Jezyorkshire

collected Westbury after work done by Peter Hall and its fantastic, really great job and its really opened the sound up, tried the full circle through fishman pro eq into effrects return of my mark bass combo and its got a very usable sound, had to keep volume down as it was 11pm lol but with a bit of cut on low mid, mid and high mid its getting there, and it plays so easy now, so much so that i have a gig tonight and even though i havent played double for about 2 years im considerin taking it and having electric on standby lol

Just dropped my westbury of at Peters for just the same work doing lol, plus full circle fitting

bought pre amp from dave , posted promtly, well wrapped and just as described, thanks mate, Jez

Going over to Peter Hall at Beverley sunday, new bridge with full circle pickup, new spiro weichs and fingerboard relief adjustment, plus a carbon fibre tailpiece fitted!

hows your fingerboard relief, it may measure that at the end but it may not give a bigger picture of the action elsewhere, I recenty bought a used westbury and the action is similar to yours at the end of fingerboard but its about 1-2mm higher in the middle and at the nut end it gets high quickly so I will be getting an easier relief applied to the board, its also got spiro mittels on which are higher tension than I prefer so im going to be putting some weichs on, no one can tell if your action is to low as there are many factors involved, go see a luthier and he will be able to advise from your playing technique what relief/string height you need and maybe even an adjustment or not in your right hand technique, im not an expert , im sure someone else with more experience will be able to comment on what I have said, all the best mate, Jez

Thanks Geoff, cant blame the gear then lol

Spiro weichs and fishman full circle on way from thomman, then of back to peter hall at Beverley for new bridge/strings/full circle fitting and probably a alteration of the fingerboard relief.

Thanks Sarah and Geoff , Definetly need less tension strings, am getting more thump than note and when I used weichs I could hear the pitch easier especially on the lower strings and there was a bit more buzz to the sound and brighter.

Now i am on my own and in a position to pursue my interests I have just bought a Westbury gamba double bass from Peter Hall over in Beverley. Its setup for bowing and its probably a little high for me and has spiro reds on , my old bass had spiro purples on it, I told peter that I would play it as it is and see how I go, got it home and I can tell the combination of reds with higher action is tiring quickly but then I have had a layoff of about 2 years! If I can get my hands on some used spiro purples will give em a try.