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Longview by Green Day? Down in the tube station at midnight by The Jam. (Are The Jam mod or punk?)

Has anyone on here actually benefited from the exposure of 90,000 (or however many) plays in terms of more punters at gigs, better paid gigs or better festival slots? I could suck up the pittance per play if it actually translated into more gigs or better paid gigs.

Lovely looking mic - I occasionally wander into the Talkbass Nadine thread and then have to remind myself that I don't to buy a mic that costs more than my bass.

XTC - Making plans for Nigel. Apart from no-one born in the last 20 years being called Nigel, 'he has his future in British Steel'.

Thwaites in Watford and The Double Bass room in Kent both have stocks of old eastern European basses around the £1000 mark. If you're buying new, then Stentor, Strunal and the Thomann '2' (actually rebadged Strunals) basses are all perfectly decent basses for the money. I use a Stentor Student 2 in our rehearsal studio and I've played one of the Strunal/Thomann basses - I'd happily have either if I didn't already have enough basses. I'd avoid the £500 laminate basses you see on Gear4music, etc. Our singer's missus has one and it's not great. It can be made playable, but the sound is pretty insipid.

That was fun - kinda like a Bob Ross episode but with a headstock instead of a painitng.

https://www.themusicinn.co.uk/bass-guitars/electric-bass/jedson-short-scale-bass-pre-owned https://reverb.com/uk/item/578786-jedson-telecaster-bass-1969-75-sunburst https://reverb.com/uk/item/1701501-jedson-short-scale-telecaster-bass-sixties-3-tone-sunburst https://thebassgallery.com/products/jedson-short-scale All £300 + Although, no idea how much much the Bass Gallery one went for, but the fact that it sold means that someone paid actual money for it, which is still ridiculous.

My first bass was a short scale Jedson tele stye thing that I paid about £40 for in 1984. If I could have bought any other bass, I would have, but it was all that was available in my remote corner of Ireland. It was bad- so bad that when I eventually replaced it with a Marlin Swidewinder, it was a significant improvement. Those Jedson basses regularly go for £300 plus on ebay and gawd knows how much more on Reverb. Utterly bonkers. You could spend a third of that on a new Harley Benton and get a bass that was three times better.

The 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, etc sizing of a double bass refers to the scale length, with a 3/4 bass being around the 41" (104cm). The full length of the bass, measured from the bottom of the body to the top of the scroll isn't the best indicator of scale legnth as body and scroll size will vary from maker to maker. Having said that, my 41", 3/4 size basses are about 180cm, top to tail, which would suggest (assuming the same measurement points) that the bass in question is smaller than a typical 3/4 size bass.

Another cheap option would be to buy a second hand set of decent strings from the for sale forum.

That's a neat solution. Does the gooseneck bend around enough to sit just above and between the bridge legs?

The scale length for a 3/4 size double bass is around 41", but its not a universal standard and will vary from maker to maker. My Eminence is 41"

I posted this in the 'items wanted' forum but it may get more views here: I'm looking for a hardwood bass tailpeice to modify into a floating tailpiece for my EUB - if you have one doing nothing, even if it's been damaged, let m eknow. Churrz!

Chowny SWB?

I have my bass with the neck & scroll between the two front seats, as in your first image. I use a folded up bit of carpet under the upper bout to raise the neck up so that the bass isn't resting on the scroll. I pack my amp bag and whatever else I'm bringing with me on either side of the bass body to stop it rolling over when you round a roundabout.

Yeah, it has a certain minimalist aesthetic.

There's a Bespoke Superlight EUB on Ebay for £1000: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bespoke-Basses-electric-upright-double-bass/293894729565?hash=item446d7daf5d:g:VxsAAOSw2gBf1elW They're not made anymore but they had a good reputation as well made and good sounding EUBs.

Good question. If you can't play the bloody thing then no amount of gizmos will do it for you. I only put the Jazzicatos on a few days ago and they're a bit stiff for my liking but I'm liking the sound so far. In my experience, EUBs need orchestral or gut emulating synthetic strings to get the DB sound - there's too much rigidity/sustain to use steel strings, they just sound nasal and twangy. I have found that the Fdeck works really well with the realist pickup and gets the best out of the bass. The best sounding eminence that I've experienced was at one of the DB bashes - I can't recall who owned it, but it had Evah Pirazzi weich and a Full Circle pickup and sounded amazing, but I'm sure the operator had a lot to do with the sound....

OK - Eminence EUB with Presto Jazzicato tungsten strings via a Fdeck HPF preamp with the HPF control turned right down (35hz). Down in the hole.mp3 love cats.mp3 noodle.mp3 stop.mp3

I'll record something. Do you want a particular style of music?

On top of @Bloopdad1's excellent advice, I'd add that if it's East German then it probably came out of the 'Musima' factory. Musima basses are generally very solid, built for schools, pretty good sound for a plywood bass and can take a lot of abuse. I've been playing one for 6 + years, and it's coped with everything from festival mud to freezing vans to stage invasions. If it's a 3/4 scale (40-41") and there's no damage to the neck or body then £400 is pretty good - you could drop another £400 on a setup/bridge/strings and still have a value for money bass.

That's a good enough reason to shack up with an EUB! The Eminence and Yamahas are the most DB-ish of the common EUBs available. I've never played a MK bass, but they look very similar to the Yamaha design. The MK jazz model is rather pretty looking..... I'd marry that one if I could. I think you'd be very happy with any of those three - if you have the cash I reckon you could buy any of them unseen and not regret it. I bought my Eminence without ever having seen one in the flesh, never mind touching one and haven'y looked back.

There's not a lot of EUBs available in the gap between the Stagg/Harley Benton price range and the £1500 + world of the Yamaha SLB, Eminence and MK basses. The Aria SWB Lite was about £800 new but I don't think they make them any more. There's one on Reverb for £950, which is silly money . My first EUB was an Aria and while it was pretty good I felt the need to move up a notch after 18 months, so even if you could find one for a decent price, I reckon you'd outgrow it pretty quickly. The Eminence (my second and current EUB) is great - light years away from the Stagg in feel and sound, as is the Yamaha SLB 200. Neither are cheap new, though second hand ones can be had for the £1200 mark. Are you married to the EUB? If you're looking at spending £1200, you could get a very acceptable second hand laminate double bass and pickup, which will sound and play much more like a double bass than any EUB.

In my experience, this isn't limited to the BBC. ..