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Thinking of getting a PJB Briefcase. I need to be able to take a line out to PA as well as use it on its own as a monitor.  I see that it does XLR to PA in the manual but you can’t use an extension cab without disconnecting speakers/drivers internally.  Is this effective...is there loss of /improved sound quality. I also play double bass.

My main reason for getting the Briefcase is for a mini tour that we are doing using public transport(trains and ferries)

I have posted this in the Wanted section but I’m not sure that anyone even goes there. Please delete if not allowed.

Looking to buy a Greenboy Crazy 8. Live in Scotland so would need to pack and courier. 

Jimmy

Will have this if you post!

That long wedge is a work of art. Must have taken a while to plane it so accurately. Would definitely consider this as an option.

My main concern is that the neck has possibly shifted over the years.

Nice work

It’s an old orchestral bass (1901) and bigger than 3/4 ....I know little about materials used. String height at the end of the f/b is 12mm I was advised that lowering the bridge would lower the volume of the bass and possibly the quality of the tone...and a new bridge would cost around £200. Bit reluctant to alter the existing bridge but I realise that is the most obvious route initially.

Just window shopping at the moment. My DB has really high action and I know that there are a couple of directions that I can go...alter or change the bridge or a neck re-set. I know the answer to the first (concerned about changing the sound..although it would be the cheaper option)...anyone have an idea of how much a re-set costs ish. Don’t really want to ask my luthier at this stage for a couple of reasons.

I need a gig bag for my MMSub. Doing a mini tour using public transport so need it to be not too heavy but padded enough, shoulder straps and waterproof of course. Maybe even space for my Ys.  Someone selling a Protection Racket bag nearby but it looks too heavy (in the pics). Any recommendations ?

16 hours ago, machinehead said:

£420 for an 8" speaker cab?  Wow.

I've seen AER Amp Ones selling for £650ish.  Surely that's a better deal?  I had an Amp One for a (very) short time and it was superb.

Frank.

Yes...I have been holding off hoping to get a used one but I think in general folk hold on to them. I am not in a hurry as I have a wizzy 12 and a Greenboy fearful but looking to go light..especially for the public transport tour

AER bass one is out of my budget at mo. I can get get a crazy 8 for £420 ...will probably do that...I have an EA doubler that I am happy with

Thanks... I did suspect this. I have been looking for a s/h crazy 8 for over a year...missed one a few months ago on BC...thinking about Phil Jones as well

Been offered an AER compact 60. I am looking for something like a crazy 8 or Acoustic Image coda firstly as a practice/rehearsal  amp and secondly for a short tour where we are using public transport. The AER 60 is an acoustic guitar amp but wonder if it would take a ebass and a DB. Gonna try it out next week but wondering if I am wasting the sellers time?

I’ll have these. Will pm

The Contrabass Shoppe appear to be helpful. He gave me good info on my Hawkes

Interested in this but I am in Scotland. I am flying to Norwich for the weekend on the 5th June but still don’t know how I would get it on the plane. Obviously if a buyer turns up then let it go but if nothing before the 5th then I will try to work something out....I have a case that it should fit.

12 hours ago, eude said:

Newtone strings are your friends here, custom made to your specific requirements. Give them a shout, but keep in mind a good setup will really work wonders too.

Eude

Thanks will have a look. Had the bass set up. I just don’t think that the scale is long enough for a standard B string. The 150 on it looks massive compared to the others but it is still too loose to use

I have a 5 string short scale Ibanez Artcore.  Problem is that the B tension is so loose that it is unusable. It is size 150 but I cannot remember the manufacturer. Will try and find the wrap. My question is whether different string sizes in B strings have differing tensions and if so which one has the highest tension?

Interesting thread this. I am gonna try sticking my bassmax piezo double bass pick up poles to the body of my hollow bodied ebass. The pups should pick up vibrations coming through the bridge onto the bass body? Might sound like poo right enough 

Yes I have had problems...thought it was my age but wondering if live music...the backbone of my youth and life is not as important in people’s...in particular young folks lives as it was 30 years ago? So many other ways to have fun now. Big towns like Edinburgh seem to be full of action but not smaller places.

 I got a band through Bandmix a few years ago that turned to mince after a year, one contact through FB that didn’t happen. Both my (non gigging) bands at present are word of mouth.

10 hours ago, Skol303 said:

That seems odd! Unless the instrument is especially valuable?

I'm with Direct Line and pay probably more than I should for their Home Plus cover; but it includes insurance of all individual home contents up to £4K to a total of something like £40K. I've checked with them and it does cover instruments (and jewellery, antiques, works of art, etc), but not for commercial use.

Turns out that it is. My insurance will only cover individual items up to 3k.

27 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Unattended vehicles too. Can’t see the point otherwise.

I just looked up Allianz and it gave an option for unattended vehicles. It think it also states that if you can see the items then they are not covered...ie has to be a van...will call a couple of companies in the morning. Quote from web site not working.

2 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Mrs. WoT & I are well covered for about £120 per year with Newmoon.

I take it that the policy includes all instruments whilst gigging but not unattended vehicles?

9 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Allianz are good. They cover accidental damage, theft etc etc including theft from unaccompanied vehicles as long as the instrument could not be seen.

 

I've not claimed on a music policy with them but I use them for work stuff and they've written a few £100,000 cheques. 

Is that specialist musical instrument cover?

Just got hold of a new instrument. By coincidence my house insurance was due for renewal. They want an extra £100 a year to insure this one  instrument....and that is only at home/damage etc ...it is not covered out of the flat. It is quite valuable but I didn’t pay anything like the valued number. Is there any other way of insuring instruments? Musicians union only cover up to 2k I believe? Has anyone tried specialist companies...particularly claiming from them?

14 hours ago, Coilte said:

If there is one thing I have learned about DC it is that no two people have the same experience after an operation,  even if their initial problems seem the same.

Having said that, the general opinion is that the longer you delay treatment the more intrusive the operation (if one is recommended) will be. 

Yes...do see a consultant and get an opinion ASAP.

Best of luck in whatever you decide on. 😊

That is not good news. I decided to go to a private consultant.....got an appointment the next day. He was not particularly optimistic but he could not give me a time frame. He described it as being like the head of the Hydra...if you remove a nodule then it will come back twice as big. His advice was leave it alone until it gets in the way and if I do have it treated it will return within two to three years. He also said that stretching would make it worse. My left hand is swollen for some reason....probably too much bass...but this has nothing to do with Dupuytrens. 

The consultation was less than 10 mins and cost £200! Ouch n ooya 

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