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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...

I'm fixing to get a Bass VI of some kind soon. By that I mean a 30" scale 6 string (probably the 'big Jaguar' body 3 pickup type), and I have a set of 24-100 strings waiting for it. I figure to tune either EADGBE (standard guitar down an octave)) or EADGCF (all 4ths) - or maybe those tunings...

I'm interested in the Harley Benton Bass VI ( they sometimes call it the 'GuitarBass VI'), using it as a regular bass with high chordal possibilities rather than as a tenor guitar for metal (like a lot of the YouTube reviews seem to). The reviews I can find are generally positive, with some of...

OK, what I've got from all this appears to be how 7th chords relate to scales, and that what flavour of 7th chord you might use 'depends'. Trouble is, as a rookkie bass player, the methods seem to generally go from the chapter called Triads to the one called 7ths, and only then do you get the...

My eventual aim is to play an electric bass I have that's tuned E A D G C F (thank you string makers). It's a 34" scale, but I wonder if I could make any sense of capo-ing it to work at say a 24-25" short scale length like my other basses? First buy a 6 string bass capo, I guess...

But seriously...quite a few Scottish and Cape Breton style bands now use two fiddlers playing together in the key of A. That means they have open A and E strings available which are often not precisely tuned together, plus tunes in that key often use the B above the treble clef. On fiddle that's...

I play mostly UK/Irish/Euro follk, and I come across chord sheets written by classically trained folks who have applied classical keyboard harmony to produce chords with 7ths in that are theoretically right but don't sound 'folky' with lots of folk tunes. Offten the basic triad - 1 3 5 without...

Thanks guys, that's great. My eventual aim is to be able to busk UK/Irish/Eurofolk tunes on bass, because I know '00s of them on fiddle by ear and on the dots. The Nashville numbering comes in 'cos these tunes can often be played in a (small) range of keys like G D C and F depending on what key...

I have a rookie question on the Nashville numbering system. Having dealt with the dots and tabs in the past, I'm now learning the Nashville notation system (N.N. onwards) - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 or I II III IV V VI VII. I'm going through a folk tune book marking up the chords in N.N., so a simple chord...

Yes, shifting is also something that e.g. violinists (but fewer fiddlers) just regard as part of playing. The short scale violin (c.13") often uses a basic 'one finger per scale note' fingering system as a starting point, so a 1st position D major one octave scale is D string: 0 1 23 A string...

Thanks for that - so far I've just found the smaller scale particularly useful for 'ad hoc' stretches. like runs using 1-2-4 on one string all 2 frets apart, in one position rather than having to shift then hand. I'm sure some of you can do that on a 34" bass, but I can't :)

I'm a rookie bass player, but my ears have been listening to other instruments I play for a lot longer. I reckon the instrument and strings also has a lot to do with it. I have several basses, and the one that sounds most like an upright is a cheap ($100 used Harley Benton cheap...) 32" scale...

Anyone know any good sources for specific mini bass techniques? I have a fretted 24", and soon hope to have a fretless 25", both strung with polymer core metal wound strings.

The Round Spiral E string appears to have no taper, and I suspect the gauge may not be greatly different from the OE D'Addarios, even though the sound is. Perhaps because of the suggested Aquila locking turn, the E appears to have only maybe 1.5 turns round the tuner post. According to my steel...

Thanks very much HaphAsSard. The Guild is 23 3/4" scale compared to the G.T. 25", so a bit shorter. I installed the Aquila Round Spiral strings using the Aquila recommended 'string end through the centre slot then trap the end under the windings' technique, rather than the standard 'poke the end...

Thanks very much HaphAsSard. The Guild is 23 3/4" scale compared to the G.T. 25", so a bit shorter. I installed the Aquila Round Spiral strings using the Aquila recommended 'string end through the centre slot then trap the end under the windings' technique, rather than the standard 'poke the end...

Advice please on choice of strings for the Gold Tone M-Bass 25" acoustic fretless which I intend to buy soon? I've decided that the short scale acoustic bass probably suits my hands and the style of music I mostly play (big unamplified UK/Euro/Irish folk bands) better than say 32" scale...

Does anyone string their acoustic 5 stringer EADGC? Just wondering whether that tends to work OK, for chording using the higher strings. If it does, what kind of bass did you string like that please?

I think the Reds are amazing value, but that's cos they work OK and they're amazingly cheap (less than £10 sometimes). I put Rotosound phosphor bronze 45-105 Acoustic strings (£25-ish) on the Alien recently, and they're better balanced and better sounding - BUT they do feel higher tension at the...

I have an old Warwick Alien 4 string acoustic bass strung with Warwick Red round wound phosphor bronze acoustic strings - the Far East made ones. They're really cheap but OK once played in, if a bit noisy and bright till then. I see there are US made Warwick Black acoustic p.b. roundwound...

I just fitted a set of Round Spirals to my Guild Jumbo Junior bass which is 23 3/4" / 603mm scale, and after all of 6 hours I'm very pleased already. They appear to be very similar gauges to the OE strings (which are the same brand and type as the OEs on the Taylor GS Mini bass). But, to my ear...

Anyone modded the electronics of a Harley Benton B-450/550/650, if so how please, and what's the result like? I bought a 650 to try 6 string bass. It's ridiculous value for the price, especially as this one's the famous Thomann B-stock grade. I suspect that cost reduction's for either/both of a)...

The 6 I ended up with is now set tuned EADGCF ('octave guitar' tuning EADGBE works just as well). The strings are a custom nickel plated round core set from Newtone Strings in UK, to their suggestions of 105/ .085/ .065/ .045/ .030/.018 (all wound) . The F string sounds and feels OK for tension...

I'd like to set up my stuff for some quiet bass practice. I have: 6 string bass tuned EADGCF low to hi Smartphone with drum loops from bass tutor programme. Lekato Loop Station (mini 9 channel looper with 1/4" jack in & out plus USB for WAV file import/export, no audio level output, no drum...

Thanks everybody, that all makes sense. Max

I'm a bass guitar beginner with 32" and 34" scale basses. I'm teaching myself (at least in the early stages), and I've just noticed (duh) that probably the best known 'classic' bass method I have starts with 1,2,4 fingering over 3 lower frets - so e.g. on the 4th strings open E / F 1st fret /G...