PaulWarning

well I was thinking £70 sounded high, would he be replacing anything else while he was at it?, I should add he was recommended by our Guitarist who's used him for years, always been weil happy with his work

I asked this question on another thread but didn't really get an answer, wrong forum, My Trace Elliot SMX AH250 recently suffered volume issues at a gig, took it in for repair and was told, not surprisingly, that the output transistors needed replacing (Mosfets?), anyway I've been quoted £135 to repair it, £70 for the parts, does this sound reasonable?

he says the parts will cost £70

the output transistors (mosfets) have just packed up on my SMX GP12 AH250, been quoted £135 does that sound reasonable?

they're not always appropriate, if you need to choke off the note for instance or two open strings together but where they are they are a Godsend, there are songs I couldn't play nearly as well without using them

I was chatting to a guitarist whose just taken up bass the other day, he said "never realised how much easier it was if you use open strings where you can"

I know this is probably a stupid question but if you don't need portability why do you need bluetooth? Just plug your device in to your Hi Fi or whatever with a lead

I think it's the TE preshape buttons that's the 'Trace' sound' smiley face on the EQ to different extents, Pre-Shape 1:+6dB at 50Hz and 2kHz, -6dB at 400Hz. Pre-Shape 2: +5dB at 100Hz, +3dB at 3kHz and -5dB at 650Hz. IMO sounds great on your own but not in a band situation, I use Trace Elliots but not the preshape button, to me the seem to have a nice thick sound that cuts through, in other words mids, the opposite of the preshape sound

don't know how it compares to reaper but Kristal is totally free

yep, and in this day and age with very few Police patrol cars on the road they rely heavily on number plate recognition cameras, fortunately they can't tell if you're coming back from a gig after having had a couple of pints

I wish we had hit the threshold but it's our Guitarist's daughter's band that has, they're called Kagoule

you are absolutely right of course, but how many cover bands bother? hardly any I'm guessing, our Guitarist's daughter is in an up and coming Indy band and they recently received a donation from the PRS from the unclaimed royalty fund

funnily enough http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5188153/West-Yorkshire-police-seize-car-no-commuter-insurance.html

Thanks for the reply, so you're better off just submitting your own songs, in other words if you're doing a mostly cover version gig there's little point in claiming the royalty,

does it matter how many? we usually do a mixture of covers and originals

never had one of those, I've emailed them

got the payment but can't find a breakdown of what it's for

where do you get your statements from BRX? I've tried to find them online but can only find the total figure paid to me,. So when we play a pub gig and we're the only ones on we'll get £6 regardless of how many and what songs (originals or covers) we put down on the set list?

I'm in the process of submitting our gigs for performing rights, how accurate does the set list have to be? obviously I'd sooner submit our own songs but we do covers as well, does it make any difference to the payment which songs you do?

We had an acoustic gig and I was asked if I was getting one, my answer being what's the point if you're going to plug it in anyway? "but it would look better" came the reply, sorry I'm really not that bothered

with the overwhelming consensus being that acoustic basses just aren't loud enough perhaps a (rechargeable) battery operated combo might do it

they've probably got some algorithm built into the system now that susses out those that change every year, I've been with the same car insurance company for 4 years now, always say I don't want auto renew though, unheard off a few years ago

if you've been doing auto rollover I'm not surprised your premiums are high, always always do a quick comparison site job to see if it's cheaper elsewhere, loyalty counts for nothing in the insurance world, of course if you've have been doing this I apologise.

we think our songs are good enough, trouble is when you've written and performed them you're in no position to judge, much too close and biased, by that I'm not saying they aren't any good, it's just that I (we) can't tell

trouble with original songs is the vast majority are instantly forgettable to anyone except those who wrote and played the song, I include myself in that statement