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9 hours ago, charic said:

Make sure you have adequate plug sockets!
Having a square room is nice but having multiple rooms or awkward shaped rooms is actually better from the perspective of noise
Get along some local manufacturers or similar
People are always too polite to open the hobnobs.  You'll need to do this for them
If you have food or drink, ALWAYS have something on hand for the inevitable spill
If possible have something to break up the day and set areas for people to demo stuff. 

If anyone can provide a headphone amp that can really give you the chance to create a demo area

If possible get cash upfront, I had to cover costs myself after no-shows at one event

I paid you a tenner extra in toilet at the St Ives one - that was what you were short .

It would've look well dodgy if anyone had've come in at that moment - he he

Although I haven't watched this yet , the REDDI's only issue , is that it only has an 'uncoloured' thru .

So all of the talk about the awesome sound , is only going to be heard by others and not by the person playing it - if like most of us , it's backline bass only . Unless you use in ears .

When I thinking about getting a really good quality valve DI , this really put me off - no one seems to mention it much

The KHAN , therefore on paper has more options

Finally got mine on order with Stefan - just got to get an answer about the deposit payment options .

4 hours ago, Daz39 said:

I'm sure he makes a decent wage from the Stones Tours though, as did Ronnie before becoming a real member.

I dunno - on the one hand it sounds tight that Darryl is only paid for his time, but most of the reputation comes from the early songs before he was on board, and most of the sales since are in a large part based on that early reputation. I'm sure he is paid handsomely and is (on reflection) pretty happy to have a permanent spot in the band.

I read somewhere , that's he's a millionaire - purely through playing with the Stones .

He'd of never made that sort of money , dining out on his time with Miles Davis , and Sting

18 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

It's a pretty exclusive club, what surprises me is that they every let Ronnie Wood become a real 'stone' (after 15 years).

Darryl Jones has done 26 years on bass and some of the backing musicians 30.

Well Ronnie Wood was in the band (photos , album covers etc) , whilst Darryl Jones is a hired gun - pure and simple .

Not an expert on prices , but I'd say that Jaydee is well overpriced

Lovely bass .

17.5 mm narrowest you mention ; difficult to get up to 18-19 mm ?

Also , what are your reasons for selling?

Non of the Radio stations have ever stopped playing Phil Spector records have they .

I know that he wasn't in the bands as such ; but he produced (Wall of Sound) , and possibly wrote them too .

So his estate will be earning money all the time .

No one seems to give it a second thought - and he's actually in prison as a convicted killer .

Funny 'ol world

3 minutes ago, Merton said:

I like that!

Yeah , me too

16 hours ago, ubit said:

Shug Lewis to his mates

He he - only the Scots here will get that one

Right model , perfect colour (match my Stingray) , just ordered something else - ho hum .

Every time , without fail , a S2 Passion comes up , I've just bought something else .

Beautiful bass mate .

Just a quick question Bill .

If say , I were to buy two of the Barefaced 2x10's and stacked them vertically ; would it matter which way round they were to be stacked ? As I understand that Alex has made them to be a sort of line array system - one speaker for bass and the other for treble (sort of) .

Best to 'join' both speakers together in the stack , or no difference how it's done ?

Thanks , Paul

Typical ain't it . Just put down a deposit on the one coming in to Bass Direct - he he

GLWTS mate

I'm doing something similar , but it's my 50th this year .

Taking a punt on a Bogart build .

Never played one but done loads of research , and part of me is still a bit hesitant , but what the hell - you only live once .

Good luck mate . With that sort of money , you're never going to get a dodgy instrument - it's just down to whatever floats your boat

New head tonight/last night .

Different than the Eden that I've used for the last 18yrs .

Just got to get used to it . Pumped it out though .

I took my daughter to her first proper gig last year - her choice was Download .

I would say around 80% of the bands had a shockingly bad sound - I've no idea what these guys do

6 hours ago, chris_b said:

. . . and Earl Palmer, Al Jackson and Roger Hawkins.

There should be a great drummers thread - may be already , for all I know .

Jeff Porcaro , was awesome , as is James Oldaker . Not forgetting Steve Ferrone - one of our own home grown

Oh my ..... I just bought a DB751 and this would be excellent with that .

Alas , I've cleared myself out , buying the amp - ho hum .

GLWTS - doubt it'll be required though

A made up one , I know

Series 2 , state it on the grill .

See below , my old cabs .

Series 1 , just has the badge , whilst Series 2 have the writing under the name

12 minutes ago, dyerseve said:

Yep nothing like an overpriced Warwick to bring you back down to earth!!!!

Yep - once seen on Jack Bruce's wall .

Ebay ain't half full of chancers

5 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

Now that was a place. No disrespect to the specialist shops but a warehouse of bass stuff on a single floor was something to behold.

I agree . Hands on the best Bass outlet I've ever been in .

I only went twice - 1st time to try out gear , and 2nd time a decade later (2001 I reckon) , to buy a rig . Can still picture it in my mind

Bugger - was looking for one of these , and just ordered a new one from Thomann yesterday

How are you getting on with that Stingray Classic? Also what's the bridge spacing on them - 18mm?