pete.young

According to the guy who makes it, it should be right at the front of your chain before anything else. This works well for me - I found that the only thing it really didn't like was an envelope filter, but I don't use one any more.

i'm currently preparing for the annual brass band area contest. So I'd say thats one aspect of music which is clearly competitive, and the quality of the competition tends to drive up standards for the bands that participate.

Beg pardon, it is actually a twin spot rather than a big twin. The pure mini is on a guitar-bodied bouzouki with a conventional guitar bridge.

I have a Rally F5 style mandolin and it's an excellent instrument which didn't cost very much at all . I think the same factory made a number of other brands including Kentucky, which sold for twice as much as my Rally. Good find @fleabag you got a bargain there.

That is an under-bridge saddle pickup, so it will only work if your bouzouki has a guitar-style bridge stuck in the middle of the soundboard. I have a K&K sound big twin in one of my 8-string bouzozukis and a K&K Sound Pure Mini acoustic guitar pickup in the other. The 10-string has a custom magnetic sound hole pickup made by Almuse. None of these have volume controls. I normally use a pre-amp with the K&K Sound units. The magnetic doesn't need anything. All three of them have end-pin jack sockets - you can now get these with built-in pre-amps which will tone down the piezo harshness somewhat. I had a Shadow with a volume control on a banjo. In practice the volume control isn't a lot of use. You have to set it to full in order to get a decent output.

You can't cause any harm doing this, and it's a lot easier than changing the pre-amp valve for a lower gain version.

Me too Jack. I was fortunate enough to see Television in 1977 in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Blondie were the support band. That was a great gig.

I gather that he decided to take a break from gigging last Autumn, so is probably lying low somewhere.

I can barely manage 8 minutes these days.

He was also working with Tim Ainslie a couple of years ago. I'll ask Tim if he's heard anything.

The tricky bit is getting the holes on the bridge in the right place, since this controls the string spacing. Fortunately basschat's resident genius has figured it out (round about page 7):

Loving the idea of a hipster d-tuner. Needs a shave and loves craft beer 🙂 Chances are that a pedal is going to make a sound that isn't very much like a bass guitar. Tuning down a semitone might be OK, otherwise you might want to consider BEAD or a 5-string. That's how I got into 5-string playing.

Does that bag of tricks include a feedback destroyer like the Feedback Ferret? I've got one of these, but havent got around to trying it on double bass. I find the notch filter on my pre-amp is usually good enough at stopping it.

Me too. Each loop has a gain control so you can adjust that against the clean signal.

The search function is mostly broken. Using google with site:basschat.co.uk always returns more results than the internal search.

In practice, it works really well. I've been doing this with an LS2 for years.

My Stentor 3/4, in it's gig bag, is sitting on a Gig Stands stand, which came with the bass when I bought it second-hand.

I have a set of Status half-rounds on my fretted Duesenberg Star. I believe they're ground. They sound like a good compromise and retain some brightness whilst still giving a decent thump. I think the thing which inflicts most damage on fretless fingerboards is poor vibrato technique - the sort of sideways stringbending favoured by guitarists seems to be very effective in digging trenches across the neck which line up with the string windings.

It is a Yamaha TRB 4P from late '80s / early '90s. I think at the time he was working with the custom shop. There was an auction of some of his gear a couple of years ago, and it included a couple of TRBs, one fretted one fretless, either 4 or 5 strings, can't remember.

I think virtually all the Ernie Ball 5-strings are 17.5mm, which to me is neither wide or narrow.

It's back! At 10 times the price. Could someone explain what is going on please, in words of one syllable or less? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185702965498?hash=item2b3cc260fa:g:TyYAAOSwthhi0~LM

Is the sound post set up properly and in the right place?

Some BB's aren't. BBNE2 is 18mm. SGC Nanyo Bass Collection 5s are 19mm at the bridge, if you can find a second-hand one.