Owen

Is there nothing you guys cannot do?

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1316504359' post='1378787'] Woo! I've finally got the desktop version on my iPhone! No more crappy mobile version I'm happy now, thanks [/quote] I take your point, but the old mobile version was really a lot faster when my signal was weak

I'm digging it

OK, there seems to be a set of flats lovers here. I have two basses with flats on them (TI and some second hand ones with blue silks on them). The thud totally does it for me for when it is the right time, but there is something about the upper mids that really gets under my skin. I can wind that off with the tone control but even though that makes things warm and creamy by the speaker the sound can get a bit boomy or dark in the audience. Is there a flat that does not have that kind of grating top end or am I just being too fussy?

You just know it is good. No. Really.

Just fabulous.

7 days till delivery. Obv I am aware that this is a best case scenario!

And then I was not free to go. Ho-hum.

[quote name='rennie234' post='1370704' date='Sep 12 2011, 04:39 PM']What bridge and pups are going to be used on this?[/quote] He is making a bridge and the pickup will be a headway piezo strip under the bridge. There will be a small impedance matching buffer circuit in there as well. I might put an EQ circuit in at a later date.

So easy, so smooth!

Very cool indeed.

Thanks Daf. I took the bass up to my luthier (!) who is doing stuff to it and installing the spiros (thanks Gareth). I am no great fan of spiros but they will do for now and I might go for a set of the solo Inno string tuned to concert when I am happy with the setup of the instrument.

I am trawling through micro heads at the moment and have been thinking about the whole TC thing. Actual proper RMS measurements aside, I have been playing through a rig that has full-on speaker control/management (multiband compression and EQ for flatness) for 3 or 4 years now and have never been happier. All the big PA systems feature speaker controllers which optimise their rigs. The best sound I EVER got was through a d&b audio rig. I had more headroom than I ever thought possible. It was just a delight to play proper dynamics on my Double Bass and hear them be realised through the PA. You can bet your bottom dollar there was a lot of DSP doing it's funky thing there. I have never been anywhere near any TC bass kit and am not commenting one way or the other, just thinking aloud that it seems that TC are the first to bring DSP to the mainstream for us. The whole watts thing is........... ummm........... unfortunate, but the DSP thing is a welcome new flavour.

Mr Bassman, thanks for your kind offer, but the bass in question has bass guitar machine heads and it is making a real mess of whatever I put on at the moment. Have a set of 1/2 size 2nd hand spiros on the way and when I have got a new bridge set and all that I might put my present Honeys on from my DB and try a set of those solo Innovation ones tuned to concert pitch on my DB. I would not want to damage your D. I am thinking heat shrink on the Honeys at the machine head stress end to hold the wraps in, because I will need to snip them cos there is not much room on the machine heads. This would go for any 1/2 size strings as well.

Cool. I watched the vid with you on the 5 string for sale thread and it transpired that we have Billy Thompson in common!

I have just bought an Arco bass from the for sale forum. It is set up to be a 34" scale but I am messing with it to make it 38" scale which is, I believe, 1/2 size. What is the difference between "full size strings" and "1/2 size strings"? Is it just (obv) length or are there tensions and stuff involved? I am thinking about a set of Honeys cos I like them and need to do the Arco thing (otherwise it would be rockabilly all the way).