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Absolutely. And the accident was purely down to the strong breeze - the Bass Bar was solid, the ground was flat(-ish), nobody kicked the DB by mistake (or even intentionally!)... 🤷‍♀️ What made the bass unplayable was mainly the detachment of the fingerboard from the neck. Thankfully the damage was repairable.

Always take either a spare stick EUB or a Precision. Don't ask us how we know.

Recent videos (I wasn't on sound for any of these, the festivals had their own sound team)

Specifications to be listed by @Happy Jack when he comes back home - they've changed a bit since he originally got his Ali DB. In the meantime, photos and videos Edit to remind you - click/press on the photos and they will display at full resolution.

No, it includes gain, volume, compression or lack of them, EQ work and a by now quite well trained pair of ears.

Regarding feedback, as per @Happy Jack's question above, I can only remember us having trouble once in a pub in WGC, when we set up with our powerful MarkAudio PA and a complete set of floor wedges for monitoring. One of the wedges necessarily had to be pointing directly at the oildrum ali DB. 🙄 We don't set up like that now - Jack's monitoring is a lot subtler and, cleverly, a lot higher (on a tripod, behind him, at head height!). Also, I'm now pretty good at fighting feedback by throwing the full sound-engineering bag of tricks at it. 😉

https://bassclef141.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/visit-to-foderas-workshop-brooklyn/

My guess is no bass show. BPM has moved online, Joel McIver has moved on and opted for a full-time writing career as opposed to also editing magazines, and the country's in recession...

That photo was taken in a parallel universe.

That sounds like a decent fee for a non-London location. Encouraging.

I live in London, so no point in listing music opportunities here, and the OP correctly excludes big towns from this thread. To me, however, at this stage in the thread, the next question is - how many of those pubs and clubs in the lively/healthy music scenes you mention pay the band a reasonable fee? As we, as a country, descend into austerity/recession/downright poverty, I'm noticing that even successful venues are absolutely penny pinching and some are offering bands what we consider a ridiculously low fee. We have turned down a few offers because they were well below our minimum fee, and we've received enquiries that quickly faded away as soon as we mentioned our minimum fee. That's all right by us - we're not desperate and there are still plenty of venues who recognise the quality of the band and are willing to pay more to have us. We're not the kind of band who don't get out of bed for less than $10,000. We set our minimum fee so that we can pay for the petrol and end up with a little money to justify the whole exercise, but nobody's getting rich. And of course, a band's minimum fee for London and the Home Counties will probably have to be higher than elsewhere in the country due to higher costs all around (that's why I'm not mentioning actual numbers). However, I find the trend very worrying. So what's the situation in your thriving areas? Are bands undercutting each other in order to play? Is the scene healthy enough to pay every band acceptably for a gig?

A few shots showing the peach/shell pink in changing stage lights.

*wonders whether Paul The Drums has a clue what a seagull actually looks like* 🤔😂

Nothing, but nothing beats a low B on an upright or, even better, a double bass. 👍 I have an NS NXT 5 and love playing it. I am less enamoured with its sound, in that my (4-string) Eminence sounds better to my ears, and has the option of being audible when played unplugged, but if you have no desire to go fully acoustic on a double bass or similar at this stage, an NS is a thing of beauty and it's an absolute joy to play.

Incidentally, I am FB friends with this profile. This company seems to offer similar baby basses to KK. I have no connection to them or experience of their basses, I'm just adding this for our info. Tamariz Basses

Most of my friends' cats would be offended by that remark. The critters are all a lot heavier than that! They don't sound good when plucked, mind. 🙄

What's that in real units of weight? 😮

Excellent answers by @BigRedX, as always. As per our previous discussions and comments on this subject, I'm still waiting for PRS here in the UK to catch up with what its equivalents in the rest of Europe have done for decades, and ask bands to submit their setlist for each gig, so the royalties go to the copyright holders of the correct songs.

My new earworm! 👍

There you go, Mr Marco De Virgiliis, that's what our pets really think of your high-end gear... 😱

One thing to keep in mind is that effects on BVs, and especially the harmoniser, sound great but have the tendency to sound louder than normal, naked BVs. The setlist I'm given at every Damo And The Dynamites gig has a column detailing what the BVs go through on each song, so I can adjust the BVs channel's volume manually to be loud enough to be appropriate to the song and enjoyable, but not overwhelm the lead vocals.* Edit to add: that's what almost all sound engineers at big open air events get spectacularly wrong unless they've studied the band's live videos extensively in advance. That, of course, is very unlikely to happen, understandably.

It's fun to walk around a friendly crowd of dancers. Here frontman Damo has walked from his normal position stage left to Jack's position's stage right, while @Happy Jack is showing the ladies his big violin on close up. And @PaulKing will forgive me for posting this yet again, but I love it, and so do his audiences.