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Unless you are doing active promotion and probably also gigging you are unlikely to make enough back to pay for a subscription Aggregator service like Distrokid. However if you are in no hurry to break even one of the single payment services should eventually allow you to break even. Compared with the cost of making a CD or record in the pre-internet days either method is a complete bargain. If it's essentially a vanity project then you are better off using one of the Aggregator services that just requires a one-off payment. CD Baby is currently $9.99 for an album and they take approximately 10% of your streaming and download income. As an example I put out an "album" by my band from the late 1990s. With zero promotion it has taken 15 years to make just under $12 in streaming and downloads. On the other hand my current band who are actively gigging and promoting our music expect to make several hundred pounds from Spotify payments alone this year. It also helps that we have no overheads for releasing music other than our Aggregator fees - we record and produce everything ourselves and I do all the graphic design for the cover art.

On topic ... Harley Benton kit (my covid project) with a Squier neck off here that already had a dodgy decal. No plan to sell it, only gigged once. Suppose I'm hoping someone will complement its sound or look so I can say 'well actually...'

Not really any costs involved. I have my own studio at home and do all the mixing and mastering. But I have no idea how to get the music "out there" which I think is pretty common due to the absolute over saturation of the market. I really can't do the social media thing any more.

First bass: Very dodgy P bass copy of inderterminate origins. Go to bass: A 1977 Aria Precise with a shaved down neck and an EMG pickup. 'Your' bass: 1984 Gibson T bird.

Yup!

I've had a 4/4 5 string and 3 people in a Nissan Micra back in the day (not very safely 😬 )

The thing about a live clip with a band, which is partly why @knicknack / Paddy's clip is a really excellent demo of this pedal's potential, is that you get to hear it in the context of the rest of the instruments and vox, which is what many of us are hoping to use it for, but also (and here's the rub!): you get one take to nail it. I loved Nate Navarro's honesty when he reviewed the Boss GM-800 saying that he'd had to do multiple takes to get some decent recordings (and he made it sound seriously lush btw). If anyone tells me that was because he's got poor synth bass playing technique...

Wild thing - The Troggs ( & Hendrix)

Wasn’t around on Basschat in 2011 so here goes… First Bass Owned: Aria SB700 (still have it) 'Go To' Bass: Currently my new Sandberg VM4 'Your' Bass: My 1985 Mk1 Wal Custom (my main bass since ~1992ish)

I guess it depends on your studio costs and what your budget is. If you're good with technology you can do the publishing yourself for free.

Sorry... "could care less" so 24% of respondents care about this issue? Horrible American mangling of the phrase "couldn't care less".

Wasn't the stage lent to Live Aid by Springsteen?

How was the gig?

That's awesome, I'm glad you liked it and it helped. Also, don't let anyone tell you that you get less mwah with flats, that recording was done using Rotosound Jazz flats

There were tarps at Springsteen, but that’s still an awful lot of traffic. That said, grass is very resilient and it was no doubt in tip top condition for whatever the next big footie game was.

Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox