Recent content by herb nice

after sleeping on it i might switch the digitech and the plutoneum in that list as the digitech it is pretty unusable in a real live situation comparatively. but the plutoneum does not really get the screamy sound the OP was asking about.

for me, the point of an acoustic instrument is that it should be useful in situations where amplification isn't an easy option. for example: campfire singsong time. if the shakers and kazoos are drowning out the bass, then the bass isn't very good at being an acoustic instrument. if i was to...

so this thread got me thinking and i decided to record a poopy loop on the loop pedal and run it through what i have handy to see if i still feel how i thought i felt. i didn't record it or anything and this is entirely subjective, my opinions, everyone has one and they stink etc. amt wh-1b...

I used to use a crybaby on my bass back in the 90s. if you mean skipping some gears on the treadle, yeah i did that- by accident when trying to clean the damned thing. still own it but it's my least favorite wah :D i way prefer optical wahs these days. picked up a used weeping demon for...

I just noticed that I was asked to write about my t-bucket bass experience some time ago. I had a t-bucket, I cut a port in it to make it more audible (I have done this with several acoustic instruments, it helps a lot). I played an acoustic wedding gig with it (plugged in). I eventually...

I've had an AMT japanese girl bass wah on my board for many years. i still love it. it's small, optical and sounds monstrous sandwiched between a fuzz and an overdrive.

I picked up a movall two yetis for cheap not too long ago. I will admit i did so because it was cheap and tiny and has yetis on it. I like yetis. it looks like this: due to the mislabeled switch, the Internet would lead you to believe that it is an OCD clone. It certainly is not. It's a...

I picked up the ISET sandwich compressor a while back for next-to-nothing. I will admit that i bought it because it was tiny and yellow and had a sandwich on it. It immediately set off my spidey sense when I played through it. Especially on the half-pint setting. Especially at 15v rather...

The three lightest and easiest shortscale players in my quiver are an aria cardinal from the 80s (32"), 70s univox hi flyers (30.5"), and my daily driver: modified 2010 faded Gibson sg bass (30.5"). That thing is surprisingly light, great for 3 hour jams, and the neck is a joy. mine sounds fat...

The drummer in my current gigging band is great- he doesn't even bother to bring rack toms any more. Kick, snare, hat, smallish floor tom, ride, and sometimes crash if he is feeling fancy. To be honest, no one misses the toms and gongs- he can make a hell of a great rhythm with just that stuff...

I have a shaller 460 new in the box I bought 5 or 6 years ago with the intent to put in a project bass, but never got around to. They were used to replace for Gibson 2 point bass bridges, but with nice adjustable string spacing, intonation, etc. way better than that Gibson 3 point in my pic over...

I use a couple different solutions. I actually have a container of all different shapes and sizes of foam and sock mutes I have cut over the years. They work in a pinch. Most of my basses are not muted and I just use my hand. I usually remove ashtrays. A few basses I keep perma-muted...

Thanks for chiming in, folks! Those strings don't have silks. Previous owner may have stripped them, but my gut says they didn't have any to begin with. There is something going on inside the string with silk or nylon though. That's the only similarity they have to TIs, though. This...

Thanks Gary. I've played plenty of flats, but never Pyramids. If that's what these are, they are fan-f'n-tastic. Combined with that Kay's neck single coil, it's indescribably warm and fat and mean, but full and defined. The sound feels like my favorite skate-rock tapes of my youth. But...

a good trick to keep things in place is to wrap once ABOVE and, then below, like this: