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    Abominable Electronics Hail Satan Muff

    in Effects

    Posted

    A quick heads up - Abominable Electronics are having a Black Friday sale -

    www.abominableelectronics.com



    I absolutely love their pedals obviously, I swear by the Hail Satan Muff! If you were ever considering one you won't get a better deal than this on them I don't reckon!

    Black Friday deals

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Abominable Electronics are having a Black Friday sale -

    www.abominableelectronics.com



    I absolutely love their pedals, I swear by the Hail Satan Muff! If you were ever considering one you won't get a better deal than this on them I don't reckon!

    Decent management, how do you get it?

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    We have done all our own management and admin type stuff so far, and we have done ok I reckon, but we have some big stuff for 2015, that I feel we can't make the most of those opportunities by just guessing our way through things, so we need proper management...

    Have you got proper management? How did it come about? Any tips on finding the right management?

    It seems that a lot of management companies want to offer some kind of 'consultancy' service - I just see this as a way of them making money upfront for a fee, not actually getting on board and believing they can get you somewhere, and we don't fancy/can't afford that, so we've already turned down two companies offering that.

    Any ideas? Cheers :)

    new album, what to charge? or give it away?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Wooks79

    I've done both the give it away free/pay what you want, and the charge for it ways, and both have been completely different beasts, as the bands were completely different.

    My current band, Sirens in the Delta (http://sirensinthedelta.bandcamp.com) have our EP online, and are also selling physical digipak CD's using bandcamps storefront type setup. We chose to charge £4 for digital download and £5 for a CD, as we need to cover our CD costs, but if anyone only wants a digital download, its cheaper for them, but is actually more profitable for us than the CD. I also feel that your music should always have a value, if you don't give it a worth, other people may not. As this band is a far more 'get out and gig' band, we wanted to have physical merch to sell to recoup the costs that we have outlayed with studio time/cds/merch etc. I have found if you do charge, people don't mind paying if they want your music. We have also had it put on iTunes/Spotify/Amazon/Deezer/etc, just to have it as many places available to buy as possible.

    With Dresden (http://dresdenmusic.bandcamp.com) my previous band, we were more of a studio band, with our own studio and producer, so we went the free/ pay what you want approach, as we didnt do a lot of gigs and wanted to be able to get our music in as many ears as we could to increase exposure. As well as using bandcamp we allowed the album to be a featured album on a very large private music torrenting site.
    This led to approx 20k+ downloads of the album worldwide, which was good exposure and opened other doors and contacts through them hearing our music. We made very little money from people paying 'what they want' but when they did pay anything, it was very nice to see. We didn't make any physical copies so that meant we had no costs to recoup.

    I guess the common theme here is that whatever you choose to do, bandcamp is a fantastic tool for artists to get their music online, its really user friendly, and can be really interesting with its stats, eg. I have found reviews of my band that I would have not seen without having bandcamp tell me where people had come from to visit the site.

    I once had a photographer friend tell me that he had increased his business tenfold after taking the advice to increase his prices, as people thought cheap meant crap.

    I would say charge for it, post a link and I'll buy it.

    Recruiting band members online

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    We got our drummer from a joinmyband ad when our original drummer left due to family and work commitments as we got busier with the band.

    It's all worked out great for us, so there are good people looking as much as good bands looking I would hope, its just as others have said, the people you may hear from vary greatly :)

    Planned visit to Darkglass Electronics

    in Effects

    Posted

    [quote name='bassman344' timestamp='1415220835' post='2598141']
    Ask him to bring out a pedal to save several settings like the tech21 deluxe BDDI.
    That would make the vintage pedal perfect.
    [/quote]

    Yes. this. but a B3K version.

    [quote name='Kev' timestamp='1415221228' post='2598153']
    Excellent! Doug is a great guy and I would love to go down a visit his workshop, especially since they are all made in Finland again now :)
    [/quote]

    Oh, when did this happen, and how come?

    Fender Cables

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted · Edited by Wooks79

    I quite like the Fender curly cables, they are cheap though and probably wont last.

    The last cables that have impressed me are the Orange guitar cables, they seem really really well made and durable. Not the cheapest though.

    https://www.orangeamps.com/products/cables/guitar-cables/

    I haven't had an OBBM cable yet, but do plan on getting a few smaller leads for my wireless from him soon.

    iOS for the gigging Bassist

    in Effects

    Posted · Edited by Wooks79

    I'm after a spare lightning adaptor for my line 6 Sonicport, and realised that in the box you get both a 30 pin adaptor and a lightning adaptor...

    Would anyone who uses their sonicport with an older iPad or iPhone like to do a swap so that they have a spare as well?

    Swap my extra 30 pin adaptor for your extra lightning adaptor?

    Cheers!

    Owning a bass thats never gets played.

    in General Discussion

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    My Stingray, which was my main bass for about 12 years, has seemingly been relegated to retirement these days, since falling for my Precision, it has only been used when the P-bass was in for a set up.

    It's not that it's not amazing, it's not that I don't love it, I've just gone over to the Precision it would seem. It's staying with me as I wouldn't be able to replace the memories it carries, couldn't get another in the same colour again, and more importantly, probably wouldn't get a good enough price to make me want to sell.

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