keeponehandloose

Totally recomend the Line 6 stuff.

The G30 never failed and G70, now discontinued, still has more features than any other unit out there. 

Any digital wireless works fine with

Piezo or mag pickups.

The Revolution Solo pickup is made to be sanded to the correct thickness, but faces still need to be parallel.

The flatter the better. More surface contact gives a fuller sound.

Its a great bit of kit but screams out for a couple of improvements.

The tuner should be accessed by a long press on the footswitch with the A/B function a quick press.

Also a USB charging port should have been put in  the power lead.

5 hours ago, Tjhooker said:

Anybody using the stomp with upright bass using piezo pickups?

 

 

HX works very well with piezo on upright. Especially when you load some Impulse Responses from 3Sigma Audio.

In the end there are too many oportunities to tweak parameters on the HX, drove me mad.

I've tried 10s 12s & 15s for upright over many years. 12s definetly work best on upright. 

But more important than any amp or cab is strings and pickup choice.

Thats 80% of the sound.

Barefaced Big Baby II. 

Highly recommended on upright bass. Only downside is the unit wont run on phantom power, its battery or mains adaptor only.

A typical East European bass from around 70s is my guess. Looks like its had a neck repair at the body joint. The Polytone pickup was popular back in the day, if it still works its a miracle, theres not much interest in them as disigns have improved now. You can see similar basses for anywhere between £500 - £1200 but I doubt the higher priced ones ever actually sell.

A good workhorse bass.

Big Baby 2 is ideal on db IMHO.

The tweeter level can be dialed to give you just the right amount of zing. There is no harshness when its set to higher levels. I would look for second hand though, they seem to go for around the 500 mark.

On 07/12/2022 at 18:41, sirmuppet said:

Just had a look at that. Looks good but according to Bax music they're discontinued. So might have to wait and see. 

The G70/G75 were discontinued, 

Something to do with failing a specific German R.F emissions standard. 

I have an older Tom and Will case with roller wheels, Ive never had an issue pulling my bass around the grim cobbled streets of northern mill towns. Nigh on 20 years, man and boy.

On 30/09/2022 at 18:25, Bassfingers said:

Did that affect your tone (for good or bad)?

Deadens the instrument the same as F'its do. Suppose its a bit more permanent than the Fits but it works for me.

Double soundpost. I have the F.its and they do work. I recently tried a second soundpost on the bassbar side. Surprisingly good results.

Plus its a really cheap solution.

On 24/06/2022 at 10:48, Bassfingers said:

Thanks - that is really useful to hear - before I shell out £200+ 🙃

 

Appreciate the response 

If you want a recomendation, the Revolution Solo from Upton Bass.

The Band was pretty useless in my experience. Output gain was abysmal to the pount where I thought the pickup was broken...it wasnt. The only sounds it picked up was my body movement against the bass.

If the sale falls through I'll have this please.

On 05/08/2020 at 20:38, disssa said:

variable High / Low Pass Filter by schalltechnik_04

Fully assembled

engraved enclosures

Price is incl. shipping to UK

Hi...has this sold?

Line 6... Ive used the G30, G75 & G10s

With most of the common piezo pickups.. Underwood, Planet Waves, 

Revolution Solo etc. All the Line 6 systems work faultlessly when plugged straight into the p/up.

On 19/05/2020 at 14:56, TrevorR said:

Presume everyone knows that Aimee Mann is pretty tasty on the bass as well as being a top singer and guitar player. When we saw her live she and the "other bass player" in the band swapped between bass and guitar all evening.

No one's mentioned Canoe Reeves but I guess that's well known.

Less well known is maybe Ryan Gosling...

Geeky actor Michael Cera...

And didn't film critic Mark Kermode play bass for Danny Baker's short lived late night chat show?

Mark Kermode was in a skifflish band playing upright bass a long time ago..

To the O.P.

That ebay one was way over priced..it was made by a guy called Trevor Covney, hes on Facebook.

Theyre less than £100 and come without any string grooves. Check with him how wide they are...

The ui24 has 8 aux (monitor) outs plus main L/R. They all have individual feedback eliminators, Individual 30 band eq, Compression , gate.

There are 2 virtual aux chanels plus 4 virtual input channels- get your head round those..

Its also a great sounding DAW interface & can record 20 inputs to seperate tracks on a usb stick.

I could go on and on... 

Xr18 over Ui16 but Ui24 over Xr18.

The ui16 has inferior mic pre amps to the Xr18 although there is an Xr18 Midas. The Ui24 has way better pre amps than the 16 and sounds the bollox. The Soundcraft Interface is much more user friendly and easier on the eye, thats what swung it for me.

Whichever you choose an external router is a must.

G70 here... theyre no longer for sale though.

Ive used one of those tailguts.. they snap quite easily. If you put it in the groove, where it should be, it would make the bend almost 90 degrees, thats how mine snapped.

I would get a different one if I were you.