Beedster

IMO ‘Players Grade’ means it’s not a collector’s instrument

Yep, start there 👍

Great thread On stage at City Poly early-mid 80s. My hair was somewhere between Mike Peters and Tony James Largely as the result of lot of...... ....that my them GF, a stylist, used to apply for me Anyway, mid gig, I became aware of two things going on at much the same time 1. A weird, sickly, smouldering smell 2. The audience paying an unusual amount of attention to the bass player So, transpires that Andy, the keyboard player, had nonchalantly flicked a cigarette across the stage, by luck it had been caught in my 14-18" high barnet, had apparently smouldered there a while before igniting the spray with the result that my hair had pretty much started to melt. Guitarist helpfully came over and put it out with a few hefty downward pats to my cranium. Frankly I wish we'd had a malfucntioning smoke machine to hide it all, it was not a good look at any level. Had it all cropped off a few days later, nothing to do with health & safety and everything to do with minimising the chance that anyone who'd been at the gig would recognise me 👍

Glad it’s all worked out nicely @chriswareham 👍

Any latency issues? And which Apollo are you using?

Looking forward to watching the whole thing at the weekend 👍

True of what most of Sting does mate 🤔

Think you’re getting confused with Jazz 😆

It’s a double bass, a large hollow resonant wooden box, if you’re amplifying it, feedback is an ever present threat 👍

....and feedback

Sounds like s separate thread to me 😆

Spend between 500-1000 on a used bass that you’re ideally either able to play first or can buy from a known BCer. Don’t buy new. Get to know it acoustically and amplified before spending too much on strings/PUPs etc. Have fun, it’s a great journey (both the instrument and the genre) 👍 It’s well known in Bluegrass circles that blonde instruments sound better BTW 😆

A man at one with his bass 👍 PS I have that PUP combination in a similarly unique bass, albeit fretless, very very nice indeed

It has an oddly foetal feel......

Yes, and with really shoddy/cheap screws as well

Not that I was in the market to start with, but it's quite an impressive piece of YT that can actually out you off buying a instrument. While he clearly has some skill - more than me for sure - the sense of this all being a bit of a garden shed hobby came across a bit too loud and clear to me in that video

….doesn’t shout “Professional Luthiery” does it 🤔

That was my first thought also

A credit to the forum 👍

100% this, the other two are way too showy 👍

That’s my view for sure 👌

IMO the simple answer to this comes in two parts.... 1. Depends on the drug 2. Depends on the player Just like everything else in life really 🤔