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David Konig (Retrovibe) has just posted his new Rickencaster Telebacker on Facebook. It's a one off but apparently he'll be marketing further ones. I have to say I like it a lot. https://www.facebook.com/groups/78514186083/permalink/10158238637951084/

It's all tongue in cheek you understand. 👍

I've been in a Mod/Northern Soul/Ska band for the last four years and The Jam usually feature quite heavily. Pretty much the entire pool of songs we compile setlists from is bass heaven. Some great basslines around in the 70s/80s mod revival period.

The body is basically a wooden frame with a hardboard panel top and bottom, but Danelectro call it Masonite.

You can get a bridge upgrade with adjustable saddles for intonation, should find one on ebay but they're not cheap. I have a 90s reissue and the pickups and wiring are fine, great actually. I don't know if the Dead On 58 pickups are different but before you replace them try wiring them in series, a seriously punchy improvement. If the control pots are the same as the 90s reissue then standard 6mm or 1/4" knobs won't fit, the shaft is smaller, also the lower knob fitting is different to standard stacked pots, they're more like an old radio knob fitment. If you fit new standard stacked pots then you can obviously fit any knobs you like.

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These have been around for years, Nirvana wrote a song about one. 🤫😉

I've used the Ammoon one with active and passive basses with no issues, apart from the latency which apparently I shouldn't be able to detect but I can, and it bugs me.

Yep, that's exactly what I mean. But I've paid my penance for disliking some popular basses by liking, and buying, some god awful shite. 😁

I might do a bass with a tort body and sunburst scratchplate, that'll really mess with people. 😁

I totally get the issues and compromises involved in carving a contour on a bass with a contrasting wood top. Still don't like it though. 😁 As there's no sensible way to avoid that look I just wouldn't have a contrasting wood top. But that's just me, hell I've got sunburst, tort, black blocks on maple, more knobs than strings, lipstick pickups, fender body shapes, f holes, red basses, rosewood on white basses, Rickenbackers, cold colours, a Longhorn, the list goes on so what do I know 😂😂😂.

An adjustable bridge is a great idea on your first doublebass IMO. I spent months trying different heights before I settled on 'my' height. If I started playing a different style of music, maybe it would change again.

I really don't like it when a bass has a contrasting wood top put on and when the forearm contour is carved the lower wood is revealed, it just looks so wrong. The top should be the shape of the bass, not the shape of the bass with a big lump missing. If I was the first person to do this I would think "oh stinky poo, that didn't work" after carving through the top, "back to the drawing board". But it seems to be an accepted, appalling bit of design. Just make the top slab thick enough not to break through to the lower layer when carving. It's all moot though as I don't really like fancy multi-wood basses. The other thing I don't like is Alembics, they look like they fell out a Christmas cracker. All childlike shapes and chintzy gold toot screwed all over the place.

Is that for the Xbox or PlayStation?

I was only thinking about this this morning as I am keen to make something similar. What do you think has happened, too much power? 💥 POWER!! 💥

Love it!! I really love my Longhorn and that is, well, twice as good isn't it. 👍

Mine arrived today 👍

Could it have been a disgruntled employee on his last day packaging these? A good squelch around in the ears and throw a surprise in each box, that'll show 'em!

You have just summed me up perfectly in more areas than just music, and in a wonderfully poetic way. 🙂

Bronze strings are great, as long as you're the sort of person that loves the sound of a bottle bank being emptied. If not try something else. I've got Fender 9120 black nylon strings on both of my acoustic basses, they sound and feel lovely.

Thanks for that @Happy Jack. I've just read Kenny Jones' autobiography so this'll follow on nicely.

Whatever you do, don't ever buy a piano Stew! 😁

The four string is great, and not just for the money. Fit and finish is good, hardware and electrics seem as good as most sub £500 basses, sounds and plays great but it is quite heavy. I'd say it really is down to how good the B string is as the rest is a no brainer.

A commode. 💩

A ska band (Rat Race) we played with back in March (our last gig before germigeddon) the bass player used a Steinberger or Hohner headless cricket bat and it sounded amazing. On the doublebass front I've said for years if our acoustic band ever packed it in I'd get an acoustic ska band together playing the original 1st wave stuff. The electric band I'm in does Mod, Northern Soul and Ska but mainly from the ska and mod revival period (late 70s 2nd wave) so any original ska is invariably the cover version by The Clash, The Specials, The Lambrettas, etc, but when we muck about in the acoustic band and do some they sound great on doublebass and acoustic guitar. I've even got the name sorted, "Skacoustic!" So no ones allowed that name 😉. The rhythm guitarist/singer in the electric band soley uses a 12 string acoustic and has a rotary speaker pedal on some songs and it really sounds good for a Hammond sound, that with 6 string acoustic doing the melodies, doublebass and a brass section would be fantastic I reckon.