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It was until they started using Chinese components and drivers .

EBS octabass triple divider on Amazon £69.99 NOW: Ends 1pm [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000UYTD5Y/ref=gb1h_tit_c-3_2147_a3582fc8?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0J2MKAFK0K8Y636J5GMH&pf_rd_i=161428031&pf_rd_p=560262147"]http://www.amazon.co..._rd_p=560262147[/url] Also a Lexicon USB interface for £35;99 but I can not post a link as I bought one !

How about a thread where we share Black Friday bass stuff related deals with basschatters as they appear. Grab a few bargains I'll start it off with a reply.

See someone is already selling some trace combos for £750 on the selling groups on facebook. I hope he makes his money back, but it is quite old hat heavy stuff now that they carried on a bit too long and Mark bass totally hammers it for the same money and weighs about a third.

You need to decide now what level you want to play. With mates in cover bands/ doing some own stuff or to be able to walk in to the orchestra pit and play from sheet music. For just doing what most do, playing in hobby bands, endless learning of notation and scale theory is not really required. Learning the notes is a far better way to start, then a basic major minor and blues scale and move it around the neck. Then hit some tab and start learning some riffs and tunes. Everyone will shout, oh no learn theory first, but sit em down with some sheet music and say right play blind and they wont have a clue. Thats because like most, we took the easy route and just learnt to play the bits we needed to play and cut out the other 90%. I put a lad right who had had months of lessons and could still not play anything to any standard . Sure he knew the scales slowly but he could not play anything fast or accurate. I asked him, why is your thumb over the neck and not on the back and why has your instructor not shown you why your thumb goes on the back of the neck so you can span more notes. His reply was he told me to put my hand where it's comfortable for me He went off and a month later he messaged me to say he rectified his thumb position, his hand ached and ached, but then it stopped as he built up muscle and all of a sudden it just got very easy to play things. He is now quite a good player in a covers band and happy, if he wants to learn theory the option is open to him, but until he learned to get his hands right, no amount of lessons were going to get him playing anything.

I think some people got themselves very carried away, I wonder if they even read the hammer tax + vat bit

They have now said buyers have 180 days to return an item. Free Amp hire ? Buy and send back at 170 days and get all your money back. What a crock of ***** E_bay is

The Notion of "subs" often leaves a gap where the bass guitar sits in the lower mid range. 15" horn loaded martin style bins threw the bass guitar down the room, 2x18 sub bins on the floor and 10" line array units hoisted up leave a huge gap in the power mid range sound and there is literately nothing to push the bass guitar sound out. Other than the Sub bass and highs the amount of bass guitar the rigs can push is very limited and these creates a hole in the sound that gets swamped by other noise. I am convinced it is a "modern" PA rig design that is not actually designed that well. I certainly remember watching the bands of Old, Big Country, Simple Minds, Level 42 and they had cracking sounds from the PA. Every concert I have been to these days has a movie soundtrack style feel to the mix and I often wonder how it all went so wrong.

Thats is exactly what I was trying to establish, is it "worthy" If its £15 a pop at a 800 capacity venue, how much did they donate last year from the 800X£15 What costs were taken out as they would be and what pot went to the charity from that event. I thought this was a perfectly sensible question to have some basic accounts, even on the back of an envelope. However this simple request has really fluffed his feathers and I mean really fluffed them.

Having a did, it looks like a private promoter who then makes a donation to this charity involved. Apparently the charity involved state it is confidential information what donations are made and the only accounts they produce are total donations, individual donations are confidential. I am starting to see why he might be so offended by my questions.

Oh dear, just upset a charity organiser big time. They put on a almost National event in venues up and down the country, lots of bands play for free, big venues, £15 a ticket. I asked for some accounts ! What he replied ? Well, this is your fourth year I am to understand ? Yes thats right, so I Know what I am doing. Well I said, you will have some accounts then for the Charity I assume, how much was taken at the door on ticket sales, on merchandise, what were the costs, the profit and how much was given to the charity. Now he is saying I am accusing him of been a thief ? I only asked for a few sums of what he was wanting me to put my name to. I would have thought it was quite a sensible question. We sold xxxx tickets and grossed £xxxxx and we had £xxxx in costs and this much ££££??? went to charity (proof included) I only asked because I was considering his request seriously.... Was I wrong to ask what happens to all the money ? Is the code of ethics, shut up and dont ask ?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1416825219' post='2613841'] A friend of mine got a very high profile gig after the second track of the audition and they opened a bottle of scotch on the deal whilst the other guys were still on the plane from London for it... so, yes, I agree, if they have more people to see, they aren't that convinced [/quote] The last audition I held a few years back, we needed a vocalist, one after another they came.... Then in walked one guy and nailed it ! I went and bought him a drink and asked him politely if he thought this was his band, he said yes 100% I asked would he just sit in whilst we saw the last two people and would then get back up for some more. We dispensed the other two after one track each, got our man back up, never even told him "you have got the job" funny enough, we just said welcome mate, lets crack on with he set. You have to be ready to pounce when it happens, never let them walk out, it is disregardful in my opinion. That aside, I have also had those bands and ideas where nobody walks in, who hasn't ?

Just send him down the road, thank him but let him know he lacks stage confidence too much to perform live. Depending on what kind of band, if you are "background music" fair enough, but I generally find if people can stand near the stage and gab to each other all gig, the band gets ignored, get to a volume where gabbing is hard to do,(like big ticket gigs) they start to pay attention to the band. Gabbing whilst musicians perform is something that has crept in with low morals, same people gab at films, they are just rude and disrespectful. Go to another pub and gab. But if you feel the guy is making the band weak by refusing to perform at stage level, you might be better just letting him go with a flea in his ear.

It is the contents of a returns/ repair warehouse, the gear is all sold as seen with no returns, guarantees or comebacks. There is [b]45% ON TOP[/b] of the price you bid . A similar one happened in Ossett, strangely enough a lot of Trace gear as well, it had been canobolised for components and screwed back together. The speaker cabs all had issues with either crossover faults and blown drivers, you might have made 1 cab out of 4 cabs. However the PRICE the "bargain hunters" paid, many ignorant of the 45% on top, was totally eye watering .

A good test of the water is if they let you walk out of the audition with the line "we have others to see" That usually means one of two things: They don't think you were good enough and hope someone better turns up. OR They are about as organised as a wet sponge, no decent band lets someone walk out who they think can do the job and ticks all boxes, you stop it there and pull the bod in and ask them if they want the job. You do not take the chance they will also be looking for a job and will walk out and get one.

Software emulators and lazy engineers IMO. In those days, the Amp got a Mic on it. It sounded awful solo, but stick it in the mix and you had a bass guitar. These days engineers just want the bass done, standard software woofilater software and it sounds like a Tuba, dead as a door nail. Play any bass, don't bother changing strings, because when it goes through the software, your going out of the mix in to a dull far away sub sonic place.

The effect Gospel influenced vocals had on Motown is often over looked. You only have to hear this to realise where these great vocalists cut their trade.

[quote name='Subbeh' timestamp='1416511274' post='2611066'] So fed up of him gurning over his piano in that christmas ad, wish someone would run in and slam his fingers in the bloody thing! I don't watch much tv but I'm already sick of the supermarket christmas ads and it's not even December. Christmas is my favourite time of year and these money grabbing *$&! bags really do make it that much less special when it finally arrives . [/quote] + 1 Well said !

A similar one up North, invited dealers to test and buy the best gear first, the rest was sent to auction in Ossett that dealers did not take. You might get lucky, but normally people get very carried away and forget its all from the returns/ repairs department with 45% on top.

Just beware, you pay 45% on top of what you bid and none of the stuff is guaranteed to be serviceable/ working/ have a straight neck or blown speakers or work in any way shape or form . You bid, your card gets charged, if it does not work, it is an auction and you have no consumer rights, all is sold as seen with all faults and imperfections. You can almost guarantee anything worth having will have been rifled long before the rest got sent to auction.

As an oldie, the secret was the cab was Mic'ed up from about 1m away and cranked to stage volume and a separate DI in to the desk and yes it sounds awful on its own. But that is how you get the old school tones. In today software emulators give you a great sound, but stick it in the mix and you might as well have played a Tuba. Engineers just want the bass out of the way, over and done and you really have to grab them and say, stop, I am just as important as any other member, stop been lazy and record the ruddy bass properly and people might actually know it was a bass guitar on the track. I once heard Going underground bass isolated from a studio master, what a clank of noise that was, but in the mix it sounds awesome. Those clanky mid tones are what make a bass guitar hold its own in the mix.

Be careful with Wharfdale Neo drivers, I do some repairs on PA gear and I have quite a collection of these Neo drivers all with the same fault, the magnet is not bolted in straight, the bolt has been cross threaded and the magnet gap is smaller at the top than the bottom. As soon as any power goes through, the driver gets stuck and wont go back in. Most bizarre basic quality control issue. You can not even re-cone them.

People were holding this company up as an Example to Rickenbacker. Perhaps now they might understand why it is important to protect your branding and the worth of your products.

The clearest I have are a pair of yamaha 12" + 2" horn tops, very small and compact, loud but very clear sounding. Yamaha is often looked over as well as "boring" but they do have some very goood PA gear.

With the peavey gear, they switched to the same Chinese drivers most others use a few years back. The BW loaded stuff was very good, the cheap Chinese stuff, total pants and no better than bargain basement Wharfdale stuff. A lot of the premium designer brands are now Eminence loaded which is OK, but the drivers do have a tendency to just stop working without warning.