I agree. I admire her skill but musically it's pretty humdrum. She'd probably sound a lot better in a band (as most bassists would).
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I just don't get what that adds to a live band mix much. To me it's more for show than anything else lol. It does look cool though lol.
I'm a consumer, not in the trade. And the NAMM show is the reason for most of my bass-related purchases the last several years. I wouldn't have been interested if I hadn't tried the stuff out at NAMM first.
1. Yes. 2.I was given a set of strings by a business friend of my buddy . Hopefully they will be great . Impervious to water and sweat increasing life .
Orange didn't have anything to plug in and try. I was bummed about that.
A few pedal and pick up companies didn't have any basses. When i swung by Ampeg it was nothing but Mackie.
Warwick had about 80% of their models there. I spend about an hour there. Their LX series of Asian made basses are pretty respectable.
ESP\LTD had something interesting basses, but no way to plug them in.
I found some interesting stuff at the Lakland and Mayones booths.
I got to try out a Darkglass Alpha\Omega. An added bonus was they had a Dunable bass there for trying pedals. Score. Patrick Hunter was at the Darkglass booth and I talked to him for a while. He does a lot of demo Youtube videos. Really nice guy.
The Blackstar bass amps are pretty nifty. I tried the 115 with a Spector and it was meaty as hell. I didn't catch the price though.
I also got to try the Asian made Peavey Cirrus basses. They are actually pretty nice, as are their little Trace Elliot mini heads\cabs. Their other basses were junk.
I got to chat with Ryan from Fuzzrocious for a while. Now I'm gassing for a Gray Stache or buying a Demon again. The Verellen set up he has is super sweet.
It was a mixed bag for me. I thought there was no way I could get everything I wanted to do in with one day, but I actually only needed 5 hours. I'm glad went, but it didn't meet my life-altering expectations.
A few pedal and pick up companies didn't have any basses. When i swung by Ampeg it was nothing but Mackie.
Warwick had about 80% of their models there. I spend about an hour there. Their LX series of Asian made basses are pretty respectable.
ESP\LTD had something interesting basses, but no way to plug them in.
I found some interesting stuff at the Lakland and Mayones booths.
I got to try out a Darkglass Alpha\Omega. An added bonus was they had a Dunable bass there for trying pedals. Score. Patrick Hunter was at the Darkglass booth and I talked to him for a while. He does a lot of demo Youtube videos. Really nice guy.
The Blackstar bass amps are pretty nifty. I tried the 115 with a Spector and it was meaty as hell. I didn't catch the price though.
I also got to try the Asian made Peavey Cirrus basses. They are actually pretty nice, as are their little Trace Elliot mini heads\cabs. Their other basses were junk.
I got to chat with Ryan from Fuzzrocious for a while. Now I'm gassing for a Gray Stache or buying a Demon again. The Verellen set up he has is super sweet.
It was a mixed bag for me. I thought there was no way I could get everything I wanted to do in with one day, but I actually only needed 5 hours. I'm glad went, but it didn't meet my life-altering expectations.
How come Mesa doesn't show at NAMM? I would think that a Mesa booth would draw a nice crowd.
Same reason many other companies don't - either lack of new product, not wanting to deal with the endless strings of wannabes, existing orders above and beyond what they can fill, and $$$. Running and paying for a NAMM booth in the prime real estate section is expensive. A number of known companies don't think it's worth the investment of time, staff, materials, and other incidental costs to attend.
A observation /opinion I heard from a few friends , with the addition of the new Hall , a lot of booths were in different locations than in previous years . Ibanez had a new ( ? ) 5 string semi-hollow bass that was really nice as well .( Didn't go inside to see their whole line as lots of "Stars" made it almost impossible to move .) Adam Nitti is a really nice guy and answered any question about his madel as well .
Eh, more exposure to musicians, the end users of the product, would probably be a good thing.
NAMM is a trade show. It's for people in the retail music and sound trades, not for those pretending to be. Exposure of gear to musicians is what music stores, the press, and retail websites are for.
I've been to many more NAMM shows than most TB members and I've been on the side of the table in a booth that most TB members that only visit NAMM recreationally aren't. I'm not basing my observations on suppositions or what I think goes on there. The tire kickers there are there solely to kick tires or trying to get endorsements and they get in the way of sales professionals trying to do legitimate business, often in the tens of thousands of dollars per deal. The exposure of the gear to non-member musicians crashing NAMM isn't a major driver of getting merchandise sold.
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Mesa wasn't there, Gibson wasn't there, Schecter had an office but no gear. I don't remember seeing Sadowsky, and Zon wasn't there. I saw GK but I don't recall seeing Hartke.
Not everyone goes there. As others said, it is technically a trade show that regular Joe's like me find a way into because we have a hard on for gear. The thinly veiled contempt some of the exhibitors have for the normies makes it pretty obvious that it isn't an expo. What is sort of dumb is why then do they have famous musicians there playing stuff? If I'm a retailer having a star at your booth isn't going to make me buy your stuff. Its weird.
