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What the Rev said^^^ Keep your eyes peeled for a second hand F-Deck, a two knob pre that gets you there pretty quick. https://sites.google.com/site/hpftechllc/home/hpf-pre

Yes to the J-Tone, cheap and every bit as good as the KnK Bassmax. (Better made IMO)

Dave Mann. The Violin shop Hexham http://www.hexham-violins.co.uk

A guy I know in Gateshed makes these pickups, they sound as good as a KnK, but for about the third of the price. I have one on one of my uprights but you will need a pre amp. (A Boss Graphic EQ would do the trick) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/J-tone-Big-double-Bass-Pick-up-/201498506263?hash=item2eea3f3417:m:mMv8R28HOczqgXmXPBsADZw

What TheRev said. I started on bass guitar, played fretless for bla!bla! years then bought an EUB. It was fine, I played it and loved it and TheRevs right not many punters would be able to tell the difference but I could and I knew I had to have a DB. A sort of compromise occurred when I got my first DB, a half size Boosey Hawkes Excelsior. Easier to transport than a 3/4 or 4/4 but a great improvement on the EUB and it had the look and sound. Thats the one that got me hooked and I never looked back. I'm a few more DBs down the road now, bought and sold, broken, fixed up, new fingerboard's, bridges, split's cracks and repairs, all done by myself in the shed......Hours of fun, Ha! Oh and don't forget the Strings and Pickups and Amps and Speakers. It might have been cheaper to develop a full blown crack habit. I'm still in love with the damned thing though. Acoustic every time, GO FOR IT!

A Pre amp would help, A second hand Fishman platinum pro, if moneys no problem a Radial PZ pre, Or even a KK pre or an FDec. These would tailor the signal prior to hitting the front of the amp. Nothing wrong with Silver slaps btw a great string for Pizz and Slap. If you want to go that bit further, a Greenboy Cab would seal the deal.

Ben will have a website up and running soon [color=#000000] [/color][url="http://thebassroom.co.uk/"]thebassroom.co.uk[/url] Well worth the drive.

My Boosey Hawkes Ply, Greenboy cab, GK amp and my Restored Regin flatback

I was watching this on E-Bay and might have gone for it had it been a summer sale (why am I always skint around this time of year?) I'm glad its gone to someone who's gonna appreciate it and It did look like it had mojo in abundance. The Chord Lamberts and Underwood would be the perfect combination for this type of bass, lots of the US Rockabilly/Bluegrass players use this combination. Good luck, she's a beauty!

What a looker! Generous F holes and the book matching on the back looks lovely.

[font=Helvetica]Tricky Audio Greenboy F212 cab review. [/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3](Im not Ed Friedland but here goes)[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Well I chose a good week to finally pick up my F212 fro Guy Trigg at Tricky HQ near Lincoln UK. Guy gave me a few tips on the set up of the speaker and after a coffee, a play through the speaker with my set up (Boosey Hawkes Excelsior Ply Upright GK Head) and a run down of his gear (Nice Engleheart) I headed back north for a four gig weekend. Thanks Guy. [/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Fri 26/9/14.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Rose Hill Tavern. Small square bar, no stage, low ceiling. soft furnishings. Holds about 60 people.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]One of the good things about the band Fickle Lilly is that we have two professional Sound Engineers in the band so I played bass and got Ally Lee (Who has a good set of lug’s) to tweak the graphic and amp. Two minutes later the whole rig came to life.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]I play through a GK 1001 MK 2 with a graphic EQ in the send - return. We took out the low mids on the amp had full mid scoop on the contour slope everything below 100hz with small cuts @ 500hz, 1.25k, 5k, and a nice slap spike @ 6.3k.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]So, theres no rumble, the mids are fat, (despite the cut on the amp) the speakers don’t fart out when played hard and it has a nice spitty top end.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Oh and did I mention its LOUD![/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Geordie Waters our drummer plays a 26” Gretch bass drum miked up through the PA and then fed to his 200w floor monitor. The Guitarist uses a Kemper through the PA and the Keys run through the PA[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]The Greenboy more than kept up with this, it filled the room and I still had a lot left in the tank, I wasn’t going DI. probably won’t ever have to.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Sat 27/9/14[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]The Q Jumpers band. Guitars x2 Harp player and a stand up Drummer (small loud kit)[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Headed up to the Northumbrian Gliding club to play a bike rally. Not really an outdoor gig as we were set up in the Aircraft Hanger but the Hanger doors were open at one end, big tall stage and a hired in PA rig. I knew the horns were working in the cab as I could here the slap coming back at me a with a few seconds delay. Grrr! A quick line check and we were on. I had no problems hearing the rig and got a thumbs up from one of the bikers who has heard the band before so knows how we sound. No the sound guy didn’t use the DI feed I gave him from the GK, No need I was loud enough……There y’go.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Sat 28/9/14 A night at the Schooner Inn, Gateshead. Fickle Lilly.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Its a long bar, holds about 120 people. no stage.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Again, no problems here with the sound just big smiles off my band mates. Even the drummer can make out my feeble attempts at keeping in time!!![/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Sun 29/9/14 the Q Jumpers[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]A real test of this cab. Help! We’re playing in a railway arch, outdoors. Big stage. [/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]The place is so boomy its unreal but y’know what? I didn’t need to alter my eq, just turned the volume up a wee bit. Yes you heard right, turned it up. Thats what I got told to do at the soundcheck? And did it cope with the the Boom***est sound that a band get? Well of course it did. Turns out that its not the bass sound that has a boom, just everyone else.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]And why would I want to buy a Greenboy in the first place? Well I’m a bit of a cynic when it comes to buying gear, a lot of it is Snake Oil, but there was one real moment of enlightenment for me. Mark Robertson the bass player from The Legendary Shack Shakers Is a Cabinet Builder so when someone of his standing is building these cabs and using them they have to be that good. I bought this cab without ever hearing it but I did a bit of homework reading the info on the Greenboy website and reading reviews. These cabs are not cheap and I gave the builder a headache by asking for a unique colour scheme and decals But I can assure you that they are worth every penny.[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Oh and Ed Friedland has, as I’m writing this posted a review of his Greenboy 112. You want to know what my upright sounds like? It sounds a bit like Ed’s Rockabilly bass but with a bit more of Me in it.[/size][/font] [attachment=172812:P9290053.JPG]