Owen

BigJim speaks the truth. [quote name='BigJim' post='893929' date='Jul 13 2010, 05:00 PM']I've just bought a Kala Bass Uke and it's AMAZING!!!!![/quote]

You KNOWS I knows it.

Double Bass. You can run, but you cannot hide.

I would like to pipe up on behalf of Studiospares own brand.

[quote name='owen' post='879877' date='Jun 28 2010, 02:00 PM']There are no 5ers as far as I know, but the original idea came from a specialist Uke bloke (Road Toad) who is happy to make a 5 with a slightly extended scale for B tension[/quote] I went for the fretted. Here is the reply from the Road Toad bloke about a 5er Biggest issue is putting a wide neck on a small body. It can be done as I did it with my hybrid ukulele/bass: [url="http://www.roadtoadmusic.com/Completed/Hybrid_UKEBASS_075H.html"]http://www.roadtoadmusic.com/Completed/Hyb...EBASS_075H.html[/url] 5 string would have a similarly wide neck, but about 50mm at nut and 63mm at 12th fret position. I've done it on solid body, but stretch the scale to 23.5" to get a good workable low B.

There are no 5ers as far as I know, but the original idea came from a specialist Uke bloke (Road Toad) who is happy to make a 5 with a slightly extended scale for B tension

I did a short review. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=93168"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=93168[/url]

I had never heard about these, I read a thread about them, watched some youtube vids and bought one within 18 hours. Solid Mahogany, Piezo pick up and REALLY fat plastic-y strings It is an awful lot of fun but also a serious instrument once plugged in. I play DB regularly and have an NS5 for when I cannot get the DB there. I am considering retiring the NS5, the Ubass sounds just as good for the kind of heavier dull thud gut type of sound I like. I have gigged it twice since taking delivery. one full on Jazz quintet and this morning in Church. It needs fairly careful EQing (just like a DB with a pick up). Obviously everyone thought it was hilarious when I took it out. They stopped laughing when I plugged it in. There is an awful lot of LF going on. The strings are very slightly tacky, you cannot do a triplet ghost note drag down to a lower note in a jazz stylee, but using some natural oil from the side of my nose made things a lot smoother. You cannot do a side to side vibrato. It just does not work. Does it sound like a full-on DB? Obv not. Does it have that sort of DB-esque low-mid, air-shifting heft? Yes. Do I look like someone carrying a Viola when it is in it's case? Yes. You cannot have everything. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNPx6RS8PiM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNPx6RS8PiM[/url]

Just fabulous!

It's here and it is a a lot of fun It is pretty fussy about what it sees as a pre-amp, as all piezo pickups which are unbuffered are.

[quote name='essexbasscat' post='873925' date='Jun 21 2010, 09:47 PM']I've seen some bands roll end - end connected XLR cables around a garden hose drum T[/quote] I do this. It is not the most space efficient, but it keeps your cables lovely!

Chevin A500 is a lovely piece of kit. It will do 350W per side into 4ohms or bridge 700w into 8ohms mono.

They are $199 so I guess similar here. I have just been sucked into Bass Ukulele world so this will go on the backburner for a bit!