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1 minute ago, Lozz196 said:

I had a Duff Sig (older model, not the new one with blocks etc), and have played a Nate Sig. The Duff, although it has a Jazz width neck, was a fair handful, I was surprised at the depth of the neck. The Nate although a thinner than regular Precision, just felt like a good worn in Precision. Sound-wise the Duff is more versatile due to the two pickups and TBX option, additionally the Nate has Quarter Pounder pickups which I`m not keen on.  I wouldn`t say either was better as in terms of build quality, playability they were pretty evenly matched. If I had to pick one I`d probably go for the Duff as for one I already have enough regular Precisions, so the added tonal options make sense, plus it wouldn`t require a pickup change to get rid of the QPs.

Many thanks mate. Interesting on the neck front. Both sound quite a handful.

HI there.

Currently GASSIng for both of these. Has anyone played both? Love to hear what the differences were. Currently looking for a shop with both in stock to go and have a play about...

I haven't played there, but I've drunk there. Fun place. 

The Who - live at Leeds. They're an entirely other band live compared to albums. For me, that album is perfection.

No contract, and I know it would be pretty to kick up a stink - it's just annoyed me.

1 minute ago, sprocketflup said:

I guess they wanted to advertise the festival rather than the bands playing

The organiser is in several bands, there are bands playing that venue every weekend and several bands from last year are playing again this year. Just annoys me that we weren't asked back and but they don't mind using our pic.

1 minute ago, sprocketflup said:

Where else are they gonna get pics to advertise this years festival? 

Why use a pic of a band that aren't playing? 

2 minutes ago, darkandrew said:

I assume it's a UK based festival? As I understand it, in the UK you do not own you own image - as peculiar as this may seem. This means that if someone has legitimately taken a photo or video of you then they can use it - in fact the person that took the photo or photo actually does own it, which is why you can't just take one of your professionally taken wedding photos into Jessops and ask them to make you a copy. Even though you have paid for a copy of the photo, and even though you are in the photo, the copyright to the photo belongs to the photographer who took it.

They may have the right to the actual picture, but do they have right to use our likeness? 

I admit I know nothing about this!

I was tempted to comment on the poster asking what date we were playing, so they'd have to reply saying we weren't - they just used our picture on the poster. But I don't want to get petty - it is a charity event after all.

1 minute ago, uk_lefty said:

Same has happened with us. We are on the promo video for a (paid) festival. We were the first band on, got excellent reviews on the festival Facebook page, haven't been asked back. But they use some shots of us including video. It annoys me that they haven't asked us, yet they use video of us... We can't play it anyway but you still want to be asked. 

Exactly. We never signed anything last year, so they don't have the rights to our image. We don't want to play the festival - it's just a point of principle.

So last year my band played a local festival which raised money for charity, and we went down really well. The festival is on again this year, but we haven't been asked to play. That's fine with us (I can't stand the woman who organizes it, the charity is for stray animals abroad & the sound man is incompetent) but I have seen the poster and they have used a picture of us from last year as the background! It doesn't list us as one of the bands playing and I don't think they are trying to mislead people - is it silly that this has really gypsy's kissed me off?

Sorry to thread hijack, but never heard of this band or song - really enjoyed. Reminded me of Joan Jett. Anyway, I'm off to check out this album.

Oh yeah, and your right - great bass sound!

Unfortunately, I can't pop over to Spain to visit his store  If you can answer emails prior to sale, no excuse for not replying afterwards. If they don't arrive soon, some lucky company will get 2 orders from me. One to go in my main bass and one to go in spare which currently has Jess' pups. I wan't them to sound the same. Maybe I'll investigate Mojo. Thanks for the tip.

I've read a few posts on here saying emails are replied to before sale, and then nothing after - think I'm the only one who has paid and recieved nothing. I'm sure he did despatch, but's it's simply inexcusable to ignore a customer when they report their item has been lost in transit. Shame.  A really good product.

My wife very kindly ordered me some jess loureiro pups for my p-bass early in December last year, and while we can see they were despatched soon after, they have still not arrived. We've emailed several times, but have received zero replies. I going to give it till the end of the month and then raise a dispute with paypal. Anyway, can anyone who has played a jess loureiro p-bass pup recommend a similar sounding alternative? Preferably a company who's 'reply' function on their email works...

Thanks in adv, Dan

8 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

The riff at 2:35 bears a wonderful resemblance to "Stop The Cavalry". I wonder if it was intentional. 

 

 

Oh wow, never noticed that before. Well spotted!!!

Was admiring the Mono backpack; until i saw the price!! Can anyone recommend a similar product at a more affordable price???

So my band went into the recording studio yesterday and recorded 3 songs. Few tweaks to make in the mix, but overall we are thrilled with the results. We are now considering putting up on a site like bandcamp. That means we now need to get the songs mastered. Never made it to the mastering stage before. Any advice/recommendstions? No idea of where to start, cost etc. Any help gratefully received.

4 hours ago, Marvin said:

Gigs Friday and Saturday this weekend.

Friday was in a pub in a nearby town where we've played before. The place is very small, but the crowd are good and always like what we do. It was a little odd at one point. At the start of our second set, we were part way through the first song and a very young lady, wearing next what was supposedly a dress started posing in front of the band and her boyfriend was taking photos of her...all very weird. Highlight was our guitarist called over a guy who regularly goes to the jam night we go to. He's not a musician really but likes to get up and maybe join in singing a couple of verses. At the jam night, some of the snobs have asked him not to, so our guitarist saw he was in the crowd on Friday and got him up on the mic to join in with song he knew. It was a bit of a squeeze as the guy is not small

Saturday was a all ticket fundraiser at a Village Hall. Lovely crowd, up dancing and having a good time. Afterwards we had lots of compliments and asking us to go back, result. Only thing is the sound in there was awful. The best description would be, it was like playing at a public swimming pool. The sound just bounced around everywhere, it was a reverb hell. Otherwise, a good night.

Really nice gesture by your guitarist. Double thumbs up.

On 26/08/2018 at 20:17, Grangur said:

 

Hi, is this bass still for sale? She's a beaut!

On 18/07/2018 at 07:36, T-Bay said:

Or perhaps it’s the better way and all us right handed players are at a disadvantage? After all, why does it have to be one way? And if you think about it, when playing normal right handed mode it’s the left hand that has a more complex job to do which is counter intuitive to me as a right hander. If you think of the precursors string instrument wise (assuming double bass played with bow) the right hand had a far finer set of movements to perfect. But short of buying one of each and exactly matching practice from the start to see which feels easier I am not sure how you would prove this one way or another.

Couldn't agree more, that's why I play right handed even though I'm a lefty.

Last gig we played was at a pub garden 3 day festival. Weather was great so it was well attended, but sound man was dreadful, so stage sound was appalling making our set hard work. When we came off I had lots of compliments on my bass sound, the new original material we played and the group in general. When pubic loves it, it's a great gig - even if difficult stage side.

2 hours ago, MoJo said:

Here's my two (not a particularly good photo) The one on the right is the latest acquisition ..... £82. Ridiculous amount of bass for under a ton

 

Where'd you get the lack scratch plate from? Looking great!

When politely asked, I have always allowed other bass players to use my rig - never had a problem.  Only once have I refused. My band (London based) had a gig in Brighton. Rather than everyone driving their equipment, we asked the other band if we could use their amps and drums  - they flatly refused, so we loaded our cars and brought everything. The local band then swaned in late, no back line with them because they couldn't be bothered to bring it and said they were using our kit. We always prided ourselves on being polite and friendly to bands we shared the stage with,  but took great pleasure informing this bunch they wouldn't be playing unless they went home and got their kit, because they sure as well weren't using ours. 

Some great tips, thanks. I know I'll be fine to learn how to play the songs - it's being able to memorize them that worries me. Once I have the first 5 or 6 down, I'll be confident. I've already made a play list moisten to at work. Being familiar with the songs is half the battle.