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Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:32 am
by Vince
Molly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:25 am
Maybe a chemical cleaner of some sort would work.
Worth thinking about. A set of strings can cost about $80 so it's a fair whack every time. I'm just glad I don't play double bass, they cost hundreds.
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:35 am
by Molly
Vince wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:32 am
Molly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:25 am
Maybe a chemical cleaner of some sort would work.
Worth thinking about. A set of strings can cost about $80 so it's a fair whack every time. I'm just glad I don't play double bass, they cost hundreds.
That Clearasil stuff kids use to clean-out their pores (for acne) maybe. Wouldn't want to get it on the finish but worth a shot.
Or take up guitar...
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 2:32 pm
by Vince
Molly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:35 am
Or take up guitar...
... yes, or take up guitar.
I've actually been thinking of dusting off the baritone as it has the same scale length as a bass. But the strings feel so fiddly!
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:15 pm
by jimi
Took the strings off my bass to give it a clean a couple of weeks ago. Got these strings in 2005, so still plenty of life in them, but them back on afterwards.
How often are you changing bass strings? This really doesn't make sense to me!
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:16 pm
by yoggo
Vince wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:32 am
Molly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:25 am
Maybe a chemical cleaner of some sort would work.
Worth thinking about. A set of strings can cost about $80 so it's a fair whack every time. I'm just glad I don't play double bass, they cost hundreds.
I don’t think my double bass strings have ever been changed, and it’s getting on for 40… I hope to never change them, because I’d have to do a bunch of research for something that I’d never have to repeat (plus at $300+ I wouldn’t want to change my mind after 6 months).
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:18 pm
by bender
jimi wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:15 pm
Took the strings off my bass to give it a clean a couple of weeks ago. Got these strings in 2005, so still plenty of life in them, but them back on afterwards.
How often are you changing bass strings? This really doesn't make sense to me!
Have you heard Vince? His style definitely suits/needs the brightness of new strings.
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:37 am
by Vince
jimi wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:15 pm
Took the strings off my bass to give it a clean a couple of weeks ago. Got these strings in 2005, so still plenty of life in them, but them back on afterwards.
How often are you changing bass strings? This really doesn't make sense to me!
I go through a set of Elixirs in about six months, a set of garden variety PBs in about three months. What I do is pretty guitarlike so I need that clean sound.
https://vincecabrera.bandcamp.com/releases
My fretless OTOH has a a set of GHS Brite Flats and yeah, those can stay on forever as far as I'm concerned.
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:30 pm
by robthemac
Finally.
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:31 pm
by codedog
robthemac wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:30 pmFinally.
Exciting! For some reason I thought you were getting a combo. Did they finally fix the one you tested? or is this a different unit?
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:33 pm
by robthemac
codedog wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:31 pm
robthemac wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:30 pmFinally.
Exciting! For some reason I thought you were getting a combo. Did they finally fix the one you tested? or is this a different unit?
Nah the combo is taking too long to get fixed because Auckland is closed down. I'm also not keen on something that heading in for repair multiple times before leaving the shop floor.
This one is down in Christchurch, but if one on the next Mesa shipment arrives in the near future, they'll get me that.
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:29 pm
by Jay
Nice leather corner pieces. Does the unit come with some shoe polish?
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:44 pm
by robthemac
Jay wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:29 pm
Nice leather corner pieces. Does the unit come with some shoe polish?
They will age gracefully, I hope. Unlike the rest of us.
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:45 pm
by codedog
robthemac wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:44 pm
Jay wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:29 pm
Nice leather corner pieces. Does the unit come with some shoe polish?
They will age gracefully, I hope. Unlike the rest of us.
I wonder if reliccing amps is a thing...
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:50 pm
by robthemac
codedog wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:45 pm
robthemac wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:44 pm
Jay wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:29 pm
Nice leather corner pieces. Does the unit come with some shoe polish?
They will age gracefully, I hope. Unlike the rest of us.
I wonder if reliccing amps is a thing...
I think BG does it routinely.
Re: Forums have been slow, how about a 'In the mail' thread?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:03 pm
by Slowy
robthemac wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:30 pmFinally.
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!
What speaker you going to use?