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[quote name='dood' post='918103' date='Aug 7 2010, 04:28 PM']I'll +1 for the MultiComp - It's brilliant. However, I have to say the TC Electronic Nova Dynamics trumps it - and can be bought new, cheaper. I have both and use the TC in my big rig - and throw the Multicomp in my bass bag pocket for jamming, should I need it.[/quote] You were glowing about the TC C300 some time ago (I am not stalking you). How does the TC Electronic Nova Dynamics compare?

I do realise that this could be a contentious statement, but you could use 1 finger per semitone. It is probably easier to do this if you are kicked off by a teacher who espouses that technique. The thumb placement is key. There can be an element of pivot on the thumb.

I have one of these. There is a real issue with pole pieces. It would work with blade magneted jazz pickups (EMG for instance) but the A on a P pick up is significantly louder because it passes over both halves of the pick up. Villex said that they would make me a P with blades in it with one coil shorter than the other so as to get a 3+2 thing going on. Unfprtunately by then I had promised to sell my P and could not go back on the deal. I miss it.

BigJim speaks the truth. [quote name='BigJim' post='893929' date='Jul 13 2010, 05:00 PM']I've just bought a Kala Bass Uke and it's AMAZING!!!!![/quote]

You KNOWS I knows it.

Double Bass. You can run, but you cannot hide.

I would like to pipe up on behalf of Studiospares own brand.

[quote name='owen' post='879877' date='Jun 28 2010, 02:00 PM']There are no 5ers as far as I know, but the original idea came from a specialist Uke bloke (Road Toad) who is happy to make a 5 with a slightly extended scale for B tension[/quote] I went for the fretted. Here is the reply from the Road Toad bloke about a 5er Biggest issue is putting a wide neck on a small body. It can be done as I did it with my hybrid ukulele/bass: [url="http://www.roadtoadmusic.com/Completed/Hybrid_UKEBASS_075H.html"]http://www.roadtoadmusic.com/Completed/Hyb...EBASS_075H.html[/url] 5 string would have a similarly wide neck, but about 50mm at nut and 63mm at 12th fret position. I've done it on solid body, but stretch the scale to 23.5" to get a good workable low B.

There are no 5ers as far as I know, but the original idea came from a specialist Uke bloke (Road Toad) who is happy to make a 5 with a slightly extended scale for B tension

I did a short review. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=93168"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=93168[/url]

I had never heard about these, I read a thread about them, watched some youtube vids and bought one within 18 hours. Solid Mahogany, Piezo pick up and REALLY fat plastic-y strings It is an awful lot of fun but also a serious instrument once plugged in. I play DB regularly and have an NS5 for when I cannot get the DB there. I am considering retiring the NS5, the Ubass sounds just as good for the kind of heavier dull thud gut type of sound I like. I have gigged it twice since taking delivery. one full on Jazz quintet and this morning in Church. It needs fairly careful EQing (just like a DB with a pick up). Obviously everyone thought it was hilarious when I took it out. They stopped laughing when I plugged it in. There is an awful lot of LF going on. The strings are very slightly tacky, you cannot do a triplet ghost note drag down to a lower note in a jazz stylee, but using some natural oil from the side of my nose made things a lot smoother. You cannot do a side to side vibrato. It just does not work. Does it sound like a full-on DB? Obv not. Does it have that sort of DB-esque low-mid, air-shifting heft? Yes. Do I look like someone carrying a Viola when it is in it's case? Yes. You cannot have everything. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNPx6RS8PiM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNPx6RS8PiM[/url]