Recent content by mborn

Congrats on the new Shen Fine ibstrument, I have a SB-190 Rogeri, super bass. I would like to offer a bit of advice. Even though you are a pro on electric bass. I suggest you find a professional upright bass teacher and take a few lessons. There are some physical playing and handling...

Send it back and get a real bass. If you are going to play bass, learn on a proper size bass. Then you won’t have to relearn muscle memory when you switch to a standard size bass. And you will switch. Even the short scale will be limiting. Standard size is 34.” When you get your first...

Last month Sweetwater was selling the TC BAM200 for around $110. Maybe they still have some in stock. The BAM is slightly smaller than the ELF and not as much fan noise. Same power. So far no trouble with mine and it sounds similar to the ELF,

I have a PJB called the Briefcase. Its 100 watts into 2 five inch speakers. This thing has a motorcycle battery installed that runs the amp for about 1.5 hours at bluegrass volume. Perfect for outdoor “on the porch” type gigs. If needed I can use the weed wacker batteries with an inverter...

I have a pair of BG400s and a pair of C4s. The BG400 has 4 five inch speakers and runs 300+ watts to them. With DB this is perfect for any bluegrass or acoustic jam or gig. If I add a C4 it now is 8 speakers and 500 watts. The frequency response if really good for DB. I have played...

Sweetwater doesn’t stock strings for my steel’s back neck C6, only the E9 neck, (which then costs extra shipping).

I am waiting for the Dingwall fan fretless, 5 string.

Check out the various models of Little Walter steel guitar amps. Phil makes octal and 12AX7 preamp amps models, 6L6 and 6V6 output tubes. The Little Walter 89 (100 watts, 12Ax7 and 4- 6L6 tubes) makes a very good bass amp for smaller gigs such as jazz, standards etc., especially for...

Trumpet, Organ, Pedal Steel, Dobro, then Bass. In that order. Grade school/High school, then organ in college, then country and finally bluegrass. Everywhere I went there were guitars and banjos, but no bass. So I tried upright bass, then I had lots of places to play.,

Four string upright. and four string EUB

If you want to hear what multi band compression sounds like, tune in to a heavy rock FM station, (in a larger market) and listen. You will know when you are there when the kick drum is louder than the vocals and highs are covering everything. Every note is the same level regardless of its...

Try Music Man Bongo 5HH, five string, dual hum buckers, 18 volt 4 band EQ. This covers a lot of music styles.

I have had this stiff index finger problem a number of times while playing upright bass at bluegrass jams. The problem seems to be lack of water. Playing three hours without a break at jams is the issue. Drink lots of water and take a break; washing your hands with warm water also helps...

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Check out the Phil Jones "bass" headphones. They are EQ'ed toward the bass end of the spectrum, high mids and highs are rolled off. They are not good for normal audio, but work great for learning bass lines. Cost is about $100. I have their Big Head, headphone amp which has a aux in...