bassace
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Thanks for the feedback, Paul. Certainly one of the benefits of the clip is that it’s so firm that you can keep the bass upright and plug in or change over one handed without the jack wobbling about. -
I can now supply a 19mm clip for XLR.
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That’s terrible, so sorry. Laurence will do a good job on it.
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Useful piano player, that HJ. Certainly knows his chords.
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Who’s that bass playing fours?
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Wobbly wasnt applied to their music - I like em. I was at Butlins with one of them when he was a two year old. I was referring to the front line physically wobbling about. Oh well, another post wasted.
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Dire Straits were very wobbly, weren’t they.
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Reminds me of the time I started a new school. Went into the assembly hall and saw a double bass on the empty stage. Just there. On its side. I’m not ashamed to say it was love at first sight and it informed my life for the next sixty years.
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If it came into my hands I’d do a quick and dirty rig and just try to get an impression of its sound. Could be surprised.As PaulK says it’s something to be loved.
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But a note of caution. I had a top of the range Martin. It had thunderous lows to the extent that I kept getting told from audience members that I was very very loud. But I wasn’t getting that on stage. If I turned the gain down I couldn’t hear much. I even switched the amp off in a seven piece and was ‘too loud’. So I sold it. I have no doubt they make excellent orchestral instruments.
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I’m doing another run of my Jack Tailpiece Clip. It provides a neat and firm fixing for the pickup jack under the tailpiece as shown in the photo. It comes in two sizes, 12mm dia for the chrome jacks and a slightly larger dia for the Gage black jacks. Definitely an improvement on the string afterlength fixings. I’m also now doing a twin clip to tidy up the cables running from twin pickups or pickup and mic. Single clip £10, or £16 for two. Twin clip £14. Postage included.
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Taking all strings off and keeping sound post in place
bassace replied to ikay's topic in EUB and Double Bass
Hasn’t been tested but it might. -
Taking all strings off and keeping sound post in place
bassace replied to ikay's topic in EUB and Double Bass
I used to use this for applying just enough compression between the fingerboard and top. There’s a blue towel to protect the top. -
Saw them in Birmingham five(ish)years ago. With three keyboards. They were great, particularly Zak, a worthy successor to Moon. It was Pino who was underplaying and not quite fitting in. I know, I know, but I just don’t get him.
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And it served me very well too. But from the get go there was something iffy about it, particularly the neck. In its life it had at least three cracks in different places so there must have been some dodgy wood used. And I kept it in an unheated room. Here it is with past friends in happier times.
