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You can also get good punchy electric tone out of a U-Bass if you really go for it with the right hand. This took a bit of practice…

The deco feels like the perfect ‘The Cure’ pedal!

It looks a lovely bass!

Ok so, covers band world here. Playing the usual mix of pubs and clubs and have always gone home with cash in my pocket for the night. But now it really seems to have swung to online payment. I can understand that many of the establishments take payments for booze etc via card and phone so there's less cash on the premises, but for and old skool oldie like me, it sucks. As an example, we played a pub last Saturday (which I think is Greene King) and they informed us that we'd be payed online via whatever app it is that we are signed up to already. What bugs me is they quote payment for ten days after the event.. which is an arse pain BUT.. if you don't want to wait you can forego 2.5% of your fee for immediate payment.. even ruder! We play a few of this chain's pubs so it's becoming more of a regular occurrence for us. So do you dump 2.5% (not much but it's the principle)? Also you either need a trustworthy designated banker (chortle) or a group bank account, the management of which is an arse pain too. I don't like the way this modern world is going. Guess I'm very out of date now. 😔 Moan over. 😁

Did he actually hear it? I was gobsmacked the first time I heard the double bass noises coming out of a tiny uke bass. Not sure what I thought I thought it was going to sound like, but certainly not that!

They do say, "Get a hat and get ahead", or in your case, "a head". 😊

An other option is one of the shorter-scale acoustic basses. I’ve replaced my U bass with a Taylor mini-bass. Light as a feather. Other, cheaper, options are available. Ibanez, Harley Benton are two that come to mind. I’ve found that with a feedback-buster in the sound hole it can sound great through either a rig or PA. Lighter technique with the right hand and a bit of EQ experimenting helps a lot.

Just got one of these, fantastic little thing which is now my go to practice amp. It's the older version with the laptop DC power supply at 20v/3.25A/65w. I have a 20,000mah power bank which is fine for this power/current draw and have ordered a USB cable with the correct barrel tip, will this work ok or will everything explode and leave me in tears? If it is a terible idea then what would be a suitable alternative for mains free use? Thanks in advance!

A bit of trivia and possible provenance, if I'm right. I think I know this bass pretty well. The George Radcliffe named in the MECAA card was a serious trombone player but doubled on bass. He was the bass player for a band called Five Penny Piece - a sort of Lancashire folk and comedy act with some big gigs and several albums (national TV etc.). George was also the landlord of the Star pub in Ashton-under-Lyne - the best pint of Boddington's bitter available anywhere in my opinion. The quality of the beer was largely down to George's son, the cellarman and another 'bone player, who I think inherited this bass, along with George's Jazz. As far as I know, the son was recently made redundant so not unreasonable that this bass should appear now. With a mate, I took both of the basses to be set-up by Ted Lee (luthier to the stars and painted Manzanera's Firebird red I believe) in the very early '80s when George was still very active. I shall make further enquiries with the son. Anyway, that passed a few minutes.

Do it anyway 😉

Untrue! I offered £495.

These basses look interesting. Would have liked to have heard more of what they sound like and UK prices, delivery times, etc. Good luck to you.

to be fair to him, if you were selling an old instrument you didn't know a lot about at a reasonable price you might not want to promise everything is kosher if you didn't know. Also you know there will have been at least 3 idiots sending him messages like "oh I don't think X Y and Z is right, it's a bitsa mess of parts, I'll give you £500 for it?"

I love the look of those Boss boards. Such a good design and in a world of Schmidt Arrays it's just good simple engineering. Are you using the deco as a chorus/flanger or as a drive?

I had a bilateral hernia op 28/3. I’m 70 but fit….recovery is more like 12 weeks in my case. One of the mesh implants failed so I’m having to do it again so am thinking of getting an acoustic bass as my G&L weighs a ton. I tried a U-bass but didn’t like it, particularly the strings. I don’t currently gig but thinking of getting an acoustic bass but hate the sound of them…..they all seem so boxy or have hellish action(it’s hopefully a temporary situation so can’t spend much).

Don't Mean Nothing - Richard Marx

The late and much-missed @SamIAm was a great enthusiast for the sound, feel and look of her uke-basses. 😢

So have I, and yes, I did. 😉

Too many "s"s in the website name - https://www.basstradersweden.com/ is the link.