Recent content by kilo watt

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    Double Bass Underwood setup?

    I use an underwood now after spending time a stringcharger...Mag pickups turn your sound into a gigantic electric fretless p bass...Anyway back to the underwood,I've found with my setup(Little Mark11,two 12" Traveler cabs,Aphex Bass Xciter,Boss GEB7 EQ,driven by a 1965 beat up German laminate...
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    Drummers from Hell..True Stories

    Runnin up to 50 years alive,been playing electric bass since I was 18,first drummer I worked with (6 long years),was in a nut shell, a drama queen...how he was feeling reflected in his playing...angry..LOUD..bored..SLOPY..hey look at me, I'm hero drummer..back to LOUD..To top it off he had his...
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    Double Bass Belcanto/Dominant Showdown!

    Put a set of Dominants on about two months back,settled in, nice sound/tension/string response...then crack ! What the hell was that ? The A string had detuned so I backed it off and inspected the portion coming under tension over the tuning peg...The wrap in that part had separated and exposed...
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    Double Bass Dominant Solos

    Hi,fitted a medium set of dominants to my German 3/4 laminate...done a lot of string comparison in my short time with the upright(2 years),30+years on the electric "slab", they're the loudest strings I've found played with or without amplification,doin the rocknroll thing,so my style through...