petebassist

Have you tried to dial in a more electric tone with a preamp or pedal ? I use a KK Pure Preamp (mid, and treble controls plus an internal gain trimmer) to dial in a more acoustic tone if I play somewhere with a tinny PA, so something like basic EQ controls would enable you to get the tone you want.

Ed Friedland's done a nice review on YT, and he had four so must be pretty good...

I guess he's been a professional musician since the 1960s and at the very top end of the business so he must be doing something right, and even if you're just talking about his bass playing, I've have him in my band any day 😉.

Couple of nice 32 " scale Maruszczyks in Bass Direct. I think there was even a Jake 4p for sale on this forum too.

They look great, but as you'll know, there's nowhere you can go and try one out. There is a Ray Ramirez in the Bass Gallery, so maybe next time I'm visiting the Big Smoke I could try it out. Maybe cheaper to hire myself a personal body guard for the evening 😉

@TheRev Yeah I think you're right mate. Maybe it was sold elsewhere under another name. Thanks

Can't find any info on the web about this Artisan. I was toying with the idea of trying it out for open mics/jams/pub gigs when I might not want to take my acoustic (e.g. pubs where a few of the punters can be slightly worse for wear). Thanks.

Get your trousers on you're nicked ! 😉

Highly unprofessional IMO, I doubt this person will much of a future in the sound business. I'd be callin my lawyer!!!

There're loads of free tutorials available on DiscovereDoubleBass.com, and many courses that you can sign up to which very reasonable, I've signed up to two. I find the website great to use. If you're playing pizzicato, I also found this DVD Jazz Upright Bass DVD by Ed Friedland, to be a great DVD to take you through the basics from stance, hand positioning, tone, etc. Good luck!

Friggin great track there - will be looking out for your live dates!

I'd say the Ford Cortina mark 4. Or is that a mark 3? Also has the distinction that Tom Robinson wrote a song about Cortinas.

I do like the look of these, and the strings & AeroSilk pickup look like the same as on my Ibanez SRH400, and sound great. Agreed the video doesn't demo an acoustic-type sound, but I'm sure you'll be able to get a usable tone out of it. Let us know what it gigs like.

Yes I saw Greg in a foyer gig at the jazz festival at Colston hall last year, & I've checked out his Paper Crane video - amazing upright bass tone!

Sounds reasonable to me & a good variety of things to work on. If you do find a good teacher in the Bristol area, I'd be interested, I'd like to tighten up my technique.

Great bloke, I learnt my upright skills from his DVD, which is ace. His magazine articles are always an interesting read as he has such an encyclopedic knowledge of bass and music generally.

what's wrong with my bedroom??

@Rabbie, hi, did you have to alter your nut or bridge grooves to switch to your gut strings from Spiro wiechs? Just wondering whether to make the jump,. Though crazily my current spiros have been on about a year now and are settled nicely and get better & better. Even on the G I can get a nice tone by playing higher up the neck and using more skin. I thought I might find a shop with a bass setup with guts to try first if it was an 'easy' swap. Thanks.

@Happy Jack, watched the session on Dave P, what a great guy!

@Dad3353, thanks for the link - I watched the BBC programme about guitar the other night, and they had KT on there and a clip of her on Jools Holland's Later programme - she was amazing. A master class from Ms Tunstall herself - brilliant.

I'm thinking about performing just me on double bass and a singer - instead of trying to tap out a beat or using a drum machine, I thought about using a loop pedal and creating my own beat, maybe with couple of taps on the bass or something like that. Is anyone doing something similar to this? Any recommendations or tips?

Had a long drive over the weekend and got the chance to listen to Jazz FM on the car DAB radio. One track that jumped out was Still Hidden Morning by Misha Mullov-Abbado. Awesome tone and lovely minimal lines. Wondered whether anyone else listened to any of his music, I'm looking up gigs but none near me.

This made me laugh this morning - not sure what would've happened if the person had lived on the upper floors, maybe the driver would have swung it round like an Olympic hammer thrower? https://www.talkbass.com/threads/how-the-german-parcel-service-hermes-delivers-music-gear.1384939/

I do like spalted, and burnt, but maybe not at the same time. Try playing this baby:

I think you can count yourself lucky that you weren't the one not quite up to scratch here. I've done a couple of auditions that still make me cringe when I think of them - Bowie said once that when you feel you're just out of your depth, that's the best place to be, but in my case it wasn't, I was drowning... in full public view. It'd be interesting to hear whether they get any gigs - afterall, money talks, b&llshit walks...