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That's a good idea, we've played there in the past a few times and I reckon we'll get gigs for next year but it's not a bad angle. I would suggest they throw in drinks but that's bad news for the car drivers among us.

Been offered a New Years Eve gig in a (busy) village pub and they've offered to pay the 'typical Saturday night gig' fee. I think/know that NYE gigs pay more so what would be a good figure to throw back for a good old fashioned negotiation? Double the usual fee??

Thats not a bad idea, certainly quicker than a complete change. Nice suggestion, thanks.

It's more to copy/draw around it if I can't get measurements. I figure if I can't get a like-for-like my best bet is to simply copy it and the best way is to, basically, draw around it.

Hello all, I'm looking for a replacement bridge for my Harley Benton eub but aside from an e-bay listing and a German website advertising a product as a straight replacement I can't find one anywhere so I thought I might get one of similar (larger) size and get the whittling tools out of Grandpa's shed and make my own. So what I'm looking for is a short cut to the dimensions of the stock bridge to save me having to remove strings and start measuring. So, does anybody have the dimensions for the stock bridge?

Roman was kind (and patient) enough to have a look at one of my bands tracks and spent some time looking at levels and boosting certain parts, to the point where a noticeable difference was acheived. I would definitely recommend him to others and when the time comes, I'll be searching out his skills again.

You just know that somewhere there is a guitarist nodding his head and saying "now THATS how you play bass!"... Actually, knowing guitarists like I do they're probably saying "puh, he's not as good as me..."

10 years this November. Squier VM Jazz, different bridge and pickups but the rest is stock, been my bass 98% of the time.

Hi, my band need to get some 'Public Liability Insurance' for a few gigs we've got coming up later in the year but I've no idea where to start looking for anything suitable. Google directs me to the typical 'comparison' sites but they seem more directed at businesses and not bands so does anyone know of a site or company I could look at??

DONE!!

COOL! Thank you sir, I'll give it a go.

Having heard the full file again the sound levels are consistant, but I'll look at 'normalising' it before I split them. Had a quick go at splitting them and it's not jumping out at me how to do it but hopefully I'll get time over the weekend to look at it more.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1502210399' post='3350026'] Is it a multitrack wav? [/quote] I don't think so, I think it's just one big chunk of data. I'll give Audacity a download and look into it further. Thank you for the advice

my band played a support slot a few weeks ago and the sound man recorded the whole set onto a memory stick in a 43min WAV file. I would like to cut down the file into the individual songs but have no way of doing this. Is there a piece of software I can download or is there something easy on Windows Media Player or similar that I just haven't worked out yet? All help... um, helpful. Dazza

[quote name='The59Sound' timestamp='1501847043' post='3347741'] Name & shame otherwise a pointless thread. [/quote] I don't want to name and shame a pub who is now being run by, hopefully, a better landlord. The pub has a bad reputation as it is without me adding to it.

Had a gig last night at a pub we've played a few times in the past but is now under new management (the gig was booked through the previous landlady but management informed us they would honour the bookings) and when we'd finished our playing I, and our singer, approached the bar staff and asked to see the manageress about being paid and it went downhill from there. We were left standing for about five minutes before I reminded the barman what we were waiting for, he told us to go to the other end of the bar where the manageress was standing, so off we trotted. She asked us "who was it that booked you?" (knowing full well it was the previous landlady) Then "well the booking wasn't made through me... I don't really know much about it..." - more head scratching and delaying. We played along, showed sympathy, but in our minds thinking 'just f***ing pay us'! She then told us our booking wasn't in the diary, as she did this she thumbed through said diary only to land on last nights date and there we were, in black and white, listed as entertainment. So back to the 'I didn't book you' line of denial. I then said that we had been booked last December, had contacted the pub three weeks earlier, had delivered posters, had contacted the pub to discuss fee - I always do this via text or email to have a record for this eventuality - and if she was unsure who had booked us or who was paying for us why had she not asked us when we arrived three hours earlier? At this her partner/boyfriend/husband came up (a big fella standing a good 6ft 5" and probably 19st in weight) and asked her when the lady who booked us was coming in. By this point I was ready to pick up a bar stool and introduce it to the optics and glasses in the bar, and if the police came, so be it. So more head scratching, heavy sighing by our singer, dirty looks between me and the boyfriend, and then suddenly she resolved that she was going to pay the fee. The whole conversation took 30mins from the moment we approached the bar. I've since learnt that last night's manageress (and her co-manageress) left last night, it was their last night before a new landlord takes over today. I wonder if our fee was her intended 'goldne handshake'...? Needless to say we won't be playing there again, unless we get the fee upfront.

I saw him a couple of years ago in London where he played a bunch of Pink Floyd songs and then - after an interval - played the entire 'Dark Side Of The Moon'. It was impressive and he sounded very good.

Welcome from ANOTHER Moonraker!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1487110613' post='3237274'] Come on dazza, where's ya hat?! [/quote] On this occasion it was stuffed under the tailpiece to stop the damn thing vibrating... Is it allowed to wear a hat indoors? I know we're bass players and all that but a hot head would distract me from playing the wrong notes!

Playing my HB at a pub gig...[attachment=238143:Moonrakers dazza.jpg]

Welcome, welcome...

Not sure if this is too late for a reply but I have a Harley Benton/Palatino eub and I replaced the strings with a set of Innovation Honey's I got from 'Marc S' on here. They've been on the bass for a few weeks and they're suiting me very well. Haven't needed to cut/trim them and I've no complaints about them.

Sgt. Peppers, Pet Sounds and Nevermind, I struggle to find anything enjoyable about these albums.

Well it's here! And a few dings and scrapes here and there aside, it's in better condition than I had imagined. The bridge has had the rubber innertube mod done, it's been set up with a lower action than I even though possible and all in all, very happy. I'll post some photos eventually but it's what you would expect. The seller told me he swapped the strings from the stock ones but I can't tell if he has or hasn't but they sound pretty good to me. I'll live with them for a while and if I'm tempted by another set, I'll look into it then. It's a bloody workout playing it though...