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    Setting up an all-band PA for small gigs is a PITA, means more time and more work, and IME can piss off a few band members who are more used to plug and play. But it's worth it for the both consistency of sound and the control it gives you over overall volume. The test for me has always been punter's phone or similar crude recordings of gigs; in the old pre-PA days a phone recording would often give the impression that only one or two instruments were playing, at least it would never pick up a decent whole band sound. With all of us in the PA every recording sounds like a band (and the levels of certain players stay as they were in sound check) 👍
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    Have great night mate, they’re still pretty niche hence even London gig is small, but you wouldn’t want to see them in an arena after all! Bit gutted to miss them to be honest 😕
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    Damn, and in London tonight but sold out, hope you get to see them Lawrie, would love love to see Chris Wood playing upright in the flesh 👍
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    A soundguy a few years back said he generally has to tell guitarists to turn down and bassists to turn up. Think that says it all 🤔
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    I’ll have ‘em then Steve 👍
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    Frankly if no-one’s gonna take this I certainly will, so if you want it more than I do, you’ve got ‘til 7.00 this evening 👍
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    hi mate, hope all's well, nice to have a new band, result to have a good singer! My tuppence worth. As is the case with amplification generally, it's a good time to buy the (tried & trusted) old, big and heavy PA gear, while in the used market the lightweight/smaller stuff can still be quite pricey. Unless you want to be doing this again in a year I'd also suggest getting more power than you think you need in case the bigger gigs do come in, or in case you find yourself playing in rowdy pubs (you can always turn a powerful PA down after all). Having said the abkve, we play through a relatively small and lightweight Bose setup which we picked up used for not much more than the budget above (albeit without a mixer) and I'm always amazed by just how much it can pump out.
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    Re splitting the bass Neck & tuners with built-in Sims LEDS on the note/(fret). £500 ovno Body, Sims Quad PUPs/electronics, passive tone circuit & all hardware £900 ovno Note that the neck LEDs require 9v battery power supply from the body, there's no power in the neck itself 👍
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    Happy 70th @Bluewine, you’re doing bloody well to be gigging like you do my friend, hope you enjoy many more years of the same 👍
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    That’s a great deal Steve, nice one 👍
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    Thought I'd post a quick reminder of trade options, happy to talk cash terms also of course
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    There is a disturbance in the force however, th eusual 'man buys bass, man sells bass, man regrets selling bass, many buys bass back at a loss cycle has been broken?
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    This is good advice. There's a lot you can do on a DB to reduce tension (well, a lot a decent tech can do if you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself). Absolute and relative positioning and length or bridge, after-length, tailpiece and tail-wire can all affect perceived tension and action. Crtainly loighter gauge strings will help but may introduce a new set of problems around tone, volume feel etc 👍
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    It’s potentially in the same space, although I was being entirely speculative above. But you don’t have to look far in life to see people keeping feuds alive long past the point at which any resolution is either possible or even the goal of that feud?
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    I’ll be a little more Freudian, consciously or unconsciously keeping this alive is rewarding the OP in some way, I’ve seen a lot of similar cases professionally although usually with more problematic and ostensibly harder to let go objects. Lawrie, your advice is the absolute bottom line here, he has to let it go, the distraction, the time, the stress, and the effects of all of these on his life will cost more than the (in reality) small amount of money involved. It will be the best outcome for him and his family. The luthier also needs to take a good long look at his life - ideally with professional help both in terms of business and behaviour - and have the courage to either right his wrongs properly with money not promises, and/or walk away from this ‘career’ and find an honest way of earning an income. It will be best for him and his family in the long run also.
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    It’s as if you want to keep it all going another 10 years?
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    I've been using this to record for the last few months but it's now available again as I'm going to convert an existing cabin on our property into a vocal booth. Just as a price comparison the below is the same make as mine albeit the standard 1.2 x 1.2m size (mine is significantly larger as 1.6 x 1.6m) listed used at £3,200, which is around what mine cost new IIRC Happy to talk trades/PX but note that you would need a large vehicle and probably two strong friends to get it out and build it at your place, being double lined for acoustic reasons it is VERY heavy! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204609057273?hash=item2fa3a671f9:g:bjsAAOSwGhRlm9rf&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwCZe%2FqDVaqmLTOE413pBfoeq5VKBQn7mbSc4V%2FqJ%2FOln6PYlsSvuHp1oAtwquI6DAEcEtDvjWhd%2FfRo5FpsTfvEswg2gZPX3BQS9RehmPffJj%2FGML%2B6EbTG2yNBcE7rhm6DgXxYxkLwMvzTCkf88vTyxIZG5%2Bhuto4Uo7FT4DljFoQKtqG9c0nvGqT0aW19j3hJGGyzhktv6j%2FsVqPvZnOzscrvEU0NFfdxd2kAJ4uPRP4D2e7CvlIXEXpA3XCLJCw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6DBjaKmYw
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    I've had an offer for the neck of this (Enfield necks are pretty special and this is not only built from pretty special woods - lovely birds-eye maple and dark ebony board - with a very light nitro finish, but it also has the Sims LEDs built in. If anyone is interested in just the body which is standard Fender fit (which means that for those of you for who fretless is a no-go a nice fretted neck would give you a rather special instrument), please give me a shout.
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    Interestingly Chris Wood records his Hofner miced/unplugged, none of this is helping my GAS
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    Thanks Rabbie, I'll check it out 👍
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    Chris on his Hofner Good interview here https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-12/chris-wood-beautiful-danger/
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    Some P/Js just look wrong. That looks SO right 👍
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    More Chris Wood content here, we should perhaps leave this thread to Jay's Hofner 👍
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    Chris Wood, bassist in Medeski, Martin, & Wood, and The Wood Brothers. If you like a bit of jazz fusion, the former is worth a listen, a bit of contemporary bluegrass, the latter. Luckily I love both so his playing ticks a lot of boxes for me, not only a great technician, but very inventive and creative in the way he approaches a song. Tone he squeezes out of his upright is pretty special, but his electric playing on occasion sounds beautiful. The Hofner always struck me as an odd choice, not one that's usually associated with a virtuoso player, which CW most certainly is. But given he could probably choose whichever instrument he feels best translates his imagination into musical form, he must see something pretty special in his Hofner 👍 And despite having pretty much got rid of all my electric basses, I'm very keen to own one - even for a while - just to see whether there's some mojo there 🤔
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    I very nearly applied but I'm looking more for an originals set-list focussed on issues such as contamination of the food chain and the abuses of Big Pharma. Guess the search continues 🤔
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