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I also have a Hercules. Hercules products in general are simply fantastic.
My first double bass stand was by Italian company, Proel - Big mistake, that purchase. Awful design, and poor quality.
The Hercules does take up a fair bit of room, as the design of the stand means your bass is angled quite far back, so you have to have the stand positioned a fair way out from a wall to keep the head of your bass from making contact with a wall, but the product quality is second-to-none.
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My bass has a fairly curved back so although it sits up tall in the stand it wants to slip backwards which as you say means pulling the stand quite far from the corner, but, I have used a chunk of foam (good old Stagg packing foam ) to put behind the scroll so I have got the bass tucked back as far as possible into the corner