Happy Jack

And just for fund a small amp and speaker built inside Which has echo effect and a tiny microphone on the top edge of the body to speak through or beat box haha . The pickup doesn't go through the built in speaker though. Erm ... what?

Is any of that true and accurate? Hard to tell, but the placement of the Classic Vibe VI at #1 spot is somewhat concerning. And of course there are no actual sales figures, just a listing.

Ranked list of 2022 bass sales on Reverb is below: Squier Classic Vibe VI Fender Player Precision Bass Fender Offset Series Mustang Bass PJ / Gretsch Junior Jet II Squier Affinity Precision Bass PJ Rickenbacker 4003 Sterling StingRay Ray4 Fender American Professional II Precision Squier Affinity Bronco Bass Fender Player Jazz Bass / JB-62 Jazz Ibanez GSRM20 Gio Mikro Squier Affinity Jazz Bass Ibanez SR300E Soundgear Standard Hofner Ignition Pro Violin Bass Fender Precision Bass (1970-'83) Fender Standard Jazz Bass / American Professional II Jazz Bass / Squier Classic Vibe '70s Jazz Bass Squier Classic Vibe '70s Precision Squier Classic Vibe '60s Jazz Squier Classic Vibe '60s Precision Fender Player Mustang Bass PJ Squier Classic Vibe '50s Precision Source: https://forum.bassbuzz.com/t/2022-most-sold-basses-via-reverb-fender-bass-vi-at-1/35464

Well if the singer wants to do a song and the rest of the band agrees with him, Shirley the guitarist is outvoted? What's the band line-up?

Who sings the songs?

Rival to Shirley, you mean I'll see ya later ...

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've yet to have a single piece of gear nicked (except by bandmates 😂) at a gig, nor even felt that the threat existed. The closest I've come was at a pub gig where the drummer wanted to get something from my car so I gave him the keys. Went out to the car park at the break to see the tailgate gaping wide and - sure enough - an amp missing. In all fairness it was entirely the drummer's fault (he continues to deny it to this day), the theft happened because he'd left the boot open, and it very probably had nothing to do with the gig anyway. 🙄 I can easily imagine thefts happening to various bandmates I've had over the years who sprint for the door as soon as the last note of a set is played, gasping for a fag. My gear is always in my sight or under the watchful eye of @Silvia Bluejay.

You need something that is (capable of being) freestanding, easily erected by one person in less than three minutes, and which will fit in the tiny gap between the drummer's arse and the back wall. It needs to be lightweight and - as Mike says - tall enough to be easily seen over the drummer's afro, but not so tall that it's unusable in venues with low ceilings or medieval beams or both. Oh, and it needs to be cheap enough that the lead guitarist doesn't throw his toys out of the pram when asked to cough up his share. @Silvia Bluejay has bought all the pop-up banners used by our three bands so she's the real expert on this, but she's just hopping on a plane so she'll be out of action for most of today. To answer the actual question, our banners tend to be 6' tall by either 24" or 28" wide, and we've been very happy with that size. Anything significantly larger would impact on one or more of the points I made above.

"... to keep your account safe from anyone else logging in as you". Thanks for the initiative Ped but now I'm curious. Has this actually happened?

I saw a well-known & busy covers band on Saturday night, playing 40/50 pub gigs a year. Noticed that the singer was using the same Lekato system that I've just bought to experiment with so I asked her about it. She had nothing but good to say about it and it sounded absolutely fine to me BUT I did notice that the receiver unit was plugged into a mini-mixer of some sort on her music stand so the transmission distance was really very short. Now that's actually quite similar to how I'd plan to use mine (for when I'm playing keys, not bass) so I'm happy with that, but how the unit performs with a 30/50/70-foot transmission distance I can't tell you. It works fine over those distances in my back garden, but that ain't a busy pub/club with routers & extenders and dozens of mobile phones in use.

How on earth does that strap button work on the upper horn?

We played Amersham Heritage Day last year alongside a big band, with a large gazebo for each set-up to speed up the handover. Just as we finished our first set and the big band was about to start, we got hit by a thunderstorm of Biblical proportions. Pretty much the entire crowd leaped up and tried to shelter underneath the two band gazebos, both of which - of course - were filled with delicate and expensive gear. Oh how we laughed ...

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@Silvia Bluejay battles the elements while https://www.facebook.com/DamoAndTheDynamites/ play to a field full of muddy grass.

There's no shortage of people on Basschat with way more band experience than me, but ALL my experience has taught me that there is simply no substitute for personally owning all the gear you use. In the (three) bands I play in, each member owns their own instruments & backline, a couple even own their own mics and stands, but pretty much everything else is owned outright by @Silvia Bluejay and me. Sure it costs more money that way, but there has never once been any sort of argument - or even discussion - about shared kit, who owns it, who's not putting in enough money, etc. We could start those rows tomorrow by announcing that in future we would be taking an extra 'share' of the gig money as a fee for supplying the PA, an extra 'share' for the sound guy (who is, of course, Silvie), and deffo an extra 'share' as our finders' fee for bringing in every single gig played by all three bands. But we're not going to do that, are we Silvie? Silvie???

I'm sorry @Bassfinger but IMHO you need to pick your fights, and this is one to walk away from. The best you can hope for is to get your money a few weeks earlier while possibly picking up a fair amount of bad publicity amongst the musos you know ... can you imagine how all this would be spun by four or five others in the band? I can see that you're well pissed off and I imagine that I would be too, but I suspect that you'd be pissing into the wind on this one. Best just let it go.

Spot on. Assuming that your bandmates are reasonable people, you need to ask them to agree to a technical rehearsal which is all about your sound - they have to set their rigs to how they'll be at live gigs and agree to NOT twiddle the knobs while you're trying to establish the settings you need. Given that they'll be giving up an evening plus the cost of the practice space it's best to get them onside first. You will deffo need to take a simple but reliable handheld recorder ... my preference is the Zoom range (H1, H2 or H4). Have it set up for recording the sound in the room (i.e. don't take a DI from your rig or a feed from the room PA) and keep referring back to it during the session. Sometimes the sound in the room is surprisingly different from what you thought you were hearing while you were playing.

Yup ... in my early days on bass I had an Ibanez Precision (70s) which sounded amazing but weighed over 11lbs. It did my back and shoulders in if I played it standing up, and when I played it sitting down it cut off the circulation below my right knee. 🙄

Nothing that can't be fixed with a couple of 2" woodscrews and some offcuts. 😉

You'll need to have them available in five or six sizes, and then all your potential buyers will ask ,"Do you have it in blue?" ...