 amp weighs maybe 4 Lbs. Easy in/out. The cab is tilted up towards my face and although it feels very loud to me, those 20 feet away don't feel it or hear it. I've tried IEM but never could get a pair of earbuds to stay in or sound good. This tiny set up sounds good.
Hey everyone!
I just joined an electronic band as their live bassist.
We're using in ears to hear the click track and some of the instruments. Going through my pedalboard to a Magellan 800 for the DI.
I'm planning on bringing my 12-3 cab to gigs, just in case.
Everything's going pretty smooth so far, but I haven't played a gig with them yet.
I just joined an electronic band as their live bassist.
We're using in ears to hear the click track and some of the instruments. Going through my pedalboard to a Magellan 800 for the DI.
I'm planning on bringing my 12-3 cab to gigs, just in case.
Everything's going pretty smooth so far, but I haven't played a gig with them yet.
I'm interested to hear how this one shapes up for you. Anyone else playing live with you? Using any cool effects? Do they go "Whoop whoop whoop whoop whooooooooooommmmp"?
I'm interested to hear how this one shapes up for you. Anyone else playing live with you? Using any cool effects? Do they go "Whoop whoop whoop whoop whooooooooooommmmp"?
LOL!
Thanks for that @JimmyM .
The sound is more like Enigma meets Depeche Mode with some NIN, so no big bass drops. Thankfully.
Sounds so far:
- Clean bass / slight overdrive
- Clean with a goodly amount of delay
- Fretless
I'm starting to work on some of the synth sounds now. Octave, Filter, others. I'm using the Source Audio C4 for those.
There is a drummer and a 2nd vocalist also, but I haven't played with them yet. I've been practicing with the 2 keyboard/ synth players. Not sure how this is going to work live, but it's alot of fun.
Sounds like it. I love to play with synth pedals, and once in a while I actually have a need for a synthy bass sound in a band. Most of my practical needs for that were taken care of with distortion of some sort and an analog octave pedal. Tried a lot of different OD's and they all sound great, but for my tastes, plain old OC-2 is king for building cool synth bass sounds. Got an awesome Devo "Whip It" sound with that combination by mixing the clean sound back a bit from the oct down and adding mild OD. Then I could add the clean back in and get a great sound for "Let's Groove Tonight" by Earth Wind and Fire (yes, I have played in bands that have done both, although "Whip It" far less, unfortunately).
C4 sounds like a killer pedal. Haven't got one, but it's way far advanced from typical bass synth stompboxes, which I think sound totally cheesy till you add other pedals to them. But unless you get everything on presets you're happy with, I'd highly recommend putting it or any other synth pedals you might try on a stand. Really hard to change stuff on the fly without it being up from the floor, especially on a dimly lit stage.
That said, there's a lot to be said about natural bass sounds as well, so you ought to have a really good variety of sounds for you to have fun with.
Thanks for the advice @JimmyM .
I may break down and buy a midi controller to make my life easier with the C4.
That's great if you stand in a 3' x 2' square during the whole gig. If you are actually performing and putting on a show it's not going to cut it.
