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I am well chuffed to have taken delivery of this ACG Graft 4 today.16 points
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Hi All, After a week of waiting I finally received my Ibanez SR655e and I couldn't be more happy! It feels like the body was moulded just for me. As a bonus it also came strung with flats so I get to try flats! Excuse my poor photography it's not my forte9 points
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For sale is my Roscoe LG3000 (LG4) Custom. Outstanding bass in excellent condition and only 7Lbs/3.2Kg! I bought this bass here nearly 3 years ago as I needed a quality lightweight bass with a good flexible preamp for the band I had just joined. It certainly didn't disappoint. My time with that band has come to an end and this bass just isn't being used. The build quality and finish is right up there with the top stuff. If you're aware of Keith Roscoe basses you'll already know! These are special. Body is Spanish Cedar with Box Elder top. Neck is Maple/Purpleheart/Maple and the fingerboard is Paduk. 18v Bartolini Pre with Bass Treble and adjustable mids. Bart JJ pickups. Hipshot bridge and Ultralight USA tuners. Roscoe fitted case. Bass is located in St Helens Merseyside. I'd rather not ship this due to its value but I'm happy to meet/deliver up to 100 miles. Not really looking for trades as I do need to pay for something. The price is what I paid 3 years ago which was a great price back then for something like this. Any Q's or more pics, just ask away. Cheers.9 points -
NBD Decided to pull the trigger on this, arrived today. New to Sandberg, wanted a new Fender Jazz to replace a Mexican deluxe a regrettably sold 3 years ago, but heard good things about Sandbergs and having shopped around saw this in sale (Bit of a bargain) had a quick run-though, one issue/possibly, it seemed a bit quiet, noticed the pick ups specially the neck was very low only about 2mm above the body and bridge maybe 4-5mm figured this was not right? So lifted them both 2-3mm higher and it sounded allot better., enough that I had to role volume back bit when boosting pre amp to about 75% strings look like Daddarios but label says Sandbergs own brand, can anyone confirm, they seem a bit on the higher tension side might have to change them, see if they bed in. add some real photos later, its much more yellowy:butterscotch than the stockings photo (not in a bad way) https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/sandberg-electra-ii-tt4-creme/8 points
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Went to the Earl Haig jam night and did a few songs with James Oliver, none of which I had heard before. "Do you know Nadine?" "Never met her!" I have jammed with him before, but still a bit intimidating as in the last month he's done gigs with Horace Panter and Norman Watt-Roy on bass 😱 Went ok though!8 points
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Spend a day each at Bass Direct and The Gallery and try anything and everything that takes your fancy. It's the only way to find out what YOU like.7 points
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For sale is my Lakland DJ4 in LPB with matching headstock. 4Kg And in excellent condition. I bought this from BassBros last September as a back up for my Roscoe for the band I was in. I'm no longer with that band and this isn't being used. The bass is in excellent condition with no dinks or scratches. There are a couple of small indentations to the back of the neck that I was unable to capture on the photos. Other than that, its perfect. Recently set up with a low action, too low for me if I'm honest! It's a Korean made one and the build quality and finish is superb as you'd expect. It came with a gig bag although nothing fancy. I'm unable to ship the bass but happy to meet/deliver within reasonable distance from Merseyside.6 points -
ontop of having an avedissian tbird in the bridge and Dimarzio will power in the neck it now has a Underhill full English active 9v pre amp which is based on the wal mk1 so I have a Lpf rather than tones for the pickups and a pick attack boost video incoming6 points
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I found this fella on Gear4Music's Ebay site. It had got a bit of a bash on the rear of the body and was reduced from £419 to £230. It has a Jazz style neck and a 2 band EQ - I do like Jazz necks and I really liked the 2 band EQ that I had on my old USA built Stingray SUB - so decided to pull the trigger and pay £230 for what sounded like a lot of bass guitar for the money. When I received it I was pleasantly surprised that it's 2 band EQ made it sound very like that USA SUB I used to own. I also really like the Jazz neck, which had a really nice low action straight out of the box. The fit and finish is excellent but the fret ends are a little bit noticeable (not sharp just noticeable). I'm used to, relatively, expensive and old basses where the necks are rolled and the frets are filed via a setup, or just decades of use. I already own a USA Stingray but this sounds preferable to my ears and I prefer the Ray 4's neck as well. I can see it being gigged regularly. Here's the bass and the insignificant dent.6 points
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I've owned and gigged my Warwick Thumb NT for over 30 years. Admitted, I'm not a three gigs a week player, and I've always looked after my gear very carefully, so mine is as good as new having replaced the barrel jack a little while ago.5 points
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Bass Direct just received a Green one which I've just purchased (perhaps a bit rashly!, I almost always like to try a Bass first, and usually go second hand). My Bass maths to justify it is that I've got a Jazz up for sale which should sell for more than the Cort, so it's not a cost - it's a saving! Exciting times. Now the waiting game (which I hope is quite a short game - next day delivery). Will report back. Edit: After I'd bought from Bass Direct I had been speaking to Guitar Guitar and they mentioned they price match. Bass Direct are now sold out of the Cort Space for the time being (£699) but Guitar Guitar have them in stock for £749, so you might be able to get £50 knocked off that price, although perhaps they only do it if other shops have them in stock and available to buy there and then. Thomann have them listed for £655 but not in stock for months - I've noticed a tactic is sometimes with long wait times they have a lower price while it's not in stock to keep you hanging on and not buying elsewhere, and then when it is in stock they put the price up. Another Edit: Grrr Parcelf*cks! 'Unable to locate address' It's a residential street with nothing out of the ordinary, the house shows up on google maps etc. No attempt to call me to try and find the address if that's really the issue, just an automated 'not happening today' which makes me think the driver just can't be bothered. And Parcelforce customer service app/call seems almost designed to wind up customers, but at least I could confirm that the correct address is on the package, so it is slackness from their side.5 points
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It's absolutely sickening to think that a bass made in the 90s would be considered 'old'.5 points
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You do realise, I hope, that you have the blueprint for “perfect basschat wife” right there ? the most used phrase around these parts is “if I can sneak another one past..” followed by “well she does have a lot of shoes/handbags/kittens” you can quote me Now 3D print her4 points
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Sides are nearly finished. The final kerfing was glued in this afternoon....4 points
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Unusual but not impossible. The Audiovox 736 "bass fiddle" by Paul Tutmarc was around from roughly 1937, with the 936 bass amplifier. And in the 1940's Paul's son Bud marketed the Bud-Electro Serenader solidbody bass. They went largely unnoticed though, so when Fender introduced the Precision in 1951 it was widely but falsely regarded as the first.4 points
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This was the setup for Saturday. My first time setting up a full pa.4 points
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This crowd say they ship worldwide https://www.sheethappenspublishing.com/products/sheet-happens-blank-tab-book-4-string-bass-4-string-bass-edition?variant=43034200703196 Sam x3 points
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Euphonic Audio (EA) Whizzy 10 inch speaker Cab. Actually designed by a rocket scientist, I believe! 45 Hz to 5.5khz range. Sensitivity of 102dB. Power handling is 250 watts RMS. Excellent condition, no signs of use. Very light at 8kg. 2 speakon sockets at the back. Has tilt option., handle on the bottom of the cab opens out. Only used in small pub gigs as backline. Am also selling a Gallien Krueger MB200 amp, so for £300, you can get a powerful, small, very light Bass rig..Cash, in person only in the Bristol area, may travel a bit...3 points -
Well, not today, more like a month ago, but who's counting? For your consideration a Kramer DMZ4001A kindly sold to me by @roger (excellent chap by the way!). I just got it back from a quick electrical service as the preamp was playing up a little bit, well a lot - a capacitor went (well after Roger sent it to me - it played fine at first!), and I thought it would be interesting to play through the settings. They are: series/parallel flat/tone 1/tone 2 And the way they interact is pretty mad: You're looking at the same line 6 times, straight into a UAD interface: parallel flat, parallel tone 1, parallel tone 2, series flat, series tone 1, series tone 2. By the time you get to the last you can see something is going on (excuse my playing!): Kramer no norm.mp3 Here is the same thing but normalised so they are all the same volume: Kramer norm.mp3 Playing into an amp you'd get radically different effect across the settings. I really like parallel flat and parallel tone 1. It plays really well. It keeps it's tuning really really well and compared to my 74/76 P-bass it has a much stronger fundamental tone, I assume because of the neck and how it's attached to the body. And I love the pickups - it has that P growl with extra body. Anyway! Who cares what it sounds like!? Here is what he looks like (I've named it The Winstone after Ray Winstone, because, let's face it - it's a sexy beast!): (that big grey cap is the one that went) - this is the only schematic I can find: http://www.vintagekramer.com/Electric/wiring-dmz4000preamp.jpeg - apparently not that trustworthy!3 points
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I don't know how the rest of you feel, but i think anyone who doesn't have a small semiconductor fab in their shed and a resistor winding station in their bathroom is just a poser.3 points
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I'd add Status to the list. Definitely works of art, not sure on the new 'non-carbon' models but the older graphite neck/through neck S2s crop up frequently and tend to hold their value.3 points
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KZ ZAR IEM ear pieces arrived today. Maybe they just suit my ear shape, but they are a better fit and, although bulkier, they provide a much better seal which was immediately obvious. The very much reduced "leakage" from external sounds is also going to have the added benefit of providing better ear protection, which is more than worth the entry price of these for me. I've just A/B'd with my Sennheiser IE300 which I found comparable to, if a little quieter than, my KZ ZS10s, and I can hear bass & backing tracks so much more clearly with this KZ ZAR pair. Very happy with them - already feeling like they could be a contender for the best bit of gear I'm going to get in 2024!3 points
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It's the only kind I'll get now! I'll settle for it 😁3 points
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I took the plunge with my first kit. Let's see if i can figure this out. It's a HPF/LPF clone kit from das musikding3 points
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I played a 4 string a couple of weeks ago for the first time in over a year since making the switch to 5. There were a bunch of musos at the gig with a possibility of someone else getting up, so I took something that wouldn't confuse them too much. It turned out that the only other bass player to get up was left-handed anyway and brought their Hofner violin bass with them 😁 Still, it was quite interesting to switch back for a night after my 15 month "immersion" in the land of 5 Oh, and I thought this thread was about 5 strings being a bit more mainstream these days? Well yes, they are. If you like/prefer them, that's good. If you don't, well that's good too. It's not a competition3 points
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Fantastic condition. Incredible jazz bass growl from the single coils and 70s pickup spacing Have a guitar box and plenty of packaging, can safely post. Body: Swamp Ash One-piece neck: Maple Fretboard: Maple Neck profile: C Scale: 34" (long scale) Nut width: 38 mm Fretboard radius: 241 mm Frets: 20 Medium small Nut: Bone Pickups: 2 Marcus Super-J Revolution Jazz single coils Electronics: Marcus Heritage-3 with frequency control Controls: Volume/Tone (dual pot) - Pickup Blender - Treble - Middle/Middle Frequency (dual pot) - Bass Active / Passive mini switch Includes 2x 9 V batteries Bridge: Marcus Miller Modern S with 20 mm string spacing Hardware: Chrome Colour: Tobacco Sunburst Includes a chrome pickup cover2 points -
Really don't want to sell this but buying a new house so unfortunately this may have to go! I have not owned this very long, but it sounds, looks and plays incredibly and very light! It does have a thumb rest that I took off but can add back on. It also came with a standard fender soft case which I can include. This bass would really shine with some flats on it but I don’t play any music that would suit that sound so would like to move it on. the stock pickup became noisy so was replaced with the geezer butler signature pickup. Any questions or offers, shoot me a message!2 points -
FINAL PRICE DROP: **NOW £1,000** - For 1 WEEK ONLY If it’s not sold by the end of Sunday 28th April I’ll take it down and keep it - this is an absolutely amazing price for this bass, however it’s a buyers market at the moment, but I’ll absolutely take it down at the end of next week if it isn’t sold Poss Trade or PX (either way - see below for trade options ) I have this absolutely lovely 2018 Sadowsky RV4E MetroExpress (the JAPANESE version) 4 string Jazz Bass in ‘59 Burst, weighing in at under 8.5lbs As most people reading will know, the short lived Japanese MetroExpress basses were made to the same spec as the 🇯🇵 Metroline basses but with less options (See: https://sadowsky.com/discontinued-instruments/japanese-metroexpress-basses/ for more info). This bass is every inch a Sadowsky, it looks, feels and sounds as fantastic as you’d expect. It’s really light, comes with the VTC preamp and it is in excellent condition. It’s not perfect - but it’s not far off, there is however a tiny chip out of the finish at the back of the bass by the electronics cavity, but it isn’t noticeable at all really, and not something that should concern anyone but it’d be wrong not to mention it - it’s got zero buckle rash or anything like that, and apart from the minute chip on the back it’s as good as new. There also a bit of discolouration under the pots, nothing major at all but it would be remiss of me not to mention it. I’ve literally just put a brand new set of Fender 7025’s on as well, so it’s ready to roll! This was my “dream bass” for a long time, but when II finally got it I realised I just do not get to play my 4 strings anymore, whenever I gig it is with a 5, and I can’t afford and don’t want to have my best & by some margin most expensive bass the one in my collection I play the least! I have priced this very cheap (for what it is) to sell. Bassbros have one exactly the same but black for £1599 and there’s one on eBay for about that price too, so I think I’ve put it up for a realistic selling price - I am always up for a deal, so give me a shout with what you have and see what we can sort Trades/PX: Definitely interested in potential trades & PX: 5 string Jazz or PJ (Similar standard - Xotic/Sei/Lakland/Fender etc) for a straight swap (or maybe with cash your way for the right thing), but also I’ll take PX with a cheaper bass plus cash I’m actively looking for a nice Lakland 55-01 at the mo (but I’d maybe take a 55-02, 55-60 or DJ5 as PX as well) or a Cort Elrick NJS5 I’d love a Yamaha BBP35, but would look at a BB735a or a TRB1005J. Happy to look at good cheaper basses - MIM Fender, 5 String RSD Ch-adowsky (PJ especially), Charvel San Dimas V, G&L Tribute L2500 - try me and see what can be worked out) I’m happy to do PX plus cash my way - drop me a message and the worst I can say is No thanks Also quite fancy a Jad Freer Capo and I’m after a HX Stomp again, so either/both of these would be acceptable as makeweights in a trade. I think I’m definitely making it fairly easy to do a deal and for someone to get their hands on an absolutely stone mint 🇯🇵 Sadowsky Jazz Bass! Shipping can be arranged if necessary but we can discuss it via PM2 points -
Final listing before going to a music shop (yes they still exist) on commission. A long term project bass of mine that sadly now has to go. Finished in Metallic blue, P-J body with routing for a battery on the back (currently enclosed by a plate). Bound Squier VM jazz neck and tuners, used to have the 'Fecker Jizz bass' waterslide, I have removed that re-lacquered the headstock. Early 90s vintage EMG P-J active pickups, punchy and powerful. Gotoh bridge Anodised black aluminium scratchplate. Side mount Jack. Flattop tele style knobs Few little dints around the body but a solid workhorse of a bass, easily good enough to gig (i know because i have...) Sounds great, looks great, set up to fender statandard specs, action can go lower. All the usuals, come to try, will post at buyer expense insured.2 points -
Fender Jazz USA 2009. £850 Sunburst + Tort + Rosewood. This is a really good condition 2009 USA Jazz Bass, it just has a couple of small cosmetic dents and scrapes that you wouldn't notice without close inspection. Lightweight: 3.9kg according to my scales, 3.8kg/8.7lbs according to Bass Direct. (https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/2009-fender-american-standard-jazz-bass-3-tone-sunburst-pre-owned/) With a Fender Tweed gigbag. TI Flats, and Schaller S Locks fitted. Collection from Chichester, or I'm usually in London on Mondays, and Worthing Wednesday evenings. Sorry, no postage/courier.2 points -
Selling my Mark Bass STD151HR 8ohm 1 x 15 cab with horn. This is a great cab in great condition and comes with an excellent condition Roqsolid cover. Lightly gigged but not for about 8 years. I bought new in 2014 and it has never been thrown in a van or mistreated. These paired with the 2x10 make a superb lightweight powerful rig. Reason for selling - I don’t do function gigs any more so I’m keeping the 2x10 for small gigs and moving to a heavy Ampeg 4x10 for my rock gigs.2 points -
Quick postscript to this build. I just replaced the Kent Armstrong jazz pickup with a Bartolini 9J-S1 that I bought from @loudspeaker. I did this for purely aesthetic reasons (I wanted the pickups to match) and I'm dead chuffed with how well the level of wear on the new Bart matches the one that's already there. I'd wondered if perhaps the new pickup would bring about some dramatic improvement or change in the sound, but honestly it's almost exactly the same. I recorded the bass before and after, and even with big monitoring headphones on, it's near impossible to tell the new and the old pickups apart. Something worth considering when you're next planning an electronics upgrade.2 points
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So, for context, my experience is all from an infamous south London comp (most of the notable alumni on its wiki page are murderers) between 1997 and 2004. I did school music classes (as in the academic subject, not instrument-specific lessons) during my first three years at secondary school. We just had the one teacher during that time, who I'll call Mr Johnson. Looking back, Mr Johnson was a sad, haunting sort of a figure. He had a big bottle-brush moustache, side-parted brown hair and a pinkish face that was always shiny with rage-sweat. I remember being told that he was apparently one of the country's finest players of an instrument that there's absolutely no demand for – like a contrabass Saxhorn or something like that. He'd typically start his lessons by yelling at a volume that sounded genuinely painful. Once everyone had shut up, he'd start working through some rote lesson, interrupting himself at increasingly frequent intervals to do some more red-faced shouting. Eventually, there would come a point in every lesson where he'd completely lose his temper, slam the lid of the classroom piano down and scream "SILENCE!". Then we'd sit for the rest of the lesson in tense, terrifying silence. He'd glower at us; we'd stare at our hands; and the clock would tick away in the corner by the door. Sometimes he reached that tipping point less than 20 minutes into an hour-long period. It was white-knuckle stuff. I dropped music at GCSE, and I think Mr Johnson was encouraged to find a new career about a year later. I believe his last term of teaching was the one where the lid of the piano finally broke, though the actual final straw was when he gave a kid a concussion by repeatedly slamming his head in a door. --- There are two parts to this story though. After Mr Johnson left, he was replaced by an NQT – a guy who had done a teacher-training degree in his early 30s because he was fed up with life as a touring musician and cruise-ship performer. I'll call him Mr Smith. About six months after Mr Smith started, I agreed to record a bass part for a friend who was doing a music GCSE. I'd been playing for less than a year at this point, but this kid didn't know anyone better. I went in after school, set myself up, and we recorded a bunch of takes for a (truly dreadful) song he was working on. Mr Smith was around during this process, and came up to me after the session. He said he thought I sounded really good, and asked if I'd be willing to play on some other projects people were working on in the music department. I explained that I wasn't doing music, and he explained that this didn't matter. I ended up as part of a sort of spotty-teenager wrecking crew that backed singers and played at school events all the way through sixth form. Mr Smith led rehearsals and occasionally filled in on guitar, and also dispensed more musical education in ad-hoc explanations of chord changes or walking basslines than I think I'd gotten in several years of classes. When I started a noisy rock band with some other members of the group, he helped set us up with rehearsal spaces on the school grounds.2 points
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Holding Back the Beers ～ Simply Red2 points
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Marketing emails will have been sent using a bulk email service like Mail Chimp, and although it will have a Bass Direct "return" email on them, they won't have actually come from that address.2 points
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I’m going one step further. Currently investing in my future pedal endeavours by planting trees for carbon, mining ore for metal and have a couple of silicon and germanium saplings ready for planting out - It’s the only way you’ll get the authentic tone 🤪2 points
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You’ve clearly not seen some of the cars I’ve bought🤣2 points
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He's much better now, although he got hit hard by a virus a few weeks ago. Played standing up and was on top form.2 points
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Our vocalist used the TC Helicon reverb unit (foot pedal version) to good effect so their current range would be worth a look as per Mykesbass post above.2 points
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I've just been mucking about on my Yamaha RBX 765A which has been sitting in a case as a backup Bass for a long time and after only playing 4 string for about 6 months I'd forgotten how it isn't just about efficiency or the lower notes - it can also be more interesting to play a 5 even if you don't need anything below a low E. Right now I'm playing 'Baggy Trousers' and forgot it can be a lot more efficient if using the B string just for the E#, but can also use other positions going up the B string for a different tone to mix it up as the song progresses, or can go back to the 4 string frets (useful for parts like the octave jumps at the end). It opens up a lot of fretboard options, different patterns, and different tones regardless of going below the low E or being efficient. I've also just realised that certain songs where I got used to thinking it didn't matter to go lower (like the low D in 'Proud Mary' played an octave up instead), actually I now think that single low note is worth having (and without having to drop tune and change the fretting positions/muscle memory). I am fickle with these things, but I've put my 4 string Jazz up for sale and am getting another 5 (Cort Space), as it feels that while 4 strings will get the job done, 5 is more interesting to play. I do think if playing rock/metal with a plectrum then 4 might be better if you don't need the lower notes (which you do need for a lot of metal) as the muting is that bit easier, hence why a lot of guitarists that also play Bass tend to play 4 strings.2 points
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I haven't played Moon (yet) but have owned (and still own) quite a few other niche Japanese brands and, in my experience, they're generally a substantial improvement on your average big F (USA, MIJ, old and new ones which I no longer own) in every aspect. Forget the name on the headstock, trust your hands and your ears.2 points
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A used bass is a lot like a beautiful woman...2 points
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Back again with my Ashdown preamp. I must admit that I love the sound and it is a very underrated preamp IMO. I am not sure if it will last in my board because I really like to take with me as few pedals as I can, but I must say that I prefer to have it. Sounds really good. I use it as a valve DI and it gives some nice overdriven sound that fits perfectly in the mix.2 points
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I recently prepared a PDF version of the classic double bass method book by Bottesini. It can be downloaded for free from here: https://yuvalnov.org/bottesini. Enjoy!2 points
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Some reverb and harmonics, maybe?2 points
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Trigger ～ Major Lazer & Khalid2 points
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I assembled a prototype to test and build on site.2 points
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Deadlight Dance had our album launch at my local pub. I was mostly on the mandocello with occasional mandolin and three songs on my bass vi. We sold a few albums to a respectable sized crowd and my absolute highlight was we got sketched - the picture is to be framed in the pub wall! I thought we played well and I particularly like my growing confidence in the bass vi.2 points
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Top carving continues. I've hummed and ha'd long and hard about final thicknesses. Ken parker thins his tops to between 2 and 3mm, he mentions D'Aquisto tops were 2.5mm to 4mm thick. Obviously those were guitars but the string tension is actually very similar. The arch is a bit flatter on mine and the wood is certainly cheaper...so plugging all those variables into the scientific calculator, my finger in the air came back with the following: 4mm around the bridge, 3.5mm around that thinning to 3.2mm at the periphery. I don't know if you can read any of these numbers, but here we are, getting close:2 points
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Pre-EQ, but get the PA engineer up on stage to hear what your bass sounds like to you through your amp and cab(s) so they know what sort of sound to be aiming for FoH.2 points
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