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dazza14

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  1. This is the type I had!! Wow, not seen a photo of anything similar to it before.
  2. Reading the responses and it becomes beautifully technical and scientific. Brilliant! I spent a few hours with my MarkBass amp and fiddled with the settings, I have now got a nice warm tone that I am happy with - for the practice room at least - I had to reduce the Gain and I toyed with the knob called VPF which after a few attempts did the trick. The rest was simple EQ stuff which was surprisingly responsive.
  3. I'll have to have a look. I think some time fiddling with the settings would be a good start and then looking at HPF's.
  4. Morning all, the pickup I use is a Realist Copperhead. The note that booms the most is B on the A string, I watched an organist play in the same venue and his bass pedals boomed at the same note, I'm wondering if some of the issue is the room, maybe the hard surfaces resonate... I think I'll look at HPF's but I was wondering if the amp is just too much for the size of room because I use a practice amp at practice, a 30W guitar amp with a 8" speaker and there is no problem.
  5. Hi all, I'm looking for a little advice with my amp setup. I have a Mark Bass combo amp, it's a single 12" speaker, which was lovely for my old Squier Jazz bass when I played rock stuff, but now I play a double bass and the amp seems a bit too much for the task. I have the volume set to around 2 on the dial and even then the bass is boomy on certain notes which disrupts the overall balance of sound that my jazz band produces. I've tried turning down the bass and upping the mid and treble but it's still booming and I wonder if I would be better off using a smaller speaker size, say a 8"...? Does anyone have any advice? I've tried sitting the amp higher, on a stool or stand, and I keep the amp away from the cavity of the double bass so I don't get echo/reverb. I use a pickup that sits beneath the bass bridge. I get no feedback from it.
  6. Call me superstitious but does anybody else feel that if you have a great final practice, the gig seems to turn out below par? I HATE practicing for a gig the day before, I find it over-saturates slightly - I prefer to turn up to a gig feeling somewhat under-rehearsed so I concentrate more and any solos are a precise response to the mood/vibe of the gig. I had practice last night for a gig this evening and it went really, really well. So now I'm expecting to play a shocker later...
  7. On the site it says its a 32" medium scale. Would prefer a long scale but I like the design, good to see Squier at least trying to do something a little different.
  8. Just had this little beauty pop up on my screen... I likes! Squier Jaguar H in ORANGE!! Oh yes... Christmas list has started,
  9. Hi, thank you, I used pencil lead on the bridge grooves, not sure if it worked/helped but if it doesn't hinder, I do it. I did think about an adjustable bridge because it gives me a few options and a margin of error if things go wrong but I opted for a set bridge. The strings are Thomosik light gauges and I like them. I'll be gigging it in a few weeks... (gulp)
  10. And it's on! New bridge in place - I need to shape the top of the bridge - and Copperhead pickup fitted. I've moved the A closer to the E by 2mm, personal choice after the previous bridge seemed a little too spaced. Chuffed.
  11. Now to trim down the bridge... I traced over the shape of the arc from the bridge I'm replacing but I've added an extra 3mm or so to give me a little safety when trimming. I'll be fitting this - along with the new pickup today/tomorrow - and then it's the slow job of adjusting the string height to what I want before removing it again to slim down the width of the bridge to (I've been told 6mm) for the strings to sit nicely.
  12. Selling this J-Tone dual double bass pickup, I've recently bought a Realist pickup instead so no longer need this. It's never been used, comes in it's original bag with all bits included. Bought this because it seemed a simple option but opted for the Realist instead. The bag has been opened but it's never been fitted or used. £35.00 including P&P to anywhere in mainland UK
  13. No, this is a Thomann bass, about five years old. I wouldn't trust myself with something worth thousands. Then again, I probably will never own a double bass worth thousands.
  14. I'm fitting a Realist Copperhead (bought from this site from @BartleyDaviesBass) at the same time so I knew I needed to adjust the contour of the foot to allow for this addition, so I added a spacer the same width as the Copperhead and repeated the back and forwards motion until I had shavings the full length of the foot. You can see the black ink lines of where the bridge should be positioned and the blue pencil lines that gave me a guide for the position. There is only a small area where I can smoothen the feet but the sandpaper was good and with a regular visit from the vacuum cleaner, it went better than I had hoped. Obviously there is still work to do, but overall I'm chuffed with how it has turned out, the feet sit nice and flat with no spacings. The next step is to work on the top of the bridge...
  15. Ok... Step Two; shaping the new bridge. I'm going with the old 'sandpaper on the soundboard' method. I found the masking tape I have doesn't stick well to the sandpaper, but with some fiddling around and securing the top and bottom with extra tape, it holds in place with only minor running repairs needed. Then it was a case of running the bridge back and forwards whilst trying to keep the bridge upright.
  16. I thought about raising the string but I didn't know if the groove in the bridge would support such a lift.
  17. Here are some pics of what I did. I put some tape onto the body so I could replace it in the same position. I then slackened the strings so I could remove the bridge and carefully drew around it - the plan is to cut the drawing out so I have a rough idea of the foot contour for the new bridge. We have some plastic sheets of varying thickness at work so I selected 2 x 0.7mm and 1 x 0.5mm to build up a spacer/shim. The plastic is very strong but also flexible so *should* adjust to the contour. I did think about using cork but I didn't know how it would respond to being under compression. Maybe others have experience in this but this is meant as a short-term thing to get me through tomorrow's gig. I added a thin line of double-sided tape to the top of the spacer so it would stay in place beneath the foot before repositioning the bridge and running the string back over it. It doesn't look brilliant but I can live with it for a few days before I'm let loose on shaping the new bridge (wish me luck). I'm expecting it to be a very long job of measuring, shaving, positioning, testing and repeating until it's correct but I hope it will be worth it. A note on the sound of the bass itself with the new addition, it's actually very nice. I thought it would lose some warmth of the tone, what with something as harsh as smooth plastic between the bridge and body, but it's surprisingly nice. I'll add pictures of the new bridge and the adjusting too in case anyone is interested....
  18. I recently got myself a double bass but I've been tinkering around with things since I've had it. I've changed the strings from nylon weed-whackers to Thomasik light gauges, which in turn meant I needed to lower the action as the WW's were almost twice the thickness of the Thomasik's. In doing so I noticed the bridge was, let's say, on the p*** (I'm no expert by any means but I thought the bridge needed to be at a right angle on the tailpiece side) so the hunt for a new bridge came about... In the meantime I had lowered the action too much on the G string to the point where if I played higher than the fifth 'fret' it buzzed, I have a gig tomorrow so I needed to adjust this quickly so a short-term plan came about to put shims beneath the 'G' side foot in the hope that it raised the string height.
  19. Morning, a little off topic here but what is the pickup on the bass?
  20. I received an email telling me that the strings I was after won't be in stock until the end of April (so a little under five weeks). I've asked for a refund so I can find them elsewhere but it's the same thing on other suppliers, no stock until end of April, so I've found a set on Thomann that I like that are - like Ambient said - a little cheaper. I understand keeping up to date with stock can be tricky when you hold lots of different stock but should it take emails and phone calls to tell me that I won't get my order for six weeks? Whinge over.
  21. Having a right ol' time dealing with Bassbags in Derby. I ordered some new double bass strings on the 17th March, received an email confirming the order (they took the money from my account that day) and I was informed I would receive them within 5 days. Five days came and went and nothing. On the sixth day I decided to email them to make sure everything was fine (expecting an email saying they were en route) maybe they 'despatched' them in 5 days, not delivered them. Nothing. No reply to the message. I then ring them up and leave a voicemail. Nothing. So I send another email immediately afterwards. I get a reply saying they would look into this... that was lunchtime Friday... I didn't expect anything to be done over the weekend, but today, no news, I've messaged again but, once again... no news. I'm not slating the company, I'm guessing my order wasn't sent out when it should have been but the silence thing is annoying given that all it would take is them chucking the strings in the post and telling me to expect them. I have a gig this weekend and it looks like I'll be using my 2nd bass instead.
  22. Gutted! Been after a local double bass for yonks, this would have been perfect... I should have checked...
  23. Hello, I'm hoping someone from the extensive double bass playing community can help me here. I'm trying to identify - or at least get some extra information - on a DB I've found for sale online. The seller says there is no sticker on the inside of the bass to help identify it, so I'm hoping someone could shed some light. I know it's very difficult to know the make but it would help if I could eliminate certain makers based on colour or shape or anything (I mean if Gear4Music didn't make a double bass in this colour then that is a start at least). I'm asking the seller questions but he bought it wanting to play bass and knew very little about it so the info is sketchy. Please help.
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