Maude

That vintage white Mullarkey is lovely, starts at £1500 though.

It true you know. I let a lovely bass slide yesterday as I just have no more room. Bloody kids won't bugger off! 🙂

Yep, I'm constantly fighting the urge to buy a Takemine TB-10. I'm in two bands, one Mod band and I play exclusively fretted electric, and a oddball covers band where I play exclusively doublebass. I would never use it in a Mod band and don't want to get away from the sound and aesthetics of a doublebass, I could use it on a few of the songs but realistically I'll never be swapping between a doublebass and TB-10 due to size shenanigans so it'll never get used. So why have I got the Thomann page permanently open in Google checking the daily fluctuations in price?

I'll PM in a minute but just want to first say that this thread is slowly becoming a, "Where can I buy or get a faker built?" thread. Now I have no problem with that but I don't want to risk putting anyone on the wrong side of RIC, be that this site for indirectly promoting the sale, or the luthier that is building these copies. In future, anyone wanting info on anything Rickenbacker copy related would be well advised to join the 'Rickenfakers' facebook group. There are two main builders (that I'm aware of) on there that will build to order. Whether they build a substantial amount or only a couple a year I don't know, or how willing they are to build for strangers. So far RIC seems to be leaving them alone but I wouldn't be surprised if that changed if too many start getting built. Pop on there and all will be revealed. 👍 P.S. The discussion of fakers on Basschat is fine, to be encouraged in my opinion, but promoting sales is not. 🙂

Glad you're liking it, great little pedal for very little outlay. 🙂

Not with my playing, I'd be a sitting duck! Gotta keep 'em on their toes with a moving target.

I'm not 100% sure but I think there's a threshold for charging import duties, around £30 or so.

Oh dear, I just looked it up and it was poor old Megadeth again.

Most definitely. Then two years later Downset opened for Pantera and although maybe not better they absolutely blew the roof off. Also remember Corrosion of Conformity opening for someone and being excellent but can't recall who, so by that reasoning they must've been better.

There's very little in life that I could get jealous about but this sort of gig is one of them. An audience that size must be such a buzz. The most I've ever played to was about 1500 and I absolutely loved it, an audience of 7000 or more would blow my tiny mind! Congratulations on the gig 👍

It's a great little pedal to have as a spare DI, good tone shaping and a decent sounding drive just to push your tone a bit. There's a version for acoustics (and a guitar one) which I used to use on bass as, from memory, it swaps the drive control for a mid control, but the bass one should be a good place to start.

The Behringer BDI21 is only £17 on Amazon. Obviously not the same as the Sansamp VT mentioned earlier, but a clone of the Sansamp Bass Driver and will give an idea if the Sansamps could be what you're looking for. For that money it's worth having one kicking about anyway.

Pete Steele, a man of such proportion that he could play a doublebass on a strap, guitar style, and it not look that odd. Of course there's Sir Lemmy of Kilmister, and I'll add Fat Mike from NOFX, Phil Lynott and Blackie Lawless from Wasp for the amazed/inspired party, and nominate Mark King and (shhh whisper it) Paul McCartney as candidates for the annoyance party. I would throw Geddy Lee under the wheels as well but I never accidentally have to hear Rush. But I do have huge respect for any lead singer who plays bass at the same time, it's all I can do to breathe and play together.

Yep, that's the one I've been using for a few years. Got mine on ebay for a similar price plus a couple of quid postage. I'm only late forties but I don't think I'll need to buy lemon oil again for the rest of my days. Unless it goes off of course.

With her big sister 🙂

So that'll be the top 20 songs that people like to play wrong then. 😉

If it upsets you that much just lick it off. 👅🤮🚑☠️

PM'd 👍

Sure is. 🙂

Aren't cello tuners normally at right angles to the pegbox and friction type, where these are in line with the pegbox and appear to be gear type. The body shape is far more bass than cello. Half or quarter size bass I'd say. Age or origin? No idea.

I only use a floor monitor in that band so my ears are only six feet from the source. It's very very minor, but as a test if I pull a string and let it slap back against the frets I can definitely hear the string/fret noise before I hear the amp reproducing that sound. One digital pedal and the wireless BTW. As said, it's a very small amount but it's enough to make me not bother using it, it's no biggie. 🙂

I think some of what I'm playing shows it up more, Mirror in the Bathroom, for example is consistently repetitive sixteenth notes at over 170bpm with virtually no let up, the slightest latency will be noticeable. Longer notes, slower playing or more melodic stuff would be less noticeable. It was only a couple of times I noticed it but I don't need to use wireless so there's no point persisting.

That's very nice indeed 👍

Excellent use of emojies.

All back together and set up. The chrome is all fairly pitted and I've left all the damage in the paint, just tinted the bare wood chips and polished everything. The neck and frets have cleaned up nicely. And I sanded the mirror backing off the TRC and painted it white, the lettering isn't the best but it'll do for now. New strap buttons. And the screws I had to put in to pull the tailpiece down, not ideal but the action is now nice and low and it plays great. I've scrubbed the case and it's also come up nicely, just need to fix a couple of bits inside and everything will be finished.