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Mark a line with a pencil on the side of the fingerboard where the dots should be. Use a chromatic tuner to find the right location. It's a beginner trick for double bass. 😉

Doh, I thought it was a fire issue.

Sweet !

It's a sound on its own, closer to a sitar where the strings rattling vibration comes from the bridge and not the fingerboard. Some like it, some don't, but it's not per se a fretless sound.

Dominique Di Piazza used leather on top of the original saddles to make his first flat sitar-like bridge.

You can buy the saddles only or make some bone (or very hard wood) flat saddles yourself. It's not that complicated, but you'll have to move the bridge away for a perfect intonation...

Vic is selling a Mike Sabre Dominique Di Piazza Signature 1 on this very parish :

Eyb web page : https://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/ddp-bridge.html

As I wrote a lot of times, it's simply a flat sitar bridge conception. It works best with bone flat saddles. John McLaughlin played a guitar like this. Eyb in Germany is selling the exact same bridges as Mike Sabre and an ETS dedicated bridge.

Sold my TrickFish Trilobite to Giacomo. A fast, smooth and easy transaction. You can deal with Giacomo with confidence. Cheers mate.

This is called a third hand, hence @KiOgon joke. 😉

Again as I'm waiting a delivery by DHL that is taking a lot of time and another sent yesterday through UPS... Maybe UPS and Thomann found an agreement ?

Sooner than we might think.

I'm in Belgium, not in the U.K., and the answers I received today (if anybody reads the previous posts) are a bit of a concern...

I'm waiting an order from Thomann since the 26th of November. In this order, there's a little Joyo MA-10B Portable Bass Amp that is toggling between "in stock" and "in stock between 3 - 5 weeks". So I just rang them right now and what I've heard is a bit of a concern : the amp has been back in stock only the 10th of December and my order will be despatched. The Joyo is now back in the "in stock between 3 - 5 weeks" items. Everything seems ok, but the operator on the phone wasn't able to give me a shipping date, because ... UPS refuses to work with them since a few days and DHL did exactly the same after UPS left !?! Is it me or is there a big problem with Thomann ? How can couriers refuse thousands of deliveries except for a financial issue ? To me, it stinks a lot !

Theoretically, all modulation effects like reverb, delay, chorus, ... are better sounding placed in the effect loop (parallel being better). That said, you'll have to try by yourself. Most of the time, most people prefer the effects between the bass and the input. Give it a try...

And starting to struggle with Russ, Marc and I when a nice sixer shows on. 🤣

Here is the link to the manual : https://ebssweden.com/content2/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SCPRE_manualA6.pdf

I've tried a few in the low price segment. Forget the dire Ergo EUB, I had the good idea to buy one (which was the maker personal one, for the story) and took it to a gig, worst idea ever as I had to fight the EUB to get a decent sound and fight against the sound changing between songs because of a crap design, was an epic night... You can find the Zeta EUB around £1000 second hand, but they sound more as an in between fretless and double bass. I had also an old Warwick Triumph which was quite good, but totally unreliable. Then I bought my first second hand NS Design for peanuts : a CR5M which was a revelation, but still too much on the fretless side with the proprietary Ns Design/D'addario strings. I changed them for some real double bass strings and then it was it, but you have to put 80% of the piezo in the mix. Made a lot of gigs with it, always a pleasure and thanks to the tripod design, I could play sitting. I also had another NS Design CR4M again bought for less than £1000 (second hand of course) which was as good as the CR5M when I put some Thomastik Spirocore on it. I had an Eminence lent for a few weeks and it was excellent, but you have to tweak a good preamp a bit to get a close to double bass tone. And then I have my custom made Leduc U-Contrebasse 6 strings with the patented free floating top. It's a one off and it took seven (yes 7) years to finish it... Now it's the only one I use ... at home for now until we can start again playing and rehearsing. As mentioned, you'll have to buy a very good dedicated preamp or a combo like the AER BassCube which works really well for double bass, EUB and electric bass.