petebassist

Made of Norwegian ice. I wouldn't like to be lugging this to and from a gig...

Tried the TB10 a few years back. Loved the tone, but too heavy for me to gig with for long unless sitting. I didn’t get to try it upright with the pin out but guessing you wouldn’t be able to stand as not long enough. Would be a great all rounder studio instrument I think.

That's a beautiful venue (the theatre one :-)). The outdoor one though... I'd have to laugh that one off. I play mostly original music so I'm used to small crowds, which I don't mind if we get an occasional amazing gig.

Was it the Dragonflii in Pontypool by any chance? Great little pub but we had a similar issue with attendance :-)

Unless I was asked for a professional opinion (or my amateur one), I'd just say something like, well I enjoyed it. People usually just want validation. Your mate's not stupid, and he'd know how the band were doing based on the audience reaction. If someone is deluded, they're probably wouldn't take any notice anyway.

Looks great, what’s it like to play without a finger rest?

What’s the stick like to play? Met this amazing Dutch player in a beach bar in Portugal last year, doing a lunchtime music set, and I became a bit obsessed with them for a while. He did a amazing rendition of Roxanne and other 80s hits.

Supposedly coming to Bass Direct - I usually find the tone of acoustic bass guitars way too tinny, but I think this is a very usable acoustic tone. Way way out of my budget range, but you never know.

Inspirational musician... and always such an amazing double bass tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_Utj4Aljc

These look great, and if I was carrying an expensive bass around uninsured I think it'd be money well spent. I did use a collapsible sack trolley a couple of times when I couldn't park at a venue - getting out of multi-story carparks in Bath and Cardiff were the biggest challenges.

Result - I went for the Gotoh GB350s, and even the hole for the screw lines up exactly.

The US Gollihur website is a good resource for this type of thing. Then you might be able to source some locally. Exactly the he same thing happened to my Ibanez SRH500F a couple of weeks back so I ordered some GOTOH replacements from Thomann.

I have a Roland arriving next week, and I plan to use it for band demos as well so hopefully the extras will be useful.

Anyone had to replace these - one of the machine heads snapped on mine - I read on TalkBass that someone used Gotoh GB707s on a SR500 or Gotoh GB350 2L/2R B Bass Tuners. Any others that would fit, and be better than the stock die-cast ones? Thanks

I found a couple of used ones on eBay, but I think the new version is https://www.roland.com/us/products/gomixer_pro-x/. A bit more expensive but I'm thinking about new version - as well as the IG stuff, it would be great for creating live performance promo clips for a couple of bands that I'm involved in.