Twigman

4 minutes ago, Drax said:

 

Folks on TB have talked of carrying bass on in light gig bag and asking it be kept in the 'captains cupboard' or something. Maybe that's just US internal flights where you can chance that. 

 

 

IME there's not a chance on easyJet or the like

That very much depends on who is available and when.

At the moment we've not got any gigs until December, so we meet up for 4 hours about once a month to run through some new ideas - we're in a writing phase.

We'll probably have a couple of four hour rehearsals in the 10 days before our next gig trip (Sicily 7th Dec).

We've been together for donkey's years - we don't need much rehearsing - it's all in the muscle memory.

I do miss it when we're in this kind of between gigs phase.

4 hours ago, Drax said:

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I've had 2 of them.

1 - none of my decent gig bags (Mono M80/Protec Contego) fit inside without removing all the foam from within the shell case.

2 - The mk1 would have the clasps come undone in transit.

3 - The mk2 (with the strap) would not ever stay closed.

9 hours ago, 12stringbassist said:

I was refunded with no argument. 

 

 

So not expensive at all?

7 minutes ago, BassAgent said:

What do you mean "asking for trouble"?

An M80 will not be adequate to protect a bass in the hold.

I fly a lot.

I'd NEVER put my bass in the hold in my M80 - asking for trouble.

I always use a SKB iSeries

https://www.skbcases.com/music/products/prodlist.php?s=75&c=84&o=&f=sku_is_waterproof-1-75

I use a DHA-VT1-DI Bass Mk2 for the controllable valve crunch

2 minutes ago, ped said:

Pretty sure I made it clear in my last PM that your political views aren’t welcome here, not everyone has the same view as you and we try to avoid politics as you know. I told you to ‘leave it there’ last time so kindly do actually ‘leave it’ 🙄

So i get my wrist slapped for stating a fact about what will happen to import charges after a brexit which takes us out of the single market?

I'm not expressing opinion.

I'm stating a fact.

Are you censoring the facts now?

2 minutes ago, CamdenRob said:

I tried to buy a bass from sweetwater a couple of months ago and was told they wouldn’t ship to the UK 🤔

The way round that is get it shipped through a 3rd party in USA.

When i worked for a firm with an office in LA I would use their office as a shipping address and then get them to forward it to me.

I did something similar to get my forged car wheels from Japan, via a Japan resident.

On 24/09/2019 at 13:13, Twigman said:

When i got my nano+ I drilled out the feet and replaced them with 4 jacknuts and taller rubber feet.

It means I can get my T-Rex Chamelon underneath, no problem. It's a simple mod that costs pence and takes 30 minutes tops.

A pic to show what I mean:

9 minutes ago, Twigman said:

Expect this kind of extortion when buying from places like Thomann after a brexit which takes us out of the single market

 

before ped comes to slap my wrists again - I'll just leave that there - thanks leave voters

 

 

Although technically Thomann shouldn't charge us the 19% German VAT - it'll still be dearer for us than it is now, especially after GBP tanks further

Expect this kind of extortion when buying from places like Thomann after a brexit which takes us out of the single market

before ped comes to slap my wrists again - I'll just leave that there - thanks leave voters

On 30/09/2019 at 03:17, bobbass4k said:

Finally got something resembling a board back together, relatively straightforward signal chain. The 3 off the board usually live on the desk for easy tweaking when going into the interface, cabsim, bass pre (logic clone with mods) and guitar pre (Hudson broadcast clone with mods).

 

Clearly you never have to take your board on easyJet as hand luggage

My most expensive gear mistake? 

In desperation one night paying £240 for an eight ball

Welcome 

but please understand, you don’t speak for me 

shot to show my taller feet 

Bottom

Not sure if I’ve posted here before but anyway it’s probably evolved:

top

2 minutes ago, Daz39 said:

There's no Angry emoticon. It's very annoying.

Isn't it......and the swear filter changing see you next tuesdays into nasty pasties takes all the venom out of it.

Let it be known that they will NEVER be forgiven

1 minute ago, ambient said:

 it’ll simply be uneconomic to do so.

What with the cost (and hassle) of carnets, on top of visas, he's right.

Almost all our gigs are in EU - that's our market.

I can see us never gigging again.

And with my business likely to go bust, that effectively destroys my life.

UK leaving SM equals my life being destroyed.

Thanks leave voters. You nasty pasties.

When I wrote to my MP (tory) to explain the difficulties his only response was to ask how many employees I had.

When I told him I had seven, which is all I have, he just responded in a 'stinky poo happens' kind of manner.

1 minute ago, Daz39 said:

Are you just going on as normal and pretending nothing's happening until it does? (to avoid meltdown)

 

Got my EORI number sorted - trying to sort out a VAT and duty deferment account BUT due to the amount of traffic and high value of the equipment we bring in HMRC require a £2.5 million bank guarantee!!!   When our balance sheet is c£500k getting a £2.5m bank guarantee is impossible.

The issue being that VAT will be levied on the VALUE of the goods we bring in, not the cost of renting them.

We have looked at 'rehoming' a quantity of equipment here, we have a large warehouse, but UK market is so fickle it is likely we will stock the wrong gear, besides the UK market alone isn't big enough to maintain adequate utilisation to pay for the gear.

If UK leaves the SM I can see us going bust within a month.

Just now, Daz39 said:

 I feel particularly sorry for SMEs that do a significant amount of trade within the EU

I own one of them too - I have exclusive UK distribution rights to the largest inventory of a certain type of capital equipment in EU (based in Germany)to rent business to business into the UK market. Everything is imported temporarily and I have 2 or 3 artic trailers a week going back and forth.

Nightmare

Just now, ambient said:

I read a thing posted by the MU a while ago that the UK would be enforcing a minimum salary cap before granting work permits, £30k or pro-rata.

 

So how would that work in the gig economy?

Just now, ambient said:

 I’ll hopefully get away with going as a tourist. 

 

and when the club you're playing ask to see your right to work credentials?