Barabass Combo 2-channel
Type: combo amp
power rating: 400W RMS/4Ohm
drivers: 1×12″, neodym dynamic tweeter
Features: Channel 1 (electric) Active/Passive Input, Invert Phase, Treble, Lo-Mid, Hi-Mid, Bass, Presence, Contour, Bottom
Channel 2 (acoustic) Mic/Jack Input, Invert Phase, Treble, Lo-Mid, Hi-Mid, Bass; Phantom power for microphone or preamps.
Outputs: Balanced XLR Line Out
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Last October at Berlin2010, I attended a concert of bassist Andreas Bennetzen from Copenhagen/Danmark. He demonstrated and explained his concept of working with live recorded digital loops and electronical effects. I was really courious about his concept, since I also own a Digitech Jam Man Looper and soon figured out that working with loops on stage is much more demanding than expected …For me, the foremost problem is to isolate a loop recording from the loops you’ve already recorded before. When you use them as a playback, the bass (as the large microphone that it is) captures them again, along with the new loop, resulting in a unwanted multiplication … That’s why Andy uses a rather ugly solidbody electric upright bass that doesn’t capture any feedback. Besides that, Andy doesn’t use anthing special: a e-guitar effects processor (phaser, flanger, echo, reverb etc.) with integrated volume pedal, and a digital looper.Andy has recently put some of his tracks at SoundCloud, where you can hear and download them.
In 1940, LIFE magazine published a pictured home story about the famous double bass virtuoso (so called “bill fiddler”) and conductor Sergej Koussevitzky. This interesting article and hundreds of other issues of LIFE are available at Google Books. (I really *love* the old advertisings, too …)
On January, 1st, US Jazz Bassist Charles Fambrough passed away. Fambrough is best known for his time with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messangers.
![[Portrait of Jack Lesberg, Max Kaminsky, and Peanuts Hucko, Eddie Condon's, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1947] (LOC)](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/4843751690_c91c3657ff.jpg)
Jack Lesberg, Max Kaminsky, and Peanuts Hucko, Eddie Condon’s, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1947
More photos of the GottliebCollection at Flickr.
Ace
Type: piezo
Mode: passive
Preamp: –
Single unit 35mm piezo element, mounts to bridge wing.
Deuce
same as above, but two piezo sensor.
The Violin Craftsmanship Institute offers weeklong hands-on workshops, taught by internationally prominent craftsmen (mostly trained at Mittenwald/Germany). These workshops are sponsored by the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (15 minutes from seacoast resort town of Portsmouth and an hour north of Boston)
Obtain information, download a brochure, and register at: www.learn.unh.edu/violin
The Emanuel Wilfer Master Workshop has recently relaunched their website. The website now features German, English, Italian and Chinese language informations, detailed photos of the Wilfer double basses, celli and violins, and a photo gallery of the workshop, showing Roland and Rudi Wilfer making double basses.
Pianist Joe Alterman relayed a humorous story about famed jazz guitarist Jim Hall: “The other day I ran into Jim Hall on the street in front of the jazz and contemporary music building of the New School in New York. Jim was walking his dog. I introduced myself, and we ended up talking for a while. As we spoke, student musicians were walking by oblivious to who he was. Jim told me he’s rarely recognized by them anymore and asked if I’d like to see something funny.
“He walked up to a student holding a bass and asked, ‘Is that a walking bass?’ The kid just shook his head and walked away. Jim was laughing so hard. He said, ‘I do that all the time. I think it’s funny. They just think I’m a strange old man now.’
“Boy, if only that kid knew who he had just brushed off!”