You can't count on lights or monitors but I would put bass DI way ahead on probability when showing up expecting PA support out front.
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New Quilter bass amp!
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Now most gigs I play, the sound guy will walk on stage with an XLR cable and ask if I have a DI. It's just the standard. There's a reason why most amps have one built in.
Some things you can count on.
I don't have to count on someone else having a bass DI because there's one built into my amp. But feel free to go on.
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It's funny how many seem to need to push back against this simple fact.
Quilter removed this standard XLR connection from the amp. And left the XLR that allows it to work as a $650 single channel power amp. Maybe that's more used than I'm aware of... more than an XLR line out.
It's less useful than an XLR DI out. Obviously.
Who here use a self-contained bass amp as a slave amp for another preamp? Seems really odd.
Not so odd when so few miniature power amps are available. Less odd still when the original design brief was for just such a power amp for preamps and pedals and that morphed into the 800.
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Will know for sure after we get the 802 on the bench, but to my ear, with both heads set "flat," the tone/feel is very similar.
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If you have a DI box, then of course you would not need the transformer. But if you have a 1/4" to XLR transformer, you should be able to run an XLR cable from the transformer to the snake and skip the direct box.
The sound guy pocketing my TRS to XLR adapter, one more thing to worry about...better buy two! 
Seriously, why not admit it is a fail to eliminate such a useful feature in place of keeping such an underused one by most bass players and just move on? First world problem poster child. As I said originally, why the XLR "in" in favor of the XLR "out"? Makes very little sense to myself and most others who play modern bass amps. Seems regressive. Maybe we should have a poll.
Seriously, why not admit it is a fail to eliminate such a useful feature in place of keeping such an underused one by most bass players and just move on? First world problem poster child. As I said originally, why the XLR "in" in favor of the XLR "out"? Makes very little sense to myself and most others who play modern bass amps. Seems regressive. Maybe we should have a poll.
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Its not ideal, the point I and perhaps others are trying to make is "dont throw the baby out with the bathwater" especially when it can be remedied by a $5 adaptor. A BB800 power section with a 4 band EQ is a great step.
But yeah, no argument, it would have been better to have an XLR out than XLR in if you could only have one.
But yeah, no argument, it would have been better to have an XLR out than XLR in if you could only have one.
It would be great to see a block diagram of the BB802 and also have it for reference in the owners manual.
As has been previously confirmed the SIG OUT is a TRS jack, but I am wondering if the FX SEND and RETURN jacks are also TRS. At minimum, I hope the RETURN is TRS to support proper Left/Right summing in from a portable music player. Interestingly, Quilter has implemented a 6 dB pad there for this type of usage, with a defeat for the pad should a dummy plug also be inserted in the SEND.
Cheers!
As has been previously confirmed the SIG OUT is a TRS jack, but I am wondering if the FX SEND and RETURN jacks are also TRS. At minimum, I hope the RETURN is TRS to support proper Left/Right summing in from a portable music player. Interestingly, Quilter has implemented a 6 dB pad there for this type of usage, with a defeat for the pad should a dummy plug also be inserted in the SEND.
Cheers!
I had to go back and reread this, and I'm confused by some of the responses and application regarding a di.
Based on the TR (and TRS) out, I could use use a TR into a di, no big deal. But Peter mentions and adapter for an xlr? Wouldn't the xlr from the sound guy go into the di out, with a TR (or TRS) signal coming from the BB into the di? Basically the same scenario already stated.
Why is an adapter needed?
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You would use the adapter instead of a DI. If you are definitely using a DI box, then you do not need the adapter (just a 1/4" to 1/4" cable).
In other words....
They left off the usual balanced XLR Out.
They left off the usual balanced XLR Out.
Tom and Mushroo, I COMPLETELY forgot the "direct to the board" and the need for an adapter. Not something I do, so I guess that's what I was missing.
The new EQ layout is literally a step backwards too IMO.
Granted, it'll be easier for some to comprehend.
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As someone who sought a half rack power amp for years, it became clear that the demand for one clearly wasn't there. Haven't seen that change but we'll see if a $600+ mono amp really sells. I seriously doubt it.
