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The Eminence certainly feels more like a double bass than EUBs like the Stagg, Aria lite one and the NS WAV - the neck in particular is spot on, though I imagine any EUB in the £2K price range will feel 'proper'.

Sound wise, it sounds like an amplified double bass, by which I mean the sound you'd get from the pickup on a double bass. If your gigs are amplified with little or none of the acoustic sound in the mix then I doubt your ears would be able to tell the difference between a Eminence and a DB on stage.

I bought mine purely on the reputation they have on the talkbass EUB forum and I'm very, very happy with it.

The Kolstein has a lot of good things said about it too. It looks a lot bigger than the Eminence though and I think it's a lot more expensive?

The [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/BassProductListingTemplate.cfm?Brand=Eminence&type=Acoustic%20Bass&Cat_ID=18"]Gallery[/url] in Camden have an Eminence for sale - bargain at £1700.

I have a transcription from an old copy of Bassist magazine -some of the fills are quite different from the Bassmasta tab.

I can scan it and email it to you if you want it?

I have one. It's great.



..and I'm not selling......

[quote name='Faithless' post='721127' date='Jan 22 2010, 01:12 PM']Yep, no problem with that, but, as I've mentioned before, Friedland's book covers the very basics, and, you can use audio samples for playing over and over again, till you get it.. More helpful, I'd say, than Youtube stuff..[/quote]


It's not just youtube - he has .pdf files for all his lessons. I'm not suggesting that it's superior to Ed Friedland's book but it's prety good for a free download. Just sayin'

[quote name='bassace' post='720924' date='Jan 22 2010, 10:38 AM']Just seen this post. I'm playing at the Old Duke tonight (22nd). Happy to have a chat with any BCer re Double Bass thingies.[/quote]

Ooh - I'm out on King Street tonight! Definitley pop my head round the door.

[quote name='Faithless' post='720602' date='Jan 21 2010, 10:16 PM']If you're a new cat into walking bass, it's ESSENTIAL to get a copy of Ed Friedland's - Building Walking Basslines.

Clear, informative, demanding, interesting. Starts at very basic things, and then dips into messy ones.

It's made from printed (pdf) version + audio [recorded audio track for each exercise].

been working on this for over a half-year myself.. Works for me. Great stuff.


Hey, and don't forget to try each line in the book in at least 6 keys (F, Bb, Eb, Ab, C, G - most common keys in jazz!)

If you're having trouble finding this book, give me PM, we'll sort something..

Good luck with this,
Faith.[/quote]

I'd also recommend Dave Marks' walking bass lessons which are available from his website. I found that once I'd got my head round the basic walking bass theory, it was much easier to hear the bass parts on recordings.

Dave

Yeah - I'd be interested. I still have a hankering for a proper acoustic bass....

Technically, I'm also a wannabe DB player - the closest I get to a DB is my Eminence EUB!

Having said that, The Eminence is about as close as you'll get, feel wise, to the real thing so if anyone wants to have a go, drop me a PM.

AFAIK, Cremona House (and many other violin shops) do DB rentals (when available) so if you're unsure as to whether the doghouse bass is for you, you could do a lot worse than hire a bass four a couple of months. I hired a bass for two months at a cost of £25 per month when I was considering buying a proper DB - I loved it but ended up buying the Eminence for purely practical reasons.

Dave

Mr Danny Thompson. Solo at 3:18

I've found a transcription for 'so what' on the interweb but I'm buggered if I can remember where. I'll try to find it. You could try searching for bass 'transcriptions' rather than bass 'tabs' - it's unlikely that a double bass part will be written out in tablature as DBs don't have frets.

There's something about Ivory/white basses with tortie guards that gives me a happy.




Ohh, you filthy bitch, you want it, don't you....

Mint, innit!

You do realise that once you start on DB, you can never really go back to bass guitar? It just doesn't feel right any more. Good luck with the new mission, playing upright is an amazing experience - it'll change how you approach music and you'll never be without a gig.

Chicks dig it too.

Hi Jebo.

The [url="http://www.violins.bristol-uk.com/repair_prices.htm"]Cremona House voilin shop[/url] on Park Row do bass set ups.

As for lessons - I'm happy to show you a few (very) basics in right and left hand techniques or you could get in touch with Gcordez on here who is offering [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=64670"]proper DB lessons[/url].

Dave

Hi Ben.

I am Bristol based but t'other half's mother lives in Hampshire (Fleet) so we could meet somewhere in the Fleet/Farnborough/Aldershot area next time I'm down that way? are you in a hurry for stuff or is this an ongoing project?

If you do decide that you don't have the space for an acoustic bass, I'll have an Aria SWB lite up for sale soon. It does sound more like a big fretless than an acoustic bass, but with a nice set of nylon strings, a decent DB technique and in a live band setting, most people are hard pushed to tell the difference.

PM me if you're interested.

Dave

Would you be interested in a guitar? I've got a Japcrap Maya SG copy (thin plywood body, neck like a baseball bat sawn in half) that's been stood in the corner of my hallway for years, waiting for me to do something with it. It's not great but it works.

Dave

Another Behringer fan here!

I bought a BLX3000 as a backup for a tempramental Peavey and it served me well for 4 years, which is more than I can say for the Peavey or the Hartke that replaced it. It's back on the subs bench now I've got my LMII.
Can't say I'm overly keen on the tone of the beast but it was cheap and it worked when I needed it to.

[quote name='Sibob' post='692211' date='Dec 23 2009, 11:41 AM']Cool, have emailed him!

I gigged the bass last night and noticed that the E & A strings are a lot quieter than the D & G strings, I've asked Mo whether that's down to the pickup or something else, like strings perhaps!?
I believe it's fitted with Spirocores

Si[/quote]

I had a similar problem on my Aria EUB.

On my Aria, there are two pickups - one under the bass side of the bridge (E&A) and one under the treble side of the bridge (G&D). The relative levels of each pickup can be adjusted via a couple of trim pots in the control cavity to allow the user to fine tune their sound.
Have a look in your control cavity and tweak any trim pots you find while plucking the string - chances are you'll be able to even out the response.

Dave

I've often found that the gigs I dread the most turn out to be some of the best.....

Didn't have a great one on Friday. It's a regular venue for us and we were looking forward to it but the singist had the beginnings of flu and our support pulled out at the last minute so he had to push his voice for two one hour sets. By the end we were tired and really struggling to inject any passion into the tunes. Plus, without a support we had to dig out some of the more jazz-type stuff, which didn't go down so well with the Friday night bar crowd.
I don't think we were bad as such, just not a good as we could be... Humph.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='679483' date='Dec 9 2009, 07:57 PM']This bass always reminded me of a Bass Collection, and it sounds stupidly good!

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH2Wp_b9COs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH2Wp_b9COs[/url][/quote]


That's a Tune Bass Maniac - the Bass Collection basses were pretty much a copy of the Bass maniac.

I think this is one of the original 600 (605?) series.

when I bought my 301 way back in '93, there was a top of the range 600 series with mahogany bodies and pudak or maple tops. The hardware was all top end Gotoh which seems to be the case with this bass. The only thing I'm not sure about is the PJ pickus - IIRC, all of BC's 5 stringers came in a JJ format, but the 600 series could have been the exception.

A 301 was £400 in 1993, a 601 would have been around the £700 mark.

If you're paying less than £300 for the bass in the picture, then it's a bargain. IMHO of course....

I never named any of my basses until I got my Eminence EUB and for some reason I started calling it Barbara. I've since named my other basses but they haven't really stuck so they're usually 'the Sterling', 'the Aria' etc. but Barbara is always Barbara and never 'the Eminence'.

Thinking about it, I always use the names when my other half asks which basses I'm taking - maybe it's more of a female thing?

I never refer to any of them as 'she' though - people who refer to their cars as 'she' make me cringe.

I'm currently having the same problem with harmonica players.... It's always someone, innit?

Generally, it's usually a case of people having the wrong amp/cab setup for the gig. Marshall 4x12s, Fender twins and Fender Bassmans (like the aforementioned harp player's ) were designed to be used in places like the Albert hall without a PA - the result is that you can't turn the buggers up byond 2 without deafening everyone but below 2, they aren't really getting into their stride and sound a bit pants.

Most of the seasoned guitards on my local scene use teeny little 30w valve amps as backline which is more than enough for a pub gig. Anyone turning up with huge cabs/amps usually gets the piss ripped out of them.

Only had this once and it was my one and only gig booked through an agent (anyone see a theme forming here?).

My band, a sort of folk influenced, acoustic grunge (think the Alice in chains & Nirvana unplugged albums but with Nick Drake on guitar) were approached by an agent, (who we sort of knew) to sign up with him and play a handful of paid gigs. He'd seen us before and knew that we played our own stuff plus a bunch of covers by people like, er, Nirvana, Alice in chains and Nick Drake. We were worried about our distinctly non-upbeat set not going down well with yer typical pub audience. 'No problem' he says, 'I'll put you in venues that will appreciate what you do'

Fast forward to the first booked gig - we turn up at the pup, somewhere if the a*sehole end of Gloucestershire and are shown into a decent sized back room. The landlord explained that it was empty now but that it would fill up when the 'do at the golf club ends at 9'

Alarm bells begin to ring.

We start to play and within 3 songs, the landlady is stood next to us with a face like thunder, suggesting that it might be a good idea if we played something other than what we were playing. We banged out a handful of Green Day, Oasis and Tenacious D songs then called half time. We went to speak to the landlord to see what was going on - his wife wanted us out there and then as 'we normally have that room full of people dancing and you lot are driving everyone away'. The landlord wanted us to knock together whatever we could that people could dance to. We couldn't really do that as we'd pretty much blown our 'popular' stuff in the first set, and we couldn't understand why he'd booked us in the first place as we'd supplied a demo CD and a set list. He then admitted that he hadn't listened to the CD or read the set list and had booked us cos the agent had said that we would play 'a load of covers that everyone would like'.

Eventually he paid us but only on the condition that we didn't tell his wife...... We took the money and ran.