pete.young

You could try some Status half rounds. I have a set on my Duesenberg, which is a 30" scale bass that takes medium strings because of the tailpiece adding to the speaking length. I really like them, but I'm not using them acoustically. Really, if you want to be audible , you need a double bass, or something with a huge body. The only acoustic bass guitar Ive tried which was louder than polite conversation was a Breedlove, and I could barely reach my arm round it to get to the top string.

You're not alone. I've just kicked a band into touch for precisely this reason.

@jonunders it wasn't just you, I think the last two pages of this thread have been missing for weeks and only just re-appeared. There was someone else in the Introductions thread who expressed an interest. I'm still interested if it's going to happen.

Thanks, I'll check it out for inspiration.

I need to acquire a stompbox (one of those things you er, stomp on which make a noise a bit like a bass drum if fed to a PA). What Seasick Steve calls a Mississippi Drum Machine. My plan was to build something using a cigar box, half a precision pickup I happen to have lying around, a bit of steel plate or a tin lid or something to replace the strings, and some double sided tape. Has anyone done this before, and have any suggestions or tips?

A Hofner Senator bass, £15 quid from Bell Music in Surbiton, and a Watkins Westminster 10W guitar amp from the late '50s that my old man had lying around from his failed attempt at electric mandolin.

And if all else goes wrong, play a bottom 'E' (or better still a bottom 'B') because 90% of the audience won't be able to hear it properly anyway!

If you are anywhere near Offton, @jonunders has proposed a Bass Bass (a kind of informal gathering where people get together to try out each others gear and shoot-the-stinky poo ) at the Limeburners on 2nd November. I'm assuming this is still on, although the thread has been tidied up a bit.

Mine runs quite happily off a standard 9v centre-neg daisy chain and wall wart with no isolation, so I think you need to have a look at your BDI21.

Mandolins don't have scroll heads. F5 ones don't anyway.

Fender Precision. What do I win?

Unfortunately not. Check out Morgan Monroe F4 . There's also a guitar version, T Bone Burnett was using one on Nashville.

I have a Snark too, not great for bass guitar and utterly useless for my DB. Maybe there's something particular about my bridge, but it doesn't work that well. A TC Polyclip on the other hand is utterly brilliant. This one, if you don't need the polyphonic guitar capability: https://www.andertons.co.uk/tc-electronic-unitune-clip-tc194?lgw_code=16284-TC194&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwb3rBRDrARIsALR3XeYl0P2OzbBYR-mU0hqF9bTOhdehz0seonLLkF0h3eFPbLJsrKIXsfwaAteiEALw_wcB

Could be a co-incidence! Whatever, I'm glad to hear that your bass has been found and hope that you are re-united soon.

I have a older dual AB looper by bright onion. It works fine and is well made, but one of the loops is labelled the wrong way. QA seems to have improved a bit since. You can use an loop rather than an AB/Y - thats essentially what the LM2 is. Just don't plug anything into the loop send.

Make sure you get the Bigshot I/O and not the Bigshot AB/Y (that's for switching one signal between two amps). If you don't need the gain controls, a simple AB/Y foot switch will do this. Micro mixers don't switch the unused instrument out of the signal path, so you can end up with resonance or even feedback. Another option is a lead with a Neutrik switching jack, that allows you to unplug one bass and plug in the other without getting huge 'clunk' noises out of the amp.

Maplins? https://www.maplin.co.uk/home-office/home-leisure-travel/flight-cases?p=2

Peavey Milestone I think. I thought they were made in Korea - the Grinds were Vietnam. Could easily be wrong though.

The dimensions of the Mesa soft bag are 11.5" wide, 13" deep and 3" wide if that helps. Might be a bit tight front-to-back (the 13" measurement), the only way to is to try one and see.

That's the worst attempt at putting on strings I've seen yet.

Weirdly, I have no problem hearing those.