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Then you are no help to me. Unless you do impressions of any other instruments?

Gawd help me, I'm thinking of buying a new bass. I know there's a few Duke owners on here - I'd be very interested in your impressions of the Duke Two Tone or Duke Special, particularly if you play pizz rather than slap style. How does it compare in sound to other basses you've played? Has it got a nice strong tone on the E and A strings? Churrz! Dave

The Eminence soundpost is kept in place by a wood ring glued to the back of the bass, so it's not glued in place but it won't fall over if you take the bridge off. This does mean that the soundpost can't be moved/adjusted as it would in a standard double bass. The bass may benefit from a fingerboard re-shoot if its overly worn and you're getting buzzes and rattles with your string of choice. Mine was fully set up before delivery and I haven't felt the need to have it set up in the 12 years I've owned it.

I'd second the room acoustics consideration - I got a much nicer sound in my kitchen with a £30 Thomann mic than I did in my so-called music room with a £150 mic.

WTF was that doing on the radio? It sounds like a home recording project done by someone who 1) doesn't know what latency is and 2) has cloth ears.

As I'm listening to this, it reminds me of Clayhill, with the legendary Ali Friend on bass. 'Mine at last' is the album to check out.

The video had me with just the melodica and bass, everything after that was a bonus.

No - but keep and eye on it. If it starts to widen/spread then you can start to worry.

😥 I've just gone back to my EA Doubler afer a brief affair with a Tecamp. The Tecamp was nice and all but the EA is the whippet's wedding tackle for double bass. The only consolation is that the EA amps are built with top quality components so my Doubler will carry on for alot longer than I will.

Back when all gigs were off, I put a lot of time into working on my vocals. I had a vocal mic set up which went into a mixer, along with my bass signal and the song play back. All the output went into headphones which helped me get used to the sound of my voice outside my head. Recording the session helps to find the bits that need work. My biggest advance was realising that I wasn't breathing properly just before I sing, I was effectively holding my breath, or not breathing between phrases, which made pitching much harder. Once I identified that issue and focussed on where the breaths shoud go, tone and pitching became a lot more reliable.

Musima basses are indestructible. No way that's dead.

There's a Greenboy Crazy 8 in the amps & cabs for sale forum at a very reasonable £250. These cabs are very highly regarded for double bass - do a search on the double bass forums on Talkbass for user feedback.

There's a Talkbass thread about it. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/adjustable-soundpost-–-anima-nova.1198813/#post-18233085 I haven't read it in detail but looks like the price is €600.

And another soul is claimed...

This was about 20 years ago - its quite likely the Yamaha was my 'spare' fretless at the time. One day I just set it up to play along to some Morphine tunes. As a result of that, I came up with parts for a couple of songs the band were working on, which made it into the live set so I kept the bass as it was and used it live.

Yep. I used an old Yamaha RBX250 fretless with just the A and D strings, tuned a 5th or a minor 3rd apart and the heaviest slide I could find. To get the action high enough, I had to raise the bridge saddles up as far as they would go and run the strings over the top of the nut rather than in the string slots. It all worked well enough for what I was doing.

My guess would be Innovation Braided Orchestral.

I use this with my EA Doubler. It was made by OBBM, following the description in the EA manual Amazon have this balanced TRS jack to male XLR which should work, but it would be worth checking with the vendor to confirm that the TRS connections are wired as per the requirement in the EA manual. https://www.amazon.co.uk/kenable-6-35mm-Balanced-Audio-Adapter-XLR-pins-Stereo-Plug/dp/B008JYF2CK/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=trs+to+xlr+male+balanced+adapter&qid=1632687056&sr=8-3

Legally, you should get permission to use the poem from the poem's publisher as they will (usually)be the copyright owner - if they say yes, then you're good to go. However, if you don't ask and if the track isn't being commercialised then I think it's unlikely that whoever owns the copyright to the poem will a) find out or b) get upset about it. In terms of not being seen to be claiming ownership of something you didn't write, then state in the credits that the poem was written/translated by someone else. If the copyright owner does actually find out AND get upset, then the worst that will happen will be a cease and desist letter. If you haven't been sellng the track then there isn't any money for the publisher to chase, but the solicitors will probably try to charge you for writing the letter.

I have Superflexibles on one of my basses - the colour in the photos looks pretty close. If you're looking for more twang/punch then I'd suggest a set of Thomastik Spirocore Weich. They're not stupid expensive by double bass string standards and if you don't like them, they're very easy to sell on. Another benefit is Spiro Weichs are (IMHO) about as close as you'll get to a 'standard string' in that most players know what they sound and feel like, so 'darker than Spiro weich' or 'lower tension than Spiro weich' are useful reference points that can be used to help you work towards your ideal string set. Other popular choice are Pirastro Perpetual and Evah Pirazzi weich. Both great string sets that you can easily sell on as part of your journey down the bass string rabbit hole.

I had a studio session just after everything opened up. Gear worked fine but when it came to pack down, I couldn't unplug the speaker cable from the cab, no matter how I twisted or pulled the plug. ....I'd forgotten that Neutrik connectors have a little slidey thing you have to pull back to unplug it.

Ah, I see - wasn't fully aware of when the rockabilly revival was.

Or using a wireless transmitter?

Nice! Those 60/70s eastern European laminates are great workhorses.