mrtcat

They do some crap and some excellent stuff. PA wise the dcx2496 and deq2496 are two items id have in the rack any day. I once owned a 2x10 bass cab and it was pants. My experience is that some batches can have recurring faults. I had to send two eqs back from a batch with the same fault. Third time i got lucky with one from another batch - no problems. Thomann is a good place to buy online tho.

my wife is awesome. i have plenty of basses, amps, cabs, pa kit etc and she rarely grumbles. the main problem is that i like buying run down instruments and doing refinishes so i regularly have dismantled axes which smell of fresh nitro stinking and cluttering up the house. she'd be happier if i spent more money and bought stuff in a1 condition.

Private halloween / birthday bash for a very attractive 30yr old with very attractive friends. About 200 people at an old manor house hired purely for it's halloween appeal. We've got a new drummer and this was his 2nd outing with us. He's a pure pro and I loveplaying with him cos he's so expressive and somehow whatever fills and accents we try, no matter how complicated, he just seems to create so much space for it to work. I've also been working overseas for some weeks so we've had almost a month off. Everyone really loved it and the birthday girl's parents added an extra £50 to our fee as everyone enjoyed us. Tip top night.

Lidl's Parkside power tools are made in a couple of the sites that are also subcontractors who build Bosch gear I'm told (don't quote me on that tho as I have no proof) and many of their power tools are good. I'm a cabinet maker and amongst all my makita kit is a Parkside air nailer and it's bloody brilliant. Bought it over a year ago as a temp stop gap replacement and it's been so reliable. Never jammed once and buries even long brads very well.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1350988515' post='1845831'] I doubt we can know how much of an undersell it is..... going rates are all relative....bla bla.. But you should all have..or all SHOULD, sit down and discuss what you will go out for under certain parameters and conditions. I wouldn't blame the guy who goes out and gets the gigs so much..I blame the rest of the guys not setting understood and agreed guidelines. Some guys are very active and others not so,...for all sorts of reasons, but the guy getting gigs needs support not a bollocking. Accept that you didn't have a decent system in place..and therefore fulfil it/them thru gritted teeth..and then get an agreed price structure for future dates. We do this with a online calender..where everyone updates it and then I send out confirmation e-mails with price and any detail for a quick check by all. I expect them to come back to me within 24 hrs latest...and they do..if they have any probs as I am telling the venue/booker we will confirm within that time [/quote] This. In our early days I went out and found us gigs only to be blasted by other members who couldn't be arsed to go looking but wanted more cash. i know the op isnt issuing a bollocking or being unreasonable (quite the opposite as he's seeking some objective advice) but anyone actually booking stuff needs a pat on the back and he'd probably really benefit from having some guidelines. FWIW we do pubs for £200-£300, parties for £300-£500 (plus travel) and weddings for £600-£900. We're essentially a pop rock covers band (4pce) and although we're pretty entertaining we're realistic that we're not as slick as a big 6+pce function outfit and 60% of our gigs are pubs.

Ours cost about £40 and is made from a black cotton sheet with iron on printer paper from staples. I just printed the letters, cut them out and ironed them on. My wife tidied up the sheet edges by stitching a hem all round. The top hem is a big loop so we can either run a pole thu it, pin it up or gaff tape it to the wall behind. Since this pic was taken we splashed out another £5 to have our website address ironed on. Works a treat as now any pics taken of us in pubs don't havre dart boards, lamps, brass tack, specials menu etc in the background [attachment=121743:IMG_3523.JPG]

Anyone gigging near solihul tonight? The wife and I are visiting my folks there and they'll no doubt be tucked up early so we'll head out if anyone's playing.

[quote name='Sean' timestamp='1349731667' post='1829911'] Nitromors isn't even blemishing the finish! Heat gun tomorrow night. The neck is sanding off really easily though. [/quote] What's the finish? If its nitrocellulose or similar it'll rub off with the appropriate thinners.

Hi loki, do you fit leds for other people or do you only do your own basses? If you fit for others would you retrofit front dots and how much?I've got a yamaha neck I'm about to use for a build with 12 dots. Very interested in this.

You can't educate pork. Play boyzone and Val Doonican and you'll be bombarded with punters. Whatever you do don't play decent music.

Green Day and The Foo Fighters were hands down the best of the festival. There's definately a reason they're the biggest names there.

The lady is getting the "mate rate" by way of a free Dj. If your guitarist also wants to waive his gig fee that's his call but if he or she expects anyone else to drop their fee then their not being fair. We're playing my best mates wedding in a few weeks (I'm also best man) and I'm giving him the services of our band as a wedding gift. I have however offered to pay the rest of the band. Two have said they don't want my money but one does. I have absolutely no problem with this as its only fair and he's never asked me to play for free.

I firmly believe there's a right price for each gig. It all depends on the venue, the band and various other factors. To some venues on some days you will be worth £x and at another venue on another day you will be worth £y. The thing is the money / enjoyment you get has to make the effort worthwhile for you and your bandmates. So when the venue and band agree a price which works for both parties then that is the right price. This may be £200 or it may be £1000 but I guess what I'm saying is all gigs should be looked at individually. I always make people's financial expectations one of my first questions when auditioning musicians or joining bands. Money doesn't really bother me but I've been in a band where we rarely gigged as drummer wanted £100 before he'd pick up sticks. Likewise I wouldn't want to be playing week in week out for a tenner each. The thing that really annoys me tho is venues who expect every band to bring in tons of punters. Bands and venues both have a responsibility for promotion and if run well a venue will have regulars because the venue will be paying the right money to the right bands every week so people would know its worth visiting the venue.

You may be a little overweight but they're c###s and you can diet.

You did the right thing. It's one thing to strive for quality it's another thing altogether to only accept record like quality in a band that's meant to be fun. Then to come close to swinging for each other is madness. Unless its a punk band where fighting goes with the territory.

Get there super early as anything that's actually a bargain will go in a flash.

I had a Stage 1 Streamer ans a rockbass corvette. Both sounded great which ultimately led to me not liking the streamer which cost me exactly 10 times what the rockbass did.

[quote name='TPJ' timestamp='1342781264' post='1740790'] Doesn't mrtcat on here build them? He also does BFM cabs. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/144296-bill-fitzmaurice-builder/page__view__findpost__p__1291757"]Says so here[/url] [/quote] I have indeed built a few of these. I have one myself that I use regularly and it's a smashing cab. I'm afraid I'm not taking any building orders at the moment though as I just accepted a job on a project in Greece building a watersports centre for Uk company Mark Warner. If it goes well will have three more to follow so will be out of UK mon to fri for the forseeable.

Killer band. Great live show. Taylor Hawkins once squared up to our drummer when he (our drummer) was drum tech for spinal tap at live earth. Makes me think he may be a dick as our drummer is a really nice chap who wouldn't hurt a fly.

Steve Moore is a legend. This is a proper old vid but he's made a very tidy career in recent years as a result of it. I saw him live in vegas years ago with Rick K and The Allnighters and didn't know whether to laugh at first.

Blocks on P basses look killer to me.

Not my bag at all. Thought drummer was good but rest were dull dull dull.

Wholly agree with OP. I find a lot of these guys seem keen to demonstrate technical ability in preference of using that ability in conjunction with confidence in their imagination. That said when it comes to "groundbreaking" new material you generally have to wade through plenty of guff before finding something that is both new and actually good to hear.

If it's what his regulars have asked him to do then absolutely fair enough. Most of us are bored of playing them anyhow. If it's just his personal taste then by all means he has every right to request you don't play them but on his own head be it. We know too well how some of the less music concious punters in many pubs will be miffed if they don't get what they want.

We do weddings, functions, pubs, beer festivals and parties. I am solely responsible for our FOH sound as everyone else in the band would happily settle for a crappy cheap system. I'm an authorised BFM builder (although my day job has recently curtailed much of my building - to be fair I am usually bombarded with enquiries for custom built gear by people expecting a bespoke build to be far cheaper than an off the shelf solution) so as you can imagine all our cabs are self built. I have 4 x BFM DR200s and 8 x Titan 39's, a mackie 1640i desk, a Behringer DCX2496 crossover (best on the market by a country mile due to it's brickwall limiters), a Behringer DEQ2496 (again exceptional value as it has RTA function built in which is essential with BFM cabs), three crown XTi amps (1 for subs, one for tops, one for monitors) and a bunch of rack mount plugins (reverb, eq's, compressors etc). We get tons of bookings on the back of the sound quality. I always start by soundchecking drums, then add bass so it fits nicely on top, then guitar and finally get vocals to sit on top. To be fair these days most settings stay the same and I just tweak to combat venue acoustics. As I built all cabs myself and scoured ebay/gumtree/basschat for electronics our entire rig cost less then a pair of mackie subs and tops (Mackie SRM450's are undeniably the worst speakers I've ever heard - so so harsh). Is it any good? Oh hell yeah it's f###ing killer.