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Thanks Jack, do you use DIY foam blockers or is there a good product available? Hoping to be playing mostly outdoor gigs with this but want to be prepared

@Happy Jack what's the feedback like on your aluminium bass compared to a typical wooden version?

I'll be using PR-40, underfoot or wing, and https://ebssweden.com/content2/effects/ebs-stanley-clarke-signature-acoustic-preamp/ And then I'll try loads of other stuff until I go mad

The World needs more or this stuff

Thanks @Happy Jack, I put a bid on early doors and watched it go up towards £2k pretty quickly, I shred it here because I assumed someone with more cash than me on here would snag it, I knew what my limit would be an also knew I'd put it on with about 10 secs to go. Frankly I was bloody surprised and not a little overjoyed to win it. It's stays within BC which means several of the usual suspects will own at one time or another I'm sure 👍 Shall we do an A-B with the two Ali DB's at a bass bash sometime soon?

This makes me so happy right now

Good idea 👍

Frankly I'm amazed it went as low as it did Lawrie, bad time of year to sell such a unique instrument for sure (equals good time to buy one). It's going to be an interesting journey with this, I loved the tone in the video the seller posted but as is so often the case with DB, the tone is most likely the player's and not the instrument's. I've been playing the same DB for almost 8-years now, a big and powerful 4/4, so it was time for a change 👍

Agreed, although that happened to me once and the reason wasn't a crap seller but that the cardboard box was destroyed by water damage at the courier depot and they shrink wrapped the whole thing there. To their credit they actually told me about it as well, and said that as the package was insured I could make a claim if there was any damage, which amazingly there wasn't. Re the bass, glad it arrived, could have been a whole lot worse given the way this started 👍

Agreed, 'different', 'better' and 'necessary' are certainly not always the same thing 🤔

Good to hear Steve, while Andertons refunded me very quickly for mine, I'd have preferred a replacement to be honest, but c'est la vie. Certainly a good piece of kit so I might look to get one elsewhere (although a look around a few weeks back suggests they're in short supply in the UK at present) 👍

Fingers crossed for you mate 🤞

Jazz Basses have 2xPUPs, end of 🎸

My legal team are on it mate 👍

With apologies to my fellow bidding BCers, the winner was me. In my defence I did start a thread alerting everyone to the sale a week or so back… But I can’t wait to get this baby 👍

I suspect the US price is very misleading 👍

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/more-furniture-collectibles/collectibles-curiosities/musical-instruments/rare-pfretzschner-aluminum-double-bass-buffalo-ny-art-deco-machine-age/id-f_6884273/?&currency=gbp&utm_content=condensed&allowUniversalLink=no&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIh-zEss7J_AIVw_ftCh26RwqeEAQYAyABEgKbpfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Theory rarely survives application 🤔

Fender Kingman https://www.fender.com/en-GB/acoustic-basses/concert-2/kingman-bass/0970743106.html?rdl=true IMO however Fender are not very good at anything acoustic 😕

it’ll do percussive mate 👍

Ah but your singer DNA is moderated by your bass DNA. I suspect you fail to fully appreciate the sense of self importance and whytheflipshouldiness that comes with being 100% the former 😆

Don't get me started........ The delivery from UPS this week didn't arrive and I was going to be out the next day so I tried to use the link in the 'delayed' email to change delivery date to a day on which I would be. It took me 90 minutes to get it done - I had to register with their website and then download their app and then enter all sorts of details only to be told that someone of the same name already had an account with them so I had to start all over again - and when it finally did and i entered all the details successfully, I pressed 'Continue' and got an error message saying "Please try again later". The seller was at the the same time trying to do it by phone with even less success..........

Amazon appear to be tightening up, our drivers no longer leave items unless we're at home, it's actually a little annoying but I guess we can't have it both ways!

My favourite one night stand band, auditioned, got the gig, learned the set, rehearsed for three months, first gig booked, 100 mile drive each way to that London. Singer, of the low work-rate/moderate talent/high maintenance type, hasn’t brought his microphone and then kicks off when the venue don’t have a spare (I had one in my kit bag but thought I’d keep quiet at least a while). So, after s kerfuffle I lent him a mic through which he was rude to the venue, to us, and better still, to the audience. A few of my mates were there and said they thought it was irony at first, it was that bad. So to my mind a singer who owns a mic and who takes it to a gig is already at the better end of the singer scale 👍