It always maks me laugh that folks will bring a 100+ year old instrument out on a $50 gig no problem, but they get all nervous about a 30 year old amp. I see a whole lot more broken old basses than broken amps.....ha!!! 
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Double Bass Fuchs discontinuing Walter Woods and Acoustic Image service
- Thread starter Don Kasper
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Very true. I've had situations many times where the bass was lucky to escape undamaged. I am also more aware as time goes on of the increasing fragility of the player. It's becoming more a question of what will give out first.It always maks me laugh that folks will bring a 100+ year old instrument out on a $50 gig no problem, but they get all nervous about a 30 year old amp. I see a whole lot more broken old basses than broken amps.....ha!!!
Dude I could write a book… suffice to say they don't seem to compliment each other imho anyway you route it. They both demand to be first thing in the signal chain and there can only be one line-leader.
Full disclosure I'm using a loop pedal and chasing "MBOL" aesthetic with no acoustic bass playing — which is neurotic AF at best. YMMV of course.
So let me ask you, since you've had some success - did you train your maps with RE up front? How do you dial in the treble on the RE? Are you blending the two signals in the TD2? What pickup are you using?
My 100 year old flat back is about as reliable as DBs get. It has some ugly but very stable repairs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯It always maks me laugh that folks will bring a 100+ year old instrument out on a $50 gig no problem, but they get all nervous about a 30 year old amp. I see a whole lot more broken old basses than broken amps.....ha!!!
I don't have any 30 yo amps and don't want any. Give me a modern 2 lb class D amp any day.
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I'm kinda the same way. I like it to be simple reliable and light, the cat not so much
Actually, I have two, that said, they're not amplifiersI actually gig with that often.
I did not use the Red Eye during training. I usually turn the treble totally off on the Red Eye. I blend the pickup and wavemap signals about 50/50 in the TD with the midrange somewhat rolled off on the pickup in the TD II. I'm using a Full Circle pickup. Most importantly, I reduce the "saturation" on the TD to 75%. That seems to be the "magic bullet" for me.
Hi, Ric, That photo brings back memories of schlepping the old flip-top, complete with wheels, over snowbanks in a Mn winter. I dropped it in the snow once and was sure it was done for, but it was luckily okay. Recollections like that are one of the main reasons I use the lightest, simplest rig I can to this day.
I spilled beer in the amp's grate at a gig one time when the amp was on. The amp emitted a puff of smoke and shut down. After drying off the tubes and the chassis and letting it sit for a few minutes the amp was OK!
Once upon a thin I was playing a Jazz Band concert at the Knights Town Indiana Boys Home. I up on a platform about 5 feet above the stage. The B 15N was behind me on its dolly it rolled off the back of the riser and hit the stage on the corner of the cabinet. The internal head brace inside the cabinet loosened so the head was part way lowered inside the back right corner. Fortunately, the two Schaller coil chords stretched to soften the blow.
I finished the concert cause the amp still played just fine. I tapped the facing back in place. The amp speaker and cabinet survived the unscathed to play another day.
I finished the concert cause the amp still played just fine. I tapped the facing back in place. The amp speaker and cabinet survived the unscathed to play another day.
