Recent content by ChristophMuench

Here is a short sound sample of the Shortbass One 60 Fretless. Played over a QSC K8 speaker (excellent also as a bass amp!). Between bass and speaker: HPF-Pre Series 3 preamp, Okko Coca Comp compressor (just makes sound a bit fatter and livelier and straightens out the volumes a bit)...

Hello folks! Having played, as a professional jazz pianist, a Kala U-Bass now for over 4 years, I just bought one of the new Shortbass models: The Shortbass One 60 fretless. I really like to play it, it feels more "grown up" and more double-bass-like than the U-Bass. And the on-board volume...

I can confirm that Caeman does a damn fine job as a middleman (2 times for me). :-)

You will buy a 2nd one, trust me. And if it's only as a backup if the first one has a defect or gets lost.

There must be something wrong with your bass. Normally the E string is VERY fat and has to be tamed by using HPFs, EQs, compressors etc. Do you already have a Fdeck HPF-Pre? Anyway a must-have for the U-Bass, and should help very much in ironing out any unevennesses. If the bass is connected...

Now I also have the Series 3! The difference to the Series 2 was instantly discernible. When at home in a relatively small room I played with the Series 2 and with the HPF knob at 35 Hz, it sounded too massive because there were still too much low frequencies present. With the series 3...

Well, many amateurs think "Bah, when playing in a band this can't be heard anyway, so why bother too much?" That is a big trap. No real professional would ever think that way - he always strives to let the instrument sound as good as possible first (and to let this good sound become an...

Anyway I have found that plucking technique is very important. On youtube I rather often see guys leaving their right hand in a fixed position and just reaching further or less far with the fingers for plucking the different strings. I think this is inappropriate; even with a bass as small...

I play a Kala U-Bass (besides being a pianist); for jazz playing in smaller clubs my micro equipment fully suffices and delivers powerful, really bassy and "acoustic sounding" tone: QSC K8 active speaker (11 kg, very small and portable) Signal chain: Bass - HPF-Pre Series 2 - Okko Coca Comp...

I don't think it's wise to buy a model with a built-in preamp. Because then you MUST use that preamp, no matter what, even if you one day realize that another preamp (cough... the HPF-Pre for instance...cough) sounds substantially better. Or am I wrong and the models with built-in preamp have...

Simply buy the Fdeck Series 2 and be happy. It's the best preamp, period. You don't need the BDDI after that.

Right. As I already said a while ago, about the only ones on Youtube who let the U-Bass sound good and like a real, serious instrument that not only can be used as a gimmick in amateurish Ukulele-/Country-/Bluegrass-bands are Tim Watson and Magnus Sjöquist. Especially unnerving I find those...

Better sell your television. Seriously.

I have very effective and natural-sounding mini-setup. Up to now all bass amps I have tested dissatisfied me because they always color the sound very much, and I don't have the feeling that I get an "acoustic" sound from my Mahogany Fretless. Since I know more and more double bass players who...

I have played 2 times with my U-Bass over a GK MB150 amp. Didn't work so well. These amps just sound too mids-heavy and "electric". I found them not good for the acoustic U-Bass. I play over QSC K8 / K10 active speakers which give a really beautiful, "acoustic" sound (albeit not as...