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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1487238498' post='3238219'] I too use a fixed price, with "Make me an Offer". Or I use the auction starting at my bottom price or something near it. Gone are the days of starting it at 99p and hoping it'll find the market value. You'd be safe selling a Fender that way, but selling something obscure could be risky. Ebay's reserve prices are odd IMHO. You've got folk placing bids with an on-screen message saying "reserve not met". It's like "guess my bottom price". What gets me on Ebay is the 10% fees. I sell a bass at £850 and they get £85!!? If it was £42.50 it would be more acceptable. I've bought and sold on Gumtree and BC. BC is good for Fenders and Rays. Given the amount I've advertised that didn't sell on BC, I would go with you that the fees are, in my case, questionable VFM, but it does support the forum staying here. [/quote]yeh I don't get setting a reserve, why not just start the bidding off at what your reserve would be, when I see a reserve set it puts me off because you don't know where you are, if you had to start the bidding a 99p or what ever then I could understand it, but that's not the case

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1487230973' post='3238136'] I've never sold using a reserve. Only sold in an auction with a BIN. When the first bid landed the BIN disappeared. [/quote]I always sell with a buy it now and make me an offer, you get a few chancers but it's only an email and you don't have to answer it [quote name='ead' timestamp='1487232154' post='3238144'] I think the market is a bit odd at the moment in any case. I have had things on here doing nothing, then I pop them on evilbay with BIN & best offer and they have in the majority of cases sold for more that advertised on here. Even more odd that after fees etc I still made more that the price on here in at least half the cases. We're talking about 8-9 items overs the past 6 months. There's no doubt you get a wider audience, but maybe BC is not always the best place anymore. What do others think? [/quote]never used BC to be honest, I think you get a better price on Gumtree and Ebay (BCers are too well informed perhaps) and only ever bought one thing of BC, (in fact thinking about it I've never bought anything off Gumtree either), and the set fee on basschat puts me off

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487158134' post='3237574'] Look at this idiot. I do like the way the photographer had a little joke by "framing" it with the girls arm. [/quote]pratt, look at the state of his bass, he must have been wearing his watch on the wrong wrist for ages to cause that much damage

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487157336' post='3237561'] Ah - going by your avatar, you play your bass the wrong way around anyway Easy to make a watch mistake doing that! [/quote]Ah you noticed, took me ages to get used to wearing my watch on the 'wrong' wrist after the Stingray incident, in fact on one occasion I spent 10 minutes look for my watch before realising I'd regressed to putting on my 'right' wrist, which is actually my left wrist, my brain hurts I'm going for a lie down

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487156936' post='3237551'] I bet you looked like a right weapon wearing that watch on stage. What were you thinking? [/quote]think? I don't think I play bass

on the subject of clip on tuners, totally useless when your drummer won't shut the f*** up, so an FX pedal with one built would be essential if anybody could notice when a bass is a bit out of tune, I never can, on the subject of wristwatches (how bizarre to even argue about them) essential when playing a pub gig with a strict curfew, you may know how long songs last but I haven't got a clue how long our singer is going to prattle on for or how long the drummer is going to spend messing about with his kick drum pedal or hi hat clutch or how long the guitarist is going spend tuning up or swapping guitars when he's broke a string (or even restarting a song because of it), on one occasion when we forgot to check the time we didn't even have time for our curtain call of Nellie the Elephant, what a disastrous gig that was. I do agree it needs to be worn on the fretting wrist after I scratched a near perfect Stingray with my metal strapped watch

part of the weight problem with TE gear is the speakers, I've a 1 x 15 cab which weighed 25Kg, not too bad in TE terms, then I remembered I had an Eminence 300 watt 15" speaker chassis in my loft, not a Neo but still shaved 5Kg off the weight when I put it in the Trace cab, which is now a relatively light 20Kg, so you x heavy Trace speakers by 4 and you've got a serious weight problem, I love Trace heads but wouldn't touch the combos (especially a 4 x 10) with a barge pole unless I never had to move it

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1486979222' post='3235929'] Its just a shame Bowie didn't get that recognition when he was alive. [/quote]not a big Bowie fan after his Ziggy period but as Jimi Hendix once said "once you're dead you're made for life" and he should have known

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1486992696' post='3236062'] This morning I heard a radio ad. Declaring EBay as the place to sell your old stuff to clear a bedroom. So maybe that business model is getting shaky? I always thought eBay was good for selling nationally and Gumtree for selling locally. This weekend I put up an electronic piano on Gumtree. Folk were calling from up to 70 miles away! [/quote]yeah I was selling a Trace Elliot combo (44Kg) from Nottingham and a guy from Edinburgh wanted me to ship it there! fortunately somebody local bought it, depends what search criteria you put in Gumtree

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1486939593' post='3235800'] Bidding is a wretched process. I haven't 'won' anything in years and prices go up to what you can buy it for new pretty much every time. I hate it. It might be alright if you're looking for toilet lids and radiators, I suppose. I'm not surprised 'buy it new' is commonplace because who wants to go through that bidding process? [/quote]Whenever I do sell on Ebay I go down the 'buy it now' with 'make me an offer' route, I 've found it a lot better with the added bonus of the item selling quicker

I've started using Gumtree, no fees, and collection most of the time ebay is my second port of call these days, yes they seem to be going down the Amazon route of just wanting traders these days, still a good place to buy though, I've got a few items at good (not bargain) prices recently (trace elliot heads), not much risk and no fees

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1486903370' post='3235356'] [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][color=#282828]I think the OP was suggesting what cover version one would prefer over the original.[/color][/font] [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][color=#282828](well, my take on it).[/color][/font] [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][color=#282828] [/color][/font] [/quote]I was thinking if the title only was read and not the first post, but really I was just trying to make sense of some of the suggestions

[quote name='casapete' timestamp='1486901151' post='3235338'] C'mon, I mean.... really? [/quote]to be fair the thread title is 'cover version over originals', no mention of better, think some people on here are posting suggestions for the worst cover version, or a cover that was nowhere as good as the original

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1486842033' post='3234991'] All this said we've all been to big arena gigs where a top pro is playing through top end gear and using a well qualified sound engineer. And it sounds a bag of sh*te if you can actually hear it at all above that bloody kick drum. There are limits to everything. [/quote]yep been there done that, bloody annoying as hell, hate kick drums they invade my frequency space

now this is better than Chuck's version, but then almost any cover by Hendrix was better than the original, except his Beatles efforts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlJclT1lMBk

not sure it's better than Chucks version, how could it be? but it's a different twist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyytlU-uS7k

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1486770676' post='3234538'] I know everyone and their granny has probably made better combos. but i still particularly fancy a TE, its just that i dont know what was available ( GP7 GP11 GP12 etc ) [/quote]wouldn't have said that, they're very good combos it's just the weight of them, I started with a combo but now have 2 TE heads, one is a series six and the other a GP12 SMX which I prefer, so I'd look out for one of those, God knows what it will weigh though Edit, apparently they're 104 pounds, hope your back is in good nick https://www.talkbass.com/threads/fs-ft-trace-elliot-gp12smx-410-combo-kc-local-only.953381/

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1486736955' post='3234242'] Hey, I have no solo pretensions and I doubt many have but look on the gear threads of this forum and tell me people are not particular about there sound. I am and I am also not interested in recording so the dual rig thing is bogus. Its the blend of instruments that make a sound and If we all used the same tone it would all pretty much sound the same. Sometimes its peoples differences that make it interesting. Everything from Glen Cornick, JJ Burnel to Chris Squire. Imagine if there sound guys had simply dialed there unique sounds out and made them generic bass tones live, cos it was easier. The OP is all about "Improving live tone". [/quote]problem is all those guys have their own sound engineers who know what they should sound like, the rest of us have to use an in house sound man who has no idea (and probably doesn't care) what we want to sound like

never used an Ampeg TBH, wouldn't have thought Trace's could be described as modern and clean though, certainly not compared to class D amps anyway, but if the Ampeg is a valve amp it's not really a fair comparison, not sure which Trace you've got the GP is the preamp and the number of EQ sliders usually follows that (GP7, GP12 etc) the 150 is normally the power amp rating and has AH before it, as I said before try the gain at full that might distort the sound, does on mine. As for the send and return I never use them, can't see the point just use my FX pedal in line with my Bass lead

[quote name='adriansmith247' timestamp='1486640711' post='3233428'] I have just got hold of one of these pedals second hand but am not happy with the overdrive sound. When I turn up the drive control the sound cracks up and there is a loud HF whistle. Maybe my pedal isn't working right. Should the overdrive sound smooth? If so I may try getting another one thanks [/quote]the overdrive is a bit on and off, after about 3 o clock it suddenly starts getting all 'spikey', I use a Zoom B1on for this reason a lot more controllable and not much more money, haven't noticed the HF whistle though

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1486640439' post='3233425'] So what is appropriate for a band paying pubs? I appreciate a function band will have a more defined/coordinated look, but wouldn't stage gear seem a bit OTT for playing the Dog and Duck? [/quote]depends what you mean by stage gear, look at my avatar, that's what I wear every gig, the rest of the band look like this[attachment=237807:Hairy Dog 1.12.16.jpg] all the successful bands in my area have a 'look' to go with the type of music they play and stick roughly to a certain genre, (Mod, Ska, (very popular is Ska) Heavy Rock etc) remember you can't please all the people all the time, so just try and please some of the people all the time

an ultra Spinal Tap moment a TE amp that goes to 12!, I presume you're talking 10 o clock and 12 o clock here, I've got 2 Trace amps and use another at the rehearsal room and never had this problem but I do tend to have the gain high (passive P bass), full on at rehearsals, might be worth a try

cut the low frequencies, I've found I have to cut 60Hz to cut boom (Trace GP12 and P bass) then boost low mids (100 - 200 Hz) a touch if necessary, but yeah go wireless or a long lead, get 30 feet away from your cab and the tone can alter quite dramatically depending on the room, obviously this is if you're not going through a PA, if I am I go post EQ from my amp, at least I have some control over what's happening FOH, my partner knows what I should sound like and lets me know if things aren't right

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1486571290' post='3232895'] The website is good, it's got all the right content. The gigs page with one gig might be counter productive. I don't think the image of the band works. I realise a lot of covers bands just wear random t-shirts and jeans/shorts but if you're struggling to get gigs, sharpening up the image would probably help. I watched the video for "are you gonna go my way" because it's the only one of the 3 I can stand (sorry). At the very start, the singer introduces the song, but doesn't seem very confident. After it's kicked in, everything seems good, but the sound quality is not great. It sounds like one side of a stereo mic was pushed against a cushion or something? So I would sharpen up the image, get an unpaid gig somewhere (anywhere), get a mate with a go pro to film it, and give the front man some coke. [/quote]yep, I hate it when a band looks like they've just walked off the street. Jeans and T shirts is a poor effort IMO of course, especially from a front man

IMO, and I've only got a Squire VM Jazz compared to a MIA P, the Jazz sounds great on it's own but in a rock band situation because it's a lot more scooped sound it doesn't cut through,the P has loads of grunt around 200Hz, which the Jazz just doesn't seem to have, unless I put the pick ups in series mode