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There’s little you can do with a DB but you can damn we’ll look at the audience! I learned to play reading music so my technique requires me to look at the audience. Smile, make eye contact, sing BVs - make the gig as fun as possible:

I don’t think it would be possible to exist and not have heard some of these amazing tracks. Glad you’ve joined us here.

This is why I’m friends with my local guitar tech. Not only is he a lovely man but he enjoys working on such instruments. He’s got two kids and works hard. I would see the £50 spent on this as representing amazing value. Good luck with the new bass. It looks amazing.

All excellent advice. The “Discover Double Bass” intro lessons are truly fantastic.

Reckon you’re probably the only one…

Great purchase. Too many DB starters struggle with awful instruments (I’m talking from experience). Having a well set up bass makes a huge difference. Welcome to the club. Given how in demand db players are you’ll probably be gigging in a few weeks…

Personally, I'd get a TE elf and a Barefaced 1x10. That's what I use and it's amazing.

I used to own a West German made Streamer and it was an incredible bass. I’m sure this one will be, as well. Congrats and let us know what it sounds like when you get it!

Thanks for the replies it's appreciated. I had the G77B package previously (I've owned several) and that worked really well with rounds. Agreed that technique played a huge part in it. The issue I have is the unit is currently not working well and the tracking is off (intermittently works and then doesn't). I've isolated the fact that the blend switch (synth - synth/bass - bass) is faulty working and I think this is the root of the issue with the unit. I'm getting this sorted out in the next few weeks, at which time I'll know what works and what doesn't. (It's quite exciting!) If it's not the wiring in the bass, I'll swap the cable and see if that's the cause. Only then will I know if the synth unit is faulty. Assuming it works, while the synth unit is in exceptional physical condition, it's too fragile really to gig with so I'll probably keep it at home as a curio/collectible. If it were going to be gigged I'd use flats, but my experience with rounds was positive and it's an active bass too, so I think I'll try those first. If anything, it'll save me £25 if the bass doesn't work.

This is a weird one! My Roland GR bass is going to the shop for a setup and some work. I was going to fit chrome flats to it, but someone said that wouldn’t be good for the synth pickup. Does anyone have any ideas or opinions (hopefully based on experience of using such systems in the past).

I use the snark clip on tuners and you can set it to vibrate and it works really well. I appreciate this doesn’t help you.

I do collection only on any big ticket items and (so far) it has been fine. A lot of people are wonderful, some are idiots and some are scumbags. EBay confirms this.

You can message the mods here as a first step. You could also co text your bank and query the transaction. It’s unlikely you’ll get your money back (you won’t) but you could raise a flag on the account which might help. This has happened to me before and it’s always sad. Less so for the money, and more because you don’t expect it from a forum of (virtual) friends.

Random one, but I have one of these that’s sealed and free! you’ll need to pay postage.

Point made. I hate average punters having a pop at the band but I remember a bass teacher coming up to me after the gig and telling me of a technical fault. (I used to thump the string while it was muted to keep time.) Once I noticed it, I fixed it quickly and now play a lot better.

Not sure why this would upset you. If I he was trying out for your community orchestra then fair enough, but he’s probably happy playing in front of 40,000 people each nigh before in sipping champagne in his solid gold bath.

He was a drummer and wanted to “share his knowledge and experiences”, apparently.

Nobody here judges you. All music is good music. I did a gig yesterday and someone came up to the singer and started telling her where she was going wrong. It was quite upsetting for her and I’d not want to make anyone else feel that way.