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Loads of them from and around Bristol Here is Becky from IDestroy and Baz from the Funkinsteins for a start.

I never really got the Gibson bass thing. If it wasn't for Jack Bruce and Andy Fraser I wouldn't have given them a 2nd look Guitars? They have some nice ones but I preferred the old Guilds to be honest. I have a Guild LP at the moment.

Hmm that basically echoes what I reard on the radio today, where a guitarist said something like "lots of other companies now make Gibson style guitars that are better than gibsons.

Thanks for all the positve feedback. A pleasure doing business with you!

A user update: I used mine for an extended Jam last night with my band. It sounds great on it's own or in combination with other pedals and doesn't lessen the presence of the bass in the mix. I'm very happy with it. It has replaced my octave on my board.

At home I'm finding that I like the "bass cut" and "level" nice and high at 7+ and am then dialing in the depth until I get the effect I want. I'm expecting to have to increase the effects in the band situation as that is what I have found with other effects.

Mine arrived yestarday after a couple of delays. I couldn't be happier with the results and my ears are telling me that it the £30 that I spent in a long time as it does it's job very well. It's much smaller than I imaged from the pictures too.

I have to agree with this and have had many of the others you mention as i'm a bit of a gear slut! I prefer a 34" scale to play live, which rules out some Sandbergs always seem great to play, high end ibanez's are great also. I have to say that the Stingrays, (include Sterling Ray35's) and Ibanez's are my favourites to play live. SR Note: Ibanez have a tight string spacing

Thats the important thing, Although I now play something different I rate these too....

What about a band made up of nothing but bass players using different gear??

Thanks for the heads up. I wanted a chorus to try on one track so this should be just the job. An amazing deal for quality kit

I hope to partake in Mr's Scrumpys culinary delights but can't say for definate yet. I can bring a bass or two from....Ibby BTB1805, ATK 805, BC SB335 or G&L SB2. I'm not looking to sell or buy so let me know if anyone has preferences.

I was at The Free For All festival last night in Bristol. Friday night and full of young folk enjoying themselves. Young bands playing. All for free..... It was good for my soul if nothing else

Where does a new band start with promotion? It's a tough one |t was always tough but at least you knew where to start...now everything is so spread out and fragmented.

Wowzer, lovely looking bass and a great job

Positive stories Dad and Josie. Another issue that makes is difficult for a band starting now is the way the promotional media and audience habbits is fragmented. When I started promoting our band 4 years ago I used to be on FB and Twitter and used to get a pretty good response from that. Now FB has changed and isn't as effective at reaching people and Instagram, Snapchat and watszap or whatever divide peoples time. I'm also on Reverbation, Ents 24 and need somewhere to sell gear so am looking at joining Bandcamp. That means that the amount of time spent infront of the PC has multiplied and the message about say our next gig is more difficult to get across. Add that to the change in audience habbits that seems to be going on and promotion is becoming a bit of a nightmare. Thank goodness there are so many festivals about as at least you know that there will be people there.

I couldn't agree more, it's very enjoyable and rewarding. I'm ain a band that I think is a success, because we get a lot of fun out of it and we're producing recordings etc. (see the video below). I have also been in 3 or 4 other projects which have not shown much if anything in the way of results. The reasons for this are all covered somewhere in the origonal post. Making this was fun, satisfying and non commercial. I also know of some great more mainstream bands that seem to be getting nowhere very slowly:

I agree with you about the devotion and it is easier to make music than it was. The problem in my experience is that going back a couple of decades most people worked Monday to Friday and had Sundays off. Now people commonly work evenings and weekends. For example in our band one person works in a care home, two in supermarket logistics so early starts and working weekends and I'm 9-5. In addition some have family care duties. My point is that it's not easy for bands with 4 or 5 members unless they are established or financially secure-unless you are lucky. That is great but you have been going for 10 years. Hats off for your hard work but I think that things have got more difficult even since 2008. Promotion and getting paid gigs that will get you on the road with a band of 4 or 5 people sounds a tall order to me, unless you both really lucky and very good. I know of four very good local bands that have started up in the last 4 years (the life of my current band) and were successful e.g. morning TV, high profile gigs etc. but they all folded beciuase of the difficulties in keeping going and not being able to make a living out of it. Cover of Wedding bands on the other hand, they seem to do OK. Note: I have heard of your band, I must try and catch them sometime

It seems to me that everything is stacked against bands these days I suspect that some of the reasons are: The high costs of touring with a band Venues often don't pay enough to support a band People just don't flock to see specific bands in the way they used too Cover bands seem favoured by audiences Money from recordings has shrunk to nowt and people expect to get their music free anyway Younger people tend to listen to specific tracks rather than buy albums or follow bands Not much record label support for artists Modern living! In my experience is that band members struggle to get time to practice and get to travel to gigs Unless bands are full time they really need a manager get money in from PRS, radio and gig royalties etc. It seems to me that everything is stacked against bands and I struggle to think of reallty successful bands that have come to the fore recently. Tell me that I'm wrong please as I love playing in and listening to a good band !

Yes he does but I feel that is part of the show. At one point he asked people to raise their hands to signify if they hadn't seen Chic before and a significant number hadn't so I took it as part of the show I'm with you on that one. I thought they were great both in terms of the show and the sound.