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But again, most things aren't auctions now anyway.

I got this today too, my first thought was that it was great but then I can't really remember the last time I sold anything on eBay anyway. It's already just another AliExpress.

We played a charity night for a good cause I'm Cullercoats on Friday. Sarah's Stars are a little charity that help people with terminal diagnoses. The singer and I are both NHS so we were happy to help. It was nice to have another good gig under our belts, this project has been struggling to find its feet since we started. Our guitarist's son recorded the medley of songs at the end of our set and edited it into a nice little video, shame there's no bass on the phone mic but rest assured it was sufficiently pumping in the room. Hey, I'm the soundman. Bass all round. Sorry about the song choice, the medley is specifically for songs that were kind of feel obliged to play as a party band, but that we don't want to do full renditions of.

Can you explain the problem with this please? Not the physics, that bit I get, but the install? When one is installing a large system such as this do you tie all the power together first and then plug the system in? I just can't see the issue if one side is on one and the other on the other.

I had an R5 2x10 combo as a stage amp for a few years, and this same R1 practice amp for many many years, Laney stuff does its job exceptionally well.

Yeah but the problem is I'm always drunk. I know my locals (not that I'm a regular) and call them direct. But after a gig or when I'm somewhere that isn't my house then Just Eat is easier.

Pretty much this. Stomp in a pinch, lt or full fat to do it properly.

Well this was unexpected.

My brother has those, whilst he now also has the matching sub they were great without. Superb little things. Gives my monitors a run for the money and mine were £300+.

Took advantage of the good light today when I was unloading my car to get some better photos. After a LOT of gigs, the rack itself is starting to show some pretty serious wear. Gator should offer cases that look like this when they're brand new and charge extra for the privilege. From the front there's the ethernet, usb and aux channels permanently wired in through a very badly drilled hole. Those rack ears are tough. At the back there's a power strip with everything plugged in all the time, the router, and some cable tidying that's optimised for durability if not neatness.

I do worry about mine getting hot, part of me thinks that in about 8 years it's always been fine, the other part of me thinks that I should look after it more as it gets older. Are the xlrs permanently mounted? Do they fit in the depth of the lid? According to my Amazon history, my ethernet cable is this one. There are probably better deals out there if you look. No Apple products for me, I'm a tech nerd even more than a bass nerd, my house has a few Mikrotik products and I've had two in the xr18 rack as well.

That's a huge downer but thanks for posting your experiences.

This rack is about 8 years old now, the only thing I've ever changed is the router. Gator gr4s, mixer, media player, power bar, shelf, captive cables and a router (now a Mikrotik hap ax2).

With all the interest in small combos, busking amps, and frfr stuff, I thought that this was an interesting products launch recently. Spark Live I know they're brand new, but has anyone had any experience yet? I'm tempted to have one as a house practice amp, as well as small pa when needed. My Thomann Six Mix runs out of steam on bass guitar duties, but the Spark sounds great on the Andertons video.

Do you have a link to the duo page?

After two great gigs last weekend I'm back on my losing streak as of Saturday. A local agent who's a semi big deal wanted to try us out and booked us into a local club. We questioned the choice of booking twice, as we really didn't think a bouncy pop punk band would go down well (two of us have played the club in previous bands and it's very much not a pop punk venue) but the agent insisted we'd be a riot. Anyway, on chatting to the secretary it seems that we're the punchline to a bad joke. There's some bad blood between the agent and the club and now he's purposefully sending them bands they'll hate. Last week it was a band from Wales who had to charge £1200 by the time a hire van was filled with diesel and hotel rooms were booked. (This is in Gateshead) The committee were angry and vowing never to work with him again as we were setting up. Not the best welcome. At half time I went to the toilet. A man came in after me and spoke to a guy who was already in there before me. "Alright John, didn't realise you were in tonight" "Yeah we're upstairs, apparently the band are shit" "Yeah you're not missing much mate, they're awful". The sad thing was, we weren't awful. I've been in and been to see enough awful bands, we were good! Let's just say we weren't the right fit. Oh well, the money was about double a decent pub gig... Ebmm Stingray, Helix, IEM. Thinking about becoming a wedding DJ.

You can score a G&L Tribute LB100 (quite traditional) or SB2 (punchier and growlier) for very cheap these days.

Saturday was my newish pop punk band playing a birthday party at a tiny bar in the wilds of County Durham. Good gig, and a real trial by fire for our hastily-recruited new drummer who outdid himself. Very happy all around. This project is struggling to find its feet a little and so it was really nice to have a good gig. We have a medley in C that seems to get longer every gig. It's for songs that we have tried to turn into pop punk versions but they haven't quite worked, if there are any salvageable bits that do work we add them to a medley. The crowd simply would not let us transition out of 'Country Roads' to the point where I was able to just tap the root notes and pick up my phone. Oh well, if they're happy... Joke's on them though, it's 'Mysterious Girl' next in line, much better song. Rig was my Fender P, into a HX Stomp, into my IEMs. Sunday was a farewell gig to my indie rock band after 6 years of being my main project. Mostly family and friends of our two guitarists in attendance. They're the full on mods with the scooters and the haircuts to prove it, so we packed the tiny tiny pub when you put all of them lot on top of the locals. Rig was, funnily enough, my Fender P into a HX Stomp (well the car was already packed) but GET THIS, no IEMs for this band so I used my QSC K12.2 behind me as backline. Sore throat from the night before meant my dodgy backing vocals weren't needed and also we've already sold our subwoofer so I felt a little more ooomph wouldn't go amiss.

We supported The Futureheads last summer.* * We played a pub that is owned by one of The Futureheads and after we finished he came on stage, said thanks to the band over the microphone, and then switched the jukebox on. So technically that was a DJ set from a member of The Futureheads, so we did absolutely, unequivocally support them last summer.

We played a small gig last night that was a farewell to my indie band, wrapping up after 6 years. The venue was maybe 5m by 15m so not a large place. Our pa was our guitarist's pair of RCF 715s. I chose to use my QSC K12.2 behind me as a traditional 'amp' rather than as a wedge, just in case there wasn't enough bass from the pa, but it sounded fine. To be honest I felt the kick drum was a little lacking,but I could probably have fixed that if I really tried. A good no-sub experience all around. https://www.facebook.com/100002035809426/videos/426055013791392/ https://www.facebook.com/100002035809426/videos/1245536366603778/

If there's no money involved, then you're the product my friend. My wife sells candles and my sister is a piercer. It's the way that small businesses run these days. Not because that's what the business wants, but because that's what the customer wants. Both my wife and my sister run really high end businesses. It's £30 for a candle and £100-£2500 for a piercing. Serious money moving around with serious people. They both regularly get messages on social media that say things like "how much for [product]" or "open?". How many of us get similar messages from venues or clients? Don't blame the businesses for opening channels that customers demand. On a more specific note (and not directed at you specifically). I opened this thread with the want to find out if there was some sort of systematic issue with contacting Bass Bros. Maybe the owner was sick, maybe they had shut down, maybe someone had sent them £3k and not received a bass, maybe not and my message was just stuck in a junk folder. We've all seen people like Dave Funk just stop messaging people back and that is not what has happened in this case. Can we please NOT use this thread to attack what I'm sure is a wonderful small business? We all need more people trading in more good basses. Once my (very) minor issue has been sorted I have had a great exchange with Will. EDIT - And if anyone runs a business themselves that would benefit from a custom candle or you want some metal shoved through your skin, please give me a shout? Support small businesses!

Just a note to say that Will was alerted to this post and responded to my email (which had gone to their junk folder) within about 5 minutes. Excellent work. It's most likely my fault as I emailed them rather than using their web form. Maybe the lesson here is for me to do what I'm supposed to do rather than doing it wrong and then wondering why it hasn't worked.