gapiro

19 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

https://www.gak.co.uk/en/hercules-ds590b-double-bass-stand/53065?gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=CjwKCAiA2L-dBhACEiwAu8Q9YKPCYFwLrMhaZRolmuh5gD5-SL4av8vcA3bYuAnV214oDuBgsUDEiRoCBrsQAvD_BwE

 

Whereabouts in the UK are you?

I'm in huntingdon/peterborough kinda area - I have seen those stands online just wondering if they're big enough to take the base in case 

Hi All
I, somewhat recently, got a new bag for my double bass  (https://www.thomann.de/gb/gewa_bs_25_double_bass_bag_3_4.htm) and its amazing - its even survived a clumsy trumpet player falling on it with no damage

However at home, I can't fit the bass in the stand I have with the case on- its a homemade wooden box that allows a base to sit vertically 
Do any of the stands around let you store a bass in a quite well padded bag easily? (eg the hercules one, or the G4m one) 

I have cats at home and they attack the bows and quiver etc so don't really want it out of the case when I can (for some reason they don't attack the case....)

I was looking at one just now too - I met some army musicians and they all swore by them but I haven't ever tried

31 minutes ago, Daz39 said:

You bought your car a Combustion 5! Cor, nice.

haha, nah was just putting on the cat tree for somewhere easy to photograph and stable

this happened

conveniently wedged in a cat tree as couldn't find anywhere else to photo it

Ok i have just fallen out. 
Having not bought a bass for the best part of a decade.... I just dropped some dollar on a dingwall combustion 
Will post a pic on monday when it arrives 😂

12 hours ago, Nicko said:

IMO there's also a small section of BCers that appear to dismiss people playing pub covers as somehow inferior to other gigging musicians.  Something along the lines of pub covers = bunch of amateurs pumping out the same old shite every week, vs function bands = semi pro and play a wide range of styles.

I mean you’re not a mile wrong … except the pub covers is usually more the same old shite once a month and having 2-4 rehearsals per gig 

There are a handful of acts, mostly duos , round here that break that mould and do 3 gigs a week sometimes three a day doing festivals and pubs etc and they’re very good but are more tribute duos than pub covers 

17 hours ago, scalpy said:

Mostly functions. Plus 8 or 9 weeks of am dram pit work a year. One original artist on the books if he’s gigging at the time and I’m available, and once I a blue moon some session work. 

Pretty much same for me 

weddings and functions;50% of my gigs 

musical theatre : 40% 

concert band and odd random orchestral: 10%

29 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

You don't need a new bass.  A multiscale Dingwall would require special strings, and you can't therefore swap out strings from your other bass. You may find that you need a different case to what you currently have.  The technique of playing a multiscale Dingwall may not easily transfer to a standard instrument.  If you play fretless,  then there does not appear to be a fretless Dingwall.

 

All the same arguments that I formulated, when I had the same desire for a Dingwall.

 

"Step away from the Search Engine, sir. Put down your mouse, and back away from the open tabs."

 

 

BUT THE INTEREST FREE CREDIT AT ANDERTONS IS TOO TEMPTING 

(In seriousness, I am just looking for a new 'the one' bass to do everything and would like to get myself something quality. Having had my two current basses since 2011/12 and just feeling like something needs a shakeup

Someone tell me I don’t need a new bass 😂😂😂(drools at dingwalls)

Gig starting tonight - I'm on We Will Rock You in the first ever amateur production in the UK, by special agreement of Queen as the theatre group is opening its own new theatre. 
Band is up behind the scaffolding poles etc!

On 23/02/2022 at 18:24, haruki said:

yes Im surprised too...mine has been in use pretty much every day for past 3-4 years without a problem.... do you tend  to (ahem) spread the legs out quite wide??

 

 

Reasonably - per the picture - usually about an inch to 1.5 inches / (3-4cm) from the bottom

33 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

I've had two of these since they came out, one of which gets used at every gig (and I do half a dozen a month), never a problem yet. 

 

Genuinely astonished at your experience. 😱

the first one went in the middle of a theatre show, when I had to do a quick DB to EB change - put the DB onto the bass bar and it just sank and started tipping over, much to my serious alarm.
Second one I was just putting the bass on the bar for a lesson and ping, the leg came off  

I love the idea of 'The Bass Bar' but I've now had two fail - both with the same fault - the joints of the support arms  just are naff. 
I have made some repairs to my current one (see below) but just wondering if there are any similar products on the market?

6 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

I guess in the spirit of this thread I'd have to say... k-kitchen?

 

That was difficult to type

I suspect for wifely bliss, k-k-kitchen is probably the correct answer....

I've had a windfall of £1800 in teh form of rediscovered premium bonds, given as an inheritance when I was a little un

I'm debating if I want to put it as a deposit for the bass I've always wanted 
Or
towards the kitchen refurb we need to do....

this is the bassist wanted forum, try the bassist available forum  

And if so how 

my lakland 55-01 has been out of action with a naffed jack and sitting on my music stand in corner of the room 

went to do some soldering today and fix jack and found a ding in the fingerboard 

i have no idea how to fix …. Is it something worth fixing ??

14 hours ago, lozkerr said:

I made it out of there yesterday with just a new set of strings. Which AFAIK doesn't count. I was dreading finding a nice five-string Precision on sale.

Are they new strings to try or are they replacements?  

6 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

@gapiro - what colour is your 55-02? surely that's almost the same thing in a different colour?

well

yes and no

my 55-01 is 'natural' or whatever they call natural but has a different pickup and a different preamp to the original

The fact is  I bought the pair of lakland (laklandi?) that I own , both in 2011. I have a 55-01 (sorry , made a mistake before!) and a lakland owners group special ('LOG Bass') and haven't bought a conventional bass guitar since. (I have bought a fretless and a double bass since mind) because I like them _that much_ 
So getting the 'best version' of what I like seems like a logical step

 

57 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

Oh it’s horrid 

ild hate to have a bass like that… oh wait… 😁🤪

Yeah, such a horrible bass, 🤣

Damnit

4 minutes ago, Thump said:

But maybe we want to see it?

I’ve probably lusted over it for 5 years. In the colours on the lakland site as below 

just I got a new job just before Xmas with a circa 50% pay rise …

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Also I should say I’m still in though I have just had to spend money buying a new soldering iron so I can fix my circuitry on the 55-02 I have. (As I used to work in an electronics company i would use work equipment for it )