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which on my Dolphin just turns off the EQ which is the same as putting the tone knobs to 0. Still needs a battery as the pickups are active. Never seen the point really.

Fair point. I'm thinking old school NiMH and NiCd. You can get lithium ion now 👍 https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/9v-rechargeable-batteries/0152257 Might try some myself... but I can use the cast offs from work, we have piles of semi spent Duracell pros.

Not Amazon. Not e-bay. Don't buy anything you can't try first. Budget bows ... Creswells will send you 6 to try at home on your own bass. Bowspeed in Bristol may do the same. Look on their websites, then contact them with a price range. Then try them all without looking at the prices. No point in spending a fortune. Like HiFi, you double the price and it gets a bit better. Sweet spot for starters is probs wooden bows around £120.

Should last months if you unplug after playing. Rechargeable won't work for as long (lower capacity) or as well (lower voltage); plus they die quite suddenly so you get no warning. Decent quality alkalines.. change when it goes quieter or fuzzy. Don't all electric basses? My ( very active) fretless Wal is the nearest thing to a "natural" sound of any electric bass I've played. Weirdly organic and flexible sound, packed with harmonic overtones.

I had a battety fail in my acg-eq-01 bass during a rehearsal, it clipped badly and sounded awful; luckily I had a spare bass with me. The Wal goes sort of fuzzy ( which sounds quite good) as the battery goes down, which takes ages, it's never just gone dead tho. Some people routinely change their batteries on New year's day! Jack leads on the other hand ... lots, always take a spare.

All you have there is the name of the company that made the bridge. "Teller bridges are stringed instrument bridges and accessories made by the German company Josef Teller. The company began producing bridges in 1891. Teller bridges are available for a variety of instruments, including violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. " Says nothing about the bass itself, which is a basic plywood one. Those are generally a few hundred up to two thousand £ (tops). Pretty common. Quality and condition highly variable. If it doesn't rattle or buzz, the neck doesn't wobble about and you like playing it ... perfect. At least, until you get the urge to upgrade 😉. Quality bridge tho: £160 from Thomann ..plus fitting cost. You saved about £350 compared to needing a new one.

Tho they do tend to assume you'll be sitting down with the bass at quite a flat angle ... and know little about pizz for jazz, let alone slap etc. Though a lot of jazz bassists have some classical training and quite a few classical players at least dabble in jazz. I had a couple of lessons off a purely classical guy and it certainly improved my classical playing and sorted some good fingering techniques. Now thinking of going to a jazz pro ..tho that's mostly about WHAT to play not HOW. I'd recommend finding someone who is not just a classisist anyway.

https://cardiffviolins.co.uk/ Don't do basses tho. I reckon the shop's too small! They might do an insurance valuation, then x by 0.75 to get what it might sell for. Might have to go to a dealer ( eg Thwaites ) for sale on commission. Private sales are sloooow. Or ... Possibly.... my dad got a valuation for his cello by sending photos to Bromptons ( the auction house). We thought it was massively ott, but then showing the cello to dealers after he died, Bromptons were very close. But with cellos an expert will be able to say " oh that's an early Kennedy / Colin Mezin / Forster etc" from pictures. Basses are more obscure I think, unless you're holding something very valuable and identifiable. NB: my bass is also 1890s German. Viol shape and 4/4. Valued £10k because the valuer said "you don't get anything decent for under £10k now" and I like mine more than the £10k basses in his shop. But it wouldn't sell for that in a private sale.

For me the point of active is not the eq. The amp can mostly do that. The point is getting the best out your pickups and being able to use pickups with a low output and flat frequency response ( things that are related) Having said which, my Warwick has bass and treble cut and boost that seem very well matched to the bass in a way my amp can't manage. In that respect, you can choose a greatly tweakable amp ( my old trace gp12smx ) or a tweakable bass and a neutral "hifi" amp ( my pjb ) As for why anyone needs anything beyond a passive squire precision.... horses for courses. Holding down a pop/rock/blues band, yes indeed. Playing jazz solos and even simple bass lines whilst getting a tone you like and still being audible above saxes, trumpets etc.... is why there are Alembics, Wals, Skjolds etc. I read that Pino Palladio had given up on boutique basses in favour of a precision. Apparently he wanted (audiences) to concentrate on the notes not the sound of the notes. If I could play his notes, I might agree.

Especially after my failed attempts to mend it 😂😂. I've a carbon one on my cello; it's super stiff and light and, I think, improves the tone ( tho that may be the £100+ I spent on it speaking).

The Wal individually sums all the coils of each pickup then filters each pickup then sums the filter outputs using an op-amp mixer. The jazzbass-alike has the east electronics which also buffers and then mixes the two pickups ( it has a total of 8 knobs!). Not sure what the Warwick does, but the pickups are active ( IE there's a buffer amp in each of the three pickups) so still no current drawn from them.

Active. Stops the pickups / coils being loaded by eachother, by the capacitance of long cables and by low input impedance amps and effects...which makes for a wider frequency response. reduces noise pickup as the basses output impedance is low. Also it allows a separate EQ on each pickup ( if you have a Wal, alembic series or east acg-eq-01 electronics) which is something you can't do on the amp. Still, there's an appealing simplicity to a passive bass and parallel pickups ( eg a jazz bass) have a particular sound due to that mutual pickup loading. My bitsa jazz bass is very active at the moment ( acg-eq-01 ) but may go passive again when I tire of it.

I've one of these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152659424030?chn=ps&_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&google_free_listing_action=view_item But on carpets and that rubbery stuff they put on stages, I just go with the pointy bit. The rubber end that came with the end pin does prevent people cutting through the bass section at tea break from being speared in the legs.

Saw off the pointy end and most of the rod, then push the rest into the bass, then extract through the f-holes. Does the rubber stopper stay put? My experience of rubber tips is that they slide about and wear through. Gone back to a sharp pointy end.

What was the wood? Broom handle?

Indeed. Mine goes up for bowing at orchestra and down for pizz with the jazz people. I know it's not ideal as there is an optimum bridge height for the best tone regardless of type of music... but I like the warm muzzy sound you can get with an action that's a bit to low for orchestral bowing. Btw...Bass bags is good for mid priced new instruments (£1500 to £7500) they rarely ever have old basses in stock, but what they have are all well set up with good strings and ready to play. No nasty surprises! No bargains either. And I find even the best Chinese basses a bit short on character (eg this, which I had a play on, is rather nice, but also a little dull https://www.bassbags.co.uk/product/eastman-vb503-jonathan-li-double-bass/) . Trip to Hastings 👍

OK! ... Just that it's posted in the EUB and DB section 🙂 We 40"+ scale people generally go for characterless and neutral ... which I guess a 1980s marshall is not.

You'll just need to take Joe's sound engineer and bank of sound processing with you. 😉

For double bass? How's it sound? Impressive number of knobs regardless.

Correction ...It was a @gypsyjazzer thread ... But @anon who was bigging up rumbles. They're ok. All these new class D amps are "ok". But MB are very good, doubt one of the smaller rumbles will beat it. A 2x10" MB might be what you need. My own double bass rig is 10x 5" ( replacing a 1x 15") so I understand your desire for smaller punchier speakers 😂

Indeed. Many things are rare simply because they aren't any good...ie no-one wanted one.

Hmm didn't sell at £8.5k a year ago and now has the bass direct markup. But that for sale post explains things. The not-a-pickup-cover is somewhere to stuff some foam ( no-one having invented floating thumb in 1962 😉 ). Very vintage ( it's as old as me!) and very rare. Not to my taste is all.

I understand this is a very rare bass .... but it does look like a really awful bass too. And being single pickup, why does it have a pickup cover where there is no pickup? £9000 ? Really? Why? Anyone here tempted? https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/epiphone-newport-ebs-6-1962-pre-owned/

Imho ... they do sound a bit like an oil drum with strings on, so fall (to my ears) in the second camp. But also I would really hate to put a scratch on the lovely pattern work of happyjacks beautiful hologrammatically etched 3D aluminium wonder ... So worst of both worlds in a way 😂

Had to look that one up. Sorry no answers there. I think I play cool jazz, hot jazz, mainstream jazz, modern jazz, jazz funk, jazz fusion and jazz rock but not hot "club" jazz. Sounds like a job for big fat gutalikes tho; warm and thumpy yes? ( Chap once asked me if I'd play in his jump jive band... Had to look that up too.... before I said no thanks )