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[quote name='Bobo_Grimmer' post='519956' date='Jun 21 2009, 02:08 PM']You konw i love you guy's. I'd never come across Mr Manring till i Posted the link and now after reading back through this thread i know so much more. Thank you. Over the last few week's i'd lost music. I'd gone mad i think, i really thought i was done musically. I couldn't relax into my playing and i just stopped. I'd go out for a jam, get there set up and not be able to play. I didn't know what to do, confused, confidence gone, spent. Has anyone else ever had this? ............ But I think the reserve is refilling. [/quote] The same happened to me back in the mid 90s. I was so board with playing rock and pop. Nothing I could find to play on the instrument. I had seven years away from the bass but thanks to a whole series of coincidences in 2001 the inspiration came back in the form of jazz. Never looked back since. Thank God I didn't sell my gear.

Fit like BASSISACE. Great collection. Don't know which I like best as they're all beauties. You're right about the camera not doing the colour of the fretless justice, shame about that.

[quote name='ahpook' post='519777' date='Jun 21 2009, 09:26 AM']this is what it comes down to for me really - sure i can say 'yes, that's very skillful bassplaying', but it's the whole package for me - if the music doesn't engage me then that's about it. as an analogy - i find representational painting leaves me cold. i can appreciate the skill of the artist, but i certainly won't go to a gallery to look at an exhibition of it, whereas i'd be in like flynn if it were, say kandinsky.[/quote] I think we are all really saying the same thing in our own way and not quite meeting in the middle. I respect all your feelings on the matter. Great inventive player, just doesn't float your boat and that's OK.

I think it's a shame when people can't hear the quality of some music. I'm not a fan of a lot of orchestral music but that does not stop me hearing the quality and beauty that lies in it. Those two pieces that Oscar South posted are just what I said earlier, mesmerising. Maybe it's time for me to go out and buy some of his more recent stuff.

[quote name='BarnacleBob' post='519614' date='Jun 20 2009, 09:16 PM']Mebbe I'm just an old fashioned bump, bump, debump,bump bump guy [/quote] Nowt wrong with that, my friend. MM's music is not stuff I would go out to buy but he is a great player.

I don't think there is anyone else, musicians that is, not just bass players, who is quite as inventive as he is. I've always loved 'The Enormous Room'. Mesmerising!!!

The ACG is just gorgeous. What is the facing wood?

One for the Major. How do you apply your rosin, in one direction or both directions. I've tried both but I seem to get a better grip when I apply it from frog to tip only. I know it's another topic people get hot under the coler about.

I don't have any experience of them but here's a link to the BGM review some months ago. [url="http://bassguitarmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102:tanglewood-canyon-i-ii-and-iii-four-string-basses-issue-29&catid=37:bassguitars"]http://bassguitarmagazine.com/index.php?op...=37:bassguitars[/url]

Thanks guys. The Tokai started out as a fretted but I had the frets taken out in the late 80s. Never really used it after that until I started playing in jazz in 2001. Set of halfwounds onit and a setup and it is just great now.

I've never felt a dogs whatsits but if they feel as good as the Spectorcore does then I've been missing out.

Never shown my fretted ones before so here they are. Columbus Series 3, Yamaha TRB6 II, Yamaha BB1100s, Washburn Status 1000, Hohner B2A (front) And the fretless ones for good measure. Back - Stentor Arcadia DB, NS CR4M Front - Spectorcore, Status S2, Tokai Jazzsound

Try going here, [url="http://www.statii.com/forum/downloads/Status_Bass_09_Inc-&-Ex.pdf"]http://www.statii.com/forum/downloads/Stat...nc-&-Ex.pdf[/url] for the current Status price list. T-bass is on page 5.

Japan, Czech Republic, Korea and the Toy Factory in Colchester. Continue to upsize!!

She's certainly very sexy dressed in black. Mmmm!

Just read the reviews on TB. Not sure they would suit a CR4M sound wise. These basses are bright at the best of times but adding a bright sounding string? Any other thoughts?

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='497289' date='May 25 2009, 02:28 PM']Wow, I just found the price of a set [url="http://www.contrabass.co.uk/la_bella_set_no_7710.htm"]http://www.contrabass.co.uk/la_bella_set_no_7710.htm[/url] Anyone have any experience with these strings [url="http://www.stringmail.co.uk/dbass6.htm"]http://www.stringmail.co.uk/dbass6.htm[/url] They're a good deal cheaper.[/quote] They look great. Bit pricey at Contrabass Shoppe though. Thomann is cheaper and with the pound/euro rate improving might be a choice. [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/la_bella_7710_black_nylon.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/la_bella_7710_black_nylon.htm[/url] I like the sound of putting them on a CR4M. I'd like to put proper DB strings on mine so if you buy a set let us know how they work.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='495417' date='May 22 2009, 05:45 PM']beat you to it [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=40198"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=40198[/url][/quote] Well, if we're going to play games like that, I beat you all to it. Unless you know different. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=32449&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=32449&hl=[/url] Mr. Bighead

That's a mighty fine coffee table but I wouldn't dare put a coffee cup on it, not even with a coaster. And it's a single cut. Lucky man. Look after it.

Mmmm indeed, Rich. Dribble :wub: I know your not so keen on the revamp of the Streamline but I think it sharpens it up a lot. Not so girlly. Maybe I could give myself a reward for finishing my degree next year. Have to start earning some more money first.

Maybe that's the answer, to use a mic. It will probaly reproduce a more natural sound anyway. Having a good sound engineer on hand as well could be useful.

[quote name='bassace' post='484533' date='May 10 2009, 07:55 PM']BB do you really use a Sansamp with a Double Bass? I've searched all over and found plenty of refs re bass guitars but no instances of DB. Is it really that good?[/quote] Hi Bassace Well all I can say is the BDDI is the box I go back to every time when amplifying the DB. It seems to cut the mids naturally. I don't like a lot of mids in my sound from a DB as the natural acoustic sound has less of them anyway. The sound I get seems to fit jazz just fine. If you click the link in my signature for Reverbnation the track 'The New Dresser' has the DB recorded direct through the BDDI I seem to remember. I'll let you make up your own mind. Graham

Fishmans are good but I have never had a sound I like from mine. I use the SansAmp Bass driver DI and get just the right sound for me. My DB has a Shadow SH950 pup and goes through the BDDI into an AI Contra. Lovely warm sound, much more so than I get from the Fishman.

Don't think anyone will see it as a budget bass. It just looks too good. Lucky you!