Recent content by P Daddy Jones

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    Double Bass Is it worth repairing

    That’s exactly what was said.
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    Double Bass Is it worth repairing

    Not bad at all. The neck/fingerboard seam looks fine on the bass side but has a slight bow to the treble side.
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    Double Bass Is it worth repairing

    No sir. I’m new to the double bass scene. I’m actually in Springfield and couldn’t find anybody to tackle the repair. I didn’t exhaust all resources looking for someone but was pointed to KCStrings. Just so happened that I’ve been in St. Louis a bit more as of recent.
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    Double Bass Is it worth repairing

    Thanks. He just talked about it relieving some pressure on the bridge from the easier breakover angle. I plan on keeping it.
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    Double Bass Is it worth repairing

    Here’s a close up. The first thing Strings said is that it had a decent lacquer refinish job done.
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    Double Bass Is it worth repairing

    Hopefully I can upload the pics
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    Double Bass Is it worth repairing

    So I finally came over to the DB side of things. It took a few years lol I picked a bass up at a local acoustic shop that was on consignment. I played a few entry level basses while on the hunt but loved the tone of this beat out all the others. The fingerboard has a heavy scope so it makes it...
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    Svt Cl problem

    The cab has eminence speakers. It's printed on the magnets 4ohm. Seems to be correct. We was thinking about plugging the bass into the fx return to see what happens. My concern with that is the output of the bass being to high for this entry point, 18v carvin. Is it bad on these amps to be...
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    Svt Cl problem

    First real posting. I'm guessing late 90's STV CL started to sound flabby after fully warmed up for a hour or so. It would sound nice and tight starting off then go to sh*t. Ok so i did what probably didnt need to be done and retubed it about two months ago. Still sounded like it was going down...
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    Sneak preview: new FEA opti-FET compressor!

    One would guess that the delays were due to earthquake and following tsunami. Very excited now.
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    Sneak preview: new FEA opti-FET compressor!

    Sign me up. Where do I get one