neepheid

In the covers band we generally get paid in cash, so the biggest problem is finding fivers sometimes.  There is no band kitty, we're mercenaries, we divvy up the money on the night and it goes its separate ways.  When the venue pays electronically, the guitarist handles it then reimburses us when the money finally deigns to show up.

The originals band is different - there is a band kitty and all the money goes in there - no-one takes anything from it personally, it's all for the band.  I look after it and maintain a spreadsheet of the ins and outs.  Ins are gig fees and CD sales, outs are recording, publishing, getting CDs made if we can be arsed.  It's not used for equipment - the band generally plays in venues with house backline and we maintain our own personal musical gear out of our own pockets.

36 minutes ago, Sandman said:

Hi all

 

I'm wondering whether anyone in this thread might be able to help me find out a bit more about my TRB 6II?

 

I think I've had it about 10 years and bought it from a bass forum, it might even have been this one? It looks almost identical to the one in BassAgent's post above and it has a stamp on the back of the headstock that looks like it says "QJZ069F MADE IN JAPAN TRB-6II". It's a lovely bass and it would be nice to know a bit about it and to find out where I might be able to locate an OE jack plug for it.

 

Thanks in hope. 🙂

 

Sandman

 

See when you say plug, do you mean socket?

Assuming you do, here's a video pertinent to your post:

Unfortunately, it's a barrel jack - they're known to fail over time and I guess you could noise up Yamaha who may be able to supply you with a pre-wired one with the connectors already there, but that might take a while and probably be costly - the alternative is to carefully desolder the wires off the old socket (taking a note of where they went) and just make sure you replace the barrel jack with something quality like a Neutrik to give it the best chance of longest life - don't skimp.  They're a standard size/shape.

How many Vintage V4s does a person need?

All of them.

Enjoy!

45 minutes ago, chriswareham said:

 

Good joke. You are joking aren't you? Actually it seems like you're not.

 

Well f*ck me.

 

Microsoft are utterly incapable of making secure software. They've made a rod for their own back by having to be backwards compatible with the horrendous APIs they've put out since the 1980s. APIs that are absolutely so full of holes that they simply can't be fixed without breaking the legacy software that are the sole reason they still exist.

Axe ground down to the handle yet?   Any other companies dead to you?

30 minutes ago, Count Bassy said:

They same way that  the vast majority of cars are basically the same shape.

Well they cetainly are now.  Can people please stop buying these SUV/crossover blobs on wheels?

Exactly.  Did you know that the bass has 2 hidden strings, and it does not play itself - can only be operated manually...

1 minute ago, asingardenof said:

This inspires a lot of confidence in the quality...

 

That's Amazon being Amazon.

4 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Teams is for online meetings, greatly inferior to Zoom for online meetings.

It took 30 minutes for a consultant to set up a Team meeting last week, in the end had to set up a new one and re-invite everyone.

I once had one with a Local Authority, utter disaster - their security rules meant their meeting had to be teams. After over three hours of increasingly frustrated emails and phone calls, I set up a meeting on Zoom or Google meet in about five minutes, which they could join as it was an 'external' meeting.

Teams is an absolutely useless productivity killer.

Teams works fine for me, internal and external meetings.  Just sayin, for balance.

Well, from my point of view (and I appreciate that I'm an odd fish at the best of times), Fender's most basic offerings are too expensive for what you get.  It's the bass that's important to me, not the name on the headstock, and Fender are banking on most people being unlike me.

What about that massive gap between the top end of Squiers and the least expensive Fenders?  Are they just going to leave that to the likes of Sire then?

And another thing, I saw mention of "antivirus software" as an example of things a user doesn't need.  I hope you're joking.  Please tell me you're not hanging on to this old trope that "there are no viruses on Linux".

12 minutes ago, Jack said:

Home users want to turn a computer on, have it work, and do something. They don't need an AI assistant, adverts, integration with xbox, adverts, candy crush, adverts, a million free trials, adverts, forced updates, adverts, an army of widgets vying for attention, adverts, everything starting on startup, adverts, antivirus software, or adverts. And if they do, they can install them. The one thing that seems as though it would be really useful to low IT capital personal users is Office 365, particularly having files saved in the cloud. But nobody seems to understand how that works!

Our users aren't "home users" though.  The computer they are assigned is a work tool.  They don't have any of those things you describe getting in the way.  That's because we manage our devices, they have Windows installed on them in a manner that we dictate.  Updates are pushed on a delay so we can ok them.  Privilege management is in effect so that we can tread a line between protection and letting people get on with it.

In a large, managed environment, such as the one I help maintain, the things you are describing simply don't happen.

2 minutes ago, Franticsmurf said:

I'm teetering on the brink as I need a new wireless set up. The Lekato WS80s I've been using for a couple of years are playing up intermittently when a bandmate uses her set (different brand but visually the same unit and set to different frequencies) and I'm considering a 'replacement' (technically an upgrade as they'll be the 5.4Ghz ones). 

 

In my mind this is a replacement of a bit of kit that no longer works as intended, however a ruling would be appreciated before take the plunge. 😃

Well, if it's at a similar price point, the fact that it's 5.4GHz could be explained away by the natural advancement of technology.  You're not buying it on a whim, you've got a problem with your current gear, it's defective in the sense that it doesn't work in the context that you need it to.  I would be miffed if I was out because of this.  Hardcore folk might say, tough, wireless is a privilege not a right, back to cables you go etc, but maintaining the status quo is allowed.

It's a bye from me (unless you replace the Lekato with something significantly more expensive, then I might call shenanigans).

2 minutes ago, Jack said:

Scan Computers.

Sold me a faulty power supply, no problem there things happen and there's no way a retailer is going to unbox and check everything they get in. However, when I tired to return it they claimed that I'd broken it and that I should have purchased their 'scansure' insurance that protects against installation damage. Wouldn't budge. In the end I got my money back from the credit card people rather than the shop. I am the 'computer guy' in my circle of friends and family, and I tell this story every time I can. I know I have funneled quite literally tens of thousands of pounds away from Scan and towards Overclockers, Palicomp Aria (rip) and the like. Not that it seems to have hurt them, but you shouldn't rip people off.

This is what they don't understand - the reputational damage caused by accusing your customers of incompetence/dishonesty.  They won't care, because they're a big fish in a small pond and there's not a super amount of choice in these specialist markets.  Still sucks though.  I'm kinda out of the game right now, but I will take what you say into consideration when next I need computer bits and bobs.

God bless Cadfael's cookbook.

1 minute ago, ezbass said:

This seems to be the current state of play in many threads, sadly.

Which is why I'll always err on the side of humour.  I am a stirrer too, but there's a time and a place for it, and it should never be personal.

3 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I was just trying to be funny, but I see not very successfully, perhaps it would have made it funnier if I had indicated my jokes with emotes.   

 

Now you're getting it!

Just now, Baloney Balderdash said:

Yes, and that is exactly why my reply was a humorous comment to that as well.

 

Insinuating that you were of the younger generation who are not familiar with any of the first bass players I listed, but only of YouTube cellebetrties. 

I'm touched, but I'll cop to being an old fart and of course aware of every name you mentioned, old and new, because I am a nerd.

Just now, Baloney Balderdash said:

Davie504?

 

 

CharlesBerthoud?

 

Are you aware that a smiley on the end of a sentence means that the preceeding information is not to be taken seriously?  See, no smiley this time, so it's a genuine question.

Just now, ezbass said:

Except other bass players.

Oh, it's you, you nerd!

Just now, Baloney Balderdash said:

 

And:

 

Cliff Burton

 

Victor Wooten

 

Stanley Clarke

 

Justin Chancellor

 

Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen (NHØP)

 

?

 

Who?

There's too much mild dislike in this thread for my tastes.  Death to all Jazz basses!

2 minutes ago, Owen said:

I played a ridiculous and silly pointy guitar Explorer thang last week. SO comfy! Who knew?

It's all about that forearm ledge...

Is there a "best" side?  My face doesn't have one of those!

For me it varies by venue.  Most of the time I play at the drummer's left side when I have the choice.  But some venues with their own backline, the bass rig is on the right, so I go on the right.  It's not my stuff so I don't want to be a diva and demand that it's moved around on my say so. 

I don't think it matters anyway, no-one notices the bass player

Hope it's OK to mention here but a few of my basses will be available to buy at the bash, specifically:

Epiphone Korina Explorer

Harley Benton HB-50 (prototype, not available to buy yet)

Soloking MJ-1 Classic (Fender Roscoe Beck inspired)

Special deals for people helping lighten the load on the way back up the road - and save yourself postage from Aberdeen!

They will get listed up on BC after the bash but I thought I'd give yous first refusal...