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Love this song. Never been asked to play this as a sax player.....think that musicians run from it. It is keyboard heavy

[quote name='The Jaywalker' timestamp='1469799510' post='3101153']
The Thomann bass mounting clip is utterly unfit for purpose. I think they designed it on a 1/2 size bass or something. I bought a DPA bass mount - which cost almost as much as the Ovid....
In sax terms, my wife uses hers on sax with a noisy rock band and it works really well (engineer dependent, of course)
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I am an ardent fan of Gaffa Tape

Funny that you should post this. I was looking at exactly the same thing yesterday. I really fancy the Ovid. How did you attach it to the bass? I see that they do a bundle for £62 including fitting. The DPA would be OK I was getting regular quality gigs but at the moment it is looking like the Thomann Ovid

We were recently shopping about fr a new car and noticed that most/many new cars do not have folding passenger seats. Assume H&S stuff. We have a saloon (A3) and the neck of my DB has to slide between the front seats. I got some funny looks fro salesmen when the first question concerned my DB but lets face it ...it is the most important thing about a car ...assuming that it moves

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If I'm seeing it right in the photo, I think that's a plywood top, not a solid top. A solid top will always have straight, parallel grain running vertically, because they are cut from boards that are either quarter-sawn (a chunk like a thin slice of cake running into the middle of the log) or slab cut (the middle slice if you cut a trunk into slices). Plywood never has that grain pattern because it's made by peeling wide, thin slices off the outside of a log, sort of like a giant pencil sharpener.
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Yes. I think you are right. Should have seen that (having done a guitar/mandoline building course). It is incredibly thin ..4mm max. I suppose that the resonance and volume come from the thin top. The whole bass is very light.

Thanks for all this. Anyone who wants these cheese graters is welcome to them (free). Not sure how long they have been on the bass but thhey look OK

Jimmy

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These are the strings that were on the bass when I got it. All the same colour

Think that I may have buggered up the pic thing

So I bought this DB in Sunderland. It is laminate with a carved top. Old, chipped but with a fan[attachment=223957:New Bass.jpg]tastic loud resonating sound...and a looker, I wanted it for initially rockabilly/roots stuff but it is too good for that and does not suit nylon strings at all. I would suit classical or jazz but probably needs a new fingerboard. I will probably sell it on but before I do I want to put lower tension steel strings back(the existing strings were high tension and impossible to play with my feeble digits. Don t want anything too expensive (as I might move it on)...what strings should I go for?

TheG. Thanks for this...what a pain...and expensive.....I would probably go for the adapter that suits my DB ...could possibly use EQ to correct my sax sound?

Thanks. Will forward to my luthier. He is a bit fussy about the provenance of his wood.
Jimmy

Hi
Do you still have this and do you have any idea of the origins of the wood?
Jimmy

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There is only one mic for all uses, but with differing mounting systems and cable adapters. One of these will cover all of your stated instrument needs. Sorry for the verbosity; hope this helps.
[/quote]Just the answer one was wanting thank you.......

OK so I am a bit thick but humour me......the above mic....wish they would get a sharper name .....it can be aquired for lots of different instruments. Is it the same mic with different mounting mechanisms or are the mics calibrated to amplify different soundwave lengths....the reason that I am asking is that I play DB and tenor sax and in the unlikely event that I could afford one I like the idea of using the same mic for both instruments ........if anyone answers this could you answer in one syllable words.

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Hi
These are the links to my new old bass. As you can see the action is pretty high

Jecklin
The E is 14mm to the centre of the string at the end of the fretboard and the G 9mm maybe 10mm. The action is high at the nut end also. I did wonder if the high tension strings would be producing the volume and resonance. That is why I posted. I expect to get some loss of volume with lower tensioned strings but hoping that good amplification can adjust that. Hopefully the quality will not suffer.

Just got myself a new old bass. The seller reckoned it was a 60s Hungarian. It is very light and the sound is really loud and rich and resonant.....the seller is a classical/jazzer ....now the bad bit.....it has mile high action (strung with high tension steel). My plan is to put Innovation Silver Slaps on it and drop the action as low as possible. I have contacted my luthier (Bill Kelday) and waiting for a reply.
Wondering if I will substantially lose sound quality by carrying out the above. I amplify through a K&K Bass Max into a EA doubler and Wizzy 12 M line.
At the moment I play rockabilly but do not want to limit the instrument to this as I occasionally play pizz jazz/latin stuff. I have attached a couple of pics but not sure if the files will view.

[quote name='artisan' timestamp='1466506055' post='3076275']
I might possibly be selling mine in December when I've finished this year's gigs.
[/quote]Will look out for that. I just bought myself an old Hungarian. Looks rough and has the action of a cheese slice but a great sound.

None then

Interested

Was wondering if there are any Duke DB owners in the Central belt of Scotland who would be willing to let me try out their instrument. I am thinking about buying one but hesitant about laying so much cash out blind. More for playability than sound.

Hi Artisan
Is the action on a Duke similar to DB set up for classical/jazz or is it high to allow for the slap?

Called Stringers and Stevenson and they got nuffin....no space....common problem

My budget is around 1500. Was thinking along the lines of a Duke (£1800 ish new) but I have not played one. My current small bodied has has such great action that I am loath to buy something without trying it first ....ie ordering from Thomann. My band actually (embarrassingly) bought an instrument for me. It was like playing a victorian wardrobe. I am getting pressure to get one of these £300 flamers. You probably are aware that Rockabilly is more a religious cult than a musical genre. My sound is very important to me...I know that this is a problem when amping DBs but I have heard so many good players with completely duff sounds.
Will give these guys a ring. Got to visit Bryce Ferguson in Juniper Green next week anyway. Thanks

I gave the Violin shop a call but sounds like he only has student instruments that he will string up with nylon strings. Do you know of anywhre else that I can go and try DBs? Will go through to the VS at the weekend anyway but there seems to be a lack of places to go up here!