Lozz196

It’s just something I’ve always done, works well enough so I’ve stuck with it, I find any longer on E & A and there isn’t enough room on the tuning pegs anyway. 

That’s some good news Steve

I cut mine at

12cm for D & G

11.5cm for A

11 for E

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

Knock, knock!

 

It's here.

 

Eagerly awaiting your verdict

I`m in agreement with the "support bigger bands" theory, better to try to sell to 500 of someone elses fans and make them your own, as long as it`s similar music styles there`s a reasonable chance of picking up sales as a result. 

Good review 

6 minutes ago, uk_lefty said:

Love the colour on that Dark Knight!! I know Fender call it Dark Night but if Batman played bass that is what he would play.

Holy Jazz Bass, Batman

2 hours ago, basshead56 said:

A trio of triumph!

Spent the day with all 3 and the SVT.

JOY!!!!

 

Fairly confindent in the assertion that this will genuinely be the last bass I buy 😎😁

 

3 great basses there 

I think it’s horses for courses, Motörhead, Guns N Roses, Sex Pistols, for bands like that crib sheets & iPads just aren’t “the look”.
 

Now people could take a pop and say well that music isn’t difficult, wouldn’t be needed, well prob not except the Slash parts.

Ye an 8ohm cab is what you need, ideally a 1x12 to match, the Markbass NY121 is a very good fit.

Louder, well the difference between what your amp puts out at 8ohms and 4ohms won’t be that much but - and a big but - you’ll effectively be doubling the amount of the sound so it will seem much bigger/louder.

I had the CMD121P combo paired with the NY121 cab and though I only ever played to the volume of the drums there was a really noticeable change to the amount of sound when using both as opposed to just the combo.

Motley Cruel, lol 😂 

Yeah no need to force it, if it’s not hitting the spot put it to the side, it may come back it may not.

This reminded me of Loadsamoney from the 80s - I came out of the house this morning and my car was facing the wrong way, so I bought a new one!

6 minutes ago, steantval said:

I would pay £90 for them if they made me play like him.

Cheap at half the price - I accurately doubt I’d manage that if I paid 50 times more for them.

15 minutes ago, Twigman said:

L & XL are definitely the sellers in UK, USA, NL and Germany but in Spain and Italy we sell mostly M - I think they are generally smaller in the Med.

So beer drinking countries = L & XL

Wine drinking countries = M

Makes sense, who ever heard of a wine belly?

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

 

Unfortunately you can't just look at your audience. You have to know them and that doesn't happen without actually trying to sell them stuff first.

 

Plenty of "younger" audience member are interested in buying vinyl. Also as I said previously it doesn't matter how big a proportion of your audience are small and skinny, the people who buy band T-shirts tend to be size L and bigger. At our last gig we sold all the size L T-shirts we bought with us and nearly all of the size XL.

Def, in my last band we found that vinyl sold great in Wales and Europe, CDs not so much, whereas in England CDs sold much better than vinyl. And yes, L & XL shirts are the "sellers".

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a band where a drummer has done this. But then subtlety of playing not that prevalent in the punk/Oi scene I suppose.

Local gigs, chat with the bands and make yourself known as a bassist available for work. 

2 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Was the VLE engaged? 

I don’t think so, was a long time ago but fairly sure not - the VPF probably was though.

I like Markbass gear but found their cabs to have a high end roll off, still sounded great though. But put a Markbass amp through an uncoloured cab such as Barefaced or LFSys and imo the amps then really shine. 

Yeah gonna see how things pan out, no rush, I’ve said I’ll cover 2025 for them, see how I feel then.

Well first rehearsal done and it felt like the last 5 years hadn’t happened and that I’d never left, sounded great, really tight, and the JMJ really worked - tho I had to use a thinner pick to coax some top end nastiness. Even my backing vox were to standard, which was the area I thought I might be lacking in. Overall am pretty pleased.

Most for me was 400, Hemel Hempstead to Torquay and return. 

I did deliver a bass to a buyer in The Netherlands once, we were on tour so met up with him just down the road from where he lived.

9 minutes ago, merello said:

I am going to keep my powder dry until the New Fender Player II Tariffed range is launched!

Fender Tariffcaster perhaps?

My old band used to sell loads of CDs at gigs and online. The keyboard player in my current band is their accountant. Of course he doesn’t divulge specifics but they’re doing quite well so I’d think they still sell a fair few.