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I’m heading to a couple camping trips where my wife’s music is on the menu. She is bringing her acoustic and asked if I’d bring my banjo. Well, I haven’t played that for about a decade, and after 5 years on bass it’s painful to my ears. Then I remembered my old resonator guitar with the missing...

I've been thinking about a seven string tuned BEADGBE so that the higher strings are tuned guitar style, allowing a bit more functionality for what/when I play. I have a 6 string but my C string is pretty twangy. I'm thinking a multiscale 7 string would tame that a bit. About the only 7 string...

[Updated: Drawing on Friday to give more people a chance to see this] I have a bass mod OB.1 to give away. If you’re a newbie and don’t have a compressor, drop a note here. Sometime on Friday, I’ll use a random number generator and PM the winner. Just pay $15 in shipping unless you’re really...

I’ve been playing my six string exclusively, and I love it so much I couldn’t imagine picking up my four string. Anything I want to play, I can play on my six, right? Well, that’s what I thought, and while it’s technically true, I found recently it’s not the whole story. I’m learning Alanis...

I know these threads usually start with "No big deal" but this is a VERY big deal to me, so I'll put sarcasm aside. First thoughts after unboxing: Holy crap, WTH is that, an aircraft carrier?! Seriously, a six string neck is bigger than you can really appreciate in pictures. Until you...

I was interested in this response to the KoT from another thread, but this is really a thread of it's own. I thought people might find this use of distortion interesting. I got a KoT about 2 months ago and have been trying to figure out how to fit it into my rotation. I have about 5 overdrives...

I can't believe I'm going to do this. I'm posting my excitement about the modes again. I know. (I was in two branches of the military too. Some people just don't learn.) (I'm posting this in a new thread because the last one went to crazy town...multiple times.) Arthur C. Clarke wrote "Any...

so many 5 strings in the parade. Guess that makes sense, given so much is show tunes. But I just never noticed before.

I've been playing music for decades, multiple instruments, multiple genres/styles, I've somehow never gotten around to learning the modes. But I want to improvise melodic bass lines (and actually lead-like lines behind my wife), so decided to start studying them. I wasn't even sure why other...

This’ll probably lead me into a quagmire, but I couldn’t find any threads in my recon search on volume vs wattage. I love overdrive and practice a lot when kids are in bed so I can’t crank my amp. It’s an Ampeg Micro-CL 100 Watt 2x10 and I plug my passive bass into the active (-15 dB) and still...

Okay, the title is a bit of a hook, but stay with me. Recently I changed my always on conditioner from a Strymon Deco to the Darkglass Vintage Microtubes Deluxe. Around the same time, I bought a Broughton always on HPF. The HPF and my settings on the VMT make the clarity of my bass amazing...

I recently got a Vintage Deluxe from Darkglass. It's at the end of my signal chain after "The Strymon Block" of OB.1, Deco, and Flint. Formerly, my overdrive was only the thick tape saturation of the Deco. I keep it in an "always on" fashion lightly thickened, but then use the Strymon favorite...

As I play more I find myself being increasingly pulled into the vortex of Jaco, but not for the reason I originally thought I would be. There's always talk about "The Jaco sound" and "playing like Jaco," and while I can understand that, it's never been very gratifying. I like my sound and...

Volante - Magnetic Echo Machine - Delay Pedal - Strymon Bit of GAS there. Could do some really interesting ambient bass lines with something like that. I particularly like the separation of delay and feedback, with quarter note definition. The video is pretty stellar. Course, I've no idea how...

Once as a kid I started clarinet lessons with a jazz teacher and played the song he told me to practice for our first lesson. He said "That's good. Now play it in Bb." I said "What? you didn't say to learn it in Bb!" His response was to give me the name of another teacher who could give me...

Bit of background: I'm new to both bass and electric instruments in general. I've spent a lifetime playing music, starting on Tenor sax and then Jazz drums- partly because my dad was a session upright player in Philly back in the bebob era (Played with Miles, Dizzy, Lionel, you name it). Bass...

I was wondering if anyone has ever done crushed stone inlay for fretlines on a fretless bass. I've searched and found threads on plastics (Pearloid, etc.) and metal (silver or filed frets) but haven't seen anything on more detailed inlays, here or anywhere else, actually. I have a raw piece of...