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23 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

 

 

Might have to take a walk down to the local music shop tomorrow to get some real ones.

I get my acoustic strings from Eagle Music. Fantastic service, only problem I had was with a banjo tailpiece and they put that right straight away.

25 minutes ago, Twigman said:

Nope:

 

is the latest update on Thomann's site - dated last Thursday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This order is kit to upgrade my pedal board to integrate my recently acquired wireless system (new psu and some pedalboard tidy up stuff) - i had hoped to complete it in time for next rehearsal, this Sunday.

I also ordered some pedalboard stuff on Monday from Thomann. It was picked up by DHL on Saturday morning and has now made it as far as the delivery depot.

So I would say this is normal or close to it for post-Brexit orders from Thomann.

The guy who bought my EBS 2x12 Neo sounded fantastic when he brought his Mesa head round to try it.

On 13/01/2025 at 21:25, upside downer said:

The usual tuning is E-E-A which I've always found puzzling so I've got this one tuned to C-E-G at the moment but may go up to D-F#-B.

£15 quid seems like good value for a functioning instrument. I don't know much about the balalaika but I think the idea is that you play the melody on the A and use the Es for accompaniment, either as drones or as a harmony below the top string. Similar in that respect to the DAD tuning used on the traditional Rebetiko Greek bouzouki.

I'd quite like a contrabass but I'm not sure where I'd keep it.

2 hours ago, solo4652 said:

I'd like to thank everybody here for helping me to understand what's going on with these orchestra tabs. A lot of the confusion comes from me attempting to play bass in an environment  that I have no previous experience of. I naively thought it would be like playing in a large covers band but, of course, it certainly isn't!

 

This is what I'm going to do: I'll ask the arranger to send me the tab for four songs, and to tell me about any key changes. I'll also ask him to send me the rehearsal tracks for those songs. That way, I'll give myself the best chance of going to the next rehearsal and making a useful contribution. I can't sight-read tabs, so to be given a tab sheet sight unseen and be expected to play it there and then is not going to happen. If he can't/won't send me the rehearsal tracks, I suppose I could use Audacity to change the pitch of a standard YouTube recording for re-keyed songs to give me something to practise against, but that's not going to cover any new arrangements. The four songs would be: Riders on the storm, Baker Street, One Vision and More than Words (Extreme). There's also The Chain. If any of that causes any difficulties for the arranger, I'll most probably throw in the towel. 

Or, learn to read bass clef. And get used to practicing without an accompanying track. Thats what most orchestral players do.

All these pedals are showing as 'out of stock' for me.

I have just put a set of Labella Low Tension Flats on my short scale Epiphone Century and I'm very happy with the results. Lower tension than the standard Labellas, vintage sound, not massively expensive. (Technically I have medium scale because of the tailpiece, for a Violin bass I think you'd need the short scale set.)

Penn Elcom have a good range.

Mine is in a Tourtech hard case, but there is no model number or any other identification on it. There is quite a lot of space between the headstock and the end of the case, so it's probably a generic acoustic bass hard case.

Maybe this one: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/tourtech-ttc-ab-basic-acoustic-bass-guitar-case

https://borderband.org  came up in a google search for concert bands in the area.

Carlisle?

I have my Fylde in Bb Sus 2 with D'Addario lighs - 11 gauge. Sounds incredible. Can't take any credit for this, it was Nic Jones' idea.

Bit of a sore point there Daryl. One of the main reasons I got back into playing was so that I didn't have to sit at home watching Jools Holland on NYE phoning it in with his chums in the middle of November.

Nothing this year or for a couple of years, not even a sniff of a dep job. On the bright side I have at least figured out how to watch the NYE show on the Irish channel TG4, so at least there will be some decent music.

You could contact EBS directly via https://ebssweden.com , they have a pretty good record for supplying spare drivers and other cab components.

"Bigsby Licensed tremolo" ??

THe future is bright!

https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/to-all-the-bassists-posting-here-looking-for-bands-t1492122.html

4 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

 

The fact that the bug holder is also a recharging unit can be an absolute life-saver if you're gigging intensively.

The link you gave for the JOYO gear comes up 404 for me. It was going pretty well until this point. I find it a lot easier to carry loads of AAA batteries in various locations and change when necessary, that to remember that I need to recharge the bug, and woe betide you if you forget - back to the cable.

I use a Smoothhound with a bit of velcro stuck on the tail piece just below the output socket to stop it flapping in the breeze.

10 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

 

 

We are all biased 🤣

I'm sure I don't know what you mean, the only thing biased about me is the power valves in my amp 🤣

7 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

 

 

I'm a bit prejudiced against a simple in line capacitor.

A capacitor is how Tecamp (and presumably Eich) high-pass the feed to the mid/upper driver in their combos and cabs. Greeeted with widespread derision in my repair thread about my Puma combo!

I'm starting to sound like a broken record here, but an LFSys Monaco would be worth considering, especially if you want clarity. What amp are you going to use with it?

Bright Onion make a 3-way amp splitter. Palmer used to make one too but I can't seem to find it any more.

Seems like a lot of trouble to go to given that most audiences won't be able to hear the difference.

12 hours ago, cbd said:

Years ago I built a 2x6" cabinet with a pair of Faital 6FE100s, exactly the size of my largest pannier bag so I could cycle to gigs with it. It turned out, mostly by accident, to be a success, and more recently I've been using it a bunch for double bass gigs.

 

You cycle to double bass gigs?  I use a golf bag trolley to wheel mine around and was thinking about modifying it so that it could attach to the seat post with a Tagalong-style joint. That's a build thread I'd like to see!