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Received a message from my sister in law asking me to email as she wanted me to do a favour. I replied positively, and then received this. It immediately smelt a bit odd, then I discovered my wife had also received the same email (allegedly from her sister) Contacted her sister, who told us that she'd just discovered that everyone in her address book had just received the same message 🙁 Be careful out there.7 points
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Thanks for everyone's help, it has been super helpful and I do really appreciate it. As a side note, my daughter has taken up bass and as a first bass, I bought her the HB Mustang and I am super impressed with quality of it, it is a really good bass for the money, in fact way better for the money than expected. So I'm going to take the plungexand buy the HB MV-5PJ. For just over £200, I cant really go wrong as a tester into the world of 5 string bass.6 points
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After a rethink on moving on the H90 and a recent Bassrig purchase, this re-jig is working out very well.6 points
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Yes. Yes, I do.6 points
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I play in two tributes; one I do purely as I love the band (Cheap Trick) and the 2nd I joined as I liked the band (INXS) and it was an ideal opportunity to play better/bigger gigs (but not necessarily for more money). A couple of observations. Be sure you like the material, nothing worse than playing a couple of hours of stuff you don't like. Network with anyone you know in a tribute band, you'll likely get any gig/band through contacts. Be prepared (if you aren't already) to use IEM and compromise on 'your' sound because you may be doing gigs where you have a 15-30 minute turnaround with other bands. Don't take for granted you'll be getting good money; we've done gigs where I'd have been paid more for a pub covers gig. Some gigs 'might' end up being percentages of ticket sales (your band can of course refuse these). If you choose to do a tribute that is often covered, you'd better be significantly better than the local competition. If you choose a less obvious tribute, you could end up with very few gigs... it's a fine line. The singer/frontperson is where it is at (unless it is something like VH), so you'd be a numpty to join a band that doesn't have that main ingredient. If you elect to play 'Fake Festivals' you might need to travel considerable distances for gigs (does anyone in the band work on a Fri/Sat/Sun?), you are likely to be ofeered a series of gigs and you can't cherry pick otherwise the organiser will need to work twice as hard... and they don't like that!4 points
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My signature sound is to play everything slightly out of tune and out of time.4 points
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Great pickups and bloody loud too 😁 Some folk with shallow pickup cavities moan the Entwistles are too tall. Solution. Dot of paint on bottom of pole piece machine screws, drop into the cavity. Paint marks where the poles will land, take drill and bore holes. Job done 👍3 points -
Be aware that is a long and expensive road. You need to pick an artist with enough well-known material (with maybe some album 'deep cuts') to fill a 2-hour show, and a strong enough base of diehard fans and/or well-heeled (usually mature) punters to pay for tickets. Some acts really require lookalikes as well as soundalikes. If the material is heavily produced/orchestrated, you may need synched tracks to fill out the sound. Then you'll want a professional-quality showreel for you or your booking agent to send out to venues. If a venue already has a tribute to your chosen artist, they may not wish to take a chance on an alternative. Just some things to think about...3 points
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Very much this^^^^ and who knows you from seeing you play in other bands. That is not to say that advertising on Join My Band, etc doesn’t work too (I got my current gig through JMB) but the ‘network’ is where a large percentage of gigs come from.3 points
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I chase a tone which is clean, bright, active, "hi-fi", plenty of upper mids. One man's meat is another man's poison and all that. How boring would it be if we all had the same tonal preferences!3 points
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In case you didn’t know (many already do), I highly highly recommend putting “Thrust Bearings” onto your tuning screws….. it massively improves the tuning accuracy and ease of use. Many already know, but in case you don’t, it cost a couple of quid, and is a game changer.3 points
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Precision. Flats. Tone control only just on. Valve preamp, gain at 1 o'clock. Slightly more bass than middle and slightly more mid than treble. Pair of 15s. To my ears, a nice big, fat sound with a good deal of heft but good definition.3 points
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Here is a pre Ernie Ball Musicman Sabre. Serial number C0003xx which dates it between 1979-1981. AlI original except the d-tuner ( original is in the case). All electronics and the truss rod working as they should and the neck is straight. Pretty decent condition given its age. See photos for the few flaws; scuffed headstock (actually not too bad, the picture is worse than the reality!); aging on the tuners; mark on the fretboard and the worn section of the neck. Frets ok but a couple might need repair, burn mark on the bridge humbucker, small scratch on the body, scratching to the pick guard (obviously) and a couple of rusty screws. Hiscox case included is fully functional but there are a couple of scratches. Neck: Bolt-on maple, 34” scale, maple fretboard with 21 frets; 3-bolt, nut width around 1.625”–1.67”. Pickups: Dual humbuckers with exposed pole pieces (large 3/8” alnico magnets on bridge pickup. Electronics: Active 2-band EQ (bass/treble boost/cut), master volume; 3-way toggle selector, phase switch (for out-of-phase tones), and treble boost switch. Powered by 9V battery, 3+1 headstock tuner layout. 19mm string spacing at the bridge. Weight between 9-11bs. I can take a more precise weight if anyone wants it in a couple of days. Price excluded shipping. Currently I don’t see one of these cheaper online. No trades, unless you got a very good Yamaha. Merry Christmas to all fellow Basschatters. Keep playing and in good health. I wish you all well for the New Year. Regards David3 points -
Made in Japan Metallic black 9 lbs 6 in weight 24 frets Rosewood finger board Frets in good condition JBE P/J pickups I had the electrics changed to a Glockenklang 2 band preamp a couple of months ago as the original was temperamental (it is included. If you know what you are doing with a soldering iron you might be able to get this back to original spec). Some chips but nothing major Gig bag Pointy headed goodness It’s the first bass I’ve ever had that just ‘hangs’ right. No reaching with my left hand. Right hand placement is just ‘right’. I’m only selling as I’m going to have major difficulty paying my mortgage and bills and I’m not in a band, so it’s this or my cheaper, improved (bridge, pickups) Squier VM Jaguar V, but the Charvel will go more towards the bills.2 points -
This came up as a served advertisement while I was shopping for new strings (don’t ask). It seems like you can pick up a brand new Fazley DB kit for £200. https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/double-bass/fazley-b-sb-900-4-4-double-bass-with-gig-bag-bow-and-rosin?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ADC_Bax_UK_NBD_Shopping_Own-Brand_bucket2&utm_id=23191023039&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23191023039&gclid=Cj0KCQiApL7KBhC7ARIsAD2Xq3AioZBKqiKZNwZrsYRae76SKQskh5g9HxzM_AoZY15DVkeyQSFswmMaAnwVEALw_wcB2 points
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This sucks. I am sorry to hear it.2 points
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The GP12's are reasonably complicated amps. Probably why I prefer GP7's but I do have a series 6 GP12 and a 250 GP12 SMX, both hum free. If I had a penny for every minute I spent trying to track down a hum on a GP12 I'd probably have quite a few quid by now. There are at least three power supply points that have smoothing caps, the output board, the tube circuit, and the pre-amp board. Dublier caps on the output boards are in my experience very durable. Unless they are obviously leaking or bulging they don't usually cause problems even after 20-30 years. Not to say they can't cause issues. Worn dirty jacks and loose or tarnished ground points are very common noise generators on these amps after many years and IMHO always worth a check, especially the back board, before getting into scraping hot glue from boards and components! 🙂2 points
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yeah - as noted above, it's all about the contacts. My main band atm is an Ozzy/ Sabbath trib that I've been doing for 12 years or so. We started small and have built it slowly over that time, but due to the sad news in July, things have been mental. Also through some of the contacts I've made, I pick up work depping with a Metallica trib show among others. IMO You're better off finding an iconic band that ideally doesn't tour here or very rarely comes here and forming a band around that. JMB can be useful as can forums similar to this2 points
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Yes there are some 'genre' tributes but I think it can be trickier to pitch. For instance, if you did a Britpop show, you would somehow need to differentiate your act from a thousand pub bands knocking out covers of Oasis, Pulp, Blur etc. It's important to have a unique selling point (USP). If all this sounds very business-oriented, that's because it is!2 points
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To add to this and illustrate just one of the points above, you don't necessarily need to "tribute" a specific artist, there are two (that I know of) acts out there in direct competition that tribute the genre that is the punk and new wave scene (1976-83), there's Punk Off! and rePunK'd. In some cases they play the same venues but well spaced on the calendar. Both have well-produced showreels and they are very savvy with social media. Ticket prices get up to 35 quid for theatres and the amount of graft that goes into the production, planning and stagecraft exceeds that of a function/covers band by an order of magnitude. There's up front investment as a business proposition long before any profits of ticket sales come in and at that level someone needs to be "on it" pretty much full time.2 points
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I think this could be a good shout. If you go down this route my advice would be to make sure you have your key ingredients in place early. I spent 4-6 months (with a friend) rehearsing, planning and putting together an Aerosmith tribute and we were so keen and over the moon with the guitarist chemistry, drummer, band name and sound that we were ploughing ahead without the crucial ingredient, Tribute Steven Tyler. We auditioned a lot of singers (male and female) and we always thought that it would just be matter of time, we never got there and didn't have a Plan B. We could have taken one of the auditioned singers and easily done something else very good but all of us were fixated on Aerosmith. We found out the hard way why there aren't many Aerosmith tributes around. I would drop everything to be in a good Aerosmith tribute (sorry, current bandmates). I'd also love to do a Pearl Jam tribute, I'd get to wear Vans and play my Hamer every gig. Having an idea of what tribute you'd like to be in and knowing all the obvious bangers off pat gets you off the blocks.2 points
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Never played in a trib band myself, but most seem to be put together by people who are particular fans of the act & personally influenced by them. It might be an idea to think about it from that perspective with a view to starting a band rather than walking into an existing one.2 points
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This is how it works. As soon as I did a few scratch band wedding gigs I found the phone started pinging. (Nobody rings anymore, do they?) Thankfully I’m out of that now.2 points
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Mrs Zero says I always sound like me. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.2 points
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It’s about who you know really. I dep on rhythm guitar (mostly) and bass (occasionally) in a Dire Straits tribute that plays theatres and arts centres all over the UK. I met the BL through a mutual friend who was putting together a scratch band for a wedding - not something I recommend btw!2 points
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We have a winner?2 points
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I don't know if I have a signature sound as such, but I do have an unhealthy amount of basses which I somehow manage to make all sound the same. Not necessarily identical but it always sounds like me, so I suppose that is my signature sound.2 points
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My youngest son who recently turned 18 bought everyone alcohol because he could. I rarely drink but I understand it was a novelty for him to be able to do that legally. i got a 4 pack of bottled 7.5% Nigerian Guinness - I’ve not tried it but I expect it to be vile. I’m saving it for the next time he comes for the weekend so that he can suffer the poisoning.2 points
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Already done and dusted!2 points
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Nope - looks like you'd need to create a separate battery compartment. Here are the basic dimensions on my bass. Body thickness = 42mm Standard cavity depth & width = 30mm deep, 22mm wide. Pots and capacitor depth from bottom of control plate = 24mm. Duracell battery = 23mm wide (wider than the standard cavity routing, and 18mm thick.2 points
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I did pro pantomime for four years at the Sheffield Lyceum. Sometimes you’re in the main pit in front of the stage and others you’re often in a room behind the pit operating via tv monitor. Usually, only the MD/pianist can see the monitor, but the whole band is hearing the proceedings on headphones, as well as the band mix and any backing tracks to add other parts. They’re tough runs - we used to do somewhere around 56 shows, sometimes three shows a day when the school kids would arrive by the coach load on early December mornings.2 points
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Same used to happen to the telephone handset cable. Not from getting up and walking in circles but from mysteriously picking it up and rotating it between the phone, your ear, and putting it back. If you often put the bass down you have another possible source of the dreaded twizzle. BTW, it sure looks like a bad case of cable mismanagement by someone who coils one way only and thinks they are doing great.2 points
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Fretless jazz with flatwounds. Fingerstyle. 100% neck pickup, 0% bridge. Tone knob set right round to the most mellow. GEB7 pedal with the lowest band set very low and the rest in the middle position. A clean amp with the EQ set level across the bands.2 points
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I'm going to try to do gear abstinence next year, so I thought I'd have one final swatch at FB marketplace. I was instantly reminded how dangerous it is when this bad boy appeared for a very keen price (complete with a Hiscox Liteflite hard case) and on the right side of England for my purposes. I decided to carpe that diem. 9 hour round trip, but it was definitely worth it. Basically unusued, the only issues were that it was a bit dusty in places, and there was some goop on the headstock where a clearly disintegrating stand had been cradling. Managed to get that cleaned off - it hadn't stained the finish, yay! Gave it a fret polish and oiled the fingerboard and gave it a good old setup. So, how is the "Stingray killer"? Good, as far as I can tell in headphones. My favourite finish for these basses would be Soda Blue, but this natural one is growing on me in its elegant simplicity, and the black pickguard suits it very well. But that's it! No more! I will be striving to make 2026 a fallow year in the gear acquisition stakes, so I guess I was getting one final hit in before the lockdown. FYI - no Stingrays were harmed in the making of this. Merry Christmas to me (and everyone else!)2 points
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It’s not about size necessarily, it’s about the sound it makes. For me, it makes the right sound1 point
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I used one of these years ago in an arty surf band project to make some great sounds. Very versatile. GLWTS!1 point -
It arrived today. Connected my phone to the audio and midi bluetooth connections and streamed music. Plugged my iPad in with the usb-c lead from the KG. Just used the built in camera app to record video and it worked perfectly, bass and streamed music both recorded. Maybe you could try a firmware update, or play with the USB settings?1 point
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Sorry about that. The original pictures have disappeared! The Newtones are 45/65/85/105/130 and the brite Flats are 49/62/84/108/129. Note that there’s an extra low B for the Brite Flats.1 point -
Me having a "sound" wasn't something I'd thought about before the internet came along and put everything under a microscope. I guess I must have a "sound" because I've been told I make all my basses sound similar. Mike Lull and Sadowsky basses through Aguilar amps and 2 x 112 Barefaced cabs gets the the sound I'm happiest with, so I guess that's it. Duck Dunn, John McVie, Nathan East and Reggie McBride are the players who inspire me. I'd be very happy if I got close to sounding like those guys.1 point
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@elliott_Þórunn it’s not an easy task to tag you!1 point -
Eldest has moved on from being a guitard and I want this vile thing out of my house £2 postage, £5 to basschat or collect in coalvile if you’re feeling brave/suicidal (either works)1 point -
EHX bass micro synth in virtually as new condition with original box and power supply. Fully working with no issues. Awesome analogue tones from synth to filthy square wave fuzz and pretty brutal when you combine the two Price includes postage to a UK address1 point -
I got the MXR Bass Synth! Chuffed!1 point
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Though I now have to wonder... what's she gonna look like with an Ampeg on her?1 point
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I had this on an Alpher bass:1 point
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Excellent Len, but please take that 'e' out of 'whisky' - it's from Skye, not Newtonards.1 point
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Well I said it sounds like a P-bass but some boy on TalkBS tells me that's impossible and would I kindly re-string the bass with zingy roundwounds, somehow it'll better reflect the pink and blue lines he's drawn on graph paper. Boy is a genius, doesn't need to play your bass or know what pickups you used. Nope, one look at a picture tells him "there's a 20dB drop off in the higher Mids" 😳 He could be right or maybe my penchant for single coil P-bass gives me a different view on "sounds like a P-bass" 😁 Anyway, I'm sticking with like a P-bass and have vowed to never read another TalkBS post by someone on my "ignore member" list, they're on the list for a reason 😁 Should say it's not the loudest P-bass so I'll likely try the coils in pairs.1 point
