Beedster

Like you @Burns-bass, am album would be too much, but that clip brought a smile to my face 👍

14 hours ago, Beedster said:

 

Tried this today and it worked a treat, thanks all 👍

...and we were in the rather lovely Big Room to test the setup in gig-like environment, and as the result of using the monitoring, it was the first time I'd heard some of the keyboard parts in detail (PA in our usual rehearsal room is rubbish) 👍

On 09/06/2025 at 13:22, Hellzero said:

My Beedster II:

 

 

 

I know just how good that bass plays and sounds ❤️

Now this is a review 👍

That is prog! Sounds like a good gig 👍

On 06/06/2025 at 08:26, ebenezer said:

Lovely!...what sort of profile is the neck...nut width/c or d ?

It's 44mm at the nut and relatively flat, it is a sublime neck.

It's temporarily on hold pending a response from a couple of interested BCers 👍 

On 21/05/2025 at 12:54, Beedster said:

Probably a non starter but wondering if a) there are any potential issues and b) if anyone's tried it

 

I have a relatively small and lightweight Maui column PA that while pretty loud and decent is probably not quite big enough for the band/venue in question. The singer has a much larger old school Peavey PA that we're probably going to use instead. However neither system currently has any stage monitors and money's a little tight at present. Would it be madness to use the smaller PA facing the band as on-stage monitors, albeit with bass cut? There are only three mics on stage - vox, backing vox, and kick - all facing the back of the stage (no need for more on drums as it's a small venue and the drummer's solid). 

 

Thanks in advance 👍

Tried this today and it worked a treat, thanks all 👍

On 07/06/2025 at 20:50, super al said:

Any chance you can bring this to Salisbury? I'd love to watch this 😍

I'd love to BUT it would require us to break the first rule of BandKamp, we perform the album once and once only 👍

With thanks to Steve @Steve Browning for donating the box and Dave @obbm for modifying it this is now solved, I've just run it at low volume at home and it works just fine, looking forward to running it slightly louder tomorrow in the big room 👍 

On 31/05/2025 at 19:53, agedhorse said:

Why not a simple splitter Y cable?

 

 

I suspect the box does the same thing albeit with the advantage of being able to cope with both speakon and jack cables in a number of combinations 👍

Hi Scott funnily enough I was thinking of relisting it as I'm definitely using my Mesa gear more at present, where are you based?  

Sold a rather lovely Jazz to Tony, a very straight forward and trouble-free deal as would be expected given his feedback here. Enjoy the bass mate 👍

I've no doubt this is far from our last transaction  

1 hour ago, walshy said:

Im sure pretty much everyone has a 'Beedster' amongst their collection 🤣

I'd like to think so mate  

9 hours ago, Hellzero said:

And here is the Beedster II: An all maple varnished fretless Shuker Precision neck with wonderful rounded edges coupled to (what seems to be a Northwest) two parts swamp ash body (nitrocellulosic natural finish), fitted with two Seymour Duncan SJB1 pickups (CTS pots), Gotoh lollipop tuners and a Fender (slotted grub screws) BBT bridge with threaded saddles.

 

This fretless is fitted with Thomastik flat wound strings and is a real delight to play with an ultra low action and very straight neck (the double action truss rod is just very very very slightly tightened), loads of mwah when needed, but also more double bass tone on the neck pickup with the tone rolled a lot off.

 

So a very versatile bass and, to me, better sounding than all the fretless Jazz Basses I had and that neck is just pure joy to play.

 

Furthermore it's not a relic sunburst à la Jaco like mainly all fretless Jazz Basses... Yes I was having an overdose of these and needed a more sober classy fretless.

 

And even if I'm a Jazz Bass guy, I've always preferred the width and feel of the Precision Bass neck.

 

Thanks Chris! 😊👌🏻

 

 

Glad you like it Tony, it did play really rather well, Precision necks work very well on a Jazz body, and John Shuker certainly knows how to build a Precision neck 👍

5 hours ago, rwillett said:

Or buy two or more of the boxes and simply work in multiples of 6 basses ... 

 

 

A not unreasonable strategy 👍

It's as much to do with international economics as anything deliberate by Pirastro I'd guess? Since Brexity/Trumpin, it's simply crazy  

On 04/06/2025 at 18:16, Beedster said:

 

I placed felt panels between them, admittedly I still had to be careful moving them in and out, but it remained a very nice - and as my daughters put it, very aesthetic - solution for bass storage 👍

...also don't think it would be too hard to engineer a rack to sit on the bottom to hold each bass in its own space and stop them making contact with each other, might reduce the bass capacity from seven to six, but hey, who needs seven basses anyway  

There's one of these going very cheap in London on eBay, if you're local this is a bargain at about £200 less than they usually go for (I suspect the limed finish is a factor)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226706773203?campid=5339022111&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&toolid=10050&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&customid=EAIaIQobChMIpOKk2vHejQMV-4xQBh3q8yDIEAQYASABEgKzvvD_BwE&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20016378716&gbraid=0AAAAADk7gXOhuH0jOAXDkO1kINhcEa96B&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpOKk2vHejQMV-4xQBh3q8yDIEAQYASABEgKzvvD_BwE

1 minute ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Any excuse to watch this again! There's little to top it.

This says it all.....

...and if you have 7.30 to spare, watch the video but stay focussed wherever possible on Moon, 100% in the moment, 100% in the music, and 100% in the zone. Sublime 

At 4.46 in if you look at the version with subtitles they're all singing 'Gerald'. They're not, they're actually singing 'cello', because during tracking PT apparently asked for cellos to play those stacatto notes but was told the record company wouldn't foot the bill. So the band - bless them - sang the word 'cello' instead 

On 23/11/2024 at 19:56, Beedster said:

I'm learning a Who set at the moment. This, not one of their greatest or most recognised, takes my breath away every time I watch it. Mad, odd, loud, visceral (in places), and strangely beautiful, although not in a conventional sense  

 

 

Sat in the pub tonight discussing this very track. OK, JE was one of the great bass players, and Daltrey a decent front man, but Moon and Townsend are just incredible in this, in fact it's Townsend's guitar that holds it together at times. f***ing glorious 🙏

4 minutes ago, Ian Somerville said:

The 7lb jazz bitsa bass which has I believe has had a number of bass chatters as its custodian has me as its latest one.

 

I bought it yesterday of Chris (cdog) in Leeds. 

 

I really like it, light as a feather (compared to my last jazz bass) and plays wonderfully - probably due to being played in extremely well by the excellent bass players who have had it before me!

If playing quality wears off on an instrument I strongly advise you to avoid buying from me at all costs