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[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='922189' date='Aug 12 2010, 12:06 AM']I also wouldn't mind a free trial being this the cab i'm aiming for my next rig but i'm not seeing it crossing the big pond for an overnight trial... i'm just gonna have to wait until i finally get the Shuttle 9.0 i'm after and take the plunge on the T'Midget. Hope i won't end up wishing for a Super12 instead... lol Alex, this is great marketing. Keep those good ideas comming [/quote] On the bright side, GB, there should be quite a few user reviews popping up once the cab gets moving, so you'll get a good bit of info from a player's point of view. If it helps, I tried the Compact on the last Barefaced tour and was well impressed; I'm just more into the tone of smaller speakers. Can't wait to get my hands on the Midget, but well busy at the mo so not bouncing off the walls just yet!

20 quid plus postage plus you might have to pay duty... buy a large amount of chocolate and 2 spare batteries!

Do they do (even slightly) different things? This sometimes helps me to have more than one of something. Of course, you could always have one of them out on semi-permanent loan.. say, to someone in the area!

[quote name='WalMan' post='899959' date='Jul 20 2010, 01:16 PM']You're not sure, but I am and am afraid I have to tell you you're wrong. You have a pool of capital expenditure. You add to it and claim relevant reliefs. You sell an asset from within that pool and the proceeds (up to original cost of the asset sold comes back in as a receipt in the pool, which if it has a value of nil will give you a charge, and a charge in any event when you eventually retire from gigging/making money (do we ever!). If you are lucky enough to have a bass that has appreciated in value through being a vintage rarity and make a profit over cost then that profit will be a capital gain, but [i]probably[/i] exempt due to CGT rules on chattels EDITs to tweak the answer for correctness / hopefully help in understanding. If you are not sure ask someone in the know, which sadly nowadays [i]probably[/i] does not mean the HMRC Telephone Helplines as recent experience suggests you will get a variety of answers that may well not be correct[/quote] Ah, nice one Walman.. 'chattels' was the word the HMRC fellow used when I asked about the [u]occasional[/u] buying and selling of gear and its relevance (or, as he put it, lack of relevance in this case) to the tax return. That was a couple of TRs ago, before I even started to be aware of what CGT is for(!) I suppose most of us aren't in the position of our basses going up in value by quite enough to worry about then! Yup, I can imagine retiring from 'normal' work, but while ever body, mind and will are ok I can't imagine life without playing in some context.

Excellent stuff.. nearest you're coming this year is Bury and I'm already out that night, but will watch your gig list! I'll try to say hello if I get to a gig.

Al's new album has been recorded this year with a top notch drummer, Leigh Stothard, and meself on bass. We all (even the producer) had a good laugh doing the BVs. I've not been on cdbaby before, although one or two albums are available in download formats. Quite chuffed! A few second samples of each track. Fretless Overwater in action! [url="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/AlDickinson"]http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/AlDickinson[/url] Edit for itunes link. Probably much ado about nothing, but nice all the same! [url="http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/al-dickinson/id271357734?ign-mpt=uo%3D4"]http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/al-dicki...?ign-mpt=uo%3D4[/url]

[quote name='bumnote' post='917461' date='Aug 6 2010, 09:43 PM']By the time you sell a cab for £500 and take of the VAT its just over £400 Speakers wont be quite as expensive as you quote because you will get OEM prices A sheet of ply is going to cost you £50, to which you must add glue, screws, sockets, handles, corners, speakers, a unit to build them in, telephone, rent, rates. electricity you have to market them. Its hard work selling stuff direct because people want to see and try them. If you live in Portsmouth and the stuff is made in liverpool, how do you try them out or do you beleive word of mouth. If you sell through a shop, the shop is going to want to make a profit. How many will you sell a year, Sorry, making cabs is not a short cut to making a million.[/quote] P'raps Alexclaber would like to comment here? His direct marketing has these days extended to Barefaced On Tour.. well worth getting on the list, with no commitment to buy! BEWARE.. you might just fall in love!

I ysu the EA CXL 1x10 with concentric horn, sometimes on its own for smaller gigs. Top notch.. feels to weigh as much as the 1x12 version! I think now only available used, but there's bound to be a new version.

I'm not 100% sure on this point, but ref. selling gear later, I think that if you've claimed it as a capital expenditure (i.e. it's machinery!) then the proceeds of selling it come under Capital Gains Tax, for which there is a separate allowance. Other items like profits (and losses) from buying and selling shares also get lumped into CGT>

[quote name='DaveMuadDib' post='898880' date='Jul 19 2010, 01:13 PM']That'd be the Acoustica FS-101 Footswitch Non-Latching? Just bought one from ya, cheers mate [/quote] The very same!

Alot of the international carriers we use at the shop changed their pricing format a year or so back; rather than just weight it's down to size(!) so a guitar or bass costs half a fortune to ship around these days. Ironically it now costs almost the same to send a gigbag with no guitar!

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='898715' date='Jul 19 2010, 10:50 AM']I use a cheap Yamaha footswitch that has metal casing, I think it came with a 4-track tape recorder I had once. I'm not sure it's exactly the right one as I do have to double-click it to mute.[/quote] That'll be a Latching switch then. Non-Latching will be the thing for both of you. We have them at Cleckheaton!

I went 'official' yonks back when music became the main part of my income - touring pretty much full time, 5 or 6 days a week.. On leaving that band, I called the relevant offices and explained that, as I would be going back to a day job and music would be an occasionally paid hobby, I intended to wind up the self-employment. The reply came that, as they now knew of my existence, they would prefer to keep it that way so keep on filling in the Tax Return. Yes, indeed, if you make a loss on SE income (as paid musical work is categorised) you CAN claim that loss against tax already paid on other (SE or Employed) income. This worked very nicely for a few years, although these days I tend to pay some more tax as pretty busy these days. Also HMRC changed the capital expenditure rules so now you can choose either to claim depreciation each year or the whole value this year. Just not both! As the sound engineer in that full-time band said, as long as you have a vaguely arithmetical bent, accounts are really rather simple at our level - list of incomes and outgoings then one minus the other. I suppose the threshold of whether to pay an accountant is down to whether they will save you 1)enough time or stress, or 2)enough money due to knowing the System, to cover their fees. A friend recently got hassle from HMRC as his paid accountant had left some details out of the paperwork; when he told HMRC that it was down to the accountant, he was told in no uncertain terms that the responsibility lies with himself and the acocuntant is just there as a check. Any accountants aout there care to confirm or deny this, as my mate fits into category 1) above? Personally I've always found my local HMRC people really helpful, same goes for the occasional call to their helplines.

Nice sound.. I particularly like the bit around 2.49, when the camera shifts slightly so we can see you playing the bass!

Dunno if you have to be a member to use this (it would make sense) [url="http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/site/cms/contentBulletinBoardView.asp?id=2"]http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/site/cms/...rdView.asp?id=2[/url]

If you're near that tax threshold, you can probably afford to make it into a self-funding yet official thing, i.e. spend all the musical income on musical gear - strings, instruments, stage gear etc.. hence no additional tax liability but officialdom is, bizarrely, happy! Any income is technically of interest to HMRC, but they aren't the ogre that some make them out to be. Unless they find you first..

FAAAAACK!

My first recording session, on my first DB - solid top Zeller, just at the time I was starting to look around for something nicer - was done on a large diaphragm condenser placed a couple of feet in front of me, fairly central to the axis of the bass IIRC. The resulting recorded tone almost persuaded me to give up on the quest for another bass; certainly delayed the 'need' for such!

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' post='879668' date='Jun 28 2010, 10:54 AM']A kinky black nylon G string could cause all sorts of problems.[/quote]

I've seen the Picato folks putting the strings together.. how they don't rip bits off their hands I don't know! By all means rough out the setup with old strings, but an experienced setterupper friend of mine says you need new strings for the final tweaks as old strings, even under tension, will be slightly kinked. Even as I type that last word I can just sense some of the replies!

It does sound rather like you already know.. on and off 50 times is just stressful! I've just put the Picato black nylons on an Overwater fretless; done two gigs so far and no probs at all. I love the tone.. closest thing to a pickupped DB I've had yet from an electric bass!

I've long thought that the best way to first try an electric guitar or bass is unplugged - just the tone of the wood. If you like the acoustic resonance, pretty much any pickup/preamp/amp combination will have something to work with. If, on the other hand, you don't like the unplugged sound it's pretty much a dead cert you won't like that bass amplified. But then, one piece of maple won't be 100% the same as the next piece; there is no exact science to it. I think that the high-end luthiers get down and dirty with lumps of raw wood! I used to occasionally hang out at Paulman's workshop in Huddersfield; I remember one time he was getting really excited about a particular piece of something on his racks.. knocking on it with his knuckles "just listen to that! It'll make a beaut bass body!" Ah, the experienced ear.

How about huunting round for a PVG or Real Book format of the same show?

I'm not at all into relic distressing, but this one does look rather good.. not a sign of a power sander! On Bravewood's website, he does say 'Due to legal reasons I do not apply Fender decals' so it would be interesting to see if someone has put such a thing on there.