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I like it. I really liked it when the exchange rate was close to $2=£1.

And then I saw a Rosewood (I think) neck in the Alpher Instruments build thread in the Affiliates Forum and being a wood grain junkie have decided that I have to have a rosewood/rosewood neck/fingerboard. The thread is here http://basschat.co.uk/topic/248992-alpher-builds-in-progress-15-off-until-2015/. I will not link to the individual picture cos I think everyone should look at the whole thread. There is some truly scrumptious woodwork going on there and it is well worth a few minutes of your time.

I have a Chinese Fender guitar. Easily as nice as instruments costing 3 times as much. Would I swap the pickups in it? Perhaps, but I might do that with any number of instruments. As long as the commissioning company get the spec right, someone operating a CNC machine in one country is much the same as someone operating it in another. I would love a crack at the yellow neck through in the first link of the 3 from the OP.

I did a gig last week with a pair of QSC KW112 and KW118 (or whatever the 18" subs are called). They were bonkersly loud and held it together all the way. I was hugely impressed. The SRM450 are not in the same class (but not in the the same price bracket). They can get harsh when pushed but a bit of taming at 8Khz always made them a bit easier on the ear. They run out of headroom before you think they should, especially if you get tempted to chuck any LF into them. The reality is that they are old tech by now and I feel absolutely sure that anything more recent with some DSP in there would be significantly better.

MOST excellent help! Thanks y'all.

I fancy a killswitch (mute) in a keyboard sustain pedal wired so that the signal goes through when the pedal is depressed. I would obviously need a loop box to bring it in and out of line as and when needed. I'm sure I am missing a trick and someone is making such a thing, but I have not seen one. Any ideas? The keyboard pedal idea is so that it is a nice low profile. Obviously silent switching is imperative.

My teacher was taught by Gary Karr so I got the whole "slow bow, 'cello rosin, focused sound" thing. And the 1234 finger pattern. I copped a lot of flak when going to youth orchestras outside my own county when other tutors saw technique which was not Simandl.

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1415792681' post='2603770'] A fascinating article. I've always been suspicious of the mid-board pizz, knowing full well that most jazzers get a huge sound from the end of the board. [/quote] The loudest punchiest bass pizz I have come across is way up the fingerboard by the left hand - perhaps 8 inches away. It sounds like a cannon. Not that it could be used for anything fluid or walking.

Better still download a huge PDF from here on Making a Double Bass http://www.roger-hargrave.de/Seiten/english/Bibliothek/Bibliothek.htm just lovely stuff. So many lovely photos. So lush.

Very interesting, thanks. It led me onto this http://www.maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/328014-making-a-double-bass/ which I think might take me a bit longer!

Sadly, there is no substitute for massive power supplies which deliver grunt with ease.

I already carry a DB to gigs and I could not fit all those ladies into my car as well.

It is SO not pop art!

In my mind a couple of nights ago it was going to be this [attachment=176140:mondrian-compositionA.jpg] but by now it might just be back to CAR with a matching headstock

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1415573877' post='2601700'] Do it yourself. Just get some paint and brushes and copy this onto the bass: Simple! [/quote] Me+DIY= hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1415577644' post='2601746'] [url="http://www.simscustom.com"]Sims Custom[/url] [/quote] That looks very fine indeed! [quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1415605843' post='2601792'] Would vinyl wrapping be good for this? [/quote] The idea is great but I would want a smooth all over thing. [quote name='ead' timestamp='1415607633' post='2601811'] Is there not such a person on here who did the Batman bass, I think still in the F/S section? I soppose it depends how you are defining pop-art. [/quote] I have no idea how I define pop-art, but I do know on further research that I meant modernism! Typical late night musing in bed before falling asleep. I am such an amateur.

It is totally the bomb with my DB. It really delivers lush extension downwards. The air shifting heft is pretty addictive. It is great with the plank but DB is where it shines for me. Redstriper seemed to enjoy it with the plank.

I have a body which is in line for a respray. I might like to have a pop art finish on it. Maybe not. But who would do such a thing and how much?

The composite ones are about 50lbs. Steve, if we got one each we could stack them. Imagine!

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1415568061' post='2601590'] That would result in their cancelling each other. They would have to be in phase/polarity. [/quote] I would edit my original post to cover my stupidity but then your post would look odd, so I will leave it up so everyone can point and laugh at me. I only know which end of a soldering iron to use because one end is hotter than the other and it hurts when I get it wrong. Even then it is only to unsolder things. There is a reason I do not make anything apart from food. I would still love to try one though, given that it is presumably the same vibe as my 1x12" but bigger.

One speaker firing out of the front and one out of the back (presuming out of phase with the front one) and all ports firing out of the front. The guy who builds Audiokenisis cabs is very complementary about the concept here http://www.talkbass.com/threads/acme-2x12-prototype-test.890129/page-2/. I was playing through my 1x12" ACME yesterday and it is (for me) just so right. I would love the same but in bigger helpings