Happy Jack

Had I been able to come up with the flimsiest of excuses to hang on to this bass then I'd have done just that ... but unfortunately that line of reasoning leads to madness. 🙄

Yeh, but driving 300km to save 10 Euros, well I dunno ... 😉

During the last 10 years of my career I was lucky enough to benefit from corporate hospitality, and I saw a whole load of big name bands from the 70s (Stones, Who, Fleetwood Mac, etc) as freebies. Pretty much without exception they were disappointing, not a patch on who they once were, and frankly nowhere near as good as most of their own tribute acts. The Actual Rolling Stones at the O2, for example, were absolutely blown away by The Counterfeit Stones, who I'd seen three weeks earlier (and paid for with my own money) at Kew Gardens. I genuinely can't remember the last time I bought gig tickets for a 'name' band and I can't say as I've missed it. I'd much rather be gigging with my own band down the Dog & Duck than watching a bunch of octogenarians through binoculars.

eBay doesn't want your business, or mine. Private sellers like us who sell perhaps a handful of items each year are a mere legacy from the original eBay, and they'd love to be rid of us and focus on challenging Amazon. eBay is now essentially the 2nd biggest shopping mall on the planet, with the vast majority of the business being done by shops and concessions, not by people buying and selling with each other in the concourse.

Just saying ...

No Who? Check out Substitute and Won't Get Fooled Again ... two of my favourite basslines. You should probably also take a look at A Town Called Malice. If your band has three people who can sing (= harmony BVs) then other satisfying basslines to play include My Best Friend's Girl and Listen To The Music.

Oh FFS, Tony. I need to know that like I need a hole in the head. Memo to Self: Stay away from @Hellzero adverts. Incidentally, there is no actual law that says you can't play piano and bass. Just saying ...

This is really not a great audio recording and does that PA rig no favours - we sounded way better than this in the room.

It took us far too much of the first set to sort out the appropriate settings on both the sub and the tops - too many options everywhere - but by about 20 mins in @Silvia Bluejay was beginning to get less disgusted with the basic sound and starting to apply the right EQ to make improvements. I thought the sub was strangely sensitive (on its own volume control) to an exact sweet spot for best resuts, but we weren't being helped by either the room (very lively) or the band layout - we had the tops on either side of the band and the sub on the floor dead centre, but further forward than I'd have preferred due to a partition getting in the way. By set #2 Silvie had it completely under control and the sound was fine, certainly far better than with just the CP8s on their own. They're great units and I really rate them for confined spaces, but Silvie never tires of pointing out that they're really intended for use as floor wedges and sound awful compared to our more serious PA kit. As an audio experience, and judged purely for that, the Citronic sub + 2xQSC CP8s rig was actually a bit meh and of course that's exactly what I expected. Now factor in the portability and form factor in a badly-designed boozer with a tricky load-in and it all makes sense. I'm delighted that we have that rig ... we won't use it often but we'll use it where we need it, and that will probably be a dozen times a year.

On a slightly more constructive note, rather than naming & shaming at this stage or threatening legal action, why don't you politely email him with a link to this thread on Basschat and ask him how he thinks you should proceed?

Check the weight before you buy!

As of right now (and I suspect it will be gone by lunchtime): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236374724127

Far Canal. Sorry Al, I was clearly way off target.

WHUT???!!!

Sorry to have wasted your valuable time, Dan. Please feel free to ignore my future posts on this or other subjects. 🙂

Pretty sure that's 21Kg.

@Silvia Bluejay won't be at the next Load Of Hay gig but she will be at the one I mentioned and she will be recording it, so that should be very doable.

What's your take on introducing relatives of Site Administrators? Asking for a friend ...

Already bought Phil, and with my eyes wide open. If I've screwed up then at least I can't lose too much money on a £200 sub. 😉 We've used the CP8s at The Load Of Hay once already and it's pretty clear that they're on the lightweight side ... not a criticism, just recognition that we're deliberately 'mis-using' them. We have a gig next weekend at a much larger pub but one where the space allotted to the band is about as big as your dining table, so I really wanted to get the sub on board in time for that gig.