Recent content by rich8364

Can anyone offer any advice on getting into cruise ship working, or playing in hotels abroad? After years of gigging around the London jazz scene playing double bass, and before that doing summer seasons, a cruise and various dance bands on electric bass, I got out of the business for a few...

Can anyone offer any advice on getting into cruise ship working, or playing in hotels abroad? After years of gigging around the London jazz scene playing double bass, and before that doing summer seasons, a cruise and various dance bands on electric bass, I got out of the business for a few...

Excuse my ignorance, but I could use some advice from someone who knows a bit about what constitutes good behaviour from an amp. I recently bought a new Acoustic Image Coda (around £1,000 in the UK), to replace my very old Gallien Krueger Mk2, whose speaker was making a noise like it couldn't...

I seem to have it sorted now. After adjusting the jack input, restringing the G, generally fiddling about a lot, the buzzing has gone - for now, anyway! Thanks for your postings. :)

Hi Bonaventura It's more of a high-pitched kind-of scratchy tone - almost another note - and exactly the same pitch no matter what string I play.

I have just put a Realist on my new bass and am getting a kind of high-pitched buzzing noise when I play. This noise is present whether or not the pickup is on. The feet of my bridge are not big enough to cover the entire area of the Realist and I'm wondering if the buzzing is the bit of the...