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Yep. Exactly like that.

I have the Christopher one- 3 years and 250 gigs later it's still going strong and all the dangly bits in one piece. Lots of useful grab handles and pockets. Can't fault it.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1430821346' post='2764798'] If you could barely move your left shoulder the next morning, and the fingertips on your right hand were painful to touch, then it's official ... you had fun. [/quote] Are we still talking about DB gigs?

I use a LMII head, which probably isn't hugely different from the LMIII head used in the cmd combo. I live in Bristol but gig in Dorset a lot - you're welcome to try my amp if we can meet up at one of my gigs.

Sounds great to me... The beauty of double bass is that you can keep it simple and still sound interesting. Don't try to rush things, allow your sound to develop in its own time and with the sound of your band. If you had fun playing the gig then you're doing everything right.

We've got loads on this year: Cursus cider & music festival Welsh Perry & cider festival Weymouth Quayside music festival Wimborne folk festival Boomtown fair Tolpuddle Martyrs fair Jusassic Rocks festival OutCider festival Great Dorset Steam Fair Last of the summer cider music festival There's also a handful of little cider festivals, VeeDub, scooter and Harley-Davidson rallies. We're going to be busy boys....

We've been running into this kind a crap a lot this year, you were right to cancel. We've turned up at events where 'a PA will be provided' to find a power amp and speakers, but no desk, mics, stands or cables. I've since amended our contract to define what a 'full PA' means.

I'd be up for it.

There's a very good French band called Phoenix, not sure I'd say they were proggy... http://www.wearephoenix.com/

It's likely that he's filed the slot down to lower the action on the G string. I've done the same thing when I bought my last bass - the G was way to high for me so I filed the slot down and played it that way for a few months until I was sure of how I wanted the bass set up. When I had the bass set up, I just had the bridge cut down to the right level. I know players who have cut deep bridge slots and never get round to cutting off the excess.

The Kala U-bass won't sound like a double bass, but it does a decent impression of an amplified double bass.

Hi Mart3442. I didn't mean claimed in a derogatory way or to suggest that your story wasn't true. Poor choice of word on my part and I apologise for any offence inadvertently caused. Dave

Poo. Andy Fraser, along with Jack Bruce, was an enormous influence on my formative years of bass playing. Now both are gone and I feel old....... Still, great tunes eh? I think I may go whack on the headphones and play along to Mr Big very loudly indeed.

We have a 'pub' fee for gigs with no door charge and an 'event' fee for gigs where punters have to buy a ticket/pay on the door . Both are negotiable depending on what/where/when but the pub fee has an upper limit based on what pubs can realistically afford/get from the PubCo or brewery and the event fee has a lower limit based on the premise that if the promoter is booking us to sell tickets that we should be getting a fair crack of that whip. We also have a 'supporting the legends of the west country' fee which may or may not cover our expenses but is regained in merch sales and the potential for expanding our fanbase.

It looks in decent enough condition and as BOTB says, these Eastern European basses are solid workhorses (I use one as my regular gigging bass) - but £1200 could buy you this: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/256863-for-saletrade-gedo-34-semi-solid-db-tom-will-gigbag-gage-pickup/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/256863-for-saletrade-gedo-34-semi-solid-db-tom-will-gigbag-gage-pickup/[/url] That's a lot of bass, pickup and excellent strings for yer money.

Preamp use is a matter of taste - if your amp input can handle the impedance difference then it won't make any difference to the sound. An impedance mismatch will make your sound nasal and scratchy. In my experience, the K&K disc-type pickups need good firm contact with the bridge to get the best out of them.

Are you using a pre-amp between the pickup and the desk/your amp? I'd recommend getting some double sided sticky tape for the pickup discs, they need firm contact with the bridge to get the best sound and the gaffa tape probably isn't providing enough pressure.

She is... I don't play it anywhere near as much as it deserves.

It can be tricky to work out exactly how much a BigE cab will cost as it will depend on the exchange rate at the time and how much you get charged on import duty. I think that my MAS45 ended up costing £700, which wasn't far off the cost in US dollars. So as a guide, the price in US dollars will be pretty close to the cost in £ Sterling after import duty is added. So, they aren't cheap cabs..... but I am very happy with mine and have never, ever felt that I paid too much for it. What I love about mine is the note definition & separation you get, especially from the B downwards, the sheer volume you can get before feedback kicks in and the small form factor and weight. For my needs, it really is the perfect package. Before I bought the BigE, I was using a BFM Omni10.5, which is a great little cab by anyone's standards, but I often struggled to hear myself clearly on the A and E strings. I thought I needed more volume, but after trying bigger amps and doing a shedload of research, I realised it was lack of separation of the notes in this frequency range that was the problem. Mike calls this the note 'envelope' and it was his discussion and explanation on the topic that alerted me to the BigE cabs in the first place. I've used this cab a lot as backline (so not going through the PA) in pub gigs and it's done an amazing job considering its size, but where it really excels is as a monitor on a proper stage, where i can set it upon a stand at shoulder height, about 8-10ft away, and get a fantastic sound which sounds like my double bass and doesn't boom or feed back or generally turn to mush.

A rare outing for Barbara. Was quite nice to take the old girl out for a spin.

I'm not nomally this expressive, but we wuz 'avin fun..

The Puma is supposed to be great for DB according to the Talkbass DB mob. All that's needed to go from electric to double bass is a tweak of the taste knob. As for cabs, if you like the Crazy 8, have you considered the Mike Arnapol Soundworks MAS46? It's designed by the same bloke who was involved with the Crazy 8 and 88 and is squarely aimed at the doubling bassist.

The thread's in the bass guitars forum and is called 'obscure musical backwaters' - the search function should bring it up.