Happy Jack

Incidentally, it's doner kebab, not donner kebab. As you were.

No. Not at all. I really, really wouldn't. I have absolutely zero interest in a £2000 wonder-bass that plays like butter and sounds superb, and for which I have no justifiable need.

Yes, I read that on Deck's website (if you can call it that) and thought, I have absolutely no idea what that means.

Do try to keep up ...

No no no! It was Huey, Jooi and Louis ...

Ah, so it's not one of Donald Duck's three nephews then?

Clarky has pointed me at an FDeck on Talkbass, which I've now bought, but I'm still interested in the Rafferty.

A bit like this, actually: And that's a bloody good price, BTW.

But which topic is best for metal?

I don't like to talk about it. And I hardly ever bother to mention that I am young and gifted.

The HPF is either a small stand-alone unit (preferably either the FDeck by Francis Deck in the States or the Thumpinator by Max Greco of [sfx] here in the UK), or a feature of your existing DB preamp, e.g. the 'Depth' knob on a Fishman Plat Pro. It's useful for (i) taming feedback, if you suffer from that, and (ii) reducing speaker excursion at very low frequencies.

That's awful. He built some lovely stuff for me. He will be missed.

It's really dier the way some people spell, tends to attract my ier and leaves me on fier. Or maybe I'm a grumpy old man for hier.

Photos? You want photos?

Have you tried drinking less?

That's a Mark Audio AC2, with the linear array being two sets of 4 x 4" drivers. The AC1 has a single set of 4 x 4".

The feedback was what caused us to pull the plug on any further encores.

Oh well, one out of three ain't bad.

My Crazy 8 is 4-Ohm and my Crazy 88 is 8-Ohm. If I were to pair them that would produce 2.67-Ohms which means that (given the amount of headroom I like) I'd be perfectly comfortable powering them with a 4-Ohm head. [YMMV, resistance can go up as well as down, the value of your bass rig may be at risk, the poster takes no responsibility for burning power amps.]

Marc, mine is in the back of the car ready for tonight's rehearsal, but I'm sure Silvie will take some pics of it for you tomorrow. For country pub-type gigs a Crazy 88 will certainly be adequate (partly depending on the head you use, of course). I didn't do any actual scientific measurement, but my feeling was that the Crazy 88 goes louder than the OneTen, and is at least just as clear and undistorted. This is not a super-lightweight cab, though. It is smaller and less bulky than a 210, but not that much lighter.

Si, I'd love it if that were true, but it simply ain't how it works. Not because I'm any sort of expert, not because I know all about the music biz, but because of basic economics. Supply has not been soaring because expectation has been dropping. Supply has been soaring because ... erm ... the supply has increased. This country is now full of music colleges that either didn't exist 20 years ago or were very much smaller. They make money by selling people degrees in music, and of course they want to sell as many as possible. They're not interested in how many musicians the country "needs", if that's even a valid concept, they just churn out thousands upon thousands of well-trained musicians who are desperate to get away from burger-flipping. Demand has been falling because the number of venues has been falling very sharply. Changing attitudes to drink-driving, the introduction of the smoking ban, the morphing of the big breweries into property developers, and especially the fact that 'young people of today' are - broadly - far less likely to go and check out a live band than their parents were (or, in my case, their grandparents probably). There are now far more, and far better-trained musicians out there looking for far fewer gigs. Please note the complete absence of chaff in this argument. wheat wheat!!

This topic is trying to cover far too much ground. As I understand it, the OP's question referred to serious pro musicians who can charge a serious rate for depping because they're good enough, flexible enough, and (presumably) have some sort of reputation. Well I've depped too. Twice. I'm not good enough, not flexible enough, and I have no reputation, so I got the same money that I'd have got for playing in Dad-rock pub band. Seeing as that's pretty much who I am, I didn't have a problem with that. Bassfunk talks about charging up to £350 for a dep gig. Very few of the bands I've played in were capable of earning that for a pub gig, and that's for the whole band. As to 'we should all sing from the same hymn sheet and ramp up the prices', sorry Si but that's simply nonsense in 2018. Musicians could get away with operating an unofficial cartel in the 60s and 70s, pre-Internet and pre-thousands of newly qualified music graduates appearing every year. This is a capitalist country, and everything is driven by supply and demand. Supply has been soaring for the last ten years, at exactly the same time as demand has been falling. Do the math.

OP last visited on May 28th ...