Beedster

I reckon you're going down a rabbit hole here Dan, you might spend a lot of money and wait a long time and still find it doesn't feel right (neck dive, different feel/sound etc). I injured my back a few years back lifting timber and had to wear a lumbar brace for a gig, amazing how it reduced the perceived weight of the basses (one of which was a lump). I wouldn't choose to do it all the time but it made me realise that there's a lot more to the perceived weight of the bass than the actual weight of the bass (my physio said the brace also altered my posture for the better which would have made a difference also). Have you tried alternatives, wider/heavier strap etc?

Nomad Bassman, for when you absolutely gotta compress the f*** outta everything 😀 Loved mine 👍

For me this comes down to something more than tone. The upright bass requires (forces) the player to adopt a different style in terms of structure and timing of the parts by comparison with electric. It's less tone and more 'I can tell that's not upright because that's not how you'd play that part on an upright'. I played in a Jazz combo a few years back and the composer/keyboard player had recorded all the original demos using software (keyboard triggered) for the upright parts, he was a very competent composer and musician. He understood the limitations of the instrument he was emulating and you could hear this in what he chose to play even though he was using a keyboard to record them. It's not about sounding like an upright, but playing whatever instrument you're using as you'd play an upright.

Yes. And no. If only life were so simple

Agreed, so would I 👍

Mic is the only way to make an upright sound like a louder upright

On iPhone/laptop yes, headphones no. In a mix it would probably work though 👍

So Garmin use arm movement to estimate steps?

Hope they paid you well for that rather impressive and I’d imagine quite tiring ppm rate Lawrie? I tend to hold firm at around 1/10 that unless there’s some serious cash on the table 😆

What if you get it wrong…..🤔

That’s either some busy double bass playing or a hell of a long gig? Or Jazz 😀

Link would help?

Nice looking instrument 👍

Reverb is a nice place to sell as it's mostly musicians. It's generally slower than eBay and a little less user friendly, but I much prefer it, I've sold to US and EU there with no hassle

Exactly 👍

Absolutely, really not sure why anyone would think it was to be honest? You'd be bringing them to a slow market and adding a significant/prohibitive cost to any potential buyer in the EU. Add to that the fact above, that any decent shop will not risk the wrath of HMRC so you will pay duties plus the cost of moving them to UK. Furthermore while with eBay/Reverb etc you can negotiate directly with buyers to speed up sales, many instruments sit in shop inventories for months if not years.....

100% this. plus sell them on eBay with an international postage option (when I used to buy and sell a lot, I often found that instruments that didn't sell in the UK would be gone within minutes when I added an EU option). This is especially the case ad Denmark is still EU so buyers won't have to pay taxes/duties.

Agreed, it's not his best, there are some clips where his ensemble playing is perfectly balanced between creative technique and supporting the song, worth checking some of his other stuff out on that basis But yes, all too often slap shouts 'look at me' to an audience. Funny how the same audience member might cheer the upright player when s/he does a bit of slap at a gig, yet also turn to their mates in the audience and say how f***ing awful it sounded why can't they bassist just support the song (I know from personal experience.....🤔)

In essence yes, same notes & same timing to start with, with as much of the originally fingerstyle part slapped or popped as is reasonably possible, see how things work, and then adapt as necessary

I'd start by trying to play the finger style basslines you've written using slap. It'll probably sound crude at first but as you get more into the lines you'll find that using slap brings new ideas and options to what was a fingerstyle line