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[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1480767284' post='3186981'] 60% of the door plus expenses [/quote]bloody hell we'd get f*** all, 95% of our gigs are free entry

you'll get paid what the market will stand, if other bands are willing to play for that, then they'll get the gigs, assuming other things are equal, unless you drag a big crowd in you won't get as many gigs, the laws of supply and demand are everywhere

so not a lot then, apart from a few hundred quid on the price

so what's the difference between a pro and a standard?

well I've just tried my cheapo Wilson Rapier guitar through my Trace Elliot AH250SMX head and Fender Rumble 2 x 10 cab with my zoom B1on pedal set to Hall reverb and then with the bass muff for distortion, and it sounds pretty damned good cheers Dad

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1480501411' post='3184824'] It'll sound fine, but won't give of its best without a pedal or two. A bit of delay, a decent reverb, maybe a spot of overdrive if that's what you like. Electric guitars have their sound greatly through the use of pedals, especially in home practise territory. Just my tuppence-worth. [/quote]not trying to pick a fight btw, if you've had good results like this good for you, but this is a genuine question (not sarcasm) isn't delay and reverb more or less the same thing?

you'd probably be better off buying a cheap practice amp, I've tried it with a distortion pedal and as BigRed alludes too the results aren't good, I use an old Roland Dac 15 I got from a pawn shop for about £30

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1480439901' post='3184429'] I'd be a good candidate for a pro band. I'm not married,no girlfriend,my kids are adults and I don't have a day job. I can get up and leave anytime on short notice. Blue [/quote]same here Blue, but I'm not sure I'd fancy driving a few hundred miles to play to 12 people and get back a 3am

our drummer used to play with a 'professional' band, i.e. they played originals gigs all over the country, he had to quit because he just couldn't keep getting to gigs at the other end of the country on weekdays, if you're a self employed plumber or something it's doable, but if you're got a 'proper' job I don't see how, and it doesn't sound like it will pay enough to support you if all the others have jobs, Another band I know have sold 5 - 6K of their latest album and haven't seen a bean, all the money goes on 'promotional expenses' according to the small record company anyway

I've seen quite a few left handed bassists playing right handed basses without changing the strings round, makes no difference if it's what you're used too and you don't play chords on a bass, once saw a Rolling Stones covers band where both guitarist played left handed on right handed guitars, asked them if the chords were harder to play, "some are some are easier" came the reply

never heard Trace accused of being underpowered before

slightly off topic but relevant to the volume, we did a gig last Saturday where we had to sign a form saying we wouldn't go above a certain decibel level, of course we hadn't got a clue how loud that was, but the venue were happy, said they'd had a couple of bands on recently that they wouldn't book again because they were too loud, I'm afraid you just have to except that people want to chat when they go to a pub, not just listen to music, doesn't mean they're not enjoying it just because they're not giving you their undivided attention

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1479640844' post='3177989'] First gig with the PRO17s last night and they were...., well, not quite what I thought. First the good. This was a CIU club with a stage, low ceiling and strangely muffled acoustic. Guitarist's amp right behind me and turned up to usual. Drummer to my right hitting everything in sight with gay abandon. I don't think I could have done the gig without the earplugs. I took them out for one song and quickly shoved them back in. They were completely comfortable to the extent that I didn't really know I had them in. Other than the noise being turned down, that is. I could hear everything well. Even my bass which, without the plugs, was being drowned out by the guitar. But the odd bit (I won't call it "the bad") is that everything felt a bit......, meh. I'm not sure how to describe it. Just everything was a bit 'remote' and the songs sounded a bit flat and lifeless to the extent that I found myself overplaying to try and drive some life into them. I'm hoping that this is just a combination of me getting having to get used to the plugs and the strange on-stage sound we had at that venue (friends in the audience said the mix and volume were spot on so clearly it was just the onstage acoustics that were horrid). Everything else about these is perfect, I guess I now just need to get used to the way that the band sounds while I'm wearing them. [/quote]I know what you mean, I've never got over it, I wear an ACS in the ear nearest the drummer and a 'christmas tree' one in the other which I can move in and out to get the rid of the feeling of muffled remoteness, but then again I'm a bit deaf anyway

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1479407354' post='3176367'] I could take a P, a J or a Ray to rehearsal or gig , and the most is get is "that's a nice colour" not sure the band hear any difference live [/quote]yep, eq settings have a lot bigger effect than what type of bass it is, I've just used a P for the last 6 or 7 years, having said that I'm waiting for a VM Squier Jazz I've just bought of Ebay to arrive with a view to fitting humbuckers to it, just can't stop messing around can we?

I suppose you could take it further and say nobody should advertise a Precision bass as a Precision bass copy, would it be ok to say Squier designed by Fender? I know everybody on here knows that but someone putting their toe into the bass waters might not

good God how much must that weigh?

tricky, if you're selling you want as many views as possible, but I would say if you put Squier/ Epiphone in the title alongside Fender /Gibson it's ok, something like Squier Fender Jazz bass wouldn't annoy me, but being a lefty I don't have much to wade through anyway

To paraphrase the late great Reg Presley (him of the Troggs) "anybody can write a song but it's the magic dust that makes it a hit, but nobody knows what the magic dust is" how simple is Wild Thing? great song though

I use a series 6 head on my Fender Rumble 2 x 10, I've had a TE combo but it was too heavy, the head weighs about 15 KG which isn't too bad, so combined with a light weight cab, you can have your cake and eat it

because they work, people like familiarity, and it's the melody line that goes with them that's important, having said all that it is nice to stick the odd rouge chord in, strangely the Ramones were very good at that

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1478530420' post='3169627'] On my old AH350, the answer to "what does the pre-shape button do" was "makes the sound usable". As NickA says, the flat sound was very mid prominent. Using the pre-shape (and then adding my chosen eq via the graphic) was essential, I found. Nice head, though. Flexible and powerful. If it hadn't been so heavy, I'd probably still have it. [/quote]yeah they have an AH350 head at the practice room and that sounds terrible without the preshape engaged, my own series 6 head sounds okish with everything flat, so they're not all the same

yes I've done for home recording, DI one channel, jack to the other, just as an experiment really to compare the 2, both sounded pretty similar

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1478463432' post='3169233'] Better? [media]http://youtu.be/841ue54z-TI[/media] [/quote]little bit left field for me, quite like all about eve's version though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYzovYKhlMo

[quote name='tom1946' timestamp='1478458522' post='3169173'] I think Paul McCartney is the best 70+ rocker around, I love it when he does let's have a party: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmerANX0ATw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=HmerANX0ATw[/url] [/quote]if he sounded like that now it would be ok, but he doesn't, he was barely into his sixties when that was filmed, now his voice has gone or at best someone needs to tell him to drop down a tone, I may not like Cliffs voice much but it's pretty much the same as it's always been, you can't say that about Macca's

in my little world a one hit wonder is someone who has had only 1 top thirty hit, which lets off the likes of Carl Douglas, but not the likes Thunderclap Newman, who's follow up to Something in the Air reached 46, the Guinness book of British Hit singles is my friend