Recent content by hazzacanary

The romanian basses are within visiting distance, although I'd have to cough up £20 in train fare... One of them looks like it has a brand new bridge, so I guess I'd need to have it fitted properly Also as I'm jazzer, I guess I'd have to get pretty much any bass to the luthier to get the...

How come? Sorry don't want to be confrontational, I'm sure just interested as I'm sure you know a lot more about this than I do! I would, of course, go and try before I buy with any 2nd hand instrument! Would you advocate waiting and seeing what comes up on the 2nd hand market? My grant money...

Ok, I'll steer clear of the Archer then - I think one of the guys who I said had one spent at least £1000 doing it up! Re the Thomann variable quality, can't you send things back to thomann though, just if you don't like them... I can't imagine what shipping would be like for something this big...

Hi all, I'm a jazz bassist looking to finally get my hands on my own instrument! I have a grant of £750, but I can stretch to £1000 if it's worth it. Anways, a couple of the classical bassists at my college have these archer basses from gear4music.com, and they really rate them (after a setup...

Hi all I recently bought a cheap shadow SH-SB1 bass pickup so I could get into playing double bass with a drummer! Anyways, I also purchased the Behringer ADI-21 as a cheap preamp/EQ. However, if I play hard, I get a horrible popping noise on impact. Is this being caused by overloading the...