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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Another Puma 500 for DB user.... great amp for not very much money. @bassace I think bought your spare one?
  4. 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. Tom Brown's does music fairly regularly? The cider festival in Borough Gardens is always entertaining.
  5. We use iZettle. It needs to be linked to a bank account, but that can be your personal account or band/business account.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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/
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. Some of our best gigs have been Friday nights in Chewton Mendip.
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