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As I used to double on fretless bass and EUB the Stanley Clarke was the obvious choice for me, especially as I’m gigging more frequently without any form of backline and using IEM’s. Price isn’t too bad compared with other boutique pedal board preamp pedals, especially those with a full two channels.

So the musical style is Americana/Country - female fronted acoustic trio. I guess what I’m looking for is an accurate reproduction of the acoustic sound of my bass rather than sounding like a fretless bass. I can get a good enough sound with the J-Tone’s and the Stanley Clarke but it just lacks what I misdescribe as the acoustic ‘air’

I think I’ve got this covered as I’m using the EBS Stanley Clarke pre

What’s everybody’s go to choice for a gigging piezo pickup on your double bass? I’m currently using the J-Tone big double but find it hard to eq out the fretless bass tone and get some ‘air’ in my out front sound. So before disappearing down a rabbit hole, I thought I’d asked you more knowledgeable ladies and gents for your thoughts and recommendations.

Ashdown offer a vertical 3x10 but for considerably more money.

Fortunately @PaulKing nothing went boom 😂

I never knew Tom was a lefty either 🤷‍♂️

Good question, I’d probably decrease the decay to shorten up the reverb to stop it getting too muddy. To be fair, if you have eq’d it with the HPF/LPF combination, the pre-delay is a bit of a nice to have.

We really are spoiled for choice up here when it comes to luthiers. A guitarist I work with has used Gary for work on a brand new Martin acoustic and his 12 string electric and he rates him highly. He’s also very local to me so if I need a luthier then I think I’ll be giving him a call.

So, having been a bit poorly this week, I’ve been doom scrolling on the couch and catching up on bass related podcasts vlogs etc. Both Janek Gwizdala and Ian Martin Allison rave about the HX Stomp, but in one vlog I saw Janek Gwizdala using the HX One that has piqued my interest. My gigs rarely call for FX but it would be nice to have a bit of reverb/chorus/subharmonics available every now and again, and the small’ish form factor of the HX One could be squeezed onto my meagre little pedal board. I don’t need the complexity of the Stomp as I’m more than happy with my current preamp choice (EBS Stanley Clarke) so to my question - is anyone using the HX One and if so, what’s your opinion?

And with vocal reverb I always recommend using the “Abbey Road” technique of using HPF & LPF on the reverb so that the reverb only works on the mid-range and use the pre-delay to separate the reverb from the initial clean vocal.

Thanks @NickA And the good news is I got up this morning to a bass that was fully in tune. I did my usual string stretching routine a few times over the course of yesterday and it seems to have paid off. Got to say I’m really liking the sound of the Spirocores, much more mwah across all four strings than the Jagar’s that were on her when I bought her. So I guess it’s “all’s well that ends well” on this thread 😎

…….and a free Parker pen? Do they do life insurance as well 😂

After having had the new strings sitting looking at me for the last three months today I plucked up the courage to make the change. Followed the video posted by Kevsy71 and had no issues - the whole swap taking about 40 minutes. Now rate my peg box 😂

I think the point of the video was ‘trust your ears’. I must confess having played unlined fretless for close to 43 years I prefer unlined to lined. I have a couple of defretted basses where the fret slots have been filled with near matching wood but I still find them distracting.

I know that power transformers do strange things if the are underpowered - an electrical engineer once told me, something about THD or harmonic distortion or something like that. It all got a bit technical and I might have glazed over.

Watch this then start playing using your ears and not technology. I’ve always preferred unlined boards but never really understood why until I saw this Tony Franklin video

Just a silly thought, and despite not owning either of the pedals in question, could it be that there’s not enough power going to both pedals from your power supply as I’ve heard that both of these pedals are quite power hungry?

Oh I miss it, but my back doesn’t 😂 But this was one hell of a rig 😍

I started my SWR obsession with the old 4x10 + 1x15 combination, then went to the 2 x 4x10’s , then the 6x10, before finally realising that for anything less than a stadium gig (which I’ve never had the pleasure of playing) I only really needed a single cab (first a SWR 4x10, then lately a Vanderkley 2x12). I now don’t own any SWR cabs and I’m playing more and more gigs with no backing at all. Funny how things change as you age 😎

I’m no expert but the RSC logo is making me think Radio Shack that was sold in the UK via Tandy stores until around 1999?

Yep, I use the German bass & Czech bass models, German darker sounding, and Czech bass more open and airy

I’ve been successfully using 3Sigma double bass IR’s loaded into a TC Impulse pedal to make my NS EUB sound more like a double bass when playing live. As others have said, there is a whole lot more than cab sims available in the IR world, and it’s well worth getting up to speed with the various options out there.