Les

37 minutes ago, police squad said:

perfect.

I've ordered one of the other ones you posted, to see what they're like.

Thanks for your help folks

Can we have an update when you get them please ? I quite fancy them but wondering if they are bright enough

cheers

Les

Sounds to me like the singer has flipped cos' he's the one who gets the gigs and he has to check with everyone before he takes them and when he takes a chance people come back and say they can't do it.

(apologies if I've read the scenario wrong)

I'm with him on this.  Get an online diary and yourselves out.

14 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Less and less places to play and some of the places we use to play couldn't afford our new fee.

We put our fees up this year for new venues and are bringing our regular venues in line with it for  next year. So far only had one refusal. Interestingly we have one left to do at this place in about 2 weeks so I suppose it's up to us to change their mind. 

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

No gigs until the end of the month

How come Blue ? Band holidays or just slack work wise ?

Les

55 minutes ago, Muzz said:

Wouldn't have been the Half Moon with Graham

It was 😃 what band are you in Muzz ?

Short notice jam night, house band. Drummer I'd never played with who organised it to fill for the regular house band, guitarist out of my band and a singer I'd played with before but only when he was on drums. Cracking night.

Landlady.... I'll ring you tomorrow and book you for a Sunday night

Drummer..... errr  ok

Landlady..... how long have you been a band ?

Drummer..... about twenty five minutes.

😂

8 minutes ago, chris_b said:

A good "Adam Clayton" is worth his weight in gold. An almost good "Jaco" misses by a mile

you Sir, are a sage.

ok, I'm sorted 

Totally get what @molan is saying and I've seen it happen. I'm not sure it's as prevalent today as it was if I'm honest. 

I gig a lot so I'm not the most avid band watcher but the ones I do see seem to get the volume rightish.

Gear is much better than it was years ago so maybe it's easier to get right.

At 20 it was beer, women bands and motorbikes. Later on in my twenties when I bought my first house we couldn't have managed without us both working and me doing 3 gigs at the weekend.

Bit more relaxed now I'm in my 50's thankfully.

2 hours ago, Daveox said:

Thanks all for the replies, much appreciated 

i just have one question/ observation.......no one seems to have mentioned Ibanez who do a lot of guitars in my price range, is there no love for Ibanez or is there’s just better with other brands. Noted it’s opinion I was just curious

Yes Ibanez is another serious contender.

To be honest mate at a 300 quid budget it's going to be very hard for you to get it wrong. Pretty much any of the basses mentioned on this thread will get you through every gig you'll need to do.

16 minutes ago, mic mac moe said:

It's the pool that you have to recruit from that's the problem.

Yeah I get that. I've just put a band together to do Fridays only. Fairly incestuous as it's the guitarist from my main band, and former drummer with our current drummers husband on vox.  I suppose it took a few months just talking about it but once it was decided it was 3 rehearsals and go. I think using payers I knew and were still active made it easier.

Reading these sort of threads with interest it does seem to be that the guys who haven't gigged for a while seem to to have the most difficulty. Maybe being out the loop and 

rusty networks take their toll.

Les

3 hours ago, CameronJ said:

As has been mentioned already - Yamaha.

Didn't Yam do a P bass with the pickup the other way round ? ie E and A string section nearer the bridge ?

I bought an excellent condition Squier VM Jazz about 18 months ago for £180 with an ally flight case. It became my gigging bass. 

Just scored a second showroom condition one with a ritter gig bag for a hundred quid 2 days ago.

I can't believe the quality of these things, they're about 300 quid new I think.

Les

I still don't get it. If a bands busy enough to want and indeed warrant  your commitment and you want to leave them to get a dep to scratch a musical itch with another then you're in the wrong band. 

16 hours ago, spiltmilk_2000 said:

to work on my fretless intonation? 

I used to leave a Snark on the bridge of my EUB for tuning and if I played when it was on it used to laugh at me, I swear the display used to come up with "REALLY ?"😒

3 hours ago, Hellzero said:

Here is the way to do it as NOBODY BUT ME ever reads a user manual (copy/paste) :

Setting  instrument  type (guitar or bass)

By default, PolyTune Clip is set up for tuning guitars. To tune a bass, press and hold the Display Mode Button for more than 5 seconds. The secondary display will display “B”. To return to Guitar Tuning Mode, press and hold the Display Mode Button for more than five seconds again. The Secondary Display will display “G”. The selected instrument type will be stored and preserved even when you change the battery.

 

 

 

Read the f*cking manual ! 😎

Thanks for that, I've had mine about 2 years and never read the manual, didn't know there was a bass mode.

That was good and gets the point over. Great band.

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This, seriously, we all use them, singer gave up on his Levy one cos it kept falling off.

Thanks everyone, going to use them in anger at Fridays gig and I'll let you know how I get on.

5 hours ago, dudewheresmybass said:

yup. 

do you have a thread running on Kent musicians notice board??

Sorry pal, only just seen your reply. No that's not me mate. I know this unit is dead cheap but it's missing a trick if it can't deal with a mono input and put it in both ears.

59 minutes ago, El Capo said:

Used these for countless gigs with a decent replacement set of in ears (JBL ones bought from a Tesco for £25) and they were amazing!

Cheers, kinda figured better in ears would help

34 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

we get a mono sound to each ear by using a mono to stereo lead from our mixer amp (Yamaha 512 SC, which only has 1 monitor out) to the in ear transmitter, I know it's frowned  upon by some on here but I only use one ear piece which also acts as an ear plug for the singers vocal and my backing vocal, the singer uses two though

Thanks Paul

Did you make your own lead up ? It would be stereo to dual mono wouldn't it  ?

I've got a work round solution with adapters but it seemed so ar*e about face I was wondering if I was doing something daft as I would imagine most mixers would send a mono out from the aux. 

Cheers Paul, am I right in thinking these things need a stereo feed otherwise you just get sound in one ear ?

Know what you mean about the supplied earbuds they're naff

I need to pick your brains.