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General fitness is obviously never a bad thing and certainly helps with stamina on gigs, but I find that to be good on the night at playing bass (particularly DB), I have to specifically train beforehand beforehand by....playing bass. I can have a really nice active month between gigs with plenty of cycling etc, but if I don't spend some time working the "bass muscles" then the next gig can be a bit hit-and-miss.

I only play gigs about once per month so as well as whatever practicing I normally do, I make sure that I run through some tunes at a fairly decent tempo a few times coming up to the gig just so I don't cramp up on the night.

Thing that I find least helpful is people doing fretless slides on an upright since double bass players rarely do this except for effect, solos etc (mention to the master Ron Carter for this one).

Yep, weird that they don't make more "here's a DB player making this sound like a DB" videos since I'd have thought that this is one of their main audiences. But maybe their market research shows that most customers are people coming from BG....But I'd have though those players still want it to sound like a DB.

Yep, it's a nice tone alright. Like you say, it's not often you see an EUB played by someone coming at it from an acoustic bass standpoint. I think this is a large part of the sound to be honest - if you play an EUB like it's a big fretless bass turned on its side then it'll sound like that, whereas using a DB technique tends to give a more DB tone. Having said that, I've never played an EUB so this is pure speculation on my part based on a limited number of videos I've seen....

I agree with the FDeck suggestion above. A pretty inexpensive piece of gear that will stand you in good stead over the years even if you upgrade / change pickup / amp.

+1 on on the "get in touch with singer" idea. Singer, bass and guitar might be enough for a wine-bar thing anyway and you can take your time finding a drummer who can play quietly.

Talking of delicate setups, I had a Revolution Solo before which was very natural-sounding....but only if you had it *just* right, the weather was decent, you said special prayers to the MBOL fairies etc. The Lifeline is very usable, but only with some pretty hefty mids-destruction from the EQ.

Ha, I definitely remember that from my Trace days! I think it must be my DB / pickup combination (Realist Lifeline) but I find that I have to get rid of the mids on my PJB setup as well (and it was the same on my old GK before that).

It's probably fine because you're not going to be sending anything confidential, but in general I'd avoid any site that doesn't use https, especially if it has a login (like this one). If you sign up and use a password that's the same (or similar) to one that you use somewhere else then you're leaving yourself open to being hacked on those other, more important, sites.

I have a Japanese Jazz (a 62 reissue) that I bought new in Denmark St in about 1990 and it's been my sole bass (guitar) ever since. I try other basses from time to time (as well as the usual GAS browsing) but I haven't tried or seen anything that I prefer so I reckon that's it for me. Having said that, if I played more gigs on BG (as opposed to DB) then maybe I'd stretch to a fretless or 5 string.

Pretty nice to see a bass amp where you don't have to immediately kill just about all of the mids to get an even servicable sound.

I think they did a good job of distillling it down the the main point - that it's not OK to mime a video of you playing something that you can't actually play in real life. All of the other stuff about miming, cleaning up parts on recordings etc are justifiable as long as you can actually deliver in real life. Also, in general, I would much prefer to watch clips of people playing stuff with imperfections (either in their execution or in the sound quality)...

My general old-person take on a lot of contemporary online "influencer" stuff is the complete lack of boundaries between authenticity and just selling stuff. Of course, this has always happened, but from talking to younger people (e.g. my kids) I think that there's no longer even a pretence that there is a line between somebody doing or telling you something that's real versus them making money.

Ultimately I need a scale length that's so long that the full reach of my arm only varies the pitch by ~1%