Maude

Is that for the Xbox or PlayStation?

I was only thinking about this this morning as I am keen to make something similar. What do you think has happened, too much power? 💥 POWER!! 💥

Love it!! I really love my Longhorn and that is, well, twice as good isn't it. 👍

Mine arrived today 👍

Could it have been a disgruntled employee on his last day packaging these? A good squelch around in the ears and throw a surprise in each box, that'll show 'em!

You have just summed me up perfectly in more areas than just music, and in a wonderfully poetic way. 🙂

Bronze strings are great, as long as you're the sort of person that loves the sound of a bottle bank being emptied. If not try something else. I've got Fender 9120 black nylon strings on both of my acoustic basses, they sound and feel lovely.

Thanks for that @Happy Jack. I've just read Kenny Jones' autobiography so this'll follow on nicely.

Whatever you do, don't ever buy a piano Stew! 😁

The four string is great, and not just for the money. Fit and finish is good, hardware and electrics seem as good as most sub £500 basses, sounds and plays great but it is quite heavy. I'd say it really is down to how good the B string is as the rest is a no brainer.

A commode. 💩

A ska band (Rat Race) we played with back in March (our last gig before germigeddon) the bass player used a Steinberger or Hohner headless cricket bat and it sounded amazing. On the doublebass front I've said for years if our acoustic band ever packed it in I'd get an acoustic ska band together playing the original 1st wave stuff. The electric band I'm in does Mod, Northern Soul and Ska but mainly from the ska and mod revival period (late 70s 2nd wave) so any original ska is invariably the cover version by The Clash, The Specials, The Lambrettas, etc, but when we muck about in the acoustic band and do some they sound great on doublebass and acoustic guitar. I've even got the name sorted, "Skacoustic!" So no ones allowed that name 😉. The rhythm guitarist/singer in the electric band soley uses a 12 string acoustic and has a rotary speaker pedal on some songs and it really sounds good for a Hammond sound, that with 6 string acoustic doing the melodies, doublebass and a brass section would be fantastic I reckon.

I think the government's thinking is if you are paying taxes then we want you back working (gigging) as soon as reasonably possible. If you don't pay tax for your band earnings then they really don't need you out mingling, exacerbating a problem which has cost them dearly so far. And before people say that a band in a pub generates taxable income for the pub, it won't with social distancing as they can't let the crowd in that a band, hopefully, generates. For those of us that gigging is mainly a paid hobby will just have to wait until this situation has been got on top of, which could be a very long time, maybe measured in years rather than months.

You can 100% hear that that was played on a Warwick Vampyre with a maple board.

I suppose it looks a little more traditional than the usual modern single cut style, but that upper horn/bulge/unnecessary lump of ugliness still looks wrong. Out of interest, what is it that makes this a nearly £7k bass? Is the maker that well regarded to command these prices? Surely if you really liked the shape you could get one of the best luthiers to make one using the best materials and hardware for a hell of a lot less than that.

Thanks, it certainly looks very nice. That binding is crazy, in a good way. 👍

On an acoustic there is a balance in shaving body woods down to minimal thickness to enhance resonance against having enough material to be structurally strong. On electrics you take a big slab of wood and cut it to a shape that looks nice. That's why so much is spent trying to amplify an acoustic to try and keep as much of the natural acoustic tone as possible. It's much easier to just stick magnetic pickup on a doublebass and not have to worry about feedback, body noise, etc, but it then usually sounds far more like an electric so most don't do it. The fact it sounds more like an electric and you lose the acoustic qualities surely means you have taken the woods qualities and construction out of the equation. As an aside, out of all of my solid bodied basses, the one that sounds the brightest and has the longest sustain and clarity when played unplugged is my absolute piece of poo, plywood body and neck 70s Kay Les Paul-a-like. It has a darker wood fretboard (I'm sure it's not rosewood) and is brighter than any maple neck I've got. So from those findings, if you want sustain and brightness you need to be looking at plywood body and necks, not fancy woods multi-laminates, just good old cheap ply.

We've just taken another booking for an indoor pub gig on the 14th November. I've no idea what to expect, or if it will even go ahead.

I don't know, I can't see it. Get those pictures up. 😉 Welcome to the forum by the way. 🙂👍

Yeah, that's the biggest problem here. 😉 I like the string tree.

This listing has a picture of where all the measurements are made. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181753653160

Different places give stuff different names but I'd start by searching ebay for 'pan head machine screws'. It's hard to know what size (eg M2) by the picture but maybe buy the cheapest single standard M2 or M3 bolt you can to determine the thread size, and then order four black pan head machine screws in the correct size.

It leaves a bad taste in your mouth 🤢. Or theirs I should say 😄.

Depending on type of bridge, maybe buying a cheap version of the same bridge would be cost effective. Or if you know the thread pitch and diameter just order replacement screws with the correct head, they don't have to be screws for a bass. Pictures would help. 👍

What's wrong with the tradition of using a bottle and lobbing at the band? 🤢