Clarky

J-tone do good basic, cheap n cheerful copies of a Bass Max for about £30 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/J-tone-Big-double-Bass-Pick-up-/200613316399 A brand name piezo like a Shadow or Bass Max usually runs to about £100 new or £60 used on BassChat

Any piezo wing pickup (Shadow, Bass Max etc) just squeezes into the side slots in the bridge. So it can be quickly added in or removed. If the wing slots are too wide, a simple shim (paper, cardboard etc) is all that's needed to wedge in the pickup

The newest Headway is pretty amazing, if pricey. This is what I use. It has a high pass filter (albeit a fixed one) and while my fdeck has much more control of the low frequencies it lacks that all-important XLR out http://www.headwaymusicaudio.com/product/edb-2/

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1390735971' post='2348725'] How much cash you offerin' boy? [/quote] Touche

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1390735279' post='2348711'] First in the queue, OK? [/quote] Honest, guv, not selling this one! You know where I am Jack if you wanted to trade my 1880s DB for your (my old) 3/4 Zeller plus a large wadge of cash

Yep, its my third Busetto. The first I sold to Bassace so that i could get the removable necked version. I then sold the latter to help raise some money (expensive summer, three "significant" family birthdays etc) to Scottish pro bass player Roy Percy who seems very happy with the bass after some slight modifications. I still hankered after a Busetto though and - having thought I'd sold my 1975 Jazz - placed an order with Barrie K. Learned my lesson and this one is a keeper. Just need to sell that Jazz though!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1390652906' post='2347916'] i enjoyed that a lot! [/quote] Thanks Luke! Here we are live, in case interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0noHL4khCeM To add another band to the list, jimijimmi's rock band Casino look very good based on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOuhbvivJk

Hi Roger, it has the stock Planet Wing pickup which - despite my previous misgivings - actually sounds very good through my Phil Jones Briefcase combo. OHM: yes I am naughty, I spent the proceeds of my 1975 Jazz sale on this (and a bit more) after a sale had been agreed, only for the other guy to back out at the last minute

Yes I know. I shouldn't have sold my Kolstein travel bass. So I contacted Barrie Kolstein who had a New Year sale and have ended up with a refurbed s/h bass, as it was materially cheaper than a new one. It arrived while I was away on biz last week and I opened up the box late last night. Truly beautiful workmanship and plays wonderfully. Happy Here's Barrie's pics: [attachment=153160:Top 1.jpg][attachment=153161:Top 2.jpeg][attachment=153162:back.jpeg]

Glad to hear that Nige. I was on flight back from Stockholm so couldn't be there. We played the Finsbury last week, I like the venue a lot (nice raised stage, good atmosphere)

Agreed with above couple of posts. My lot, All The Queens Ravens, have settled on me using an EUB (admittedly the vaguely double bass shaped Baby Bass) due to practical and logistic problems of carrying a full size dog house around Centtral London. Sounds enough like a DB to fool most people and doesn't feed back which is amazingly helpful given we are quite loud. We will always record with a 'proper' DB though http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0noHL4khCeM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0noHL4khCeM

Laurence bought some Velvet strings from me and all was good

Live vid from our Spice of Life gig, 11 Jan http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0noHL4khCeM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0noHL4khCeM

I really like his Liquid Glass album with Yoshihiro Hanno, especially the track Seafall (which has a beautiful rubbery bass line that, try as I might, I cannot replicate): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZEDYOj-Wc And here's another track from the album: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIwGzBXkbnA[/media]

Photos from our gig at Spice of Life in Soho last Saturday, one of our best gigs so far [attachment=152667:1506172_10152134483491291_702469703_o.jpg][attachment=152666:1502820_10152134483496291_652676862_o.jpg]