Upright Bass

rusty said:
Talkbass also has a great double bass forum, but they can be a bit stuffy if you know what i mean.!

Cheers

Rusty
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Yeah, and 'stuffy' is putting it nicely.

They don't like us punk players over
there, sneakin' in their hen house, and
blowin' it's roof off.

I found another DB forum... Seems I've
misplaced it though.

TB has a link that leads to it somewhere...
 
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My hands would often get to hurting. You
can't play an URB like it's just a scaled up
electric, cuz you can't scale up your hands.

Anywayz, the scale is only 20% longer, but
the neck profile is about 250% larger. The
saving grace is that a vertical neck provides
a more joints-friendly hand-and-wrist angle.
If you've learned to keep your headstock up
high on your electric, you've already proved
this to yourself.

The most helpful advice I've received is to
avoid using your hand strength to close the
notes ... IOW do not use your thumb on the
back side to pull your fingers down onto the
strings. Use your hand strength only to hold
the curve of your fingers and use your whole
arm to to pull that hand down on the strings.

While this cannot serve you conveniently for
every note, or every moment of play, if you
make it your foundation, your left hand will
feel a whole lot better.


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Thank you guys for the help, its been well, helpful, hah. I actually have to do a jazz performance on sunday, and I'm practicing a lot right now, but playing some Miles Davis, and just getting the bass yesterday, is not an easy task, but I am up to it. Can anyone suggest a pickup I was thinking about getting this one.
Could anyone help me with this.
 
ampegsvt4 said:
Thank you guys for the help, its been well, helpful, hah. I actually have to do a jazz performance on sunday, and I'm practicing a lot right now, but playing some Miles Davis, and just getting the bass yesterday, is not an easy task, but I am up to it. Can anyone suggest a pickup I was thinking about getting this one./

Could anyone help me with this.
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Link didn't work. My only experince was with Barcus-Berry or a custom job that had an emg installed on a plate that hung from below the fret board. The emg thing was pretty cool and I almost had it done to mine. But the Barcus-Berry pickups are very nice. They mount to the basses bridge and are very unintrusive. I've included a link to a Barcus-Berry system that looks good. I don't have any experience with it tho.

Good luck
 
ampegsvt4 said:
I'm looking for some super dry sounding bass strings, old 1920's ragtime type of sound, if anyone could help me out that would be great.

*and thank you for the help, you have all been great.
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Gut strings are just that, made from animal guts. and thats what they used in that time, but they're very expensive now days, 500+! My favorites right now are thomastik bel contos. And as far a pickup goes, the best one on the market is the realist, but you mind want to consider a schaller magnetic pickup. search upright magnetic pickup and you'll probably end up at the site i go to all the time.
 
i don't like the realist pickup, it didn't sound like, dry enough to me, and I found a set of gut strings for 100. By the way, what do nylon strings sound like? They make them for upright bass.

And for pickups I can't spend more then $200, so that limits my search quite a bit.
 
I'd recommend listening to Steve Rodby before choosing a pickup:
 
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It's pretty much a given in the URB world that
the go-to guy, with answers, experience, fair
prices, etc is Bob Gollihur in NJ, aka URBBob.

He's an upright dude, meaning "a mensch" as
well a working player:

https://www.gollihurmusic.com/index.cfm

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Kris said:
I'd recommend listening to Steve Rodby before choosing a pickup:
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Great link Kris, thanks for sharing. Just got done listening to it and wow, great stuff. Talk about a nerd :lol: That guy really knows his stuff. Takes a very intellectual approach to the bass. It was a great listen, thanks again for sharing.
 
It's pretty much a given in the URB world that
the go-to guy, with answers, experience, fair
prices, etc is Bob Gollihur in NJ, aka URBBob.

He's an upright dude, meaning "a mensch" as
well a working player:
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Yah, but everything on that website is really expensive for what I want, but I might get this pup,

I don't know, this is a hard decision.
 
golem said:
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It's pretty much a given in the URB world that
the go-to guy, with answers, experience, fair
prices, etc is Bob Gollihur in NJ, aka URBBob.

He's an upright dude, meaning "a mensch" as
well a working player:

https://www.gollihurmusic.com/index.cfm

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thats the site. i think the magnetic pickup will give you the sound you want!
 
but then I am limited to metal strings, see, its a pain to choose. Would my upright then sound like a Triumph, hah. "why does my URB sound like my wick"
 
BassPlyr Randy said:
Kris said:
I'd recommend listening to Steve Rodby before choosing a pickup:
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Great link Kris, thanks for sharing. Just got done listening to it and wow, great stuff. Talk about a nerd :lol: That guy really knows his stuff. Takes a very intellectual approach to the bass. It was a great listen, thanks again for sharing.
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No worries! Rodby really spends a lot of time on his sound, and I've always been amazed at how great his upright sounds
 
Mate, I have the same bass and use the purple tipped spirocores on it.
They are a slightly lighter gauge and help you out a lot when learning.
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Could you possibly do a sound clip?

If so, it would be greatly appreciated
 
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