Practice Unplugged

[JakeAndAirwaves]

You wouldn't believe it, but because I didn't have the end of the stethoscope good and flat against the bass body it actually sounded like distortion! LOL, no electricity, no nothin', and I got effects!

Really, normally, it sounds like when you lean over and put your ear onto the bass body and play. That sound. Really nice. The bad thing is that the ear peices in mine were too tight against my ears, so I had to take it off soon. Gonna work on it.

Do you think it would work well with a semi-hollow guitar?

 

[Russell L]

Do you think it would work well with a semi-hollow guitar?

Absolutely. I got the idea from a story I read about the guitar player with Big Brother and the Holding Company, back in the day, sitting in a closet with a stethoscope taped to an acoustic guitar. Why the hell I never thought of it before, I dunno.

I'd like to have one of the upgraded versions posted above.

 

[stingraysvt]

Where do I get a cable for that?

I was using a 1/4 to Stereo Mini I picked up at radio shack or my local music store, It's kinda wonky but it worked. If you happen to find one that is longer than 18 inches I'd snag it.

If I wanted a little more reach I'd interface with my samsamp or Compressor so I could use my guitar cable into the pedal.

I much prefer using my mobile USB pre these days, little more gear to lump around, but a nicer interface.

 

[Savage_Dreams]

I'm not going to try to put two quotes into one reply on my phone. So this will be a separate reply.

It's not like a normal band camp. As a group of 15-20 people, we are assigned songs to learn. Not every person is on every song. We come in, play the setlist however many times, then at the end of the day we get new songs. Repeated every week. It's called School of Rock. Google it, find where it says stuff about live performance if you want more.

ok, that is definitely different than band camp. the term band camp usually brings to mind school band groups and an orchestra type of a situation. maybe its just my age showing though. just out of curiosity, what do you mean you get new songs? they just give you song titles and tell you to learn them or do you get any sort of learning material? i guess for most of us it just seems odd that they would tell you learn something but not give you any tools do use to learn the material.

 

[JakeAndAirwaves]

ok, that is definitely different than band camp. the term band camp usually brings to mind school band groups and an orchestra type of a situation. maybe its just my age showing though. just out of curiosity, what do you mean you get new songs? they just give you song titles and tell you to learn them or do you get any sort of learning material? i guess for most of us it just seems odd that they would tell you learn something but not give you any tools do use to learn the material.

Yeah, that's why I was hesitant about using the term band camp. They give us the title, we have to find the means to learn it.