Clarky

Onstage about 9.50pm with a set of an up to an hour

Retro-tastic! Very very cool

I've been lucky to enough to own or play most of the basses I have coveted (Wals, Gibsons, Ricks, Shuker, Alembics, Alleva Coppolo's etc) and - after a long process of buying and selling - have ended up with three regular Fenders (P, J and fretless J). Can't really see me being after anything else. However, if there is one bass I'd still really like to have a play on it would be an Alembic Stanley Clarke

Well i swapped the strings over from Silver Slaps to Kolstein Heritage steels (which have been on a bass before, so not new) and unfortunately the result is the same, irrespective of blob size, placing, gap size and placement on the bass. Maybe the fact mine is an old bass (1880s) that has undergone many repairs is affecting the way it resonates and thus its suitability for the Ehrlund? The nearest I can get to a usable sound ends up much like the sound of a piezo with way too much top end (so much I can't really EQ it out)

Thanks Keith, it may be that the 'thunking' sound of Silver Slaps just doesn't translate well. I will try a spare Kolstein Heritage string but I can't do that until after Sunday (as we have a recording session and I need the bass set up as it is)

So far, nowhere sounds good. The irony is my experience with the Kolstein is much like you describe, ie, it sounds pretty good wherever I place it (within reason). On the flatback, it sounds - when not booming or too quiet - either hollow, compressed, reedy/nasally or chorus/echo-ey. Plenty of different sounds but none of them sound like a double bass "only louder".

Right chaps, tried turning preamp to 'high', smaller blobs, different sized gaps, different placements ... and what ever I do it still sounds worse than the Full Circle that was on there to begin with Thing is, it sounds great on the Kolstein but that not my main gigging bass ...

I bet his pants are crunchy too. Yuck. There's honest mojo and there's just bacteria-infested flith ...

OK thanks for the advice. I do have only a small blob of tack on each corner but I may have the overall pickup itself too close to the body (I guess the gap is 0.5mm). I will play around further with positioning, gap size, blobs etc and report back!

Well I got my Ehrlund this morning (thanks Daf!) and have been playing around with it this afternoon (allegedly working from home, ahem). It sounds great on my steel-strung Kolstein without too much mucking around over positioning and very much "my bass only louder". However I am really struggling with my German 1880s flatback which has thumpy SIlver Slaps on. If I site the pickup too close to the bridge and sound bar, all the volume disappears (presumably as there is less resonance of the top) but if I move it to far away it becomes boomy and can even run to feedback. I've tried it where drurb has his on the picture in the aforementioned TB thread (which is not so far from yours is sited, Kev/TNIT by the sound of it?) So far I just can't get a nice sound. It generally sounds too boomy or like a nasal piezo. I will persevere but I am a little disheartened that it simply will not suit this particular DB. Any thoughts TNIT and Daf?

I saw Song Remains The Same at the cinema (Tunbridge Wells) some time in the 1970s and also White Rock and the Yessongs Live film.

I was one of many that missed out on tickets in the ballot and would love to have attended. The clips look great. Count me in

I just picked this up from BC'er Orbs (aka Tom). These are Tom's pics which are TBH better than I could do, hence I hope he doesn't mind me using them [attachment=118255:P1010140.jpeg][attachment=118254:P1010145.jpg][attachment=118253:P1010142.jpg]

Tom sold me a lovely CIJ Jazz. He was very accommodating with my cloak-and-dagger hide-from-Missus tactics and the bass was very well packed and in very good condition. An excellent deal and I would heartily recommend him to other BC'ers

Tom bought our band's guitarists' (OBG for short) pedal with me acting as middle man. OBG was delighted with the transaction and is happy to recommend Tom as a good guy to do biz with

This gig is now confirmed PS, we have also been asked to play the Half Moon on Weds 14th November

Erm, me again. We are not money laundering. Chris bought back a bass I bought from him (again). We are both basically pathetic with attention deficit disorder or OCD or something PS, Chris was a gent as ever

This isn't confirmed so its more of a 'save the date' for my West/SW London BC chums. Looks like we might be playing the middle slot (9.30-10pm) next Wednesday, 19th September at the Half Moon in Putney. Short notice as its a cancellation - only uncertainty is one of our band members is currently incommunicado; assuming she says yes (we are gigging next night in Hackney, so she should be around) then we will be playing the gig So Happy Jack, silddx, Low End Bee, Bluejay, MacDaddy and assorted other nice 'that London' based BCers, now's your chance to catch us live without heading off to our usual Hoxton, Camden and East London stamping grounds

Little reminder-ette for those of an East Larndan persuasion

As a first step, slip a tiny shim (a thin bit of plastic or leather perhaps) in the E nut slot and see if that changes anything. I had this issue with the A string on my DB and a small nut slot shim (try saying that after you've had a few) cured it. Failing that, does the issue disappear if you raise the action? IIRC the Eminence has bridge adjusters. Might imply a need for re-shooting?

So duz anywun want to by my Fender Skwire?