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Yet they’ll still take your money.

Never have someone pay by Paypal and then collect. Paypal need a trackable delivery otherwise the buyer can make a claim against you.

Sometimes collection only, particularly on eBay can work in your favour. I bought my cassette deck last week from a seller. It was collection only from Leicester. A fantastic bargain, cost me a fraction of what others were selling for from buyers that were willing to post, even when factoring in the train fare and 3 or 4 hours I spent picking it up.

This. I was advertising a pedal on Facebook. Someone contacted me about it, we agreed a price, he then wanted to pay by normal Paypal, I said no and said I'm not selling to you. He got quite annoyed.

My bass is currently for sale, and collection only, but I am willing to meet. My reasons are: It's safer both for me. It's safer for the buyer. It's safer for the instrument. I don't get to lose a whole load of cash if the instrument gets lost or damaged The buyer sees and tries what he's buying. There's no chance of a very expensive and very lovely instrument either getting stolen, broken or lost. I used Parcelforce recently to send back a gig bag, the lady in the post office thinking it was an instrument started telling me about all the regulations regarding instruments. You have to really read the small print with regard to insurance. It's not necessarily just a case of popping the instrument into a box and applying some tape. I've travelled all over the country either delivering instruments or collecting them. The furthest up was Edinburgh and the furthest down was somewhere by Brighton. Train travel can be for very little if you plan your journey, plus it's a nice day out. I bought my Overwater from a guy who works for Overwater. The train to Carlisle cost about £30 return from Birmingham. Edinburgh was about the same. Liverpool cost me just over £10.

Chords are lovely on bass.

I believe so, best to ask an accountant, I think you're allowed so much a year. I claimed my MMus fees that I was paying myself two years ago. I claim travelling, and expenses associated with releasing my music etc.

It’s like the clothes you buy in primark or the fact that milk is so cheap. Someone somewhere is taking the hit for it. It’s got to be built, the parts all have to be made and shipped. It’s then shipped all the way across the world to the distributor, then to the shop. Each intermediary is putting their profit onto it. It’s undoubtedly the fact that mass production techniques have improved too, but I’m guessing that the workforce where it’s made aren’t paid very much.

I read a book years ago that someone gave me, possibly this one. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/937168.Hendrix I'm not a particular fan, but found the insight into the recordings and production fascinating.

I tend to use a Macbook live anyway. Not Max no, I really dislike that . More like time stretch in Logic Pro. I was looking sat the Akai MPC studio, or Korg Volca. The YouTube videos put me off those though, they seem obsessed with making beats.

Plunderphonics, it's even got a name.

Headphones, if you're working on a track or something, then import that into a DAW. I used to have problems with my neighbour, very similar to your's because my neighbour is annoying and used to have screaming arguments with her daughter. I now have my studio on the other side of the house above the garage on the opposite side of the house to the party wall. I don't use an amp unless I'm teaching, I use my monitors or headphones. I'm often working on pieces that I'm writing until 3 or 4am, nobody notices, not even my parents. It's very easy for these things to get out of hand, and the noisiest neighbours are often the first to complain.

Time maybe for a new patio?

Not really effects this I guess, but I wasn't sure where else to put this. Some expert advice please. I want to start using field recordings and sounds in with my live solo bass set. I want it to be more than just playing along to a back track on my MacBook though. I really want to be able to start the sound, and manipulate it live, so the piece evolves. Then add loops of bass and other sounds on top. What I need advice about is the hardware needed to do this. Most of what I've seen so far during my research seems to be designed to create beats live, which isn't what I want at all.

Spread it about on Facebook too.

Playing with Miles Davis at was he 18?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/10/radiohead-rebut-lana-del-rey-get-free-plagiarism-lawsuit-claims

How do you have the EQ set? Mids are your friend.