Recent content by Maxra

Interesting - I'm looking for a battery powered setup with a bit more guts, to use playing fiddle and bass outside for folk dancing (with a UK Goth Morris side, so I don't need rock band volume or long endurance). I already have a Micro Cube RX - a great sound, but not very loud. I wonder if you...

Thanks sunbeast - they have green silks, so probably the Pyramid ones. The Ernie Balls sound intetesting though...

That seems like the obvious thing Makten, but I suspect my current Fender Rumble bass amp also colours the sound. I've never used these Hofner strings before, so I'd like to benefit from the experience of someone who has in how they compare to other strings. Otherwise, you can end up going down...

I've just bought a 30" (ie short) scale Squier Jaguar bass with Tonerider P&J p'ups, which I think are slightly pokier than standard. It has the front loaded tailpiece, (not string through body), and sports recent Hofner 40-100 flatwound stainless strings for 30" bass. Can anyone suggest what...

I tried all your suggestions guys, and none of them worked - I'm now told apparently because it's Win11 sound that's broken re Zoom. Thanks for your efforts, though. Eventually this YouTube vid fixed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOvbLYuSPqs If you're having probs with acoustic...

Hmmm.... NONE of the standard suggestions appear to work for this, suggesting Windows/Zoom sound controls may not be working as they should. Something is still filtering out bass notes, apparently including those in the same frequency range as my voice. I have a wide frequency range USB mic with...

Thanks Hieronomous - yeah., the problem is we've tried all the Zoom controls including that one, 'we' being me and a bass teacher who knows a lot more about this stuff than I do. I suspect the built in laptop mics, but we'll see if the USB mic works. I think that one has no noise reduction...

Thanks guys - I've taken what looks like the simplest course and ordered a 'new but unused' Mackie EM-USB mic from Ebay. If the built in PC laptop mic is somehow set not to accept sounds in a frequency range outside the human voice, then I'm probably just wasting time trying to get it to do so...

I'm having trouble making my acoustic 25" Gold Tone MiniBass audible on Zoom lesson sessions. It's strung with copper wound Aquila Flat Spiral strings so is acoustically quite loud for an ABG. However I suspect my HP laptop is identifying the bass frequencies as background rumble and filtering...

The Gold Tone M-Bass 25 Fretless has a 25.5" scale and a bridge of the kind that you load through the soundhole, i.e. holes in the bridge are big enough to take the strings but not to let the the ferrules pull through. It's a slightly strange instrument, made of plywood throughout with a...

Currently I've been dealing with it since December. Now I'm going back to LaBella Silverbacks on my Gold Tone M-bass, and I'll try those as the next set on my Guild Jumbo Junior bass. I have one set of of Aquila Round Spirals that works on the Guild, they sound great and play well, but to be...

The Gold Tone M25 doesn't have any means of adjusting the action height apart from using the truss rod, or presumably removing the bridge saddles and reducing their height, like a steel string guitar.

I bought a used Gold Tone M 25 fretless acoustic bass with the cream rubbery strings on. I'm going to change to La Bella Silverbacks - anyone know what kind of action height you'd expect to adjust to with those? Thanks, Max

Yes, I've had this happen on Aquila Strings, but Flat Spirals rather than Round Spirals. The first short scale set (25" Guild) the A popped before it was up to pitch, the retailer refunded them and I replaced with a set of Round Spirals for less money with a good sound and no further probs. A...

I play (fiddle) in a couple of big acoustic bands that speed up with gravity, ie when the tune goes downhill on the page in a run of quavers, they speed up. Music goes uphill, they slow down, like truck drivers in hilly country. Sometimes they get to the right place in the end...