PunkPonyPrincess

Cyclone are a bit more expensive than Duplion who seem ok but I haven’t seen any feedback for them. Duplion 250 = £722.22 white vinyl (VAT - £866.62) £3.46/unit 250 = £870.26 splatter white/red (£1,044.31) £4.17/unit Cyclone is: 300 x splatter white/red: £1095.00 +VAT (£1314.00 Inc.) £4.38/unit I might forgo splatter and just go with white. It also means I can keep unit costs down. The realities of vinyl production are as follows: leaving out the cost of recording. On top of pressing is mastering: around £300 for a good in person vinyl master on A/AA side and paying the Graphic Designer/Artist £200 (plus tip, slightly higher due to my ownership of all assets and perpetual use of art/logo and assets for possible merch and future releases) takes each single to £5.50 a unit. Plus £50 for 200 x 7” Cruciform mailers, stiffener, download code card and printing thereof, plus actual postage £1.50p (large letter up to 200g) each means a unit cost of around £7.20 so if I ask for let’s just pick a random £7.99 per unit in direct sales (Boomkat/Rough Trade and so on seem to charge ~£11+ per 7” so that means at £7.99 on a 250 run... I’ll make... £206. *if* I sell them all. That’s a big if. Not taking into account travel costs to mastering engineer (this can be substantial) plus time, vinyl handouts (artist/master/engineer/journos/radio/promo) plus material costs of printing postage labels, travel to post office (32 Miles for me round trip). There will be other outgoings — but as you can see this is not a money spinner but a labour of love. http://clairefoxx.bandcamp.com/ I’m trying to recreate the excited feeling I had every week in 1977-1980 era buying 7” singles. These things are expensive but magical talismans of sound.

Thanks for all the links folx..., if you have any experience of any of the ones linked to please let me know, a link is helpful but without context it doesn’t help me decide. But I appreciate the links, a few new ones I had not spotted here. And funnily enough i’ve been in touch with Human Punk regarding other matters, I did not know they did vinyl.

It’s a 2 x 10 with a dome tweeter and a 4 x 10 — all with appropriate original drivers both being juiced by a Series 6 GP7 each... the pedalboard splits into a “guitar “ from the bass and bass for my punk band so two cabs, two amps. I love my stickerbomb in progress...

Side by side, a new configuration for me. Both cabs have wheels which makes living with them a lot easier.

Looking into a recommended company to press my 7” single... it might become an EP if recording goes well. But I was wondering if any Basschatters have any companies they recommend. Initial small run, say 250 but I expect sales through bandcamp and gigs will go well as i’ve got radio play and it’s my first single in 30 or so years. It’s punk. I’m recording it over the next couple of weeks, but the very rough demo I put up earlier as a status update. EDIT: a more polished recording but not yet a final print or corrected mix is now up in my status updates.

It limits the different places you can play, you cannot get that crunch and percussive thwack of playing directly over the pickup you are forced to play in the safety zone. Playing right up to the bridge is not possible, in all it’s more restrictive than it is beneficial so I never have them.

Sneaky. Love it. The baloons could have “cis-fumes” written on them.

That only works if you are a boy

I’ll get a chipmunk pedal. Maybe two cheap uns for the band.

I’m Just a lightweight anyway

Just for onstage mojo this is a complete winner, but, that being said, helium is a very scarce resource for us at the moment...

‘kin awesome. Ta.. https://clairefoxx.bandcamp.com/track/oh-my-god-the-cis-are-at-it-again

I have a new pop punk song i’ve demoed for the band it has chipmunks in it i want the chipmunks live for this song what is a good way? its just for a few lines: “Hashtag not all men’`, “ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba” “being a Nazi is haaaaaaaard!” “Can I still be your friend?” something that is cheap and one-shot is great. I’d normally consider a soundboard type application with a raspberry pi or a sample player mashing on some game pad Buttons but the “ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba” is sung and in time with the other harmonies....

Yeah. See last para.

I’m down in the borders. Of course it doesn’t have to be laser cut as most XY mounted CNC cutters could probably do the job just as well. The general idea is just hack out stencil text so that it is readable in the colours of the instrument below it

As above Seymour Duncan quarter pounders are pretty fracking excellent - A set should set you back about £160. They’re very cuddly and warm presentation and work very well on fretless and have an excellent high output... your pots remain. Snip snip and replace where you found everything with new pups. Easy. satisfying. That being said my daily driver is a set of active EMGs which can be had for the same sort of money. This replaces everything: pots, pups and wires. As a short-term measure you can talk the battery pack in the cavity below the precision pick ups but it really needs a proper battery pack at some point. It’s not really a classic sound unless you want cranked up and gnarly. Whatever happens upgrading a lower cost Bass with primo parts is always a good idea...

I’m planning a new bass at the moment and I was going to get some stickers made but I thought it might be more fun to actually have a scratch plate laser cut and with stencil text and a logo so that the colour underneath the instrument comes out through the pickguard Before I begin this process has anybody tried this?

Jean Jacques Burnel for me. He’s used Swing Bass for as long as I have been playing bass and it’s kinda etched into my mind now so that I just buy multipacks of Rotosound Rotobass and re-string every new bass that comes through my door. His bass playing is unique and aggressive but melodic and punchy without being too twangy, that’s a good basis for my own bass explorations. Tough too, they can take a lot of hard playing. I know what I like and I’m not going anywhere. I always carry a set of 45/65/85/105s in each bag, (as essential as fresh knickers and anti-social “go away” earbuds.)

Are we allowed more than one? (yeah, antifa Moomins, because you know they would despise Nazis too...)