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I've been lurking round these 'help! First double bass!" threads for a while, and suddenly find myself in the position of being offered a job as a db player but owning only eub. Pete, like yourself I've been playing bg for years, recently got into eub. I wonder if we could meet up so I can pick your brains, compare notes about the journey and maybe have a play of your Gedo? Does that sound a bit cheeky? Gedo does seem like a reliable bargain, I've seen 2nd hand instruments for around that price or less but I don't feel competent to know what I'm looking for. And I can't really afford to make an expensive mistake, this bass is going to have to pay for itself! All advice gratefully received. I'm in Cambridge by the way. Cheers!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1367182393' post='2062377'] What's the best egg for metal? [/quote] What's the best bass for meal?

Billyapple's Thunderbird is still winning for me, for the reasons he states. Also love this Precision, and how it sounds: http://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-htc&source=android-home&site=webhp&source=hp&ei=zH59UcS1C4LH0QWf_oCoDg&q=martyn+casey&oq=martyn+casey&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.12..0l2j0i22i30l3.11753.19991.0.21214.15.12.0.3.3.0.188.1795.0j12.12.0...0.0...1c.1.11.mobile-gws-hp.8-EcmtrgBD8#miuv=1

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1367176774' post='2062242'] A three-bedroom semi [/quote] Is that what they call it nowadays?

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1367175296' post='2062210'] Q. Do Precisions really work in any music? A. Yes. Q. Do VW Golfs really work on any street? A. Yes. CB [/quote] Nice analogy.

[quote name='Junkyard Rocket' timestamp='1367092046' post='2061285'] Its the bit behind your knob [/quote] Bollocks.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1366827295' post='2057826'] I learnt 'Canned Heat' by Jamiroquai for an audition, which challenged me a little. Nailed it, though. Then the audition got cancelled, so I needn't have bothered. I'm not a big fan of Jamiroquai, either. [/quote] Which reminds me. Q: what's the difference between Jamiroquai and a cow? A: the cow has the horns at the front and the **** at the back

Showing my age but... Schooldays?

[quote name='grumble' timestamp='1366724801' post='2056438'] Love Rammstein too but all too often the bass is drowned out, what the hell they are still great ! [/quote] I don't think it is drowned out though. You just can't separate it from the wall of sound sometimes, by that doesn't mean you can't hear (or feel) it. I just love playing that serves the music rather than just the notes the particular instrument happens to be playing. I'd love to play bass in a metal band...or rhythm guitar in a reggae band!

[quote name='The Hat' timestamp='1366664035' post='2055805'] And this shows my ignorance here, but when I do listen to metal, I don't here the bass line at all. Where as with any other music I can always pick it out. [/quote] You'd soon notice if it wasn't there. Especially live. I love Rammstein, me, and I can only think of 2 or 3 "interesting" bass lines in their songs, but for sure it makes a massive difference to the overall sound.

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1366616600' post='2054772'] Proper acoustic insulation is expensive. Over the last few years here, I've been involved with quite a lot of dry lining work including two rehearsal studios (mine and a friend's) I used the real stuff for mine from a local company called Eurocoustic but only because I got some B stock with damaged boxes. Rocwool is not really dense enough to make a difference as it's more designed to have good thermal protection qualities. The good stuff comes in panels and is much more dense and heavy. As BigRedX points out, the secret is layers. I'm assuming that you'll be partitioning off say, half of your garage and that some of the walls will be brick. Best to put up some stud work, fill that with the cheap stuff, board it (10mm board will do) and then another layer of stud on top, fill that, and then board with 13mm, compacting each layer of insulation as much as possible each time. Of course, if you're leaving any windows in the studio section, they would ideally need to be covered too but you'll never really be able to completely isolate 100% of the sound. [/quote] Part of the secret is the layers. It's important to decouple the plasterboard from the brickwork though, ie mount it resiliently, or the lower frequencies just go straight through. Soundstop.co.UK have loads of information (and numbers)

What Mr Redex said, plus making it airtight is crucial. Also: http://www.soundstop.co.uk/

[quote name='3below' timestamp='1366580172' post='2054522'] If you can get 'mwahh' from bass unplugged imo you are 95% on the way. I have an EKO acoustic bass circa 1981, it has mwahh, plays itself almost. It has a £6 japanese 1980s jazz pu that I popped in soundhole. Great bass, massive neck, laquer so thick it is like toffee. It has 'mwahh'. Stick a pickup in it - wilkinson? see what happens as a starting point. [/quote] Makes sense. I have a Wilkinson P pickup doing nothing. If my learned friend would care to PM me you can try it out.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1366582581' post='2054584'] Oh yeah? What's a 'scrum' then? [/quote] If Col wants to talk about rugby there are plenty of us noisy gobsh1tes on OT waiting for a ruck ;-)

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1366546287' post='2053754'] Well I vote for sex, anyway. Failing that, a conga. [/quote] You should be glad to have two nostrils in the middle of your head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuCAQnWyAiQ

Can I be the first to say 'it's in the fingers'? I had a Precision that sounded dead as a dead thing in my hands. Thump. It went. I sold it on to someone who made it 'mwah' the minute he picked it up. Since then I made a fretless P with an ebony Warmoth neck, EMG pickup and piezo bridge and it really goes 'mwah', but only since I learned how to do that vibrato thing.

Love your sig, Jus

These were kindly given to me by a Basschat person whose name, I'm ashamed to say, I can't recall. Cut for 2+2 headstock, so no good for my P.

I got a bass pod xt pro and don't use it much for bass. It's very useful for recording guitar though, even my guitard likes it. So yes, it might work well live too.

"CLICK HERE TO VISIT MY LEATHER GUITAR STORE"

What would MDP do with it?

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780879307677?redirected=true&gclid=CI7TyqWy1LYCFSXLtAodbScAIw Some of his text is a bit suspect (he refers to the tone control inductor in the SVT as a 'transducer' among other nonsciences) but it's full of schematics. For top quality iron you could go to http://www.sowter.co.uk/ and for glass envelopes of vacuum: http://www.thetubestore.com/ Everything else you should be able to get from Farnell.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1366117509' post='2048503'] It was just a funny thing to put in a rider, f***ing hell guys. [/quote] yeah, it was funny, sorry to enseriousize the thread! Just a bit grumpy cos of what happened the last time a know-nothing arrogant f***wit engineer got near us. Wouldn't have been the end of the world but it went out on live radio and I (and others) got to hear it after the event.