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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1342712571' post='1739838'] Some are more equal than others. [/quote] Attitude like that, that's why you're only second most Guardianreadery round these parts.

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1342711515' post='1739800'] Ill double check the pack when Im home. Oh and its a very big wooden plate btw A [/quote] It'd keep the sun off your head anyway. Thanks for the strings info. Strings on mine are, well, OK...feel like the flats on my EB but don't sound very double-bassy.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1342711684' post='1739803'] Twigman is always first [/quote] Only if you and your lentil-powered bicycle don't hold him up

That looks great. The ceramic sombrero behind the bass in the pic confused me for a second... These? http://www.stringmail.co.uk/dbass.htm

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1342688486' post='1739179'] One I admit to no-one (except to the whole world on here) is 'The Organ Entertains' on radio 2. Listen on i-player most weeks. Absolutely no idea why, the music is often dreadful, I think its part fascination with these electro-mechanical organs - about which I know very little. [/quote] Love it, even if the music isn't that great the huge sound is impressive, you can imagine the steam and gears :-)

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1342708733' post='1739720'] I have had a sneaking suspicion that maybe RIC release substandard instruments and sell them at a discount to retailers. A friend of mine has six Ricks and he has seen some really quite shoddy ones that are offered at 'good' prices. It's just my suspicion. [/quote] Thaty doesn't sit well with their witchhunt of Rickenfakers and forums that offer them for (2nd hand) sale...

I like your sig.

[quote name='funkygreega' timestamp='1342705490' post='1739645'] I hardly play rock but I had a pretty impressive 'fro that I got rid of last year. Its on its way back. [/quote] Makes it sound as if you dumped it on the motorway and it's finding its own way home!

Each to his own, but you'll probably find it easier to stand a bit farther from it, back and sideways.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1342704884' post='1739627'] Easy to say that today, in the 70s not so much. Much of what we take for granted today didn't exist then. Keep in mind that in 1970 the Shure Vocal Master was state of the art. [/quote] You're telling me the spiltter transformer was invented in 1980?

Looks like the Olympic logo

[quote name='thunderbird13' timestamp='1342702245' post='1739566'] Ahh That is one problem , the arms dont fit into the holes properly . I did wedge the long one I but TBH I dont find it very useful. I might give it another try though but TBH I didnt find it that comfortable [/quote] I can't play it at all without the rest, plucking just makes it spin on the spike so the left hand has to stop that as well as the non-trivial task of holding the strings down in tune. That's the long one I'm talking about, the one that presses against your sixpack. I don't see the point of the shorter one and don't use it...maybe one day if I venture up the board into (hushed tones) [i]thumb position[/i] I might find what it's for. Also, all of what Fumps says in the above. I'm playing more and more of the set on it, and the band and audiences always prefer it. Really teaches that 'more is less'. And yes, it does improve the EB playing. Win! Win!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1342701393' post='1739542'] Who are the first and second..? [/quote] I think you know who's second. The first...hmm, a poll, perhaps...

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1342700896' post='1739529'] If the mics are not identical the technique won't work, so if that's the case the mics are being fed to two different consoles. That was done a lot in the 70s, using one console for the FOH and the other for the recording, as most consoles then didn't have the ability to do both simultaneously. [/quote] Seems an odd way of going about it. Why not just use one mic, one transformer, two mixers? Perhaps the 'different mics' were the capsule taken out of an SM57 and an SM57.

I didn't see it as racist, and I'm the third most Guardianreadery member of Basschat, at least.

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1342697492' post='1739425'] I found my Stagg to be pretty good quality to. Nothing broke, nothing miss aligned. The only things I had to do was file the nut amnd bridge slots down. Which is part of a set up anyway surely! The only real mod was to wrap the end post with some foam sheet to stop it rattling inside the body. Other than that I did nothing. Oh and a new set of strings. Show me any bass for £300 that you dont do any or all of that to anyway straight out the box. It sounds 'like' an acoustic double bass. It isnt one so not all the complex tones are there. (As said above). Im realy happy though. Its great fun. Only issue Ive heard of with them is the machine heads are a little delicate and can break but they are stock open style elephant ears with slightly different posts. Stagg do replacements anyway. One gripe? Mine is supposed to be black sparkle. You can count the sparkles on one hand A [/quote] Likewise...I also stuck a piece of foam under the strings south of the bridge. Haven't had a problem with end pin rattling. The ferrules into which one screws the spacing/leaning/support bracket thingy were loose but a drop of Evostik sorted that. What sort of strings did you upgrade to, and how different was the sound/feel?

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1342695420' post='1739386'] They always seemed to be two different mics, [/quote] http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=803194&page=2 " Lemmy from Motorhead loves loud monitors, so his monitor engineer taped two 57's together, and played with the position of the mic capsule to use phasing to achieve higher,clearer gain before feedback. Once he found the sweet spot, he gaff taped the crap out of it and they used that rig for ages! If you look around the internet you can probably find pictures of it. They only sent one of the mic feeds to FOH of course."

Turn up the gain on the amp? Or get one that goes up to 11 ;-)

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1342678617' post='1739021'] Likewise. I usually can't stand singlecuts because the 'uncut' bit is always too big. The proportions of this are just right. Interesting pickup placement. [/quote] 'me too', and what BigRedX said. Is there any reason for them, apart from Marmite aesthetics?

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1342689099' post='1739197'] And why hasn't someone(!) designed/invented a double mic rig & cable to do this very job if it works that well? (I claim the rights on that, by the way! ) G. [/quote] I'm sure you can get noise-cancelling mics using this technique but right enough I haven't seen any 'off the shelf' ones for live vocals.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1342566465' post='1737317'] You need to get out more... [/quote] you got a cheek, cuddling your fretty thing in your avatar pic!

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1342538437' post='1736792'] Thanks, Hadnt thought of that. Sounds like a good idea to me. Just two in series, opposite ways, or with a one stage pre amp or something to invert one of them ? I think I might try it. [/quote] It'd be messy to wire them in series. Easier to stick each through its own preamp, invert the phase on one, and sum them.

[quote name='Jambo10' timestamp='1342297601' post='1733075'] I had been thinking of trying an electric upright....so, rightly or wrongly I managed to get the Stagg 3/4 EUB. So....as I am new to the whole upright playing shenanigans.... can anyone give me any rights or wrongs, do's or don'ts, or even any tips that would help my technique? [/quote] I have a Stagg. So far I've learned: Stick some foam under the strings below the bridge. Keep your left elbow up. Enjoy!

[quote name='fumps' timestamp='1342531350' post='1736645'] I love my Stagg so much I sometimes cuddle mine ......is that strange ? [/quote] It's very natural to cuddle an upright bass!

I think Motorhead still do it. Probably not so much to avoid feedback as to avoid further amplifying the incredible racket bouncing around onstage.