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Yes, band amazing, did the guitar fluff a solo? And Lorde nailed it; probably not too concerned at the predictable flurry of forum whinges round the country.

So if you don't need a cab with a given amp does this mean you can connect a cab rated below the minimum recommended ampedence.

A double bass player. Sometimes a jazz double bass player, but that's a bit ponderous.

How do you decide when they're dead? When they start to lose their nasal twang and give a satisfactory tone. There are a lot of dead Spiro enthusiasts. Just keep them clean with industrial alcohol and they'll last for ever, well almost. A useful trick is to de-tension them from time to time. You'll be surprised how their brightness comes back when you bring them up to pitch.

I can't.

£165 hardly buys an adjustable bridge.

No pics?

Is there a roller skating vicar?

I nearly bought it at the SE Bash last year and should've. It's a good bag.

So sad. I know nothing about them but, from the brief item on BBC News, they seemed a nice, talented, group of guys. RIP.

In my young days, starting out, I found a lot of kindness from musos, particularly world weary jazzers. We played support to the Tornados - yes, that long ago - and Clem Cattini was a really nice guy. Still is, I'm told.

I don't know whether this helps but I played a rental stick on a two week residency. It had a rubber cap on its end pin. I found a rubber mat to stand it on and found it quite easy to pizz. I didn't bow though. I had a Steinberger for a while on a fixed stand and didn't enjoy the restriction after the mobility of a double bass.

I've got two 500s. One new one second hand. Both perform faultlessly.

I hope it has for me. I'll really have to have a fire sale soon.

[quote name='TPJ' timestamp='1455014600' post='2974947'] I couldn't get the One10 to work for double bass. After several tries with two or three amps and two different basses, I just couldn't find my sound with it. They are great little speakers and worked really well for slab, but I needed it to double. Glad it's working for you. [/quote] It's certainly a very dark speaker but, as I said, can be transformed by raising off the ground. I've got a speaker for this and a speaker for that and I wanted to get to one that would do everything and I think I've achieved that - for now.

You could almost do the same job with a Clarus, if push came to shove. The second channel signal can be taken off after the preamp stage and fed into a second power amp and thence to the front of stage speaker. You'll have full eq, phantom power, notch filter and phase reverse. It's not necessarily going out and buying lots of gear but utilising what you've got already.

Here's a pic of my new rig which I've been using for a few weeks. It's a coming together of a few ideas I've had recently. The Barefaced OneTen is a great speaker, practically unbreakable, especially if you are using it with DB. Trouble is it is much too bassy when floor standing, you have to eq the signal within an inch of its life. But elevate it and it behaves itself. As a jazz freelancer it is very rare when I play a gig at a venue that provides PA. Mostly the musicians bring their own small units. If there is PA I usually get ' but we don't put the bass through the PA.' I like to use a mic, but most BD players will agree that mics don't work too well through backline. The usual rule is pickup to backline, mic to PA. So when we have a stage to play on I run two separate channels. The second channel is a mic channel and I have a 10" Wizzy on the front of the stage, no pole needed. I already had a Puma 500 which is a compact amp considering its output. So I got another one for the second channel. A better alternative would have been a BonaFide which is a true two channel amp. But as I already had a 500 it was less costly to get another. Other main amps are available, I suppose, but not one that would fit in the width of the stand. The heart so the system is the Grace Designs Felix which has recently come on the market. This is a full studio quality two channel preamp. Each channel has a switchable three position input impedance setting, a high pass/notch filter, bass, three-way para mid and treble and muting/tuning, phase reverse and boost. The two channels can also be mixed although in this case they are kept separate. Oh, and the mic channel has 48v phantom. So it really is a Swiss Neutrality Knife. So the PU and mic go separately into the Felix, get controlled and generally mucked about with and come out to be fed into the power amp section of the Pumas. All this breaks down Into two units for travelling. The stand/rack amps and Felix fit into a Rockbag with a weight of 15 lbs. So although the description may sound a bit unwieldy, in practice it's all quite simple. And I can also use just the pickup channel for the plug and play gigs.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1454660853' post='2971702'] Truly a grim time for musicians that were the soundtrack to my youth (sorry for the overused cliché) and opened my eyes to music in all its variety. [/quote] Well said. Cliche fully appropriate.

I've put a very nice Upton DB up for sale with a bass shop near London. If it sells I'll get £3.5k out of a £5.5k selling price. Yes, that's a lot to lose but DBs just don't sell for anything approaching sensible money on BC. And I don't want time wasters tramping over my carpets.

Good advice there. But I think I was right about the Blue Peter thing. 😌

There's always one. I have a removals company just up the road but haven't a clue where the nearest bike shop is. But I suppose if you've grown up with Blue Peter..................

Plus one for UPS via Interparcel. I sent a cab to Greece no problem at all and tracked all the way. Find your nearest removal company and buy a cardboard box plus packing material. All dead easy.

Strange, isn't it, how people who have a bit of a neg reputation turn out to be quite pleasant and those all round good eggs have issues. Except of course Savile who we should have known was a bastard from the start.

Specs, Paracetamol and a piece of wire with a hook to help fit strings. And a lot of other stuff.