PaulWarning

we cancelled ours ourselves for this reason, tbh the pubs seemed grateful we'd taken the decision for them, one way to get the pubs shut down by the Government is for them to try and attract punters, I'd imagine keeping a low profile is a better plan.

I'm not signing, it's by no means certain that insurers will pay out even if the Government orders closure, even if the businesses have this type of insurance, if pubs stay open and a few people go for a drink it might just be enough to keep them from going bust and keep a few folk in jobs, if it's ok for kids to go to school it's ok adults to go for a quiet pint, I'm not talking about manic Saturday nights in big cities here but the local, centre of the community, boozer that might never reopen.

We've cancelled all our gigs for the next 2 months, I can't see any sensible pub carrying on with any sort of people attracting entertainment whether it be live music or a pub quiz, if they do the Government will force them to shut like in Ireland. Anyway there won't be many folk out and about anyway

you do have to be careful about that sort of thing, especially if it's close, datewise, and if the venues are in direct competition with each other.

we play the pub with the jar regularly, it's not that bad an idea, one of the moans on here is about 'free' music, and that gets round the problem of charging an admission, it gives the pub a buffer of having to pay out the full fee on bad nights and if it keeps music pubs going (and this pub is a long established one) it has its merits btw, the Landlady is very nice and an in house PA is definitely a bonus

this is true, I love Trace heads but the cabs, as good as they sound are just too bloody heavy in fact @kev b gave me 4 x 10 cab because he didn't want to cart it around and when I got it I knew why, I sold it for £40 and split the money with him, felt a bit of a wimp when the guy who bought it carried it out the front door with one hand 😂

@stewblack,thought they must with those EQ settings, makes sense, you're sort of making them less severe

any preshapes involved?

yes, I was very surprised as well

can't speak for combo's but I tried an Ashdown ABM 500 EVOIII head as back up for my Trace GP12 200 watt head and the Ashdown wasn't a patch on the Trace power wise (and they both weighed the same) and I prefered the Trace sound but that's personnel preference, I will say though, IMO, don't use the preshapes (on either), sucks all the mids out, sounds good on it's own but just doesn't cut through in a band situation

I find Bass on it's own is fairly boring, great in a band, but I play acoustic guitar when I want to just play and sing on my own

may be talking out of my backside but judging by the string and fret wear there must be a fair degree of string/fret interaction which surely must affect the tone.

well yes, the bass is in reasonable condition a few scratches and a ding but to be fair there was no mention of the condition in the description and only the one picture so I can't say it's not as described, but it goes to show not all suspicious sales are scams but I'd play it the same way again in similar circumstances

the bass just arrived safe and sound, how good is it? time will tell, never played a Ric so don't know how it compares. Seems a lot louder than my Precisions

unless ebay have suspended his account before for trying the same stunt 😀

yes, that's what I was thinking, as it turns out it looks like he was just trying to avoid selling fees

as I said a few posts ago he relisted as BIN and I bought it, but surely you don't get the same protection if it's not bought through ebay?

incidentally, is it a bit dodgy selling Ric copies? I notice in the listing he didn't actually mention Rickenbacker by name

he relisted it as a BIN, so I've bought it, hope it's ok

maybe, in which he'll relist it with a BIN

I'll let you know, if it doesn't it's a strange bass to try a scam on (left handed Shine Ric copy), more like there's something wrong with it and he's only got a feedback score of 2, so he's probably been kicked off ebay before

already replied, sorry, not happy with this, I lose ebay buyer protection, if you want to relist it with a buy it now price of £200 I'l rebid on it, I think it's £1 selling fees at the moment, if you don't want to do this, we can just forget about it, no problem. no reply yet

just bid on a bass on ebay, bit strange he said first to bid will win, not buy it now, anyway I bid and now he's cancelled the sale and asked me to pay via paypal, sounds risky to me

certainly, mids covers a big area, I would say around 100 to 400Hz, but don't cut the others either, the smiley EQ face is not good

@Skybone just beat me too it, take the very bottom end off and boost the mids, or in my case (Trace Elliot with a P) leave then flat, it may sound a bit 'boxy' on your own but fills the sound out in a band setting, I also use a Zoom B1on with the Sansamp bass driver patch