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[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1508850731' post='3394845'] "Though"??? My brother in law plays trombone in two brass bands and even the local competitions are brutal. I can only imagine how competitive, nerve shredding and nit picking a national comp would be. Respect. [/quote] It wasn’t meant with any kind of disrespect. The fact the guy played at the Royal Albert hall is enough for me to offer him the greatest respect. 😊

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1508846434' post='3394791'] National Brass Band competition. Now that's proper rock and roll. We won by the way [/quote] Bet it was still an amazing experience though.

Bass too commonplace? More commonplace than drums or guitar?

Gumtree? You do still get time wasters though.

Slightly off-topic. It's best really in the long run at least, to avoid playing scales in a 'box' pattern like this. Learn to play the notes instead, rather than a fingering pattern. Imagine if there was an LED at every fret on your bass. You have a button to press and it lights up every note in a given scale, that kind of thing.

All the time, both for fretting notes and muting.

They have KFC and Starbucks there. Not that I'd touch either, but it's interesting.

I’ve always thought they looked quite cute. Never seen one in real life though.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1508686616' post='3393789'] The term has been co-opted by many others but to me [i]a gig[/i] is a performance to an audience. [/quote] That's how I understand it too. It could be playing solo, with an ensemble or in a theatre pit, it's still a performance though. Same I guess with as mentioned for a DJ.

He's a member on here by the way. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/313296-my-first-youtube-music-clip-my-own-song/

Mines about 1mm at the 12th fret.

Don't think so as it's below the level at which tax comes in, I think that £35.

Excellent

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1508684045' post='3393747'] XLR to Mono is somewhat defeating the purpose, I think. G. [/quote] Thanks for your reply. It maybe is, if you know what the XLR does, in my case I don't hence my post asking.

It's gone now I see. I reported it, though only based on the posts here.

[quote name='Jecklin' timestamp='1508591391' post='3393147'] That's a balanced output on the XLR. Effects pedals generally aren't designed to deal with balanced (3 connector) signals. The XLR to jack lead you have - is it to a mono two connector Jack or a three connector trs? [/quote] [quote name='obbm' timestamp='1508591418' post='3393148'] Firstly they are both outputs, not inputs because the bass is a signal generator. The XLR will be a balanced output designed go girectly into a mixer channel. You don't say what sort of XLR to jack cable you are using but it could be you are grounding one leg of the balanced signal. [/quote] Thanks for the replies. It's an XLR to mono jack cable that I bought from Amazon. It's a good quality one, Van Damme cable and Neutrik plugs. I'm not very technically minded as you may have noticed .

I suspect he's not sure, hence the price.

My Overwater has two outputs on the side. One is a standard jack, the other an XLR. I read somewhere, and someone has told me that the XLR is a better output to use. [attachment=255970:unnamed.jpg] I've got an XLR to XLR cable, if I plug that into my bass and run that direct to my audio interface it works fine. So I bought an XLR to jack cable, if I plug that into my bass, and the jack plug into the first unit on my pedal chain, all I get if a funny sound. Any ideas ?

I prefer to buy on here, I do definitely find that items sell better and faster on Facebook though, and often for more money. I was threatened with getting banned on here recently for adding an item to a sales advert. I genuinely didn't realise that you couldn't do that. Anyway I put the offending item on to Facebook and it sold within 10 minutes, for more than I was asking on here.

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1508151367' post='3390034'] P Bass? [/quote] I guess 😄

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1508146787' post='3390000'] I bet if a support slot with a major artist came up with no payment most on here would jump at it [/quote] That's a little different, [b]you[/b] usually have to pay to support major artists, and it would potentially be good exposure, rather than playing a holiday camp in the off-peak season.

To my mind the only thing that is 'free' is for them. You're providing free entertainment for their paying guests. It'll cost you money to get there, then there's your time. Your time [b]has[/b] to be worth money. You'll be using your equipment, amps, guitars etc. Sorry but this thing really annoys me. How about, 'hey we need people to come along and clean tables, wash up, mop the floors after our party, we can't pay but you'll get free accommodation, look at it as a free holiday'. Everyone else will be getting paid, security, bar staff, cleaners, so why not you? Tell 'em no.

Reverb, modulation effects, delay, some mild distortion and use an ebow.