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Bandcamp is a completely separate thing. It only gets your music on Bandcamp and unfortunately the vast majority of bandcamp users are other musicians. If you want your music available to "ordinary" people it will need to be on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and YouTube at the very minimum, and that means using an Aggregator as described in my previous post. To maximise your exposure you need to be on Bandcamp too, but be aware that only people likely to buy a copy of your album on there are other basschat members.

Unless you are doing active promotion and probably also gigging you are unlikely to make enough back to pay for a subscription Aggregator service like Distrokid. However if you are in no hurry to break even one of the single payment services should eventually allow you to break even. Compared with the cost of making a CD or record in the pre-internet days either method is a complete bargain. If it's essentially a vanity project then you are better off using one of the Aggregator services that just requires a one-off payment. CD Baby is currently $9.99 for an album and they take approximately 10% of your streaming and download income. As an example I put out an "album" by my band from the late 1990s. With zero promotion it has taken 15 years to make just under $12 in streaming and downloads. On the other hand my current band who are actively gigging and promoting our music expect to make several hundred pounds from Spotify payments alone this year. It also helps that we have no overheads for releasing music other than our Aggregator fees - we record and produce everything ourselves and I do all the graphic design for the cover art.

How do I change my vote? It used to be obvious in a previous iteration of the forum, but not so much now.

Given that it's plugged in, amplified and he appears to be playing through a traditional bass rig is there any point to the huge body?

Still don't get the "Go To Bass" or "My Bass". At the moment. the bass I play most of the time is neither, but because it is the only bass I currently own that can cope with what I need to play in my current band, that's the one I play 99% of the time.

Given that this is BassChat there probably should have been an option for "I used to own a fretless bass but I don't any more".

It might not have been the intention of your post, but it comes across to me as being really sad that you appear to have let the expectations of society stomp all over any dreams you might have had.

Just had a look at the schematic and each channel has 5 valves in it, so it's still going to pretty large and probably fragile in pedal format, if it was even possible to make like that.

I got into playing fretless bass seriously about 20 years ago, and went through a lot of instruments before I settled on a custom-made Sei 5-string. Unfortunately the band that I was in that needed fretless bass parts folded about 6 months after I took delivery of the bass and it's not suited any of the bands I've been in since then. I think I used it one track on the Terrortones album, and as backing for the solo on the recorded version one Hurtsfall song. As a result I sold all my fretless basses including the custom Sei. It was a lovely instrument but it spent most of the pervious 10 years before I sold it in its case and I decided it would be better off with someone who was actually going to play it more often than once a year. At the moment given the sort of music I'm playing I can't see the need for a fretless bass any time soon. If things changed and I did, I would probably be looking for a Pedulla Pentabuzz.

I do quite a few "solos" as I play Bass VI. However none are improvised - they are all meticulously worked out note-for-note beforehand and are an integral part of the song and could probably more considered to be melody parts rather than solos in the traditional rock band sense. Also I'll mix things up and often the upper register parts are chordal and then I'll drop back down to the bass register for the actual tune/solo:

I didn't own a TV in 1985 so I never saw Live Aid. I wasn't particularly interested in any of the bands playing - those that had liked previously had IMO become bland and safe in order to be popular enough to take part. I most likely spent the day reading and working on new songs for my band.

Since it's probably going to be always on does it need to be in a pedal format? An actual Drawmer 1960 in a rack case will be fine.

It doesn't even need to be that complicated. I'd send a mono signal from an audio source, split it two ways and connect one to the left channel of my interface and other via the wireless unit to the right. Record using your DAW and then check how many milliseconds the peaks of the two signals are out by. Since the only variable is the wireless system you'll get the latency of just that without having to work anything out. I'll be interested in the results.

The next gig for Hurtsfall is: Pride Day Celebration on Saturday 26th July at Rough Trade in Nottingham. Free entry. We're on at 3.00pm.

Two gigs for Hurtsfall this week. First on Thursday at Rough Trade in Nottingham Supporting the brilliant Miranda Sex Garden. Lovely air-conditioned venue which was a relief from the heat and also meant I could wear my normal stage gear rather than something that wasn't going to make me pass out due to heat stroke. Played to an audience who were largely unfamiliar with our music but it looks like we won them over, and consequently sold loads of CDs afterwards. As always here's some photos from the gig: Then on Saturday we were near Ellesmere on the Welsh border for Goths On A Field. The bands play inside a barn which could have meant it was like an oven, but luckily it turned out to be marginally cooler in barn than outside in the field. My sister (who last saw me play live in 1985) and her husband who live nearby came along and seemed to enjoy it almost as much as our usual Goth audience. Plenty of people up and dancing from the first song, and the new song we were playing for the very first time got a great response. Despite the fact that most of the audience must have seen us play before we still sold a decent amount of merch and we had a number of people saying that we were their favourite band of the weekend which given who else was playing was high praise indeed! No photos as yet, but I'm sure there will be some posted when everyone is back home later today or tomorrow. For both gigs I was using my Eastwood Hooky 6-strong bass going direct into the PA via a Line6 Helix. Footwear was a pair of black and silver Converse-style boots bought years ago from TK Maxx Next gig is back at Rough Trade on 26th July as part of the Nottingham Pride festival.