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I’d saw on a video review the Spector basses came with (maybe historically) 43-122. I’ll see if I can find the source

Did I hear somewhere years ago Spector use slightly different string gauges as standard over the more common 45-125 sets?

Dingwall Super P5 Amazing neck with a modern flat radius and very comfy to play. It nailed the p bass tone and was a very well balanced bass. The B string was great as you’d imagine with a multi scale/fan fret bass and it felt very even across the neck with all strings feeling at the right tension which is something not often taked about with a multi scale bass. It was my main gigging bass for over 4 years and it was light and resonant and at 3.9kg just the right weight for a bass regardless of the amount of strings. Expensive yes and I’d never have been able to afford a brand new one but really a cracking bass. Dingwall combustion’s also have a good rep and a really comfy neck. If a smaller, more modern neck profile is your thing and you like the look they are worth trying out however they are certainly a more modern sounding and looking instrument!

Sorry each band member got paid that figure!

Three people recommending the unit. What more convincing do you need 😀

Top bloke!

They wanted us for a St. Patrick’s Day but we were already doing two gigs but we would have negotiated a price over and above the regular fee

I hear the bottom cab doubles as a urinal!

That’s just a great set of tunes to know even if your not gigging them on a regular basis. Stone Cold Classic’s!

This is what I’ve discovered too. We get £200 for Stramash as a 4 piece. My mates band and there’s 6 of them get more but they’re a regular band there. We just did the occasional few gigs last year. I’m just wondering if some of the bigger bands were able to wrangle a bit more for more members especially if they guarantee a good crowd. As an aside I always wondered what the local band Porkpie get paid as there’s about 9 of them!

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Trust me I understand all too well! I'm just using that 'per head' as an example - we sometime do a trio gig and the bar offers the same rate for the three of us and it's not personnel dependent. I know some bars who appear to offer a flat fee but then I know folk in 'bigger' bands as in personnel and they get more money but also they're maybe more popular and the bar sales reflect this when they have them in.

The take the plunge It's quite a tidy wee unit and if the current tone gubbin's ain't working for you it can be easily reverted back to stock if it doesn't work out.

We were up in Thurso for country music thing and we got a bit more but I can't help but feel the sheer distance away meant they paid more - worked out at about £100 quid each (5 piece) but it was basically covering the petrol and our stay but I decided to go camping and used the time to go nab a Munro while I was up there but yeah I'd not be doing that again as a regular thing.

Wonder what it’s like in and about London?

@razze06 I have a DB embee 112 you're welcome to borrow and has a defeatable tweeter. Hit me up via PM and we can arrange a drop off if that would be any use. http://www.db-bass.com/db-bass/db_bass-embee_12.html

No scrap that I'm off to the Toby Carvery....priorities

I could make the feeling worse and take that JO off your hands. I’d even offer you a Bb734 in part ex just so you have a new toy 😀 I could be at yours for 3pm 🤣

Good to know. I don't envisage any major UK tour of the pub circuit but was just wondering

Just wondering about this following a chat with a mate who was approached while busking and offered a tenner to play in a guys packed bar for a few hours over the edinburgh festival! Is there a big regional difference between what bands get paid for pub gigs? I don't mean the gigs where you play your own originals but established music pubs. I joined a new band at the start of the year and there seems to be a consistent £60-£70 per member type payment/fee. My regular pub gig pays £70 per member (£280) per gig and a bit more if we're playing a longer set kike we do over the Edinburgh festival with the extended license - 22:00-01:45 - 4x45min sets. Does this vary wildly and do the bigger cities get more, regional pub pay less? I've been lucky to play some bigger gigs with another project where the organisers were in the band and it was their primary business (a choir thing), they ran the whole event and the band got paid £400-£500 each for these bigger ticketed events - these were 'full house' 1800 seat theatre type gigs and often only happen annually mores the pity! So it appears Edinburgh gig tend to pay on average £280 for a 4 piece but it can be venue specific

Email Dave Ellefson or hit him up on twitter. I'm sure he'd be happy to help - was he going for a particular weight/consistency QC etc. Or ask PMT to get you one in to try when they're released. Money back 14 free rental and all that

Every bass will have some variance in relation to weight. Dingwall make a concerted effort to keep their basses under 4kg or at least that was the case with the Super P - it's pretty hard to give an exact figure for a full production run of a particular model what with wood being wood. Best thing to do is when you're buying one try a few in the shop and nab the one which best fit's your weight needs. Often as you've pointed out before you're happy to have a heavier bass of the balance is correct. 4.5kg is likely a good ball bark figure for a 5 string but by no means the standard.

The Fender amps following the revisions they made back around the 800Pro's and TB series are really good and I recall the promo/NAMM stuff alluded to the fct that Fender were losing ground in the bass amp realm. They put in some serious R&D and made some really good heads, didn't go with the class d and stuck to their guns. I got my TB600 for £300 ish plus a bit for P&P. I'd say it's one of the best amp bargains I've ever got. The Pro800 on FB is cheaper still at £250. There is one on here but its £375 I think - a good price but £250 is better. The TB range have a classic fender tone stack with the 2-10-2 flat setting. Pull boost on the bass and treble. There is a drive channel which has gain and volume plus a blend between the and drive side. There is a semi para eq with a range from 80Hz-1kHz and a room balce to tweak the amp without having to re eq for a dark or bright room. Very versatile head.

Yeah I was gonna say I never had either of them loud enough to hear dirt (and that was at rehearsal and gig volumes) but I don't think that was the goal of the preamp. My TB has a separate drive section which does a great range of dirt and is very usable on the gig - I've been very happy with it. If I could just find a foot switch for it!!! I've seen the 800Pro, which is the solid state version, recently on a facebook group for £250 which considering the semi parametric EQ and the power section (same as the TB amps and power amps) is a cracking deal if one can handle the weight - Talkbass guys seem to comapre them to the ThunderFunk amps. High praise indeed!

I’ve played through an m3 and the m6, two great sounding amps. I can’t really go into the minutiae of differences between the two but most folk will hear them for their similarities- quick and immediate power section good eq (with or without the voice control) and while it’s designed to play well with Mesa guitar amps of the era they were designed they’re just good all round amps. One thing I can’t really speak of is the drive or how much dirt you can get from the gain as it wasn’t a sound I was really aiming for. My main gigging amp from the Fender TB series has a similarly impressive power section but it’s voiced more classic fender however that power section is great and explains why the amp is 14kg!