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18 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

If you want to make money out of your music, then playing live is the way to go. 

 

Even if your actual gig-fee isn't that great you'll be able to sell band merchandise. Unfortunately the sad truth is that T-shirts are by far the best earner for a band. Punters seem to be perfectly happy to pay £10-£15 for a band logo printed on a black T-Shirt that probably cost about £5 each to produce, but will hesitate over paying the same for your album in CD or vinyl where you may have spent several thousands of pounds on recording, mastering and actual production.

 

Also if your not gigging your streaming and on-line sales revenue will decrease too. Case in point, while The Terrortones were out there playing almost ever weekend we would normally sell a couple of CDs or vinyl between each gig to people who most likely had run out of money to spend at the end of the gig. Were were also getting $10-$20 a month from downloads and streaming. Once the band stopped gigging our on-line sales and streaming dropped off fairly rapidly to the point were now despite our past popularity I only sell a couple of singles or albums a year and it takes over 12 months for our download and streaming revenue to pass the $10 threshold to trigger a payout.

Oh for sure playing out will generate more interest, we’re at a point where we can’t and don’t want to gig every week, also want to play to decent crowds which playing once a month allows us to do, 

we do ok on merch, not looking to make a lot on money but simply get our music into more ears online, ie we’ve had a few plays on bbc introducing, but it’s the smaller local station however I know a few bands who have bypassed this step due to who they know…..hence why I’m not the biggest fan on bbc intro

4 hours ago, BigRedX said:

You need to be posting something interesting on the major Social Media platforms at least a couple of times a week in order to keep your profile up.

 

Also you have a ready-made audience on here, so why not use it? Put links to your Bandcamp page, and/or wherever else your music is available in your signature (but keep the overall signature small or a lot of people here will hide it making it useless). Having a link to your music in each of your posts should also boost those pages visibility to search engines.

thats def an idea i hadnt thought of tbh!

and the social media i guess is actually growing a little over the last 5 or so months.

15 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

To the OP what are you doing to promote your music?

And here I guess is the main part, we post and engage on fb/insta when we are writing or doing anything cool or worthy of posting, we are playing decent home town shows, looking to play more next year but we have kids and I’m a single dad with two kids so can’t go touring etc 

we use YouTube to promote our videos and have dipped a toe In to TikTok (we don’t wanna do any silly viral memes tho) 

we’ve done fb boosts and Instagram stuff never really gets any real input for the money we put in, 

we get frustrated as sometimes it seems it’s more who you know that pushes you out rather than what you realise 

who uses what platforms?

Anyone had any success, im hitting a wall of both fustration and now turning into anger, nothing you do as a smaller band with out paying goes anywhere, sites like spotify ignore, Apple really dont offer any metric so we have gone for a more random approch of starting to use Soundcloud now aswell.

we listen to all the podcasts which are meant to help and im sure they are all a simple push to get you to spend money pushing on ads in spotify etc, ive talked to local bands around us and they simly say they started by just streaming there stuff themselves to start the alg, honestly that just doesnt seem right to me.

last practice of the year last night 

So quickly changed things a bit now have two switches for the individual pickups to go between series and parallel humbuckers, the pickups are both wired from the switches into the single volume pot so I’m gonna go with the are in parallel……….

it sounds killer 

also I lowered the will power into the body more. 
 

I swear the pickguard doesn’t look this bad in person but I don’t really care 
 

8 minutes ago, Japhet said:

Kokko SOS is also exactly the same as the Ditto but much cheaper. No issues at all with mine.

100% a reverse engineered ditto 

On 01/11/2023 at 15:51, JonnyCumbo said:

Is the TC Electronics Ditto Loop pedal a good purchase for Bass?

a looper doesnt know whats going into it, im guessing thats what you mean by is is good for bass.

the ditto is great however there are much cheaper versions i have a landlord fx looper which is £49 which is a noticable chunk of saving over the ditto or boss.

im def grabbing one of these! sounds killer

36 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

I think before you start changing things what don't you like about the sounds your are currently getting?

its basically two humbucker wired in the same way as a jazz bass looking for options for recording, i have both pickups on full all the time atm and like that sound so i dont need dual volume pots for blending, bypassing the tone is for fun.

also atm its all done with electrical wago connectors so also not ideal!

Andy

so I’m thinking of going with this just combined two circuits? Parallel series neck and bridge no split coils, and a tone bypass? 
 

im gonna put in a 0.03uf cap aswell

any advice is welcome tho 

Love the sy200 set up I’ve got going atm going straight to foh, do also have a fuzzrocious BDPG after it adding a bit more grit but adds another level to the sound big fuzz sounds sound even bigger when there’s a synth under them aswell!! 
 

19 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

Tone?  From your hands, bonny lad.

19 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Or your amp...

🙄 tone control in the circuit boys my tone comes from many fuzz pedals 

51 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

IME you never know what switching options you want/need until you try them. If this was my bass and I didn't already like any the of the sounds I was getting out of the current wiring, I'd look at a temporary switch arrangement that would allow me to try out every single option. Then I'd make a note of the one(s) I liked and build a permanent switch arrangement to accommodate just those.

It’s a really rough wiring job at the min basically in the jazz setup, I think these be best in parallel I’ll probs leave it both in parallel but want options for recording tbh 

13 minutes ago, NickA said:

That circuit will do some combinations ( not series and parallel of individual pickups though) and should be hum free as it single coils both pickups.

 

You want tone as well?! There's no pleasing some people 😂.

 

Before the volume pot, put a pot in series with a cap with the cap connected to ground.  Trouble with passive tone controls is that they depend on the impedance of the pickups, which will be different with every combination.

Tbh I always have gone at max so guess I could just put a cap in the circuit somewhere rather than a pot 

9 minutes ago, ahpook said:

Apart from changing from a pickup selector to jazz wiring, would this do the job ?

 

Where would tone come into that ? 

ground and pound from lusithand is back aswell as the idiotbox blackout fuzz 

gnp into the blackout sounds so good!!  Basically rat into dual big Muff you can’t go wrong can you! 

31 minutes ago, NickA said:

If you split the pickups you'll probably get a load of noise pickup.

 

Look at an HH stingray and you'll see there are only certain combinations of coils possible (5), that's to make sure there is always some humbucking going on.

 

Anyway, think what combinations of the four coils you want; that's 24 without series / parallel combinations, but only 5 if you want to minimise hum... and even those won't work perfectly because the two pickups aren't the same.

 

Sort out some combinations and I'll see what can be done with switches and knobs!

Ok yeh I hadn’t thought about that tbh

however I’m guessing actually combo would be 

both pickups series

both pickups parallel

neck split and bridge series

Neck and bridge split series 

19 minutes ago, Pea Turgh said:

I have no answers.  But I do have questions- is that a metal fretboard?!

indeed it’s a aluminium neck from baguley 

Ive got a very heavy modded jazz bass!

Its lovely but the pickup wiring was only ever temp but im not sure how to go about the wiring i want?

the pickups are an avedissian t bird in the bridge and dimarzio will power in the neck, however these can both be split which i want to put on switches however wiring wise id love to put in a series parallel switch aswell.

Any wiring gurus out there able to help?

1 hour ago, TeresaFR said:

I'm selling almost all of my pedalboard and exchanging for an HX Effects tomorrow, but keeping my VTBass DI. I used to hate the idea of multi-effects units but here we are, and I'm really excited. Probably won't be very excited once I start to try and use the thing. I've been advised to get HX Edit, as much as I'd like to just do it all on the unit.

I had a friend who has the hx effects it’s really not that hard to program, also 100% worth learning to use the menus in the unit just incase you need to live 

minor tweaks 

spite box back and my modded muff on the board 

20 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

I also note that there's still space for another effect in that case...

Don’t tempt me ive a phase 90 staring at me!!!