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I wouldn't go do a tour without a basic fee for each show - support fees are usually 100 euros upwards from my experience. This way you'll have a starting budget to work with as you will be able to calculate how much money your band is definitelty going to generate. You'll be able then to look at hotel/petrol costs etc Next thing you'll need to do if you want to at least break even is do the hard sell with your merch. Don't just rely on a merch guy to sell during the gig, get outside the venue after the gig with your cds and t-shirts and sell. I know from experience that this definitely helps, it also helps your band being remembered and gives you a connection with your fans. Who is your booking agent.. they should be negotiating a fee with the promoters of the shows. If your agent is not securing fees and taking a cut of money then you really need to take a serious look at your agent. My overall advice would be don't do it. If there are no guaranteed fees then you might end up in a situation that will financialy cripple your band. The prospect of touring around europe is awesome, but when you don't have any money coming in, playing poorly attended shows and you're hungry it isn't good. You should think how better the money could be spent, than touring europe and only playing to 100 -150 people a night. Perhaps touring your home country first would be a better idea, maybe supporting a bigger act to play to more people, this might require a buy-on. But my advice would be to establish yourself in one country first before going anywhere else.

Reason for not doing the UK tour... I don't know really, most likely because we're wrting and recording and we don't want to afttect the headline tour too much either. We've toured with Zebrahead before so we already know them pretty well, they're cool guys. [quote name='Basska' post='748794' date='Feb 17 2010, 06:54 PM']Your tour looks sweet! How come you aren't doing the UK leg of the Zebrahead tour? We're hoping to get the Glasgow date again. Played with Zebrahead at the Glasgow Cathouse last year. You're in for a treat if you haven't seen them or if you're not a fan, their awesome live show has converted many! chris[/quote]

[quote name='BT!' post='747822' date='Feb 16 2010, 10:26 PM']thank god this is about the good attack! attack! not the american one[/quote] haha thanks!

I don't think the bass has any shielding at all! Sometimes it hums sometimes it doesn't - quite strange. Going get some of that copper tape stuff and have a go at sheilding as best as possible. I've actually lowered the pickup on both sides about a quarter turn on each screw and it seems a lot better now. From what I can hear the closer the pickup to the strings the more mid it seems to have. I'm going into a ad200b orange head which breaks up really easily but if the pickups are too hot, somtimes it can push the valves too much in the amp, that's what I have found anyway. It now really grinds now tho. I'm sure some more messing with the pickup height will take place over the next month. How have you got your bass so silent? Bridge-wise I think i'm going to put a fender deluxe bridge on it, i usually love hipshots and especially badass bridges but i'd like to keep as much of the vintage looks as possible, and also the sustain on this thing is insane already, as is the high end - badass bridges i find usually help with makeing a bass brighter IMO. I'd love to put the covers on, but i'm not sure if i'll be able to play it comfortable with them on so I don't know - prob cost about £30 to get them. I need to get some straplocks too. ATM the bass looks very new, but i'm sure a month long tour in april will put an end to that and add to the vintage vibe

[quote name='Randy_Marsh' post='746071' date='Feb 15 2010, 04:37 PM']too bad son is a right tune![/quote] Thanks.. that was actually one of the songs that came from one of my pro tools demos! who said bass players can't write? haha

A CIJ 51 Re-issue Precision Bass, and I can't tell you how happy I am with this bass!! The finish, fit and hardware are awesome. Obviosuly the bridge and pickup are basic but they are supposed to be (altho I will be chanign the bridge to get better intonation) ! Frets are finished perfectly, and the neck feels really comfortable in my hands. The body is one piece ash finished in sunburst and the neck is one piece maple with a tint to it. The tone and sustain of this thing is amazing, for such a basic in design instrument the strings ring and sustain with that 'piano string' tone. Through my Orange bass rig the tone is wide open with a lot of depth and very grindy, perfect for rock (think entwistle), if you turn the tone down you get that old skool motown vibe from it. The bass is currently strung with nickel roundwounds so hopefully when i get my ernie ball steels on they'll up the sharpness of the tone again! I don't find the lack of contours on the body uncomfortable at all, infact I quite like the change and makes it look quite chunky in a cool way! I think the pickup is pretty good really, quite full sounding, the hum is a bit annoying tho so may look into shielding of the bass and if that fails maybe get a split coil pickup. One thing that bothers me, not much but the E string doesn't ring out as well as the other, but I think this me be down to the string guage being a step down to what i'm used to and so i'm playing it too hard! Over all i'm really happy with this bass!

Cardiff show is sold out and the Tour is now sponsored by Atticus Can't to do it!

[quote name='J3ster' post='727655' date='Jan 28 2010, 02:47 PM']Very weird one, Your band put on a very energetic watchable and enjoyable performance - Can't remember the name of the other support act but they were bloody awful. All the best with the tour. Just remembered : Officer Kicks oh my!!![/quote] Cool thanks!

[quote name='J3ster' post='727510' date='Jan 28 2010, 01:03 PM']Attack Attack?? Did your band support Juliet Lewis @ Shepards Bush? I saw that gig and yourself if so.[/quote] Yep we did that tour, bit of a weird one but cool for us at the same time! Not that i've met many famous film stars but she seemed pretty cool!

[quote name='Wil' post='726691' date='Jan 27 2010, 06:44 PM']You're not the "crabcore" attack attack, right? [/quote] I ****ing hope not!!!

haha cool! Been on here for a good while, i'm completely obsessed by my instrument lol! That was a good tour, altho we were on about 5 minutes after doors!

[quote name='henry norton' post='725333' date='Jan 26 2010, 04:05 PM']I think they were all Korean (and 30.75 inch scale from what I've seen, so closer to short than medium). I've seen a few go for 300 - 400, and most seem to be fairly near mint condition. If you've got the spare cash you sometimes see them converted to Darkstars, which makes them very good indeed.[/quote] i sold mine a while ago for 250

My band will be doinbg a promo tour in support of a new single release in May. Check out the dates on the flyer!

[quote name='alexisonfire' post='716068' date='Jan 17 2010, 10:07 PM']Just to add the the CL vs AD200B, I had the same decision, and as you can see from my sig the Orange won. Oh and if you play heavy metal, Norma Jean, Cancer Bats and Converge to name a couple, use the AD200B[/quote] I have the complete Orange rig, and in my opinion it owns the ampeg. The eq isn't the most versatile especially with the mids but sounds great none the less! It's also nothing a graphic eq pedal can't solve if you need for sculpting of your tone. Just thought i'd mention that Cancer Bats do you the orange head over here in the UK but Jay runs his own preamp before it.. think it was called a morris?... which is pretty much accounts for his full on distorted tone and keeps the orange head relatively clean.

Got given a 1994 Ibanez TRB- 50 bass by a mate last week. It's got a reverse p pickup, black body and one piece maple neck with the ibanez guitar type headstock anda sturdy looking bridge.. I set it up and cleaned it up and plugged it in and it plays amazingly well and the tone is awesome, very warm and puncy with a nice mid to it.... I was wondering how much these basses are worth and if I was to seel it how much I should ask for, I haven't stopped using the bass since I got it but I might have one bass too many!!

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