Clarky

I too am in this position with Rattlin Bone - I joined after the double lass lines on the debut album 'The life and death of ...' had already been recorded by Wily Bo, the front man (who is a bass player too). TBH, doesn't bother me in the slightest. I love playing live with this band and there's some really nice people in it too. Plus I am recording stuff for the next album and some side project stuff (eg, the lady singer's first single, which I put in the Recording forum in BC). I am just grateful to have fallen on my feet with such a good band!

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1319126309' post='1410341'] A transient is the leading edge of a signal (ie a note). It is significantly (often very significantly) louder than the following note. It is of very short duration (several ms in length, maybe as much a 20, more often less) It contains very little true pitch information, often being largely a percussive noise It has a far higher ratio of high frequency than the tone making up the body of the note that follows it (the harmonic content lives in there) Every note you play however gentle, however hard whatever technique has a transient at the front of it, it can also be considered the attack phase of the signal in envelope terms. Hope that clears it up a bit! [/quote] You are the man 51m0n!

More helpfully, I found this review of AER Amp One and upright bass on TB [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/aer-amp-one-407746/index2.html#post6455522"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/aer-amp-one-407746/index2.html#post6455522[/url]

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1319125239' post='1410314'] But is it any good for double bass? [/quote] Sorry Roger, you're not allowed to comment in this thread unless you know what a transient is PS, I don't

I like the comment "probably needs to be varnished" Should read "Probably needs to be burned"!

This Alleva Coppolo LG4 is back in my hands again, after a brief affair with Happy Jack (the bass, not me). The last one of two made fully by hand in the NYC workshop in 2008 (AC moved to California subsequently) [attachment=91559:IMG_1414.JPG][attachment=91560:IMG_1412.JPG] PS, cheers to lozbass, the original BC owner of the bass, for his photos - his lovely sonic blue LG4, pictured further up this thread, was the other of the last two from NYC

A lot more laid back than your last band Wes. Very old school and none-the-worse for that

Cheapest way is just to DI, which is what BC'er BurritoBass does. You will need some sort of preamp for control of sound and feedback, eg a Fishman Plat Pro. If you want to monitor yourself or cannot DI, any small combo with the Plat Pro or similar preamp (eg LR Baggs) in front will do although the cleaner the sound of the combo, the more faithful to a DB tone it will be. Another alternative is preamp into separate head plus cab. The Genz MB200 is small and cheap as a head and you could buy an Eden 1 x10 cab quite cheaply. A 1x10 or 1x12 would work best (not a 1x15). Clearly second hand on BassChat gets you a much bigger bargain. It may be worth replacing your pickup with say a second hand BassMax of which several are FS on BC right now (roughly £80) as this will improve the sound coming out of your DB and possibly make more difference than your choice of amplification, especially if coupled with a decent preamp.

Two new colours is all, I think

Just met Dave at a service station to do a trade involving my Takamine B10 and his Tony Franklin fretless. As always, a pleasure to do business with and a thoroughly nice bloke

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1318947403' post='1408087'] I would have left it at that but Wots point is reasonable, IMO. [/quote] Not if it turns up to 11

I have an Aguilar TH500 and have only held back from commenting here as I haven't gigged it (my current band is DB-only, so I use an Acoustic Image/EA rig for that). All I can add is that from home use the TH500 is a nice 'old school' sounding amp but it does not have the clarity/uncoloured nature I had with a MarkBass F1 I sold to dave-Bass5. It is great for rock/blues etc and the gain can be used to get decent breaking-up style distortion even though its entirely solid state. Its not as warm as a RH450 (which I have also owned at one point and saw as a slightly Mesa-sounding head)

Just found this cool page about Elvis' bass player, Bill Black, and his first Fender bass. it's probably been posted before, although I don't specifically recall it. I do though recognise the shot of Elvis playing the bass from 99ster's avatar. http://scottymoore.net/56PBass.html

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1318853028' post='1406808'] I've got one of these: Is that amazing? It's certainly odd [/quote] I can see a certain Big Red X liking this one - very Dick Venom!

Just sold Peter a Jazz Bass book. Paid super-fast and friendly comms. All good

[quote name='Radioface' timestamp='1318853510' post='1406827'] I'm interested in getting a PJB Cub but I want to try one before I take the plunge. It's quite a lot of money just to take a punt on but there aren't any stockists out here in farming country. I'm hoping it will be pokey enough for me to use in duo gigs where my partner in crime has an acoustic guitar. Maybe a bargain second hand one is the way to go... [/quote] If I were you I'd drop Legion a PM. he just bought my virtually-new Cub

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1318841197' post='1406606'] Anyone got a [url="http://www.calderoriginals.com/"]Calder[/url]? [/quote] Flippin' Nora! £4200 for a guitar case. Yowza

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1318852678' post='1406795'] I thought only MIM basses had this. [/quote] IIRC I have had US and Japanese Fenders with below-scratchplate holes (not 100% sure on the latter but defo on the US)

Those holes are commonplace on Fenders. Not entirely sure what they are there for (maybe for supporting the body when its being sprayed?) but, worry not, yours is not 'wrong'