Beedster

Asking what strings to use is like asking how you should sound. Totally up to you. Double bass players spend hundreds, sometimes thousands establishing which strings work for them (and unlike the norm with electric bass, that can require strings from different sets, manufacturers, and even materials at one and the same time). Given the value of your (lovely) bass, some experimentation is worth the cost, as well as being a journey in itself 👍 

On 06/04/2024 at 15:19, spyder said:

I'm not sure.

It's slightly bigger than a 3/4 but not as big as 7/8 I believe.

You are most welcome to come and have a look and play. 

Some measurements wouldn't go amiss, most important for me would be the speaking length but overall height and depth useful also 👍

3 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

I’d genuinely buy it myself, but 3 is a little excessive.

Steve, citing concepts such as excessive is not how Basschat works. If one is good, and two is very good, three must logically be….?

Chris Wood in Wood Brothers, fusion of bluegrass, country, and jazz 👍

Sitting down is the new standing up 👍

39 minutes ago, casapete said:

Wonder if they’d taken more than expected on the bar they then would have paid you extra?
Absolute tw*ts.

We had this last night, lovely small bar in Kent which was unexpectedly rammed for our gig, fixed fee agreed, owner comes up at the end of the gig to tell us she's adding some cash to the fee as we went down so well. Confused the singer who now couldn't do the maths for the split  

Re the OP, it's frustrating but if the agreed performance fee was based on bar receipts - which we've had a few times - than it leaves it open, in short you have to really trust the place to go ahead and gig with that being the arrangement. If you agreed a fixed fee for the gig then yes, it's very poor and you should go medieval on their social media about it 👍

4 hours ago, ubit said:

Actually, after reading through the comments, I had forgotten, probably because my mind had pushed them away somewhere safe, but

back in the 80's there was a fad for video juke boxes in pubs. My local had one and every Tom, Dick and Sally used to put on Walk of Life, Road to Nowhere and Dancing in The Dark. Ever since I have had a hatred for those songs.

They were played to death. If I hear them I quickly avoid.

I was in a boozer in Hammersmith around 20-years back. I'd had a few. I put 'What's the frequency Kenneth' on the jukebox. It didn't play, so I put it on again. And again. This was about 6.00pm. I put it on again a few times during the evening times as for reasons not fully clear to me I just had to hear it. I kept missing it, or so I thought.

About 10.00pm it came on, so I put my arms in the air and cheered 'At last'. Then it came on again, and again, and again. Apparently the juke box ordered songs alphabetically (barman told me that after the sixth or seventh play). Got a few hard stares 🤔  

So, white vinegar works albeit slowly. All going well the neck's going back on tomorrow.......

On 02/03/2024 at 08:27, Phil Starr said:

I love getting comments from @agedhorse who is a person of great knowledge and experience. He frequently helps out with individual advice to owners of gear he has designed or had an association with. His insights into what Gibson are attempting or indeed any information about how things look from his part of the industry are always fascinating and worth reading. I would love it if more industry insiders engage with us in this way. Often in the past this has been from bassists who happen to work in the industry and their insights are always interesting and add to our general knowledge of all things bass. Obviously they are a little constrained in what they can say and they are unlikely to criticise their own products or employers

Couldn't agree more 👍

Ray, very sorry to hear about your situation. Yes, this is the best place to sell bass gear if you take all factors from the selling fees to the scale and demographic of the marketplace (a bunch of GAS freaks) to the low risk of being messed about into account. If you have any issues at all it's a community and things tend to get solved without too much hassle, but if hassle emerges the mods tend to be highly supportive also 👍

On 17/03/2024 at 19:18, diskwave said:

See me Smile..one of those unique tunes..nothing like it before, nothing like it after. Brilliant stuff.

That’s well put 👍

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

Maybe I’ll treat myself when work picks up. 
 

I’ve got to say, Geoff does some really incredible content. 

Completely agree, it's a fantastic resource. For me the Chris Wood workshop was as therapeutic as it was instructive 👍

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

This isn’t cheap but might be of interest…

 

https://courses.discoverdoublebass.com/p/chris-wood-masterclass

 

(Still one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to)

Thanks Lawrie, I've had it a while and for what you get, it'c cheap (i.e., worth every penny mate)! 

Stunned and saddened, only seems five minutes ago I met up with Nick and he kindly invited me and my family to drop by to his house anytime. It was on my to-do list.
 

Sincere condolences to family and friends ❤️

Modulus Flea, extraordinarily versatile, does what Flea did with his but so much more

Needing versus wanting aka the curse of being human in a materialistic/consumerist world 🤔

Great stuff 👍

Nice, Geko or Gedo?

1 minute ago, Phil Starr said:

I'm supposed to be selling not buying

You've not read the Basschat T&Cs then Phil? 

Thanks for the heads up re the cabs 👍

No way 

Had the pleasure of Jim's company chez Beedster today, lovely guy and extremely patient as we tried to resolve a loose wire issue on the bass he was buying. Can't recommend Jim highly enough 👍

48 minutes ago, Salt on your Bass? said:

Im still desperately keen to try a tt-800 and a wd800. 

My biggest frustration with the bass market is availability of multi brand equipment to try at volume. There's a berg here, mesa (nearly) there, genzler, orange, etc etc...to actually a/B them side by side. 

 

I have no doubt mesa are well engineered and they're comparable to berg and the upper echelons of the amp market....the proof is always in the pudding in terms of whether it works for you - sound, flexibility, intuitiveness, and hoc features etc. 

Anyway, I'm gonna be chasing the gibson garage, cause I really want to try em out....hopefully they'll also be available via other retailers in the UK soon 😎

That, in part, is what the Basschat Bashes are for 👍

Last point, do NOT buy from anyone who also sells antiques, an old instrument is not always a good instrument and can cost you a small fortune to make playable 

Advice above is good. My tuppence……

Either buy from a respected dealer, or take the bass on approval and have it checked/valued, or buy from a long standing member here.

Or as I have done, if you really like the bass, buy for it’s value to you as an instrument and hope you never have to recoup your investment 🤔