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Very tasteful @AndyTravis 👍 are you sure you’re not an alien impersonating our mr travis without doing any homework ? you haven’t mentioned “next shiny thing” or “sneaked this in..” or “give it a week or so” fess up, Zarg you’re not fooling us

What would it do that your current basses can’t? I’m sure we can help you save yourself!

It'd be worth asking someone out front if it's coming through. If it's just on stage who cares? ...but yeh when I used to play small pubs with just vocals and acoustic guitar in the PA, I would turn the snare off in between songs and for intros etc. In that scenario, the rattling is much louder relative to the volume of the vocals and guitar.

This is what I first suggested to him. I thought it would be easy to do that.

We tend to play smaller clubs, where nothing other than keys and Vox go through the Paso its getting quite noticeable, especially on stage.

This might be the perfect excuse to order a spare before I go hacking it up with a dremel!

Cheers - I did presume so. I’ll take the pick guard off and take a look. It sounds good as-is anyway

I was never a full helix user, had the hx stomp and loved it, but moved to a kemper power rack because it was easier to move things around, we had everything(as a band) in one rack, i didn't have to carry a amp, a pedalboard and bass and all that with me. I liked the stomp but honestly the fact that it didn't have an xlr out really bugged me, sand because we had our own mixer we lugged around it was easier to just have something always plugged in, rather than move around with me. Sometime last year we realized we didn't need a 12U flight case rack with us at all the gigs, with our own mixer, channel splitter, iem's, wireless and full kemper racks, so we decided to go for Kemper Players, both me and the guitarist, and i'm happy with it so far, however, i am seriously tempted by the new anagram, smaller footprint, and yes the ui seems way better than the kemper rig manager. I think the kemper's main issue has always been the rig manager and interface, too complex for me, i preferred the Helix edit, and am a more visual person. Honestly i would stay with the helix and sell the kemper, unless the kemper has a power amp, and then keep that one and sell the helix and your amp...you can profile it and keep it as a rig/profile and add more effects. Whatever's more comfortable for you. hope all the above makes sense

3rd Kate Bush track with John Giblin on bass Kate Bush - And So Is Love | John Giblin

And here are the the goodies 😃 The ebony has a couple of shiny spots from rubbing on the packaging, and needs a good oiling, but it's great quality. The neck needs it's gluing face with the fingerboard given a super light going over with a jointing plane as it's almost but not quite rough thicknessed/sawn. The bridge is okay for 'setting up' but is a bit thin and weedy for a rockabilly machine - still that's a simple fix. The tail-piece is actually carbon fibre, as is the end pin and assembly - a but modern for what I'm doing, but again, okay to set the bass up with. The machines are 'okay' and may get replaced down the line. The nut wasn't in the kit strangely ... but cot me £8.00 from a specialist double bass supplier. An issue I can see is that the ends pin hole has been reamed out about 1/8th inch oversize - so one job will be to make a liner from mahogany or similar to tighten that up. The neck heel is nearly twice as thick as it needs to be, and is designed for a bass without sloping 'shoulders' like my Stentor - so it has a neck set angle cut in. That can be sawn down to 90 degrees as this bass has the neck set angle baked into the body joint. My lunch hour today was devoted to cutting a new laminated mahogany filler strip (laminated using my new hide glue pot - more about that shortly) and cutting a maple neck joint cheek. This is a slow and careful process with lots of checking along the way. So it was like this ... All that crap was cleaned out and a mahogany filler and maple cheek fabricated Trial fit ... to be glued up tomorrow and the other side prepped - yummy .... So hide glue - why on earth have i never used it before????? It's so easy once you have a heated pot - it just sits there till you need it smelling faintly of doggy chews - thin it with hot water if it starts getting too thick - wop it on and clamp quickly - it's reversable, organic, sets up WAY hard and is proper innit. Warm both bits to be glued with a hair dryer if you want more clamping time ... I will never go back to Titebond I swear. More soon ...

Unremarkable? But just for you, I'll give it a wee weigh when I get home from work. Might be later on - got band tonight ('Spoons).

I’ve started looking them now 🤦🏻. Bass Freaks have a very nice Maruszczyk in natural that has caught my eye. However, a D5 is ridiculously tempting alternative at the price, even when you factor in possibly retrofitting a Lindy Fralin noiseless p/up. What’s the weight like on yours, Neep?

I use my Helix for guitar and bass and I love it. Obviously both units have their fans and I've seen both on stages for guitarists, but I can't recall every seeing a bassist with a Kemper. I've never used one, but perhaps the Helix is better suited for bass? I'm not fussed about "authentic" sounds either. Just good ones.

Anecdote : It was a concert for the launch of the first Kiemsa CD. The local hall was packed; the whole evening went off splendidly. Come the final number, Our Eldest, on guitar, had imagined a novel way of playing his solo spot, at the end of the song. At high volume, his Laney amp screeching, he took a pair of wire cutters and proceeded to cut each guitar string in turn, to the stupefaction, and cheers, of all present. End of the last song (or so it had been planned...). The acclamation for an encore became too pressing, so they had to return to the stage, but Our Eldest had to remain silent, with a red face, whilst the others played out the occasion. One had to be there; it was a great evening.

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Which could be rapidly disproved by looking at the forum database.

Just to update on the set up after my purchase here. Whilst it's hard to tell, it felt like the bass I bought from The Double Bass Room had had minimal set up if at all. I'm sure you could ask for a set up, but it felt very much like I was paying for a bass, not a fully set up bass. I'm up in the midlands so I then took my bass to Bass Bags in Ripley near Nottingham and they fitted an adjustable bridge, and did a full set up for Jazz pizz for me (and installed my pick up I already had). The bass always sounded great, not a lot of difference there, but the playability from the set up at Bass Bags made a massive difference. The point being, for anyone who picks up this thread in the future. I don't think the Double Bass Room spend much if any time doing a setup. Your buying an instrument and then you can choose how, when and with whom you get a setup done.

So far it seems pretty good. I don’t know what the user base is like if you decided to use it for promoting your stuff, but as a host for ideas, it does it just like Soundcloud did.