Double Bass Too much feedback.

[Uncletoad]

I could have saved a bunch of money on foam and towels.

Can I say something filthy here?

 

[Marc Piane]

I think we have collective dirty enough minds.

I gotta watch my words around you Phil.

 

[Uncletoad]

I think we have collective dirty enough minds.

I gotta watch my words around you Phil.

No one is safe.

 

[Marc Piane]

Insert evil laugh.

 

[DaLong]

To me the DI boosts the signal going to the Woods, the sound is much stronger. The thing I have noticed is that a few weeks ago it was very audible when I played through it and when I did not. When I replaced the pickup, the difference is not so different and I may not use it with that setup anymore. I am thinking that when I EQed with the Sansamp, I was cutting out some of the ugliness in my sound that was due to the pickup. (lack of a fundamental and the overtones were too overbearing) As far as the NV610... It has less to do with volume (that is important) and more to do with how it sounds. Its simply the best sounding cab I own. In the end the only thing you can hang your hat on is your tone.

 

[uprightben]

I run a iamp 500 though a swr 8x8, which is almost as large a cab as your 6x10. I use this rig for everything other than dinner gigs, and sometimes I get so loud you can hear me down at the other end of the block. I deal with feedback with the eq, I try to find the note that is most offensive/boomy, then I think of the Hz of the fundamental of the note and use that as a guide to find which freq. to cut. Once I have the feedback taken care of, I do my tone shaping, being carefull not to reintroduce feed back. I use a k&k pickup that mounts in the bridge wing, so I don't if this approach will work with the realist.

 

[Phil Smith]

A 6x10 for big band arrangements? Yeah, I think that's overkill. Two of any small cabinet i.e. two GK MBX112's and a 600 watt head like a Focus should give you all the volume that you need.

The big band that I play with gets loud as well and the singers are usually the loudest coming through the PA. I try to get my cabinet as far away from me as possible and I believe that gives me a better idea of my sound in relationship to the band and also assures me of being heard in the house loud and clear which seems to be the case from the recordings that I've done.

I'm using a Realist, 1 (soon to be two) MBX 112 and an AI Focus.

 

[moles]

I'm doing big band stuff with a 50 watt Yorkville. We're not the loudest band, but loud enough the bandleader is always kvetching about the horns.

I like that tip about laying back when things get loud. That's the kind of golden nugget that keeps me coming here

 

[Ric Vice]

the sans amp adds impedance matching, although with the walter woods i'm not sure you'd need it. i'm not sure of the input specs on the woods, but the origional poster has the sans amp para driver, not the bass driver. the para driver is designed for piezo pickups and has a sweepable mid (which the woods also has, so it may be redundant).

The Walter Woods Amps all have a 1 megohm input impedance. So unless you are using a Fishman BP-100 that loads incredibly high, the Woods should be just fine. I'm assuming that your woods is a MI-400-8 and that amp can get pretty loud. Unfortunately, the bass response from the older MI series isn't as "focused" as the new Electro Acoustics. So into that monster 6-10 it's destined to feed back unless you put lots of safeguards in place.
Sounds like you solved the problem with the Full Circle. It takes a pretty serious PA to handle bass response, so you may be better off not running through it. But, IMHO you should at least be able to try going that route. If the PA's big enough running it into the mains will get you into the house much more effectively.

 

[bolo]

It takes a pretty serious PA to handle bass response, so you may be better off not running through it. But, IMHO you should at least be able to try going that route. If the PA's big enough running it into the mains will get you into the house much more effectively.

Definitely try the PA if one is available. That's usually the most effective and efficient way to get your sound out into a room in a larger and/or louder setting. That is provided whoever's running the board doesn't really f^&* up your sound. It does happen on occasion.

But unless you're talking about some tiny lil' ol' Fender Passport PA system, I think even the somewhat modest 12 and 15-inch PA speakers like say the Eons and Mackies and such that you see almost everywhere today can sound good for bass. Like bass amps, that technology keeps evolving and improving, and there are some pretty decent choices available to the "average" user like me.