All Activity

Sundays: 7, 14, 28 Sept 19, 26 Oct 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov All good for me!

My work here is done - for now. Having considered putting an HX Stomp on my board I finally opted for an HX One on the basis that I rarely use effects and then only one at a time. Also swapped out the Mooer baby tuner for a Boss TU-2. It all runs from a battery.

Awesome to hear matey, how big was the venue?

I've played thru a couple of Hartke rigs over the years. Best was an LH500 head into 2off 15" cabs with the aluminium style speakers and it had an amazing bite to the tone. Not harsh but just a sharp grinding type edge. Its hard to explain but it was a cracking tone. At a rehearsal i once had same head thru a Hartke 410 cab again with the aluminium speakers and again it was very nice. Both had a decent depth of tone too. Never tried the HA range of heads tho. Once bought the Kilo head when they came out but it was faulty on arrival and seemed to be an issue with them so it was returned to Thomann who were excellent but i lost money because of the exchange rates etc. That put me off Hartke as their customer service didn't reply at all when i had the issue. Have to admit i was impressed with the tones i got from them. Dave

It does look like a nice bass, but the 44mm nut is not for me I'm afraid. It also makes the '73 I picked up last Tuesday seem like a real bargain, which has brightened my morning, thank you. Rob

Sundays were deemed to be best as many of us are gigging on Saturday afternoon/evenings

As I said, this is an old clip done on v3. V4 has hugely improved tracking by comparison, and also has the ability to switch tracking priority modes. There are further improvements in the pipeline too. Octaves will always present a problem to any pitch-detection system as an octave above the fundamental (2nd harmonic) is always strongly present in most real-world instruments.

Town called Malice ! Great bass line

Football hitting a sheep, love it!

I wanted a Metroline with a vintage body and a 24 fret neck. They didn’t do this in left handed so it had to be a custom order. At the time they quoted a timescale just over three years. I’d expected to receive the bass in February and it finally arrived in July. I ordered through Wunjo who were superb throughout the entire process.

Sweet home Alabama, dreams (fleet wood Mac version), Dakota, sanctuary it's only open mic night version, fortunately and fairly basic compared to you lot. Sadly available time for practice means only fairly simple songs

Just been given a set list with 22 songs I've never played. Nothing too hard though so should be OK. Shame, I was enjoying getting to grips with Aqualung (Jethro Tull). One of my most favoritest bass lines ever. Think it was Jerrfey Hammond Hammond who played it (and I don't think he was even a bass player) although happy to be corrected. Love when it kicks in around 2.20.

Of all the Aggregators I have used over the past 15 years CD Baby are currently the cheapest with a $9.99 one off fee for an album and 9% of your streaming and download payments. The prices of all the Aggregator services have come down massively in recent years. When I first started using them it was about $50 for a one-off fee for an album and "singles" (which meant just one track) were only marginally cheaper. Whichever service you pick you want to make sure that it supports as many download and streaming sites as possible. While Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and YouTube are by far the biggest source of streams there are lots of others you might not have heard of, but they all contribute to the income from your songs.

Awesome news, welcome to the dark side 🤣

I owned an FI for a while. I wish I'd heard your clip before I bought it, because even though you played the song noticeably slower that the original, it can't keep up when playing those octave notes. I actually own them. He's used a combination of pedals to get those sounds, so each one is a scene. Even though I own the Helix (and the tracking is superb), I use it like bunch of stomp boxes (albeit with a 'hidden' Ampeg rig at the end of the chain). I need to hit one button and go. If I were to buy this MXR pedal, I'd probably only ever use one of the presets and stick to it.

Thanks for all the responses so far. I wasn't even aware about the "free" distributors before now. (Or at least with a small fee or stream percentage as opposed to an upfront annual subscription like Distrokid etc). One of those plus Bandcamp for downloads would probably be the ideal solution for us. So we have Routnote and Soundrop. Any other recommendations?

Some buskers in Philly... Though the drummer is ex-Ornette Coleman, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and James Blood Ulmer sideman, Grant Calvin Weston!