NickA

For me the point of active is not the eq. The amp can mostly do that. The point is getting the best out your pickups and being able to use pickups with a low output and flat frequency response ( things that are related) Having said which, my Warwick has bass and treble cut and boost that seem very well matched to the bass in a way my amp can't manage. In that respect, you can choose a greatly tweakable amp ( my old trace gp12smx ) or a tweakable bass and a neutral "hifi" amp ( my pjb ) As for why anyone needs anything beyond a passive squire precision.... horses for courses. Holding down a pop/rock/blues band, yes indeed. Playing jazz solos and even simple bass lines whilst getting a tone you like and still being audible above saxes, trumpets etc.... is why there are Alembics, Wals, Skjolds etc. I read that Pino Palladio had given up on boutique basses in favour of a precision. Apparently he wanted (audiences) to concentrate on the notes not the sound of the notes. If I could play his notes, I might agree.

Especially after my failed attempts to mend it 😂😂. I've a carbon one on my cello; it's super stiff and light and, I think, improves the tone ( tho that may be the £100+ I spent on it speaking).

The Wal individually sums all the coils of each pickup then filters each pickup then sums the filter outputs using an op-amp mixer. The jazzbass-alike has the east electronics which also buffers and then mixes the two pickups ( it has a total of 8 knobs!). Not sure what the Warwick does, but the pickups are active ( IE there's a buffer amp in each of the three pickups) so still no current drawn from them.

Active. Stops the pickups / coils being loaded by eachother, by the capacitance of long cables and by low input impedance amps and effects...which makes for a wider frequency response. reduces noise pickup as the basses output impedance is low. Also it allows a separate EQ on each pickup ( if you have a Wal, alembic series or east acg-eq-01 electronics) which is something you can't do on the amp. Still, there's an appealing simplicity to a passive bass and parallel pickups ( eg a jazz bass) have a particular sound due to that mutual pickup loading. My bitsa jazz bass is very active at the moment ( acg-eq-01 ) but may go passive again when I tire of it.

I've one of these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152659424030?chn=ps&_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&google_free_listing_action=view_item But on carpets and that rubbery stuff they put on stages, I just go with the pointy bit. The rubber end that came with the end pin does prevent people cutting through the bass section at tea break from being speared in the legs.

Saw off the pointy end and most of the rod, then push the rest into the bass, then extract through the f-holes. Does the rubber stopper stay put? My experience of rubber tips is that they slide about and wear through. Gone back to a sharp pointy end.

What was the wood? Broom handle?

Indeed. Mine goes up for bowing at orchestra and down for pizz with the jazz people. I know it's not ideal as there is an optimum bridge height for the best tone regardless of type of music... but I like the warm muzzy sound you can get with an action that's a bit to low for orchestral bowing. Btw...Bass bags is good for mid priced new instruments (£1500 to £7500) they rarely ever have old basses in stock, but what they have are all well set up with good strings and ready to play. No nasty surprises! No bargains either. And I find even the best Chinese basses a bit short on character (eg this, which I had a play on, is rather nice, but also a little dull https://www.bassbags.co.uk/product/eastman-vb503-jonathan-li-double-bass/) . Trip to Hastings 👍

OK! ... Just that it's posted in the EUB and DB section 🙂 We 40"+ scale people generally go for characterless and neutral ... which I guess a 1980s marshall is not.

You'll just need to take Joe's sound engineer and bank of sound processing with you. 😉

For double bass? How's it sound? Impressive number of knobs regardless.

Correction ...It was a @gypsyjazzer thread ... But @anon who was bigging up rumbles. They're ok. All these new class D amps are "ok". But MB are very good, doubt one of the smaller rumbles will beat it. A 2x10" MB might be what you need. My own double bass rig is 10x 5" ( replacing a 1x 15") so I understand your desire for smaller punchier speakers 😂

Indeed. Many things are rare simply because they aren't any good...ie no-one wanted one.

Hmm didn't sell at £8.5k a year ago and now has the bass direct markup. But that for sale post explains things. The not-a-pickup-cover is somewhere to stuff some foam ( no-one having invented floating thumb in 1962 😉 ). Very vintage ( it's as old as me!) and very rare. Not to my taste is all.

I understand this is a very rare bass .... but it does look like a really awful bass too. And being single pickup, why does it have a pickup cover where there is no pickup? £9000 ? Really? Why? Anyone here tempted? https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/epiphone-newport-ebs-6-1962-pre-owned/

Imho ... they do sound a bit like an oil drum with strings on, so fall (to my ears) in the second camp. But also I would really hate to put a scratch on the lovely pattern work of happyjacks beautiful hologrammatically etched 3D aluminium wonder ... So worst of both worlds in a way 😂

Had to look that one up. Sorry no answers there. I think I play cool jazz, hot jazz, mainstream jazz, modern jazz, jazz funk, jazz fusion and jazz rock but not hot "club" jazz. Sounds like a job for big fat gutalikes tho; warm and thumpy yes? ( Chap once asked me if I'd play in his jump jive band... Had to look that up too.... before I said no thanks )

Always a balance between the best bass you can afford and the endless worry of hurting it, and the bass you don't mind breaking and the pain of having to play it 😁. The solution of course is more than one bass!

That waza air seems like the mutts nuts if you want something purely for bass practice through headphones. £330 is a lot, but you don't have to buy the headphones too! Naturally I've been watching eBay for bighead amps: there is still an ha-1 there for under £100, also an HA-2 but the seller pulled it a couple of times and put the buy now price up; it's £288 now, not good. You can get new for £275.

Ended up buying a used Bighead HA-1 off ebay ...which I will modify by smothering the poxy micro-usb port with araldite or sikaflex to stop it dropping off the PCB. The HA-2 is fancier (does more audio standards up to 24-bit 192k) and in a neater package, but at £275 and still with that poxy USB socket is a poor buy. What I very nearly bought was a Focusrite Scarlet Solo which is a total bargain at £70 for the older gen 3 model and £112 for the new gen 4. (reconditioned from focusrite). It's a good quality 24 bit, 192k, USB audio interface that will double as a headphone amp and comes with a load of DAW software. It's only failing is that it has no onboard EQ and no analogue stereo input .... you can only achieve either of those when it's connected to a computer; also no internal battery, but that's easily solved using a USB power bank. I may buy one anyway, just to use as a PC audio interface. Plus point for the HA-1 ... I have a lot of spare parts for it having one that is complete except for the poxy "£$%ing micro-usb socket.

Few years back I noticed a weird Italian "jacoland" bass in Shepherds bush crack converters. I managed to track down the original owner and message him to say I'd found his stolen fancy custom made bass. ...reply: he'd sold it to cash converters cause he needed the cash!

Anyone else just had an desperate need to go try this? 😂 Hardly flexes at all. New bass bar 20years ago. Recent sound post adjustment. The Luther at Tim Tofts was happy with it. Sounds good to me. But it is quite a "stiff" bass. I have the tool to "pop" a new post in ...but daren't try it!!! Guess I'm stuck with it.

I am told ( by the better bass player who sits next to me in orchestra) that if the slots are too deep it will spoil the tone and reduce sustain. But she has a fancy carved bass. I did the same as you ( deep slots for lower action) then filed the bridge down to make the slots shallower ... No huge difference in sound but it looks better and it stopped her telling me it was wrong.😁

What are you clipping it to? I've a little tc electronics unitune clip. Works on electric ( clipped to the amp or the headstock) and on my double bass ( clipped to the bridge). You need to find the bit of EUB that vibrates most. AHH... not a clip on. Just ignore me. I've a TC polytune on my pedal board ( works very well ) just never use it since I got the clip. £18.