Gareth Hughes

I had the entire contents of a can of Coke empty in a bag that also had a Boss tuner, an EWS Tri-Logic preamp and an MXR Bass Overdrive. I was literally pouring coke out like it was a teapot. Dead for three days then suddenly back to life. There are ghosts in the machine.

Bought an MXR Bass Overdrive from Winston - posted immediately and arrived the next day. Awesome to do business with. Many many thanks.

That is simply stunning. Great job. Thanks for the build pics.

If you have an iPad I heartily recommend an app called 'Musicopoulos' fora mere £2 or so. It's gives a good, thorough explanation of theory basics and then has a practical test at the end of each section to really test your knowledge. Certainly filled in a lot of holes in my thinking.

I played my Eminence through a GK MB150 combo for a little while, though with Kolstein strings, an AptFlex pickup (similar to the Gage) and a Fishman Dual Parametric DI as the other elements in the chain. I liked it but found I missed the presence/air a tweeter gives so had one rigged up to the extension output. As for body - I found the only way to fatten it up was with a proper extension speaker, in my case an Epifani UL112. Certainly helped a lot. You could try borrowing a separate speaker cab, hooking it up to the GK and then disabling the internal GK speaker. That way, you can judge if you like the sound of the GK preamp on it's own. Then try mixing the internal speaker with the external one. To be honest - amplifying double bass is a crap shoot. All the great gear in the world goes out the window if the singer has too much low's in the monitor or your keyboard player can't control the left hand, or cymbals eat up all the high frequencies in the room, or the room sounds like an empty swimming pool, or....or....or....... GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

I've been playing a fair bit of cello lately and love the flexibility/notes available in one position and that's great for classical based pieces, and jazz to a large extent BUT............... I like playing my root's, fifth's and octave and that's a balls in fifth's tuning after a while!!!

With great pleasure I have just received two wiring harnesses for two jazz basses from John. He had the patience of a saint dealing with me and my indecision and the talents of Tony Stark in putting these things together. Couldn't be happier with how everything went. Thanks John.

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The K&K blenders are great jobs - I had two: one for a mic/pickup mix and one for a two pickup setup. Both worked great and I'd still have them if they could have been powered by an adapter rather than a battery. Phasing shouldn't really be an issue seeing as the signals are two different sources rather than a duplicate source. (Said from experience rather than anything remotely scientific). With that in mind you could also use a BOSS LS-2 Line Selector pedal. The 1Mohm input impedance is a handy bonus too.

Thanks for that. Sad news indeed. As much an innovator as Leo Fender. Had a few sets of Bill and Becky's pickups over the years. Still have a set in a fretless jazz.

Hey folks - just bought a Pigtronix Bass Envelope Phaser from Shroombass. Paid for Friday morning, pedal in the post within the hour and has arrived with me roughly 24 hours after paying for it. Can you ask for better than that? Buy with supreme confidence.

I am watching this space indeed. Damn you - I may well have GAS brewing for the first time in years!!!!

Sold a pedal to Nessy - all good, great communication, quick payment. What more do you want?

But.......the high pass filter is set at 150HZ, so depending on how steep the slope is it could take away too much low end.

He's a wolf in sheep's clothing, come to steal our secrets!!!! BURN HIM!!!!!!! Oh, wait - sorry - sugar rush from the ice cream on this sunny day. My bad. Welcome and enjoy.

Yep , been gigging two Epifani UL112 cabs for a few years now and love it.

Folks - here's my delayed review on these great strings. In general - it's both thumbs up and thumbs down, but not for negative reasons in that what I found negative in one setting was a positive in another. I love me a good 'mwah' to a note which, on my bass, they didn't provide which left me wanting for more on a recording session and a gig with two different singer/songwriters. BUT where that lack of 'mwah' was a bonus was on several orchestral rehearsals and gigs where I found the strings had an amazing solid foundation to each note that was lacking in my previous strings, Velvet Blues. The notes were immediate and full, right through the registers - well up to the second C on the G string, after that I daren't show myself up in public. When I first put the strings on I was totally in love with them. I was doing 'The Sound Of Music', 'West Side Story', and a community orchestra gig within a few weeks of each other and I loved how responsive my bass was - also seemed about 20% louder than before, possibly down to the Innovations being a higher tension than the Velvets. In these scenarios the strings totally excelled anything I had tried previously on the bass (Kolstein Heritage, D'Addario Hybrids and the Velvet's). So for these gigs, battling against a small orchestra and a percussion heavy pit band, the Innovation's had an authority to them that allowed me to be heard clearly and effortlessly. So to sum it up - If I had two basses I'd definitely have a set of these on and make it my arco bass.

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1369417953' post='2089126'] Could you mount the thumpinator under the board? [/quote] That's what she said (sorry Ian, couldn't resist)

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1368625600' post='2079367'] What buffer/preamp are you using? Piezos into low impedance sound dreadful with bowing, nasty scratchyness. [/quote] Used either a Fishman Dual Parametric Di with a 10Mohm input or a Boss TU2 tuner pedal, GK MB500 head or Genz Benz Streamliner head, all with a 1Mohm input and always the same result. Just a peculiar thing, considering the pickup (forgotten the name) is similar in design to an Underwood, Schatten, K&K - wing style pickup.

I don't know if all piezo's are created equally, regardless of cost - but I do have a cheap-ish one at $40 or so, and whilst it sounds great for plucking, it produces hardly any signal at all for bowing. So in this instance I can't use that pickup when I know I'll be doing some bowing sadly. I've gotten great results from the K&K stuff found at www.gollihurmusic.com

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1368388674' post='2076510'] I tend to struggle once you have a mid dip cab, a bass heavy amp, and a jazz bass! Mid dips all over the place. Sounds nice though. [/quote] This sums up my set-up to a T!!!! It's a cruel irony that I love all of these elements but they just won't play nice with each other.

Thanks for the link Hamfist - I've read thru all of it over the past few months in search of ideas. I think a big problem is simply user error - the eq and input controls operate in such a drastically different way from what I've been using the last 20 years, so it's a steep learning curve that one is never too far away from falling off.