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    Renting vs buying first bass

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Burns-bass said:


    I’d look to buy one from someone on Basschat or through an experienced dealer. A new bridge, set of strings and a set up can easily set you back £500 or more.

     

    Double basses look like they’re tough to play, and they are if you try and apply electric basses technique.

     

    If you learn the right technique and have a bass that’s well set up, you shouldn’t experience any pain.

    I’d back this 100%. I’m pretty new to this, buying my first upright from @Happy Jack in October. I’ve thrown myself in and I’m loving every minute. Couple of gigs done and some recording.

     

    great fun but apart from “note

    geography” it’s not like playing electric. 
     

    Jonny 

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    Help me upgrade.

    in Effects

    Posted

    I spent about a year using the Zoom b6.  Really straightforward great live board, good built in DI.  If you are just looking to expand out a little from a zoom B3 it has to be an option.  Modelled amp, and DI with about 4/5 effects and a brilliant tuner, it is pretty much everything I needed at the time for gigging in one box.  Moved to a Line 6 HX stomp XL as I was looking for the effects to go more 'out there".  I have used it live, once set up it sounds great but I'd say it does need a fair bit of set up and potentially tweaking on gigs more than the zoom did.  Yes its a more powerful beast and can do allot more, I'd say its a question of what you want.  With the Zoom i edited and set up usable patches by plugging it in to my amp and just tweaking.  With the HX Stomp i had to plug the laptop in, and the amp and then do it.

     

    I think we are in a lucky position that the multieffects/modelling market has a load of great gear, its down to how you want it to work and how you prefer to edit work with it, sound wise I think you are unlikely to go wrong.

     

    jonny

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    DH Gate

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Cheapest bass I can see on DH gate was $207 with delivery, assuming that covers any import taxes its about £150.  Theres about 4 basses on FB market place for that or cheaper from as far away as Musselburgh.  They wont look like a Duff bass though but you will get a chance to try them before you buy.  It will be harder to get a bass you think is cool though, depend if you want to take a punt I suppose.

     

    Jonny

    Bows....

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    I know what you mean, I learn better with a teacher for physical things, and I am very conscious of how physical it is as an instrument. I’ll keep looking :) 

     

    jonny

    Bows....

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    Hi I'm in Edinburgh most of the time.  I've been trying for ages to find a teacher with no success so far.  I love the sound of the bass bowed and know if nothing else its great to aid my intonation.

     

    Jonny

    Bows....

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    Afternoon hive mind, on my beginners journey I am looking at buying a bow.  I have some questions...

     

    is there anything to avoid in particular?

    Should i go wood or carbon fibre?

    Does size matter? My bass is 4/4, do i need a 4/4 bow or will a 3/4 be sufficient?

    Roisin?  What, which when and how....

     

    Jonny

    It's just occurred to me....

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I've owned a few over the years, still have my first bass which is an 83 japanese Fender.  Like every brand, you get good ones and bad ones.  I'm less worried about what name is on it than how nicely it fits how i play.  

     

    Jonny

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    Is a CD release viable anymore?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 07/05/2025 at 12:11, Wombat said:

    Buy wearing a T-shirt or hoodie with a really useless band on could make you look like a dork! 😂.

     

    But more seriously, great comments peeps. Keep ‘em coming!

    I always wondered about a QR code inside the t shirt collar, with the QR taking you to bandcamp where people can then enter a code (again somewhere inside the t shirt) to download a copy of the album. Kinda similar to the little cards you get inside some vinyl to download a free copy of the album.  But this is more a free download when you buy a t-shirt.

     

    Jonny

    Danny Sapko discovers… (now including follow up vid that is worse!)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

     

    It's both. The fact that Civil action can be taken for an IP dispute does not prevent there being a criminal offence.

     

    Same in all manner of things. Many criminal offences have a linked civil one. "Conversion" is the civil equivalent of "Theft". In a civil matter the result would be an order to pay compensation / loss of income etc. In the criminal one it would be either a fine (payable to the state) or prison.

     

    Punching someone in the face is a criminal offence with criminal penalties. It is also causing a Personal Injury that can be sued upon as a civil matter.

     

    Pursuing one option does not mean the other cannot be pursued as well.

     

     

    ADDITION:

     

    Not to forget that the IP owner - the real composer can take action against GT for IP problems but a purchaser of a song via a streaming service cannot take the same action for IP... because the purchaser doesn't have an interest in the IP. The purchaser has been a victim of deceit = fraud. The real composer has been a victim of theft and an IP issue and has probably been denied income because of it.

     

    So - it's a multy-layered thing. But ultimately the evidence against GT suggests that he would fail to successfully defend civil and criminal actions against him...

    Thank you for this this is why i love Basschat

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    Danny Sapko discovers… (now including follow up vid that is worse!)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 minute ago, BabyBlueSound said:

     

    For example, promising small gear manufacturers that you'll review their gear, then you don't, then you actually SELL said gear instead of sending back to the manufacturer... I think that's actual theft. :) 

     

    Selling the transcript for other people's solos (who are also trying to sell the same transcript they ACTUALLY wrote)... I think that's theft too. :) 

     

    Just... read some, man. It was never about the pretending part.

    Thanks for being condescending, I can and have read this.  This guy made most of his money from pretending to play guitar, therefore to take his income is to take money he has made by pretending to play guitar.

     

    If the problem is if the 'theft' of gear iwhy is the majority of the content about his passing off playing and writing music as his own ?

     

    also again I'm no lawyer but to me theft would be if the guitar was not given but loaned...ie can i borrow your lawnmower, i then sell it. Thats theft.  This may be more a case of "Can you give me that lawnmower you have made for free as i review lawnmowers, its my property i can then sell it and its not fraud, If i agree to review it then its possibly gained under false pretences (which may be fraud and theft) but that would depend on the detail such as I'll review it by 2024 etc.. certainly breach of contract, which again would be a civil matter...but definately morally wrong 

     

    Jonny 

    Danny Sapko discovers… (now including follow up vid that is worse!)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

     

     

    1: He sold transcriptions of other people's work claiming it was his work.

    2: He released music on Spotify and claimed he was the only composer but he wasn't a composer of the tunes at all.

     

    Both are fraud / obtaining money by deception. Not just civil disputes but actually criminal offences.

    Im not a lawyer, but isnt it Copyright infringement, i.e. the denial of profits which the creator is entitled to? which is a civil matter rather than criminal? until it gets to mass production of counterfeit goods.

     

    Jonny

    Double bass buzzing…

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    44 minutes ago, simonlittle said:

    Ah the endless joys of the mystery rattle!

    As @NickD said, could be one of many things. My bass develops weird rattles all the time and rarely can I pinpoint where they come from. They always seem to resolve themselves. It does help to have someone else listen to the bass and see if they can find it whilst you’re playing, because guaranteed you’ll never get your ear next to wherever the problem is…

    Helpfully (or not) it happened in the studio, the engineer and I found it went away if we increased pressure (just a little) on the back, near the treble side, roughly opposite the bridge..thanks to a cushion and a battery pack holder for a wireless mic we eliminated the rattle for the session…I’ll check the tuners and endpin in the studio tomorrow…

     

    jonny

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