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With out wanting to sound like a diva, I would make it clear that I wouldn't be playing if the band isn't fully/properly rehearsed. Great to have that one amazing song, but if the remaining 56 mins of the set are pony, it would do far more harm than good. Alarm bells should be ringing that the singer isn't listening to everyone else's concerns. If the song isn't ready, park it - concentrate on the other songs for the gig. If he can't understand that, then future of the group doesn't look good. Hope you can talk some sense into him!

2 minutes ago, Grangur said:

For a light weight cab, it's also worth looking at Barefaced Bass. They get a lot of love here. 

I once had a "BigOne"; their 115. It was light, yet bulletproof as far as it's power handling is concerned.

They don't currently do a 115, but you could ask Alex if he can make one, if 15" is important to you.

https://barefacedbass.com/

I'd love to try them, but they are our of my price range....

Orange Terror 500, Orange SP212 and Ahdown 4x10. I'm getting old and my back wants something lighter than the Ashdown!! Having said that, someone just emailed me to possibly offer me an Orange SP210...

Hi all.

Looking to get an extension cab for my rig. Either Fender Rumble 115 or Markbass Traveller 115. Both are light weight, which I need. Anyone played through both and able to describe the difference? Going to have to be an online purchase as I can get down to a shop selling both....

Ta

9 hours ago, Huge Hands said:

I play in a concert band (brass/woodwind).  Lovely people, but regularly wind me up.

If a gig has restricted parking, the flute or sax players will park right up against the venue doors with no access near or through cars for me, drums or percussion with the heavy gear.  One local event every year we get allocated 3 spaces near to where we play for bass, drums and percussion, but every year I get there and someone else in the band has blagged the three spaces.

If I'm one of the last ones there, they will have set up in their semicircles on stage with no access through the chairs/music stands/mutes/spit rags etc for me to get my gear through to the back.  They just look at you blankly when it is obvious you need to get through and your arms are about to burst having carried it all half a mile from the nearest available parking space.

They also regularly forget to tell the event organisers that I need electricity, or when there is some the band won't move in a bandstand so I'm exposed when the rain starts.

I find bluntness, shouting, and ramming fingers and toes with my gear tends to work well....... 

 

If you selfishly block my path with your car, you can either move it, get some lovely new dents in your car or find a new bass player.

3 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

If your cabs are responsible for the sound the audience hear (no PA support) then you want two exactly the same. 

I did consider an Orange 1x15 I saw on Ebay. Unfortunately, the decision may come down to budget....

My current rig is an Orange Terror 500w, going through an Ashdown 4x10 and Orange isoberic 2x12. The Ashdown is just too heavy for me now, and fitting the rig plus 2 basses onto the car is too much. I'm thinking of swapping out the Ashdown for something like a Markbass traveller 151 or a Fender Rumble 115. So a 2x12 sitting ontop of a 1x15. What other cab combinations do people like/use?

On 27/07/2019 at 07:46, uk_lefty said:

I'll lend out my rig but only to people I know OR if the person running the sound is the guitarist from my band. Though a punk band did decide to max the input volume on my Ashdown head at a festival last year and it was permanently in the red, I wasn't too happy about that but you can't really go up mid set and ask them to be flipping sensible with the gear can you? Was paranoid about the amp for the rest of the night, hadn't had much sleep and during our "headline" set when the smoke machine went off I had kittens!! 

I beg to differ. When a bassist did that to my amp, I just got on stage and lowered it. It was that or just or I turned it off. My head is far more valuable to me than their set time. In interest if full disclosure, I had agreed in adv to him using my rig via their drummer, but when he didn't introduce himself or thank me during sound check for the kit share, alarm bells started ringing.I find the ill mannered ones are usually the ones to abuse someone else's kit.

Thanks for replies - very helpful

Has anyone here ever perforated their eardrum???

Our guitarist just messaged to say he thinks he has perforated ear drum while water skiing. Wondering if anyone here has ever had similar injury? I am guessing he won't be able to gig for a while? We have three gigs in a couple of weeks. Or should that be had???

Ta

am I right in thinking the neck on this is thinner than a usual P?

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.