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    Snap Kev, posted same thing at the exact same time...
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    Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum Just to quote the Romans here... Basically anyone can make a mistake, but if they are arrogant about it and don't agree to fix it, it is then that I would consider shaming, but only of you are 1000% sure he was in the wrong, otherwise it is your name that could end up tarnished. I claim record for the first sentence in Latin to appear on Basschat...
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    He should cut you a new bridge with the pick up installed properly at no charge and no questions asked. There are not many DB players around and he cannot afford his name being shamed for something as basic as fitting some adjusters (which is all a full circle is). He gotta be pretty Bad or be having a pretty bad day to muck that up.
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    Where is it?
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    If you want to hear how it sounds I can link you to a couple of albums I have played it on, one with steels and one with guts. PM me if you wish
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    Can you not hire a bass there? It is a lot safer. A but if research will surely reveal a good music shop that could hire at reasonable rate. I have hired In the past and always found it a lot less stressful and not such a terrible compromise unless your setup requirements are very unusual and the music you play would be too tricky to execute on a bass you don't know.
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    I am the worst exponent of arco in the world. So don't take my word for it, but guts are bowable. In fact before steels that's kinda all they had. I know what you mean about the typical sound, doesn't bother me but again, I hardly ever bow.
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    Guts
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    I have heard from very good sources that you can deal with confidence with Tom. I have never met the gentleman, but I do know a very good musician friend of mine who has had work done by him and he was both excellent and cheap.
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    [quote name='jakenewmanbass' timestamp='1396118203' post='2410162'] I think it's worth pointing out that DB can leave you injury prone, so while it's true that there is no 'one correct way' it certainly is true that risk of injury should be minimised. I've been doing this a fair old time now now and I've known a few guys get tendonitis over the years. [/quote] +1
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    Now officially sold.
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    Great job fella! I agree with the comments. I'd say if you try to lift your elbow (i.e. dont let it drop), it'll be easier to straighten the wrist. It's amazing how much more hand strength you'll have by sorting that little thing out. The rest is practice and building up stamina.
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    On hold just now pending ironing out of details and payment.
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    Ok, you guys have successfully given me the heebie-jeebies... for many years I have travelled everywhere with just the MU insurance at best, but tonight I gave in and just insured my basses!
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    Just to be absolutely clear guys. In order to engage both pickup you need to use a stereo cable from pickup jack to preamp input. I am including a 3metre long brand new Stagg pro audio cable. I think it's what you need but I am not 1000% sure. I tried it and it seems to work bit I am no cable expert. If you use a normal instrument cable, only one of the pickups (I think the slap one) becomes engaged, so it's no use. Stereo cable is what you need: hopefully it is exactly what I am including. If not, you'll need to buy one. If anyone has any advice on this one, much appreciated. Thank you.
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    [quote name='paddy109' timestamp='1396019572' post='2409115'] Whats the contact details to buy a Duke? [/quote] [email protected]
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    I'm sure you already know but just in case...Musicians Union membership comes with free £2,000 instrument insurance. That may well just cover you.
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    If someone had an unused set of guts or a pickup like a rev solo fairly new, I would consider part exchange, obviously with money coming my way. Try me. I will give it until the end of next week, then it's going straight on the old eBay.
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    Well I'm not the Incredible Hulk but it seems heavy to me. Probably not heavy enough to get overcharged on planes, but I' sure that the act of putting it on the roof of a car will cause a fair few dents. Ok I realise that writing it would make the roof collapse was a wild exaggeration: I am prone to those...
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    For what it's worth: I have played ply Strunals as borrowed basses on tour. Nothing wrong with them at all and you can have a very happy career playing one as ultimately it is your fingers that make the sound. However, there is no comparison to my Duke. Bearing in mind that my Duke was one of the very first Thomas had sold, and it has had time to settle to me and viceversa. The differences are enormous. Strunals, like Shens and other well made plys are produced like their solid and carved wood basses, only with cheap plywood as opposed to wood. The result is a constant awareness you are playing a student instrument. The Duke is the rolls Royce of plywoods in 2014. It is made specifically to highlight the characteristics of a plywood for roots music (yes including trad jazz, swing, bop). It is a professional instrument and unless you want to join a philharmonic, you will not fancy anything else if that's the kind of sound you love. Everyone who loves basses or works with basses, players, luthiers, sound engineers, have told me they have never heard a better sounding, louder and darker bass. My gigging bass is now a Chadwick Folding bass, which is excellent, but acoustically it bears no comparison to how good my Duke is. Recently I got rid of a lovely carved Wilfer bass, which was beautiful bowed, but for pizz and slap was not as good as the Duke for my purposes. It had a carved bass sound, fine for most, but if you want to swing and thump, you just cannot beat the direct oomph of a great ply. Taking a Fiat 500 to the best mechanic in the world, will not make it compete with a Porsche...So, Duke all the way for me. I think I'm actually gonna ask Thomas for commission! Most importantly of all, very very sorry indeed to hear about your loss mate.
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    Thank you very much kind sir
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    No-one interested?
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    [quote name='spencer.b' timestamp='1395689965' post='2405193'] Chadwick folding bass could go on the roof [/quote] And your roof will probably collapse: the buggar is super heavy!!
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    NDBD :)

    Rabbie replied to dudi8's topic in EUB and Double Bass

    Looks lovely sir, enjoy! Winnie that Pooh looks thrilled as well.
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    [size=4]Here for sale is a brand new and very rare Blast Cult channel Blaster pickup system. I bought it new only one month ago and I have only tried it in the house. It is absolutely great but as I would be using it with a Chadwick Folding bass, it is too much fiddling around for me to fit and take down the dual pickup system at every gig. So here it goes. This consists of the dual pickup (bridge and fingerboard) + tension screw to be fitted in bridge + all the fittings + the revolutionary preamp/stompbox + a stereo cable, which you will need to connect the pickups to the preamp so that both pickups can be engaged. [/size] [size=4]There is a great review by Ed Friedland on this. The Channel Blaster part of the review starts at 4'40m.[/size] [size=4]Here's the blurb from blast cult:[/size] [size=4]Designed for slap bass players, the Channel Blaster delivers a range of sound simply untouched in the industry. A decade in the making, this is a hand built hound from hell, with two separate pick-up elements that are independently EQ’ed and blended via the Sipo hardwood pedal. First, a wooden bridge pick-up element mounts to the bridge wing with the included tension controller, providing mechanically regulated tone adjustment and feedback control. The second pick-up element is then mounted on the fingerboard, catching the organic percussion of the slapping strings. Driven through a single-ended Class A preamp, we then use field effect transistors (FET) instead of the more commonly used operational amplifiers – effective alchemy for a warmer, vacuum tube tone. The resulting electric witchcraft we call the Channel Blaster – the most versatile, feedback resistant pIEzo on the market today.[/size] You don't need me to explain that this price represents a huge saving compared to importing from USA. Any questions, please ask. I'd love to avoid eBay with this as I would have to charge a higher price and it would be snapped up for sure so i will give it a couple of weeks here first. Cheers
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