pete.young

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.

These were probably Eminence Deltalite IIs, built to EBS specification rather than off the shelf. Best place to get a replacement is from EBS themselves.

When my son was at the same stage, we took a trip around some guitar shops and tried out some guitars. He tried quite a few, and settled on a Yamaha Pacifica fat strat. He still remembers the enjoyment of that day and still has that guitar, which he played every day for 2 years until a Japanese Strat came along.

Ah, well that makes sense. In that case you're welcome to pop over to Ipswich and give my one a try.

Why would you want to do that ? It's designed for acoustic instruments using piezo transducers and/or dynamic microphones. It'll probably work, but there will be many better choices aimed specifically at bass guitar.

Synths. Probably Oberheim or Prophet 5.

You might try looking for some violin tab for 5-string violin - your tuning is essentially violin plus a low C, although it has viola scale length. And if you can't find 5-string vioin, take the E from 4-string tab and add it to what you have for viola. I'm amazed that there is any tab at all for orchestral instruments.

If you're lucky enough to have a bit the right size for the existing hole, you can centre it with a drill press.