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  1. Beer of the Bass
    I think the Swedish rosin is Nyman or Carlsson (I suspect the two may be the same thing, as the tub is identical, with a different label). I lent mine to a fiddle player once and he moaned about the stickiness for weeks! The Upton Revolution Solo II is a decent pickup. I use one, and it does a respectable enough job - still a bit pickup-y sounding but very useable, and probably as good as you'll get without spending huge amounts.
  2. Beer of the Bass
    Bump! Now £35 posted!
  3. Beer of the Bass
    Electro Harmonix Small Stone phaser, USA reissue model. Very clean condition with just a couple of small scratches (has never been gigged, just sat on top of my electric piano at home!). Still with the cardboard box it came in. £40 posted in UK.
  4. Beer of the Bass
    I originally listed this back in February, but decided to hang onto it for a while when it didn't sell straight away. Now it has to go to sort out my finances! It's a Fender Highway One Jazz, which I bought new in 2009. It's in excellent condition, with no chips or big dents, just some minor glossed up patches on the satin finish (which is inevitable with this type of finish). I have added a Hipshot extender key and a nice tort pickguard from WD. The original tuner and guard will be included. It also has a Fender gigbag and the owners booklet and bridge and trussrod keys it came with. It's currently wearing D'addario Chromes, though the nickel rounds it came with are in the case. This is a lovely bass to play, comfortable medium-light weight and gives all the classic Jazz bass sounds. £400 posted in the UK - I'll knock off £20 if you want to pick it up in person. The bass will be packed with the neck detached to reduce package size, and sent by Royal Mail Standard Parcels, insured to the full value. EDIT: Now sold locally.
  5. Beer of the Bass
    Picato flatwound bass strings, 45-105 guage. The E-string has been on my jazz (non through-body strung) for about 5 minutes, the A,D and G have not been fitted. These are very smooth feeling flats with unsilked ends and are at the deeper, darker end of the spectrum. £12 posted in UK. Now sold, pending the usual blah...
  6. Beer of the Bass
    The drummer in my old band used to use rods for acoustic gigs - they're pretty good for low volume without sounding like brushes. The bass drum will be loud as ever though. A small bass drum, (maybe a converted floor tom?) could help too. A mate of mine uses a bass pedal beating a samsonite suitcase for busking, and packs his snare and hi-hats inside to move it all around! He is a bit odd though...
  7. Beer of the Bass
    Don't go with the second soundpost! AFAIK, that's a method used by the rockabilly/psychobilly dudes to reduce feedback (allowing higher amp volume) when amped up by deadening the bass acoustically. I find when jamming in noisy acoustic situations the single most effective thing for me is finding the right RH technique, though there is a certain minimum string height for getting that to work. But yeah, modern drummers probably are louder than in the pre-amplification days. Not only because of the synthetic heads and brighter cymbals, but because modern styles use the bass drum much more than people used to.
  8. Beer of the Bass
    Where are you in central Scotland? A good friend of mine is just getting started gigging on guitar, and I might drop her an email about this - it'd be just the job...
  9. Beer of the Bass
    I've just tried some Picato flatwounds on my Jazz - they're nicely made and very smooth, but are easily the darkest sounding flats I've experienced. Much darker than the 9-month old D'addario Chromes I swiftly changed back to. They have a good big pillowy thump to the attack though - If I played dub they'd be just the thing, but as it is, they're not for me.
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    EDIT: Both now sold, Cheers...
  11. Beer of the Bass
    I have two jazz pickguards, both 11-hole vintage pattern. One is a 4-ply brown tortoiseshell from Rockinger. I bought this a few weeks ago on here, but realised that it wouldn't fit my 10-hole pattern bass without quite a bit of tinkering. This one has never been installed and still has the plastic film on. £15 posted in UK. The other is 3 ply "wildcat yellow" marbled tort-style plastic (not a naff printed one) which I've had for a while. This would look great on a natural finish bass, sort of like Prince's telecaster. This also has the plastic film but has had some minor filing to widen the neck pocket slightly. £6 posted in UK. Both pickguards line up together in outline and screw-holes, so I presume they're standard 11-hole pattern, but I don't have a vintage style jazz to try them against, so I can't guarantee fit on specific models of bass.
  12. Beer of the Bass
    I had a Model One on my bass for a while, and I found that having the pickup split gave a clearer, more likeable sound than in parallel, and the output was better. The hum was not noticable, but I don't use much distortion. However it was wired, the Dimarzio was still a lot less bright than the Darkstar thats on there now, so I think it's an inherently dark sounding pickup.
  13. Beer of the Bass
    I find high master/low gain to sound good with my Clarus head when using double bass. I could be imagining this, but it seems a little more open sounding and less compressed than high gain/low master.
  14. Beer of the Bass
    One fretless I had (an old Aria TSB) had a fairly coarse grained rosewood fingerboard where the strings seemed to have dented the wood along existing bits of grain, rather than abrading grooves in the board. Also, I found that doing spot fills (rather than coating the whole board) with thin superglue worked well for localised buzzy spots and looked fine when carefully levelled. This could work as a way to extend the playing time before having the board skimmed, though I'd maybe avoid it on a super-classy bass.
  15. Beer of the Bass
    I had a stained maple fingerboard on my bass replaced with ebony, and it helped the sustain and tone greatly, but I wouldn't say it made a lot of difference to the volume. However, depending on what the bass is like at the moment, a well fitted soundpost and bridge might improve matters.
  16. Beer of the Bass
    I think it's an older model reduced because it will have been in stock for longer. I think they stopped having the switch about a year or so back.
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    PM sent...
  18. Beer of the Bass
    I've no idea what they are, but they're not superflexibles. Superflexibles are light blue at both ends and have a barrel shaped ball. Hope that helps even slightly!
  19. Beer of the Bass
    And another bump...
  20. Beer of the Bass
    Bump for price drop - £375 if picked up from my flat in Edinburgh. I'm in the midst of a flat move, so I'm struggling to find time to get the packing materials I'd need to post it.
  21. Beer of the Bass
    A little bump. I may even be amenable to some haggling, but no trades.
  22. Beer of the Bass
    I'm selling my Fender Highway One Jazz, as I'm moving house and could do with the money! It was bought new in August 2009 and has done some gigs, but is in very good condition. This is one of the more recent Highway models with a Badass bridge, satin nitrocellulose finish and a graphite reinforced neck. The body is alder and the weight is reasonably light - I find it a very comfortable bass to play. I have fitted a Hipshot extender key to drop the E string to a D, but the original tuner will be included in case you ever want to put it back. It's currently wearing D'addario Chromes flatwounds and sounds like a good Jazz should! It's in a fender gigbag and has the original owners manual, truss rod and bridge adjusting keys and tags. New price is usually around £550. I'm asking £400, and pickup from Edinburgh is very much preferred.
  23. Beer of the Bass
    I'd go and see a Hillage tribute if they were playing in my town...
  24. Beer of the Bass
    Still around, so another bump!
  25. Beer of the Bass
    [quote name='grumble' post='723821' date='Jan 25 2010, 08:33 AM']If this is still around at the end of next month then I'm deffo interested. Just two questions though. 1. I'm an upright noob, is this ok for learning ? 2. Is it amenable to respray/refinishing ? I like the look but the colour.... well it reminds me of my grans doors back in the 60's, a finish known as 'scumble'. Not a biggie I suppose, I could live with it.[/quote] The scale length and fingerboard/neck shape are pretty typical double bass dimensions, so technique you develop on this should transfer over to acoustic double bass OK. That's what I did, though I found I still needed to work a bit on getting good tone and projection once I moved over to acoustic double bass. I'm not sure what finishing materials were used, but the maker is still around at www.bassix.net , so I'd suggest you contact him and enquire.
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