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7 hours ago, Beer of the Bass said:

 

The Talkbass way appears to be to stack multiple boutique preamps together in front of an amp that would have worked fine without one. Seems a little silly to me, but people love buying little boxes and talking about them.

And this is why we don't go on talkbass...

If you're looking to spend £5k on a bass then it's definitely worth your time going to the Double Bass Room or Thwaites or anywhere with a selection of basses in that price range and play as many as you can get your hands on.  That's the only way you'll get a concept of the difference between a £3k and a £5k and an £8k bass.

Posted over in the 'Amps & cabs' section, but it might get more interest here.

BFM Omni 10 1x10 cab - a fantastic double bass friendly cab for very little money.

Churrz!

Dave

Another Puma 500 for DB user.... great amp for not very much money.

@bassace I think bought your spare one?

12 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

And the added hazard that the acoustics change throughout the evening as the room fills and people stand up to dance. Do you use the upright? That's gotta be even more difficult in a skittle alley.

My upright is about as feedback resistant as its possible to get, the problem is the sound bouncing all over the place - impossible to get a clean sound for anything.

31 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

There is live music in Dorchester

Tom Brown's does music fairly regularly?

The cider festival in Borough Gardens is always entertaining.

We use iZettle. It needs to be linked to a bank account, but that can be your personal account or band/business account.

On 24/02/2024 at 10:03, Phil Starr said:

 

Long narrow rooms are always tricky and a bane of the UK's often ancient pubs. Down in the West Country skittle alleys are widespread and frequently the place they put the band. The close side walls and ceilings are frequently too close and for the bass wavelenght dimensions so you have lots of resonances, multiple pathways and phase cancelling. I usually end up with an HPF filtering out a lot of the lower frequencies as the best way of dealing with this.

Ugh. Skittle alleys...

There's a pub in Dorchester that I dread playing or doing sound in their skittle alley- low frequencies are mush, high frequencies are cacophonous. 

For our own gigs I'll put close mics on the snare, rack tom and floor tom, plus a mic in front of the kick.  I quite like an overhead, but last guitarist was too loud to use that without significant bleed. Now he's gone, I might give it another go.

When I do sound for festival stages it'll be two overhead condensers, snare top and bottom, kick inside & kick outside and rim mount/close mics on the toms.

I'm technically still in a band I joined in 1997. Had a couple of rehearsals, then the guitarist said he was away with work for a couple of weeks and he'd arrange rehearsals when he got back. Never heard from him again.  

It's also worth considering the impedance of any wireless transmitter if you're plugging directly into a piezo pickup.

Bob Gollihur has some useful information on his website:

https://gollihurmusic.com/going-wireless-with-double-bass/

I tried a Lekato and an X-vive and wasn't happy with either in terms of sound quality vs a cable, so I took a punt on a Line 6 Relay GS2 which, to me, sounded no different to a wired connection.  I've only had a couple of situations where I've had dropouts as a result of lots of Wi-Fi on stage (tablets/digital mixers), which is mildly vexing, but not enough for me to shell out £500 on a proper wireless system.

Before I went wireless, I solved the 'pulling the jack plug out' issue by fitting my pickup with a locking jack socket.  You still have to have a very secure way of mounting the jack socket on your bass mind.

Bill Fitzmaurice Omni 10, built around 2009 from 22mm ply by a BFM franchised and ex BassChat builder, so it's solid as the proverbial outhouse.  I've long forgotten what driver is in this, and the messages between myself and the builder disappeared in the migration from the old Basschat site, but it's a decent one.

These are great for double bass and also work well as tops for a small PA - but you'd need to find a second one!

The cab has mostly been sat in the rehearsal studio for the last 9 years

😳 with the occasional outing as backline for a small acoustic stage at a festival.

Collection preferred, delivery/meet up possible within 30 miles or so of Bristol.  Shipping isn't out of the question if you pay & arrange it.

Churrz.

Dave

If you're going to buy a bass that you don't need and can't afford then it should at least be an interesting bass.

Job done, I reckon. 

PM'd

1 hour ago, Rich said:

Or in other words, a Friday evening in Chewton Mendip. 

Some of our best gigs have been Friday nights in Chewton Mendip.

6 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

On a slight tangent , I have a few CDs of Me First And The Gimmie Gimmies . 
Marvellous and hilarious on first few listens , but some things are too 'American ' and may be lost on younger listeners as they may not know a lot of their catalogue . 
To describe them , I'd say they're kinda pop punk in the style of offspring , but very talented . Nice bass playing too.

 

That's Fat Mike from NOFX on bass, he's a bit good.

Back in the early - mid 2000's I was in a band doing rocked up versions of pop songs. The best of the bunch was a ska-punk version of Beautiful by Christine Aguileria.

Band after that was a three piece described as 'obscure pop songs played in a jazz style'

The current band is a Scrumpy'n'Western band (totally a real genre, look it up....)  doing parodies of pretty much anything in whatever style we can manage as long as we can shoehorn in  lyrics about cider, drunkeness, pasties or shagging your own cousin.

The blue/yellow/blue rings a bell.... I want to say old Innovation Honeys?

What do the ball ends look like? If they're bars rather than balls then they're probably Innovation.

6 hours ago, Richard Jinman said:

I’ve exchanged a few emails with @stevie and he’s very kindly offered to loan me a cab. My choice is between the 10 and 12 inch driver’s .. if the size/weight of the cab is not a big issue would you go for the 12 inch Monaco for double bass? Thanks

The Monaco sounded better to/for me.

Caveats: I was playing my carved bass with a Realist pickup rather than the ply bass with a Krivo magnetic pickup which I normally use 98% of the time, so in essence, my carved bass was sounding like my ply bass??

Also, my carved bass is quite bright, so I may not have produced the lower frequencies noted by Chyc.

Honestly, I think either cab would be great for DB, and noticeably louder than your Upshot. Everything else is just personal taste.

5 hours ago, chyc said:

.At the SE Bass Bash I was able to try out the LfSys cabinets using my double bass, the cabs being made by @stevie of this parish. I was impressed with the sound that it generated. If you had to make me choose between the cabinets he sells, then no question the 10" Monza was the best sounding of the bunch for upright bass.

 

 

I actually preferred the 12" Monaco over the Monza, but that was probably because it sounded closer to my MAS 45.

If I had to replace my MAS cabs, I'd be looking at a LfSys Monaco or a couple of Barefaced 10s

I believe the Earbox has a ridiculously high impedance so you can run it from your amps second speaker output, even if your other cab is 4Ohm/minimum impedance for the Clarus.

Never tried one though.

Much as I loved my AI amp, their speaker cabs always left me feeling underwhelmed.  

The heart wants what the heart wants. Just make sure they'll fit before you buy them.

I know - they would have looked proper mint. 

Any particular reason you want to use a dedicated multitracker rather than using an interface into a pc?

I've owned a couple of Tascam units in the past and exporting the tracks was always a major PITA.

I found it much easier to do the same level of recording with a £30 Behringher interface and Audacity.

I bought these as replacements for the plate tuners on my Poller bass, but didn't check that they would all fit on the scroll....

So, they're as new, other than been taken out of the packaging and dry fitted at which point I realised I'd cocked up.

Image is from Thomann's web page, I can take photos of the actual tuners if anyone wants them.

Price includes UK postage.

Churrz.

Dave

There's a load of great live venues in Bristol city centre - for a covers band I'd look at Mother's Ruin on St Nicholas Street, Mr Wolfs on Baldwin street, The Ill Repute (and possibly the Stag and Hounds - not sure how regularly they put bands on these days) on Old Market and the Bristol Stable on Canon's road on the harbourside