Recent content by westcoastblues

Thanks for that... the timing was perfect, as I just now am doing exactly that - playing with the positioning. Right now I am trying two left on the bridge, more or less centered between the A and D, plus the other two on the BODY near the feet of the bridge. This positioning gets rid of a LOT...

Hi, I'm a newb to playing double bass, and I'm just getting an old 50's King Mortone going. It had a Gage Realist when I bought it, but it was too uneven and also a bit on the dark side, so I am experimenting with pickups. I am after more of an old-school gut-string bluesy sound, a la Willie...

I have a 69 Tele, and when I bought it it was missing the guard, looked exactly like that color mismatch, i.e. the faded amount. Between that and the thumbrest and guard holes, this certainly looks like a Tele bass.

No mention anywhere on WHY the pup is angled so extremely. If it is a stock single coil, that would mean the strings are very close together, or else the pickup is way bigger than normal. Come to think of it, w/o a pic of the whole bass and a yardstick next to it, we have no way of knowing its...

Hi, I'm new here, and I too am an electric player just getting into URB. Playing blues and swing, mostly, so I want a good sustained soun d but would also like to be able to slap a little bit, not like the full-on rockabilly double-slap (which I love!) but just a bit of accent here and there...