PaulWarning

I've owned a couple of Trace Elliots for a few years now, a GP12 SMX Ah 250 and a GP12 series 6 Ah 200, I use the series 6 as my main amp, it's simpler and, I think, sounds marginally better, they're both heat sink models so weigh in at 13kg each, I can't see me changing them tbh Why? Heft 😊

people are conned by very clever misleading ads all the time, usually it's big companies with a huge budget. I'll bet a few on here have done mods to their basses thinking they know better than the manufacturers that built them then flogged them on trying to say they've improved them when they know they haven't really His ads are an extreme example but anybody naïve enough to be taken in probably doesn't even know they've been done, as his feedback testifies too

he's one of life's eccentrics, the world would be a duller place without them

don't know about fretless basses but it would seem he sells other guitars and still got 100% feedback, the only people who buy must have no experience and don't know what they've bought

whenever I see a bass player not playing the right bass line in a covers song (unless it's obviously the bands own version) I just think either they're lazy, incompetent, or have an ego problem, if you want to play your own bass lines join an originals band ymmv

happens all the time, The Kinks and Animals were always having fights, must admit I've often thought about whacking our singer on occasions, probably would have done in my younger days

luminous tape of ebay works for me

a lot has changed in 3 years, bands like Knock Off can probably still sell albums, but I suspect it's less than it used to be

No, well not many, it's all about streaming these days, we get about 500 streams a month for which we get about £2!!! we're really struggling to get our money back on our last CD and we only had to sell 100. As @BigRedX says T shirts are far more profitable

while your sentiments are to be applauded, the artists gets nothing if you buy second hand

Guess it depends how materialistic you are, I've just sold 4 vinyl albums to our singer, he is, I'm not

no, and it doesn't happen if someone buys the CD or whatever, but it did when someone did a download only, when they pass on an order to you they tell you their charge and say it will be collected from any download only orders. Incidentally you get 100 download codes for free

I not sure whether I'm right but when you download off Bandcamp the band doesn't necessarily get any money because when the pass on a physical sale they take a fee that gets debited to your account, when you get a download that income is taken off your account, so in the case of the band I'm in we've made no money from, admittedly not many, downloads. When I do pay for a downloads I search round for a site that doesn't do this.

spotify free for me, or Youtube, unlike @BigRedXthere's very little that I want to listen too that's not on one of these platforms, I sometimes think I shouldn't, as streaming services provide so little income for small bands compared to CD sales, but it just so convenient and me not using them will make no difference at all, I'm a bit of a pragmatist edit, I should add that most of my music is on my phone so I listen through that a lot

I had this on my SMX GP12, it had to have new output transistors

yes, good news for us sloppy bass players 😂

I've already got a new speaker from IAG, ordered yesterday, arrived today £106 all in, so not too bad and it has solved the problem, I certainly don't use bass boost on the kick, tbh it's not very loud, but it keeps the drummer happy. I was just wondering what are the chances we'll be shelling out for another one in the near future

after about 15 years of use, and well over 500 gigs, we've just managed to blow one of the bass drivers in the Titans, just wondering on the likelihood of the other one going, it's a bit tricky deciding whether we're putting too much power through them as they're rated at 400 watts RMS and the Yamaha is rated at 350 watts at 8ohms and 500 at 4 ohms but doesn't give any info on whether these are RMS figures. We daisy chain the front of house speakers so the amp is giving out potentially 500 watts (4 ohms) but with 2 speakers I'm assuming that they get 250 watts each so we shouldn't be overloading them, correct? If we're not overloading them what else causes bass drivers to go? The PA is used for Vocals and bit of bass drum

opps, sorry missed that 😒

and nobody has mentioned Marc Bolan yet

Talking of Paul Simon, Mrs Robinson made no sense till I found out it was written about Mrs Roosevelt, the President's wife, they needed a song for the Graduate, so he just changed the name without changing the lyrics, idle sod

Zoom B1on user, I have a B1 four but prefer the B1on, only use various distortion and eq

there you go, opinions, love the version and the bass line, it's almost playing the lead, we play it regularly, always goes down well

what's the point of that, am I missing something?

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