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  1. JoeEvans
    I have a lovely early 80s Tokai fretless jazz with Bartolinis that I swore I'd never get rid of - beautiful warm sound and the nicest neck I've ever played. But I just never play it, and I am starting to wonder about selling it...
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    K&K Bassmax pickup in decent used condition, works perfectly. I've found this to be very satisfactory for situations where I'm playing in a bigger band, giving a nice solid sound that's slightly towards fretless bass territory with excellent feedback resistance, but I'm only using a mic on the bass now so time to move this on. If you've not seen one in use, the socket clips onto the strings below the bridge and the pickup wedges into the bridge wing on the treble side. Sold with a little felt bag that used to contain a mini-disc player, if anyone remembers them! SOLD
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    I was pleased and interested to read that story. In a sense it's an open and shut case - AI 'creativity' is plagiarism by definition. I'll be watching to see how the case plays out!
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    I think it's fair enough to try an offer, here or anywhere else, but I think on here I wouldn't enter into lengthy haggling, just maybe float a slightly lower offer if I thought the item was a bit overpriced. And I wouldn't be offended at all if the seller stuck to their guns.
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    Yes - exactly.
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    Looking at all of these has made me realise that it's just headstocks that are ugly. They're all ugly.
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    It's purely personal taste but for me there's a lot to be said for a passive bass with really good pickups, and whatever EQ etc you want being added via pedals, outboard preamps or whatever.
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    I play piano accordion as well as bass, mostly Irish traditional music these days as my partner is Irish and that's what she plays... I do the odd ceilidh for weddings etc and play at a pub session every week (the Star in Fishponds in Bristol, best Irish pub that's not in Ireland!). Anyway, Alan Kelly is my personal accordion hero. He plays in Eddi Reader's live band as well as playing with his partner Steph Geremia doing this sort of thing. He has the most beautifully fluid style, creating a really driving rhythm in a very subtle way. I love his minimal but powerful left hand in this video too.
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    That's pretty much the king of fretless basses right there.
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    I recently recorded an album with my jazz trio and I did it as cheaply as humanly possibly - recorded and produced by me, two days of recording only, borrowed mics on the drums. But it still cost me £500 to hire a suitable space with a good piano for two days, and I used about £1k of recording equipment that I own, playing a double bass that cost about £3k. So your man from Spotify can do one.
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    Sounds good to me, what's the instrument and pickups?
  12. JoeEvans
    Whether it's a democracy or not, you still have to pay your taxes to get public services...
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    Narrow neck

    JoeEvans replied to Daveee's topic in Bass Guitars

    I'm selling an Ibanez Axstar on here which has 11mm spacing at the nut and 17mm at the bridge, with a very slender neck all the way up. So they are out there... The disadvantage is that some find the plucking or picking harder with the closer string spacing.
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    I'm struggling to get my head around this given that every flat is also a sharp, eg B flat = A sharp...
  15. JoeEvans
    I think all basses have their idiosyncrasies in terms of the tone on different parts of the neck, and in terms of what they need to give their best tone. Each instrument resonates in different ways at different pitches, with dead spots, lively spots and so on. My bass is reluctant to start a bowed note on an open A, for example. I think it's just part of getting to know the instrument and how to get the best out of it.
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    When I bought my first DB I got an older, used, solid top / plywood back and ribs, Eastern European model from the Double Bass Room for about £800 as I recall. I think I'd do the same now - you can sell it on again for what you paid for it, take it to a gig without stressing too much about it getting a knock, and it'll sound good and look the part. Not sure about blue or black though, I think in general double basses just are all about the wood.
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    Yes, definitely strings too, they make a huge difference.
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    In all honesty, I think if you set up a proper blind test, very, very few people - perhaps none - could reliably guess scale length, make, model, body wood and fretboard wood for a set of basses. So much of the tone depends on pickups, electronics, amp type and amp settings.
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    Top left is going to look great when it's put together.
  20. JoeEvans
    My short scale ACG is an absolute beast and amazing to play,so I can confirm that there's at least one good short scale bass in the world.
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    Price drop! The Fishman has now sold, looking for £60 posted for the Bass Max I've settled on a different mic and preamp combination for my DB so selling these. Fishman Platinum Stage preamp - sold This is the simpler version of the Platinum Pro used by many double bassists. You get 3-band eq with a sweepable middle and a selector switch that sets the eq to cover either guitar or bass frequencies. Runs from phantom power, a 9v power supply or you can use a 9v battery. K&K Bass Max pickup - £70 posted This is a very simple and convenient pickup that wedges under the bridge wing. The cable socket clips onto the afterlength of the strings. The sound is great - on my bass I get a very solid tone, perhaps a bit closer to fretless bass territory, with really excellent feedback resistance. I was using this with the Fishman and the combination would be perfect for someone playing DB in a reasonably loud band.
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    If it was much darker than expected with a pickup you know, then as you say it sounds like it's just a very dark bass. In my very limited experience the matching of pickups and mics to basses is very much on a case by case (or rather bass by bass) basis - every instrument needs something different and it's a matter of trial and error. You could try both though, could work well by the sound of it. Ideally you'd want to be able to EQ each pickup differently, to bring out their best characteristics, so maybe using a very small mixer with decent channel EQ, or an elaborate preamp of some sort, but that's another gear rabbit hole and it might be easier to try sone other mics and pickups.
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    When I saw the thread title I Iiterally thought "what, for your drummer, hurr hurr hurr".
  24. JoeEvans
    It would be wireless from your guitar to the pedal chain. The pedals will still be running off mains. So no help with the buzz but might stop you from getting electrocuted! Personally I would look at an RCD socket adapter instead, to deal with any safety risk. For the hum, hopefully someone more knowledgeable can step in but I believe there are filtered four-ways available to protect IT gear against dodgy mains that might be worth a look.
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    I feel a bit bad about the amount of self-promotion my friends and family get exposed to via my social media. I'm forever pushing some project via my own social media accounts in a desperate attempt to fill a venue or whatever, and it must get repetitive.
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