Rabbie
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weekend bump. £680...Or trade for Double bass related pro gear. -
Nigel, you are welcome to come up any time you like, always nice to meet other players. The Sansamp and underwood are the devils I've been running from, although I loved the underwood in my times of loud slapping gigs (oh the youth!). The PB300 I heard great things about but at 16.5kg and 6 speakers is a bit big for my purposes. By the way you lot of Basschatters are a great helpful bunch, thank you
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Thank so guys, I think I'll go for that then. Jay, spot on I want to keep my current gear not replacing it. I have had a clear out a few months ago to coincide with a period with no gigs to attend to some family issues. Now I'm preparing to beget out there again so I'm basically starting with a clean-ish slate (keeping my mic and preamp and looking to get a speaker)
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I had a crazy 8 and I'm sure it was great but at the time I had an Aguilar head, then a Markbass and Genz Benz and I wasn't too pleased. It's not that it sounded bad, it just didn't sound natural to my ears. Ears have got minds of their own of course. I think te biggest hurdle was switching to a mic. Now I have a Remic microphone which I am happy with but I was very happy with a Schertler too, just a bit fiddly to move between basses. Unfortunately the mic needs xlr input and 48v phantom, and only some Acoustic Image amps can do that. As much as that is certainly an option, the prices are what they are. I already have a good preamp option, so I was wondering if I could just use that and plug into a powered speaker. Disclaimer: there is no need for me to sound purer than snow of course...but struggling against a bad sound at gigs makes the whole experience unpleasant, we all know that. Af course, the gig-goer will be none the wiser, but thats not the point: we're at an age of self-indulgence (on a budget).
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[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1506676195' post='3380299'] Would this ... [url="http://barefacedbass.com/product-range/FR800.htm"]Barefaced FR800 ...[/url] Wee bit dear.... ... be overkill..? [/quote] Wee bit on the dear side, but I'm sure it's magnigicent!
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Thanks guys, K8 sounds even better to my back. What do you use now bassace? Thank as well Alex.
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Hi guys I have seen a couple of old threads on this so I would like a quick contemporary recap. I have had a constant bee in my bonnet about the amplified sound of my double bass. A while ago I gave up on pickups and I use a mic (this journey is for another thread). I have a preamp system I like but I still need a volume-maker for small/medium gigs and stage monitoring on larger ones. The bands are jazz/acoustic based and never loud. I have tried basically every kind of amp from stacks beasts in my louder days to the little dinky D class ones. I have also tried some powered speakers but they were cheap and rubbish. The mic and preamp give me the sound mirroring I need, so I don't need more knobs to twiddle (I don't like knobs!). Hence, what powered speaker would amplify this with good quality, enough for small/medium and/or stage monitoring? I have read QSC K10 are good. Worth splashing out on? Anything else around? Thank you v much.
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Check it out on YouTube https://youtu.be/T8F99VkSXsI
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I've seen the amp I need so I really really need to sell this one. The asking price is ridiculously low now! This is a top top quality amp and it will make someone very happy.
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Any appetite for a double bass bash this year?
Rabbie replied to Malvis's topic in EUB and Double Bass
[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1506417607' post='3378508'] Can you lay on extra midges if I ask nicely? [/quote] Difficult time of the year but if we pay them overtime they may agree to an extra outing. Should be ok. -
Any appetite for a double bass bash this year?
Rabbie replied to Malvis's topic in EUB and Double Bass
Rural Scotland has vast empty spaces ideally suited for all large gathering of double basses and their respective cases and vehicles (plus players). The spikes are free to jab away at the mossy underfoot. The humidity is pretty high so overheating cracks and splits will be successfully avoided. Ideal. Just bring wellies and cometh up here, I'll put the kettle on... -
Still here at the moment...
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Need to sell this baby: don't be afraid of offers, you never know.
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Brand new and unopened set of Pyramid Gold Flatwounds for short scale basses. Never even opened the packet!
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Couple of notes of interest but still here....
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edited to cancel trades option. Sale only please.
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An all original Hofner 500/1 violin bass. This is definitely a 1970s model, I think late '70s because of the metal tuning pegs, 70s pickups, black control knobs, darker sunburst colour, "Hofner" logo on the scratch plate. As you may know, in those times, Hofner made no effort at all with serial numbers and the only way of dating an old Hofner is by educated guess of the sum of its parts. I spotted this bass lurking on eBay sold by a guy fairly local to me. It had been lying in his living room for years because he was a Beatles fan, but he didn't play it. I'm passing on the savings on this one, because I just purchased a wonderful new double bass and I need to patch up the bank account. Structurally, the bass is sound, see photo for one small dent on the back neck and a slightly unglued nut, none of which is structural and none of which affects playability. The neck seems straight to me (see photo), but I'm certainly no luthier, and I can see there is a truss rod, though I don't know anything about the Hofner workmanship of the 1970s. There is a bit of rust on the neck pickup but that's just part of the Mojo, not worth doing anything about in my view. All the electronics are working well. There are no body cracks. Being a 40-year old bass, there are plenty little marks but again that's character. it has new Pyramids gold strings on it, the standard for Hofner basses. That's the only thing I have done for the bass because it had horrible old round wounds when I got it. Sounds: FANTASTIC! Powerful thumpy Hofner and plays effortlessly. I really love the 70s pickups: they are bassy man! I have never touched the action of this bass and some may want it lower. I suspect it has not been touched since it left the factory back in the days when flares were cool. I have periodic Hofner "phases" when I need to do a few gigs on the electric, and I have used it to good results this summer. The action is never really low on Hofners, yet they play like butter, it is just the way they are built. In saying that, I have played newer Hofners with the action set slightly lower, but I found them harder to play (I am a DB payer after all). Hence, I have not felt the need to tinker with the action at all, but you may want to if you are handy with the luthier tools. Personally, I feel it plays great just now.. It has its own original case which is terrible, but it's part of the deal: DO NOT use that case for transportation, most of the latches are not in great working order and it is too thin for modern standards. So, I will include in the price a brand new Hofner gig bag, which I just bought at the start of the summer to take it to the gigs. The price of this basses is NUTS; one of these normally sets you back around £1.500 when you buy from a vintage instrument shop. I suppose they can justify that as they have luthiers on site and they have shop premises to pay for, but I like being on Basschat and having honestly told you about the bass, I feel that this is a fair price to pay for a superb 40 year-old bass that has probably had a very boring 40 years unplayed moved about in a living room, then a handful of summer gigs with me. Please contact me with any query, although this is all I know about this thing. Thank you (and sorry for the very long pitch...)
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Saturday bump. Still here.
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Ah my old gut set! Done only a few sessions with these strings on the Duke bass I then sold to Tom. I believe he swapped them to Spirocore and kept these guts well stored. This guts' sound is sooo good and that Dlugo E is built to last. GLWTS. -
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Still here
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Still here. Lots of Ashdowns in this section: they are all great and they should all sell no problem. This one though is a little bit special eh....
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Friday bump!