Frank Blank

Just ordered the Waza-Air Bass from Scan along with @Bunion's excellent case recommendation from Amazon.

Do you prefer bungalow bronzes or car park chromes?

...did we not mention the slap embargo?

Yeah, all those gnarly chains and whatnot, S&M rash down the back of the bass.

Are you attending @Stub Mandrel or do you have a gig?

I used my acoustic basses, acoustically, at home for practice. Obviously, in a band setting, they have to be amplified. I play in an acoustic duo and the Kingman holds its own against a belting singer/acoustic guitar player. I disagree that they are a waste of time and money but they are certainly niche, and, realistically, that niche is in a living room or bedroom for noodling. You can use them amplified in a band situation if you like but you soon get tired of the bulk and realise that 90% of what you are doing could be happily played on a precision with flats. Like @TheGreek says, semi-acoustic basses are a good way to go. I've been playing in an acoustic duo since 2004 and began with a Takamine shaped much like the Kingman but soon tired of the bulk. Now I play semi-acoustic basses. Of the traditional shaped acoustic basses my favourite, by far, was the Taylor GS Mini Bass. Although the very short scale isn't for everyone it's more fun to play than smoking crack.

@Richard R: Brawley 4 and 5 string, EBS session 60 amp, cheap Aeon sustainer, scales to weigh basses with, cake, orange smarties, Westfield "Small Body" bass *FOR SALE* @petecarlton: Shuker Nuclear Device Jean-Jacques Burnel Signature Lite P-bass, Mayones Cali 4 Triskelion travel bass, Bugera Veryron BV 1001M Mosfet head, Ashdown Studio 210 combo, bits and pieces - and cake @Machines: Dingwall D-Roc 5, Dingwall NG-3, Warwick Gnome 280w + Ashdown RM210 (probably) @Andyjr1515: SWAAPATWTBWADS Bubinga Fretless, probably Pete's Swift lightweight piccolo build and maybe also his (not lightweight) EB-3 tribute @Frank Blank: Jabba short scale fretted and fretless, Ibanez SRC6, Grace Design Alix, QSC K12.2, Boss Waza-Air Bass. @NickA: couple of Wals and a Dolphin. You've all seen and played the mk1 fretless, and the dolphin, but I got a mk2 5er just before the prices went silly. Some PJB stuff too. Might bring the double bass .. how big is the room? @PTB: MTD 535, Limelight Pino replica, possibly a MusicMan, MarkBass combo, HX XL & extension leads 😎 Darren: Nice Ibanez and the Aria Sinsonido silent bass. Ashdown amp if there's space in the car. @floFC: curiosity, Kramer Aluminium Neck @Oldman: contemplating bringing my custom Fretless 5! I’ll bring my GR CAB and EVO 1 Head. @SimBass: Sandberg California II TM 5, Eminence Small bodied double bass, EBS Stanley Clarke Preamp pedal, GRBass One 800, Barefaced Super Compact, Barefaced One10 @Owen: 6 string 36" scale Overwater poss for sale. Shuker Uberhorn 5, Shuker/Firecreek hybrid 5, USA J 5 reliced and MTD Kingston 5. QSC 10", Warwick Hellborg pre, Fender TRB 1 pre and Sadowsky pre. Future Impact. @GremlinAndy: Something interesting, 39.5" Shuker, Zon Hyperbass. @Jabba_the_gut: 27” scale 5 string, a Status S3000 and a whatever else fits in the car… @Roland Rock: Wood&Tronics Ergon 5 string and Glockenklang Blue Rock head/BF Super Twin cab

I'll bung you and your gear on the list.

One of the best (and certainly the loudest) 34" acoustic basses I ever used was the Fender Kingman, still use one now occasionally. Also, if you can find one second hand, the Ibanez SRH500.

Welcome @Warren Knight

32"

Ponce.

Well, feeling much better today so I did another Covid test, clear as a bell, so although just a tiny bit sniffly I am no longer infectious. I will still wait until Wednesday before resuming normal activities and (after a final test) will therefore will be attending the Bash, phew.

I've been in an acoustic duo since 2004, we rehearse regularly, write songs continually. We don't play very often, the odd open mic night here and there, I suppose we are as happy writing songs as we are performing them. It's taken me years to find the right basses but @Jabba_the_gut builds exactly the right instruments for our kind of music and I am very lucky to have two of his basses with a third on the way. What was more difficult was finding the right amplification. I tried all sorts of things over the last forty years in various bands and never really found anything I liked, even before playing in my current duo I disliked the baked in sounds of bass amps, all I ever wanted was the inherent sound of the instrument but just louder, sounds simple, difficult task. Thanks to @Bridgehouse's Interesting FRFR thread I tried out a QSC K12.2 and to my delight discovered it did exactly what I wanted, made my bass louder with as little colouration as possible, great, that's the louder bit solved. Now, although I play in an acoustic duo, our songs are quite diverse and I do need a certain range of tones. This is another great thing about using an FRFR, I think it is very difficult to settle on a tone if you start with equipment that has a baked in sound, with the QSC you can really start from scratch. The Jabba basses, tbh, sound glorious just plugged straight into the QSC, and that sound, with just the variation from the single tone pot on the bass caters for perhaps 75% of our songs but, some need a really bright almost funk tone and some need an almost double bass feel. Now the Jabba basses (fretted and fretless) are both strung with LaBella nylon tapewounds and while that sounds quite tone limiting they can produce bright tones but need a little help. Now, needing a little more tone shaping but requiring that tone shaping to, again, not colour the sound other than the changes I am inputting via the controls turned out to be quite difficult. Retaining the fundamental acoustic vibe of the instruments whilst tweaking EQ turned out to be quite tough, I watched hours of videos and tried out a heap of preamps but I always came back to Grace Design. They are built specifically for acoustic instruments, more for guitar, violin etc. really but I couldn't find anything better so, eventually, I bought a Grace Design Alix. I've had the preamp and compressor for over a week now but the QSC was at another location, this morning I got it back and I had my first chance to put it all together. Man, it sounds good, so quiet noise wise and it has the perfect tonal range, well chuffed.

Ah, no, he's missing the second N.

My Basschat name is a portmanteau contraction of my real fist name, Horatio, and then the obvious subjunctive clause that ties in with Horatio, i.e. Nelson, not to be confused with the half-Nelson wrestling move although that connection is suggested in the seventh syllable of the second word of my forum name ng as that is the Icelandic Braille symbol for 0.5. People have commented on the (possibly subconscious) self-negation inherent in my username although if it is expressed in characters from the periodic table it is actually commensurate with the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph.. 𓀍 ...seated man holding the table lamp of authority and royal aerial which (obviously) conveys a sense of friendship combined with the faint whiff of ironic pathos. Frank Blank in a nutshell, there.

You are very lucky to live quite close to Peter at Guitar Technical Services, finest luthier/tech in the country imho.

6: Plays like butter Quite possibly, it might also present like classic hip dysplasia either way it means f*** all.

Welcome @WoffeeCanker

Welcome @Phil_P

To win The Masters?

Here comes the hotstepper (murderer) He's the lyrical gangster (murderer)

I put this on the majority of my for sale posts on BC, it means I just want it to be used/to go to a good home.

That was hilarious. Almost (but not quite) as funny as Bros: After the Screaming Stops, the Goss brothers coming across just slightly less petualant than Metallica.

Welcome @How1